Events from the year 1856 in Sweden

• Monarch – Oscar I

• 7 May - The Swedish Evangelical Mission is established.,^[1]
• 29 September - Fredrika Bremer publishes her famous novel Hertha, which contributes to a great debate about reform within women's rights.
• 15 October – André Oscar Wallenberg establishes the Stockholms Enskilda Bank.
• Date unknown – Luleå becomes the seat of Norrbotten County.^[2]
• Date unknown - Construction of the Western Main Line, the main railway line between Stockholm and Gothenburg, begins.
• Date unknown - Revision of the Infanticide Act (Sweden).
• Date unknown - Inauguration of the theater Folkan in Stockholm.

• 8 March - Cecilia Milow, author, translator, educator, campaigner and suffragette (died 1946)
• 29 June - Maria Cederschiöld, journalist (died 1935)
• 3 September - Selma Ek, operatic soprano (died 1941)
• 10 December - Karolina Widerström, first female physician (died 1949)
• Anna Sterky, union worker (died 1939)
• Augusta Andersson, restaurant owner (died 1938)

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• - Elisabeth Charlotta Karsten, painter (born 1789)
• - Charlotta Öberg, poet (born 1818)