Events from the year 1864 in Sweden

• Monarch – Charles XV

• The Skandinaviska Banken founded.
• The newspaper Dagens Nyheter begins its publication.
• June 18 – The Decree of Extended Freedom of Trade introduce complete freedom of trade in Sweden: unmarried women are granted the same rights within trade and commerce as men.^[1]
• Husbands are forbidden to abuse their wives.^[2]
• The gymnastics profession is open to women.^[3]
• Queen Louise and Princess Louise take lessons in ice skating from the pioneer Nancy Edberg, making ice skating socially acceptable for females.^[4]
• Bertha Valerius appointed official photographer of the royal court.
• Women students are admitted as students at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts without having to apply for a dispensation.^[5]
• Foundation of the Statens normalskola för flickor.
• The famous trip of the Sami Maria Magdalena Mathsdotter to Stockholm.

• 20 January – Mathilda Malling, novelist (died 1942).
• 12 March – Alice Tegnér, composer (died 1943).^[6]
• 25 June – Ola Hanson, missionary (died 1927).
• 20 July – Erik Axel Karlfeldt, poet (died 1931).
• 27 November – Gustaf Boivie, sport shooter (died 1951).^[7]
• 3 December – Anna Boberg, artist (died 1935).
• 17 December – Felix Körling, composer (died 1937).^[8]
• 18 December – Per-Olof Arvidsson, sport shooter (died 1947).^[9]

• 2 January – Johan Gabriel Richert, jurist and politician (born 1784).
• 25 January – Simon Marcus Larson, artist (born 1825).
• 2 March – Brita Catharina Lidbeck, singer (born 1788).
• 28 May – Charlotta Deland, stage actress (born 1807).
• 4 November – Lotten Wennberg, philanthropist (born 1815).
• 1864 – Wendla Åberg, dancer and actress (born 1791).