1866 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles XV

  Events

• The Riksdag of the Estates is dissolved and replaced by the Riksdag.
• General Industrial Exposition of Stockholm
• The Governmental Girls' School Committee of 1866 recommend a number of reforms in women's rights, such as access to a number of professions, to make universities available to women, to regulate girl's high schools so as to prepare women for university studies, introduce Gymnasium for women, and give government support to the girl schools which met with the demands. These recommendations are met within the next few years.
• The title of Fröken, until then reserved for noblewomen, are permitted for all unmarried women, and the title Mamsell comes out of use.
• In Gothenburg, Emanuella Carlbeck open the first institution for people with Intellectual disability in Sweden.
• Emmy Rappe are sent to Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at St Thomas' Hospital in London in order to be educated in nursing.
• Elizabeth Stride emigrate to London in Great Britain.
• The inauguration of the Norrköping Central Station.
• The first issue of the Smålandsposten.
• Foundation of the Stockholms Allmänna Skyddsförening.
• Rosalie Fougelberg becomes the first female dentist after the profession had been formally opened to women.
• In 1866, founded Swedish School of Textiles at the University of Boras.
• Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.

  Births

• 15 January - Nathan Söderblom, clergyman, archbishop
• 13 January – Emilia Broomé women's rights activist and politician
• 22 February - Erika Aittamaa glove maker
• 21 May - Ebba von Eckermann women's rights activist
• 8 July - Nils Adlercreutz, horse rider.
• 14 July - Ragnar Östberg, architect
• 29 September - Per Hallström, writer
• 20 October - Gustav Cassel, economist
• 11 December - Ebba Hay, tennis player
• 18 December - Gertrud Månsson, politician

  Deaths

• 12 April - Carolina Kuhlman, actress
• 24 March - Carl d'Unker, artist
• 6 August - Christian Eric Fahlcrantz, writer
• 16 September - Johan Fredrik Höckert, artist
• Brita Sofia Hesselius, the first professional female photographer in Sweden.