2014 in Sweden
Incumbents
- Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf
- Prime Minister – Fredrik Reinfeldt, Stefan Löfven
Events
March
- 8–9 March – Knife attacks in the Möllevången neighbourhood of Malmö, in which neo-Nazis connected to the Party of the Swedes injure four people who had taken part in a demonstration celebrating International Women's Day that had just ended.[1][2] Initial media reports of "a clash between leftwing and rightwing extremists" were widely condemned as misleading.[3][4]
- 16 March – Thousands demonstrate against fascism in Malmö, in response to the International Women's Day knife attacks the previous weekend.[5][6]
July
- 31 July-11 August - 2014 Västmanland Wildfire.
September
- 14 September – The 2014 Swedish general election
December
- 2 December – The Sweden Democrats decide to vote for the opposition's budget proposal, likely forcing the collapse of Prime Minister Stefan Löfven's new government that came to power in the September elections.
- 3 December – Less than three months after winning the general election, Prime Minister of Sweden Stefan Lofven calls a snap general election after parliament rejected his government's budget proposal.
- 9 December – The Pirate Bay website goes offline after Swedish police seize its servers.
Deaths
Alice Babs in 1940.
- 6 January – Lena Smedsaas, journalist (born 1951).[7]
- 11 February – Alice Babs, singer and actress (born 1924).[8]
- 6 March – Barbro Kollberg, film actress (born 1917)
- 7 July – Bertil Haase, modern pentathlete (born 1923).[9]
- 25 August – Lars Mortimer, comic artist (born 1946).[10]
- 29 August – Brasse Brännström, actor and screenwriter (b. 1945)
- 12 September – Bengt Saltin, professor of human physiology (born 1935).[11]
See also
References
- "'We can't rule out a Swedish Breivik': MP". The Local. 10 March 2014.
- "Polisen: Nazister bakom knivattack" (in Swedish). SVT Nyheter. 9 March 2014.
- "Lögnerna om naziattacken". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). 15 March 2014.
- Samuel Merill; Johan Pries (2019). "Translocalising and Relocalising Antifascist Struggles: From #KämpaShowan to #KämpaMalmö". Antipode. 51 (1): 248–270. doi:10.1111/anti.12451.
- "Tusentals i demonstration i Malmö" (in Swedish). SVT Nyheter. 16 March 2014.
- "Massiv demonstration i Malmö". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). 16 March 2014.
- "TV-profilen Lena Smedsaas är död". aftonbladet.se (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. 7 January 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
- Keepnews, Peter (14 February 2014). "Alice Babs, Who Sang for Ellington, Dies at 90". The New York Times.
- "Bertil Haase". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
- "Serieskaparen Lars Mortimer död". Västerbottens-Kuriren (in Swedish). 27 August 2014. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
- "STOCKHOLM (AP) BENGT SALTIN, A SWEDISH PROFESSOR OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY". ad-hoc-news.de. 2014-09-15. Archived from the original on 16 September 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
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