Events from the year 1847 in Sweden

• Monarch – Oscar I

• 18 January – Brottslingarne by Emelie Flygare Carlén on Mindre teatern in Stockholm.^[1]
• 24 May – Hittebarnet by August Blanche on Djurgårdsteatern in Stockholm.^[2]
• 13 December – Mor och döttrar eller Namnförvexlingen by Jeanette Stjernström in Mindre teatern in Stockholm.^[3]
• Jenny Lind returns to Sweden with a great tour.
• The first bureau for registration as medical examination of prostitutes is opened in the capital: from 1859, all prostitutes are forced to registration. ^[4]
• Poor Care Regulation of 1847 replace the Beggar Regulation of 1642 and reorganize the poor relief system. Rotegång is banned for children.
• The Åhlinska skolan is founded in Stockholm by Karin Åhlin and her sisters.
• Aurore Storckenfeldt open the Storckenfeldtska skolan.
• Slavery is abolished on the Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy.
• The perfume and cosmetic company Antoinette W Nording is founded by Antoinette Nording.
• - 1846 och 1946 by August Blanche
• - Barnen i nya skogen by Frederick Marryat.
• - De begge aristokraterna by Wilhelmina Stålberg
• - Flickan i Stadsträdgården by August Blanche
• - Herr Dardanell och hans upptåg på landet by August Blanche
• - Stockholm, Westerås och Upsala by August Blanche
• - Tegnérs minne by August Blanche
• - Vålnaden by August Blanche

• 1 May – Hildegard Björck, first Swedish woman to complete an academic degree (died 1920)
• 12 June – Hulda Lundin, tailor and educator (died 1921)
• 14 August – Karl Oskar Medin, paediatrician (died 1927)
• 20 October – Oscar Swahn, shooter (died 1927)
• Anna Rönström, educator and mathematician (died 1920)
• Sophie Cysch, singer (died 1917)

• 9 February - Ulrica Eleonora Rålamb, politically active countess and spy (born 1769)
• 17 April - Maria Franck, actress (born 1769)
• 23 April – Erik Gustaf Geijer, historian, poet, philosopher, and composer (born 1783)
• 18 June - Lisette Stenberg, actress and pianist (born 1770)
• 14 August – Frans Michael Franzén, writer (born 1772)
• 25 December – Carl Gustaf von Brinkman, diplomat (born 1764)
• - Amelie von Strussenfelt, writer (born 1803)