Events from the year 1861 in Sweden

• Monarch – Charles XV

• A decision is taken to construct Strandvägen in Stockholm.^[1]
• The inauguration of the women teachers' training college Högre lärarinneseminariet, the first institution of higher learning open to women in Sweden.
• The dentist profession is opened to women.^[2]
• Danviken Hospital is closed.
• March - The king grants the con artist Helga de la Brache an annual pension from the foreign department of 2,400 Swedish riksdaler a year, (the amount, from the beginning 1.200, was made larger in December 1869).^[3]

• 5 January - Anna Pettersson, lawyer (died 1929)
• 2 June - Concordia Selander, actress and theater manager (died 1935)
• 24 April - Hedda Andersson, second female doctor in Sweden (died 1950)
• 14 May - Valborg Olander, politician (died 1943)
• 29 October - Karolina Olsson, hibernator (died 1950)
• 11 November - Elsa Eschelsson, first female doctor of Laws (died 1911)

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• 17 January - Malla Silfverstolpe, salonnière (born 1782)
• 21 February - Lars Levi Læstadius