2014 in Sweden

Events from the year 2014 in Sweden.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf
• Prime Minister – Fredrik Reinfeldt, Stefan Löfven

Events

March

• 8–9 March – Knife attacks in the MöllevÃ¥ngen 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. Initial media reports of "a clash between leftwing and rightwing extremists" were widely condemned as misleading.
• 16 March – Thousands demonstrate against fascism in Malmö, in response to the International Women's Day knife attacks the previous weekend.

July

• 31 July-11 August – 2014 Västmanland Wildfire.

September

• 14 September – The 2014 Swedish general election

December

• 2 December –
• 3 December – Prime Minister of Sweden Stefan Lofven calls a snap general election after the Riksdag rejected the proposed Government budget in favour of a budget promoted by the centre-right opposition.
• 9 December – The Pirate Bay website goes offline after Swedish police seize its servers.

Deaths

• 6 January – Lena Smedsaas, journalist (b. 1951).
• 11 February – Alice Babs, singer and actress (b. 1924).
• 6 March – Barbro Kollberg, film actress (b. 1917).
• 7 July – Bertil Haase, modern pentathlete (b. 1923).
• 25 August – Lars Mortimer, comic artist (b. 1946).
• 29 August
• Brasse Brännström, actor and screenwriter (b. 1945).
• Björn WaldegÃ¥rd, rally driver (b. 1943).
• 12 September – Bengt Saltin, professor of human physiology (b. 1935).
• 29 October – Klas Ingesson, footballer (b. 1968).
• 21 December – Åke Johansson, footballer (b. 1928).

See also

• 2014 in Swedish television

References