When Charlotta Petersdotter was born on 19 May 1840, in Kinnarumma, Älvsborg, Sweden, her father, Peter Nilsson, was 27 and her mother, Johanna Andersdotter, was 34. She married Carl Edvard Andersson on 23 April 1876. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters. She died on 8 October 1906, in Oscar Fredrik, Göteborg, Göteborg och Bohus, Sweden, at the age of 66.
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The March Unrest, or the Marsoroligheterna, was a series of riots in Stockholm in March 1848, due to news of the French Revolution. As a mob gathered and plundered shops on March 19, the militia fired shots and 18 deaths. The army arrived on March 21 for reinforcement and terminated any further rioting.
Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Stockholm.
The Swedish krona replaced the Swedish riksdaler as the national currency in 1873.
feminine diminutive of Charles , used in England since the 17th century. It was particulary popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, in part due to the influence of firstly Queen Charlotte ( 1744–1818 ), wife of George III , and secondly the novelist Charlotte Brontë ( 1816–55 ); it has again come to prominence since the 1980s, especially in England and Australia.
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