1876 in Sweden information

1876 in Sweden Monarch – Oscar II Prime Minister – Louis Gerhard De Geer 20 March - Louis Gerhard De Geer becomes the first Prime Minister of Sweden....

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1876. 1876 (MDCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting...

Prior to the creation of the office of prime minister in 1876, Sweden did not have a head of government distinct from its head of state, the monarch,...

Sweden decided to adopt the metric system in 1876. After a ten-year transition period starting 1879, the use of legacy units was outlawed by the beginning...

government) exercise executive authority in the Kingdom of Sweden and are subject to the Parliament of Sweden. The prime minister is nominated by the speaker...

The office of Prime Minister of Sweden was instituted in 1876. Louis De Geer became the first head of government in Sweden to use this title. The most known...

The demography of Sweden is monitored by the Statistiska centralbyrån (Statistics Sweden). Sweden's population was 10,555,448 (1 Nov 2023), making it...

Frederick (Swedish: Adolf Fredrik; German: Adolf Friedrich; 14 May 1710 – 12 February 1771) was King of Sweden from 1751 until his death in 1771. He was...

Events in the year 1876 in Norway. Monarch: Oscar II . 22 February - Sofie Johannesdotter was beheaded by axe for trifold murder, she was the last woman...

in 1876 and lasted until the beginning of World War I. The parties to the union were the Scandinavian countries, where the name was krona in Sweden and...

introduced in Norway in 1875 and Sweden in 1889, after a decision by the parliament in 1876 and a ten-year transition period from 1879. In 1887 the metric...

of Sweden was introduced in 1876 and continued to rise in importance until the breakthrough of parliamentarism in the 1910s. King Gustaf V of Sweden acceded...

(August 20, 1846 – September 11, 1876) was a Swedish immigrant who was mortally wounded in the James–Younger Gang bank raid in Northfield, Minnesota. Various...

sociologist Torgny Söderberg, Swedish songwriter Torgny Segerstedt (1876–1945), Swedish scholar of comparative religion, editor-in-chief of Göteborgs Handels-...

August 1876 – 24 January 1944) was a Swedish historian and political leader. Westman attended Uppsala University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1897...

1969), Swedish children's book author and television host Jonas Westman (1909–1983), Swedish skier, 1936 Winter Olympian Karl Gustaf Westman (1876–1944)...

(11 April 1876 in Linköping – 5 July 1944 in Stockholm), was a Swedish mechanic, known in contemporary Sweden as "The only female mechanic in Scandinavia"...

Soil and Mine, was held in Philadelphia from May 10 to November 10, 1876. It was the first official world's fair to be held in the United States, and coincided...

urban areas in Sweden as defined by Statistics Sweden on 31 December 2010. The official term used by Statistics Sweden is "locality" (Swedish: tätort) instead...

The monarchy of Sweden is centred on the monarchical head of state of Sweden, by law a constitutional and hereditary monarchy with a parliamentary system...

the thrones of Norway (in 1450) and Sweden (in 1457) restored the unity of the Kalmar Union for a short period. In 1463, Sweden broke away from the union...

The history of Sweden can be traced back to the melting of the Northern Polar Ice Caps. From as early as 12000 BC, humans have inhabited this area. Throughout...

Konrad Lundqvist Petterson Tector (1838–1876), a Swedish criminal, one of the last public executions in Sweden William R. Tector, a former principal of...