1909 in Sweden

Events from the year 1909 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Gustaf V
• Prime Minister - Arvid Lindman

Events

• 6–14 February – The Nordic Games take place in Stockholm.
• 4 August to 4 September – Swedish General Strike (The Great Strike of 1909)
• Introduction of the 8-hour day at the end of 1910s
• 10 December – Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first woman to be given the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• The right for women to vote in municipal elections are extended to include married women, and women are made eligible to municipal councils.
• The phrase "Swedish man" is removed from the application forms to public offices and women are thereby approved as applicants to most public professions.

Births

• 12 January – Barbro Alving, reporter (died 1987)
• 21 March – Miff Görling, bandleader, trombonist, arranger, and composer (died 1988).
• 20 July – Sigfrid Heyner, Olympic swimmer (died 1995)

Deaths

• 1 January – Ivar Arosenius, painter (born 1878)
• Elsa Borg, social worker (born 1826)
• Hanna Hammarström, industrialist (born 1829)

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