When Karin Håkansdotter was born on 30 May 1849, in Tving, Blekinge, Sweden, her father, Håkan Persson, was 37 and her mother, Sissa Olasdotter, was 34. She married Sven Nilsson on 5 February 1881, in Eringsboda, Blekinge, Sweden. She died in 1888, in Tving, Blekinge, Sweden, at the age of 39.
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Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Stockholm.
The Swedish krona replaced the Swedish riksdaler as the national currency in 1873.
Fredrika Bremer Association was founded in 1884 and is Sweden's oldest women's rights organization.
equivalent of Katherine , found as a less common variant of Karen in North America and Britain.
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