When Karen Olsdotter was born on 12 January 1813, in Österåker, Södermanland, Sweden, her father, Olof Olofsson, was 36 and her mother, Brita Olofsdotter, was 21. She married Eric Ericsson on 27 December 1835, in Österåker, Södermanland, Sweden. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 24 June 1854, in her hometown, at the age of 41, and was buried in Österåker, Södermanland, Sweden.
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Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden.
Göta Canal opened.
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.
equivalent of Katherine . It was first introduced to the English-speaking world by Scandinavian settlers in America; it has been used in Britain only since the 1940s, but had become very popular by the 1960s.
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