When Lena Gustafva Jansdotter was born on 9 April 1839, in Blackstad, Kalmar, Sweden, her father, Jaen Månsson, was 42 and her mother, Anna Lena Jacobsdotter, was 39. She died about 1 July 1921, at the age of 82.
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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.
Abstracted from various names ending in these syllables, such as Helena and Magdalena. In the United States it was particularly associated with the singer Lena Horne ( 1917–2010 ).
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