Events from the year 1857 in Sweden

• Monarch – Oscar I

• 6 June – Wedding between Prince Oscar and Sophie of Nassau.
• 12 June – Elfrida Andrée becomes the first female organist in Sweden.
• A regulation of Gamla stan is proposed by A. E. Schuldheis and discussed in the parliament. Gets rejected two years later.^[1]

• 13 March – Hilda Sachs, journalist and women's rights activist (died 1935)
• 21 April – Elisabet Anrep-Nordin, pedagogue (died 1947)
• 27 October – Ernst Trygger, professor and politician (died 1943)
• Amanda Horney, politician (Social Democrat), trade unionist and women's right activist (died 1953)

• 2 April - Jeanette Granberg, playwright (born 1825)
• - Halta-Kajsa, tradition bearer (born 1792)