1870 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles XV

  Events

• - In accordance with the recommendations of the progressive Girls' School Committee of 1866, the first gymnasium for women is opened.
• - Universities open to women.
• - The first Folk high school open to women is founded by Fredrique Paijkull.
• - The Bukowskis is founded
• - First issue of Sydsvenskan

  Births

• 25 January - Helge von Koch, mathematician
• 27 May - Anna Stecksén, pathologist
• 3 April - Agda Östlund, suffragist and social democrat
• 7 April – Anna Lindhagen, politician and social reformer
• 2 October - Hilma Swedahl, gold prospector

  Deaths

• 28 June – Henrik Reuterdahl, archbishop