1920 in Sweden

Events from the year 1920 in Sweden

Incumbents

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• Monarch – Gustaf V
• Prime Minister – Nils Edén, Hjalmar Branting, Gerhard Louis De Geer

Events

• Sweden joins the League of Nations.
• The local social democratic women's clubs of Sweden is organised in the Social Democratic Women in Sweden.
• Legal majority for married women and equal marriage rights.
• 1 January - The Swedish Grace architecture style emerges.
• 14 August - Sweden wins 64 Olympic medals at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, including nineteen gold medals.
• 4 September - The 1920 Swedish general election is held.
• 31 December - The Silver Age of Swedish National Romanticism comes to an end.

Births

• 17 April – Bengt Anderberg, writer.
• 31 October – Gunnar Gren, footballer (died 1991).

Deaths

• 7 April – Hildegard Björck, scholar, first woman in Sweden to gain a degree (born 1847)
• 10 April - Amanda Kerfstedt, writer (born 1835)
• 21 June - Nanna Hoffman factory owner (born 1846)
• 10 August - Clara Lachmann, Danish-Swedish patron of the arts (born 1864)
• 20 November – Ida Göthilda Nilsson, sculptor (born 1840)
• 27 October - Agda Montelius, philanthropist and women's rights activist (born 1850)
• Anna Rönström, educator and mathematician (born 1847)
• Amanda Rylander, actress (born 1834)

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