Events from the year 1817 in Sweden

• Monarch – Charles XIII

• 16 February – Förlofningen by Dorothea Dunckel has its premier at the Aurora ordens teater.^[1]
• - The first suggestion to abolish the legal minority of adult unmarried women is discussed in the Riksdag.^[2]
• - Samuel Owen constructs the first Paddle steamer in Sweden.
• - Gustaf Fredrik Wirsén inducted full member, and Justina Casagli, Elisabet Frösslind, Anna Sofia Sevelin and Jeanette Wässelius made associée of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
• - Filippo Taglioni appointed ballet master at the Royal Swedish Ballet.

• 21 February – Fanny Westerdahl, stage actress (died 1873)
• 24 March – Fritz von Dardel, artist (died 1901)
• 10 July – Wilhelmina Bonde, courtier (died 1899)
• 6 September - Helga de la Brache, impostor (died 1885)
• 2 October - Gunnar Wennerberg
• 6 October – Gustaf Lagerbjelke, poet composer and politician (died 1901)
• – Sophia Wilkens, reform educator of the disabled (died 1873)

• 8 March - Anna Maria Lenngren, poet (born 1754)