Events from the year 1839 in Sweden
Incumbents
Monarch – Charles XIV John
Events
- The radical novel Det går an by Carl Jonas Love Almqvist is published. - Liljeholmens Stearinfabriks AB - Stockholms Lyceum
Births
2 March - Victoria Bundsen, opera alto (died 1909) 18 April - Lotten Edholm, composer and a pioneer within the Swedish Red Cross (died 1930) 21 May - Nils Christoffer Dunér, astronomer (died 1914) 24 August - Sofie Johannesdotter, serial killer (died 1876) 2 November - Augusta Braunerhjelm, playwright (died 1929) 30 December - Victor Hartman, actor (died 1898) Charlotte Yhlen, doctor (died 1919) Hulda Mellgren, industrialist (died 1918)
Deaths
7 February - Karl August Nicander, poet (born 1799) 30 June - Johan Olof Wallin, minister, orator, poet and later Church of Sweden Archbishop of Uppsala (born 1779) - Jacquette Löwenhielm, royal mistress (born 1797) - Pär Aron Borg, pioneer in the education for the blind and deaf (born 1776)