Events from the year 1865 in Sweden

• Monarch – Charles XV

• Inauguration of the Botaniska trädgården (Lund)
• The first issue of the Jönköpings-Posten.^[1]
• The Uppsala högre elementarläroverk för flickor is founded.
• Foundation of the Valand Academy
• The Rossander Courses for women starts in Stockholm.

• 26 January - Axel Wallengren, author, poet and journalist (died 1896)
• 19 February - Sven Hedin, geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer, and illustrator (died 1952)
• 1 March - Elma Danielsson, Social Democrat, journalist and feminist (died 1936)
• 28 August - Hanna Lindberg, milliner, politician, feminist (died 1951)
• 11 December – Frida Stéenhoff, writer and women's rights activist (died 1945)
• Anna von Zweigbergk, reporter (died 1952)

• Helena Larsdotter Westerlund, educator (born 1799)
• 31 December - Fredrika Bremer, writer (born 1801)