2014 in Sweden

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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 Möllevången 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.[1][2] Initial media reports of "a clash between leftwing and rightwing extremists" were widely condemned as misleading.[3][4]
• 16 March – Thousands demonstrate against fascism in Malmö, in response to the International Women's Day knife attacks the previous weekend.[5][6]

July

• 31 July-11 August - 2014 Västmanland Wildfire.

September

• 14 September – The 2014 Swedish general election

December

• 2 December – The Sweden Democrats decide to vote for the opposition's budget proposal, likely forcing the collapse of Prime Minister Stefan Löfven's new government that came to power in the September elections.
• 3 December – Less than three months after winning the general election, Prime Minister of Sweden Stefan Lofven calls a snap general election after parliament rejected his government's budget proposal.
• 9 December – The Pirate Bay website goes offline after Swedish police seize its servers.

Deaths

Alice Babs in 1940.

• 6 January – Lena Smedsaas, journalist (born 1951).[7]
• 11 February – Alice Babs, singer and actress (born 1924).[8]
• 6 March – Barbro Kollberg, film actress (born 1917)
• 7 July – Bertil Haase, modern pentathlete (born 1923).[9]
• 25 August – Lars Mortimer, comic artist (born 1946).[10]
• 29 August – Brasse Brännström, actor and screenwriter (b. 1945)
• 12 September – Bengt Saltin, professor of human physiology (born 1935).[11]

See also

• 2014 in Swedish television

References

1. "'We can't rule out a Swedish Breivik': MP". The Local. 10 March 2014.
2. "Polisen: Nazister bakom knivattack" (in Swedish). SVT Nyheter. 9 March 2014.
3. "Lögnerna om naziattacken". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). 15 March 2014.
4. Samuel Merill; Johan Pries (2019). "Translocalising and Relocalising Antifascist Struggles: From #KämpaShowan to #KämpaMalmö". Antipode. 51 (1): 248–270. doi:10.1111/anti.12451.
5. "Tusentals i demonstration i Malmö" (in Swedish). SVT Nyheter. 16 March 2014.
6. "Massiv demonstration i Malmö". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). 16 March 2014.
7. "TV-profilen Lena Smedsaas är död". aftonbladet.se (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. 7 January 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
8. Keepnews, Peter (14 February 2014). "Alice Babs, Who Sang for Ellington, Dies at 90". The New York Times.
9. "Bertil Haase". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
10. "Serieskaparen Lars Mortimer död". Västerbottens-Kuriren (in Swedish). 27 August 2014. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
11. "STOCKHOLM (AP) BENGT SALTIN, A SWEDISH PROFESSOR OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY". ad-hoc-news.de. 2014-09-15. Archived from the original on 16 September 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2014.