Events from the year 1873 in Sweden

• Monarch – Oscar II

• - Foundation of the first women's rights organisation in Sweden, the Married Woman's Property Rights Association.^[1]
• 5 May - The Scandinavian Monetary Union is founded.
• - Swedish krona becomes the currency.

• 10 April – Ingeborg Rönnblad, actress (died 1915)
• 3 June – Anna Lisa Andersson, reporter (died 1958)
• 13 June – Karin Swanström, actress, producer and director (died 1942)
• 15 September – Ellen Hagen, suffragette, women's rights activist and politician (died 1967)

• 4 March - Prince August, Duke of Dalarna, royalty (born 1831)
• 27 March – Fanny Westerdahl, stage actress (died 1873)
• 31 March - Maria Magdalena Mathsdotter, Sami (died 1835)
• 20 May – Fredrica Ehrenborg, writer (born 1794)
• – Ulrika von Strussenfelt, writer (born 1801)