Events from the year 1841 in Sweden

• Monarch – Charles XIV John

• 10 June - The Stocks punishment, already restricted and generally fallen of use, is banned.^[1]
• 6 August - Swedish Road Administration is founded.
• The state supported brothels London and Stadt Hamburg is closed.
• Wendela Hebbe, regarded a pioneer of female reporters, is employed as a reporter at Aftonbladet.
• First issue of the Barometern.
• Foundation of the shipping company Götaverken.
• The first issue of the Sundsvalls Tidning.
• The first of the von Schwerin Estate's Scandals attracts attention.
• Blommorna vid vägen, by Herman Sätherberg
• Diodes och Lydia by Wilhelmina Stålberg
• Kyrkoinvigningen i Hammarby by Emilie Flygare-Carlén
• En modig qvinnas händelserika lefnad, Antecknad av Henne Sjelf by Anna Carlström
• Qvinnan utan förmyndare (Woman without Guardian) by Amelie von Strussenfelt
• Inauguration of the Carolina Rediviva

• 27 January – Selma Jacobsson, photographer (died 1899)
• 19 February – Elfrida Andrée, first female organist (died 1929)
• 18 June - Hedvig Willman, actress (died 1887)
• 24 August – Anna Hierta-Retzius, women's right activist (died 1924)
• 8 September - Carl Snoilsky, poet (died 1903)
• 29 December - Rosalie Fougelberg, dentist (died 1911)

• 12 January – Märta Helena Reenstierna, diarist (born 1753)
• 19 February – Ulrika Carolina Widström, poet (born 1764)
• 17 September - Erik Djurström, stage actor (born 1787)
• 28 October - Johann Arfvedson, chemist who discovered the chemical element lithium (born 1792)
• – Mariana Koskull, royal mistress (born 1785)
• - Christina Fredenheim, singer (born 1762)