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2005 in Sweden

Events from the year 2005 in Sweden

Incumbents

Events

  • 1 January – The train service between Oslo and Stockholm is closed after 133 years.
  • 8–9 January – A strong storm, Hurricane Gudrun, hits northern Europe, including southern Sweden. At least 18 people are killed, 300,000 households and 75 million cubic meters of forest are felled.
  • 18 January – The company SIBA's CEO Fabian Bengtsson disappears in central Gothenburg, probably kidnapped.
  • 3 February – Fabian Bengtsson is found alive in Gothenburg.
  • 5 February – Sweden's Prime Minister Göran Persson is appointed an honorary doctor of medicine at Örebro University. The appointment arouses strong protests, as it is considered a reward for the prime minister's having made Örebro University into a university.
  • 11 March – Nintendo launches its new game console Nintendo DS in Sweden and the rest of Europe.
  • 21 March – An arson attack is carried out against the Communist Party's Röda Stjärnan bookstore in Jönköping.
  • 15 April -The Swedish political party Feministisk initiative is founded, but the decision to run in the parliamentary elections was made on 9 September 2005.
  • 16 May – Second day of Pentecost is no longer a public holiday in Sweden, because the national day would be instead.
  • 29 May- The commemorative note "Tumba Bruk 250 years" is issued, Sveriges riksbank
  • 31 May – The BrattÃ¥s murders.
  • 1 June – Smoking ban is introduced in restaurants, pubs and cafes in Sweden.
  • 6 June – Sweden's national day becomes holiday.
  • 10 June – The new Svinesund Bridge is inaugurated and the older bridge is named the Old Svinesund Bridge.
  • 1 July – A new Swedish copyright law enters into force. The file sharing debate flares up again.
  • 11 September – The Armed Forces' telecommunications network and ground telecommunications unit (FMTM) is established.
  • 18 September – The Swedish church holds a church referendum.
  • 1 November – The healthcare guarantee starts to apply throughout Sweden.
  • 25 November – A Swedish vehicle from the Swedish Foreign Forces is exposed to a bomb attack during a reconnaissance mission in Afghanistan. Two of the four people in the vehicle later died in hospital.
  • 3 December – The yuletide in Gävle is lit by two dressed-up men at 9:08 p.m.
  • 10 December – The 2005 Nobel Prize (see prize winners below) is awarded as usual in Stockholm's concert hall and in Oslo, with associated ceremonies.

Popular culture

Literature

Film

Born

Deaths

  • 6 January – Ivan Lidholm, 94, Swedish track and field athlete and sports journalist.
  • 13 January – Bengt Janson, 47, Swedish antique dealer, teacher and TV presenter.
  • 8 February – Germund Dahlquist, mathematician (born 1925)
  • 13 February – Sixten Ehrling, conductor (born 1918)
  • 12 May – Monica Zetterlund, singer and actress (born 1937)
  • 28 November – Carl Forssell, fencer (born 1917).

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