• 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....
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  • 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...
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    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,...
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    The Minister for Foreign Affairs (Swedish: utrikesminister) is the foreign minister of Sweden and the head of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The current...
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  • 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...
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    Minister of Sweden was created and at the same time the Minister for Justice was created. Before 1876 the Prime Minister for Justice had in practice been...
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    were two consequent wars (1876–1877 and 1877–1878), fought between the Principality of Serbia and the Ottoman Empire. In conjunction with the Principality...
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    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...
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  • politician Pia Fries (born 1955), Swiss painter Robert Elias Fries (1876–1966), Swedish botanist Sebastian Fries (born 1993), German footballer Sherwood...
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    Karl Gustaf Westman (category 1876 births)
    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...
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    The demography of Sweden is monitored by the Statistiska centralbyrån (Statistics Sweden). Sweden's population was 10,555,448 (1 Nov 2023), making it...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 1969), Swedish children's book author and television host Jonas Westman (1909–1983), Swedish skier, 1936 Winter Olympian Karl Gustaf Westman (1876–1944)...
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  • The year 1876 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. December 7 – First recorded observation of the Great White Spot...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    Oscar II (redirect from Oscar II of Sweden)
    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...
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  • Arvid (category Swedish masculine given names)
    Arvid Posse (1820–1901), Prime Minister of Sweden from 1880 to 1883 Arvid Reuterdahl (1876–1933), Swedish-American engineer, scientist and educator Arvid...
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    sociologist Torgny Söderberg, Swedish songwriter Torgny Segerstedt (1876–1945), Swedish scholar of comparative religion, editor-in-chief of Göteborgs Handels-...
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    Mine, was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from May 10 to November 10, 1876. It was the first official world's fair to be held in the United States...
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    The metric system was introduced in Norway in 1875 and Sweden in 1889, after a decision by the parliament in 1876 and a ten-year transition period from...
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    the continuous lines in Sweden's foreign policy; and was considered a prestigious step in the diplomatic career. From 1932, Sweden has experienced a great...
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  • (officer) (1876–1950), Swedish Air Force general Eric Virgin (diplomat) (1920–2004), Swedish diplomat Lilian Virgin (born 1939), Swedish politician Nerene...
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    Robert Bárány (category 1876 births)
    [ˈbaːraːɲ ˈroːbɛrt]; 22 April 1876 – 8 April 1936) was an Austro-Hungarian otologist. He received the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his...
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  • (1749–1812), Swedish statesman, historian and ecclesiastic Carl Gustaf Tessin (1695–1770), Swedish politician Karl Gustaf Westman (1876–1944), Swedish historian...
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  • Minister of Sweden 1876–80 Gerhard Louis De Geer (1854–1935), baron, Prime Minister of Sweden 1920–21 Other: Louis de Geer konsert & kongress, in Norrköping...
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  • 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...
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    symboler". www.kungahuset.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 27 September 2023. Albrekt of Mecklenburg biography Nordisk Familjebok (1876), p. 371–372 Nordman 1938...
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    Nicholas Gustafson (category 1876 murders in the United States)
    (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...
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