2001 in Sweden

Events from the year 2001 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf
• Prime Minister – Göran Persson

Events

January

• 1 January - The name day list is updated.
• 1 January - The Swedish Defence Research Agency is established.
• 6 January - Landskrona Station is opened.
• 16 January - The music concert Artister mot nazister is held in Globen.
• 18 January - Nicola Vasmatzis is shot dead in a restroom at Bromma Gymnasium in Stockholm.
• 19 January - Lennart Daleus resigns as leader of the Centre Party.

February

• 11 February - Several houses from the 18th century burn down on the Arkadien block in eastern Jönköping.

March

• 7 March - The Minister of Commerce and Industry Leif Pagrotsky and the Member of the European Parliament Marit Paulsen each get a cake thrown at their necks at a debate evening in Lund.
• 15 March - The Alcohol Committee is established.
• 19 March - Maud Olofsson is elected leader of the Centre Party at a party conference. After the 2002 election, the Centre Party's first electoral upturn since 1973 was attributed to the "Maud effect."
• 25 March - Sweden joins the Schengen Area.

April

• 17 April - The Minister for Finance Bosse Ringholm is caked by a 21-year-old member of the Stockholm Cake Brigade when making the budget walk on Drottninggatan.

May

• 22 May - The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is signed in Stockholm.
• 29 May - NorrtÃ¥g is founded.

June

• 14 June - 16 June - A European Council meeting is held in Gothenburg which causes the Gothenburg Riots.

July

• 1 July - A new citizenship law is put into effect which allows Multiple citizenship.
• 28 July - 5 August - Sweden's first major and international scout camp, SCOUT 2001, is held in Rinkaby, Kristianstad.
• 31 July - Nordea buys Postgirot.

August

• 1 August - The People's Park in Karlskoga burns down.
• 15 August - Christina Jutterström becomes new CEO for SVT.

September

• 5 September - The Kolbäck Bridge in UmeÃ¥ is opened.
• 11 September - A massive flood originating from the SelÃ¥nger River destroys parts of Sundsvall.
• 15 September - Löfbergs Arena in Karlstad is opened.
• 16 September - The 2001 Church of Sweden elections are held.

October

• 21 October - Hammarby Fotboll win their first gold in Swedish Championship in football.

November

• 12 November - One of Sweden's oldest churches Södra RÃ¥da Old Church in GullspÃ¥ng burns down after an arson attack by a 23-year-old murderer.

December

• 6 December - The Carlbeck Committee is established.
• 10 December - The Nobel Prize turns 100 and 161 previous winners are invited for its birthday party.
• 18 December - The Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery takes place.
• 31 December - Jan Malmsjö reads Ring Out, Wild Bells at Skansen due to Margaretha Krooks death.

Popular culture

Film

• 24 October – Deadline, directed by Colin Nutley, released in Sweden
• Buy Bye Beauty, documentary film directed by PÃ¥l Hollender

Sports

• 24 March-1 April – The Bandy World Championship 2001 for men was played in Sweden and Finland

Births

• 19 June – William Hansson, alpine ski racer.

Deaths

• 10 February – Helge Bengtsson, footballer (born 1916)
• 21 February – Philip Sandblom, sailor (born 1903).
• 23 April – Lennart Atterwall, javelin thrower (born 1911).
• 4 May – Arne Sucksdorff, film director (born 1917).
• 7 May – Margaretha Krook, stage and film actress (born 1925).
• 27 May – Agda Rössel, politician and diplomat (born 1910)
• 16 September – Ann-Margret Ahlstrand, athlete (born 1905)
• 9 November – Tore Zetterholm, novelist, playwright and journalist (born 1915).
• 10 November – Carl-Gustav Esseen, mathematician (born 1918)
• 12 December – Berit Granquist, fencer (born 1909)

References