Events from the year 1817 in Sweden
Incumbents
Monarch – Charles XIII
Events
16 February – Förlofningen by Dorothea Dunckel has its premier at the Aurora ordens teater. - The first suggestion to abolish the legal minority of adult unmarried women is discussed in the Riksdag. - Samuel Owen constructs the first Paddle steamer in Sweden. - Gustaf Fredrik Wirsén inducted full member, and Justina Casagli, Elisabet Frösslind, Anna Sofia Sevelin and Jeanette Wässelius made associée of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. - Filippo Taglioni appointed ballet master at the Royal Swedish Ballet.
Births
21 February – Fanny Westerdahl, stage actress (died 1873) 24 March – Fritz von Dardel, artist (died 1901) 10 July – Wilhelmina Bonde, courtier (died 1899) 6 September - Helga de la Brache, impostor (died 1885) 2 October - Gunnar Wennerberg 6 October – Gustaf Lagerbjelke, poet composer and politician (died 1901) – Sophia Wilkens, reform educator of the disabled (died 1873)
Deaths
8 March - Anna Maria Lenngren, poet (born 1754)