2018 in Sweden

Events in the year 2018 in Sweden.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf
• Prime minister – Stefan Löfven

Events

• 5 March – Alternative for Sweden is formed from a split from Sweden Democrats. Two Sweden Democrat members of the Riksdag, Olle Felten and Jeff Ahl, defected to the party later that month.
• May–August – 2018 Sweden wildfires
• 14 August – More Than 100 Cars Burned in Mass Arson Attack in Sweden.
• 20 August – 15 years old Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg starts to stay out of school in an attempt to give attention to the climate change issue.
• 9 September –2018 Swedish general election is held.

Sports

• 21 to 28 April – The 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship ar held in Östersund.

Deaths

• 4 January – Johannes Brost, actor (b. 1946).
• 23 January – Anders Åberg, painter, cartoonist and sculptor (b. 1945)
• 27 January – Ingvar Kamprad, businessman, founder of IKEA (b. 1926)
• 1 February – Robert Larsson, ice hockey player (b. 1967)
• 3 March – Kenneth Gärdestad, songwriter (b. 1948)
• 5 March – Kjerstin Dellert, opera singer (b. 1925)
• 20 March – Ann-Charlotte Alverfors, writer (b. 1949)
• 21 March – Ulrica Hydman Vallien, artist (b. 1938)
• 25 March – Jerry Williams, singer and actor (b. 1942)
• 29 March – Sven-Olov Sjödelius, canoeist, Olympic champion in 1960 and 1964 (b. 1933)
• 3 April – Lill-Babs, singer and actress (b. 1938)
• 20 April – Avicii, musician, DJ, remixer and record producer (b. 1989)
• 28 May – Ola Ullsten, politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1931)
• 6 June – Åke Wärnström, boxer (b. 1925).
• 8 June – Per Ahlmark, politician (b. 1939).
• 29 June – Arvid Carlsson, neuropharmacologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)
• 2 August – Eric Torell, man with Down syndrome who was shot by police (b. 1997)
• 11 October – Labinot Harbuzi, footballer (b. 1986)
• 18 October – Lisbeth Palme, child psychologist, former chairwoman of UNICEF (b. 1931)

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