Events from the year 1855 in Sweden

• Monarch – Oscar I

• 1 January - The Telegraphynet between the most important cities in Sweden are completed.
• 1 July - The first Swedish Postage stamp.
• 4 May - Kyrkoplikt as well as all remaining forms of Public humiliation and Corporal punishments are abolished.^[1]
• - The Great Awakening established in Sweden.
• - Inauguration of the Gothenburg Synagogue.
• - Lea Ahlborn is appointed royal printmaker, which formally makes her the first female civil servant in Sweden.^[2]
• - Frederique Hammarstedt takes over the Hammarstedtska skolan.
• - KFUM Jönköping
• - Klosterskolan (Uppsala), the first training college for female teachers, is founded.
• - Svenska lärarinnors pensionsförening (The Society for Retired Female Teachers) is founded by initiative of Josefina Deland.
• - A reform abolishes the use of Pillory and the Pranger, by then already in practice outdated and seldom used.

• 25 April – Hjalmar Lundbohm, geologist and chemist (died 1926)
• 10 June - Hilma Angered Strandberg, writer (died 1927)
• 19 November - Anna Branting, journalist and writer (died 1950)
• 23 September - Ellen Fries, writer (died 1900)
• 7 December - Gunhild Rosén, ballerina and ballet master (died 1928)

• 25 January – Carolina Brunström, ballerina (born 1803)
• 15 February - Emilia Uggla, pianist (born 1819)
• 7 May – Wendela Gustafva Sparre, textile artist and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (born 1772)
• 27 August – Hans Olov Holmström, bishop (born 1784)
• - Marie Antoinette Petersén, violinist (born 1771)