Events from the year 1903 in

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Incumbents

Monarch A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority ...

– Oscar II *

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

–

Erik Gustaf Boström Erik Gustaf Bernhard Boström (11 February 1842 – 21 February 1907) was a Swedish landowner and politician who was a member of the Swedish Parliament (1876–1907) and the longest-serving Prime Minister of Sweden of the 19th century. He ...

Events

* The National Association for Women's Suffrage is founded. *

Agnes Arvidsson Agnes Hildegard Arvidsson (1875–1962), was a Swedish pharmacist. She was the first Swedish pharmacist of her gender to have obtained a degree in pharmacology (1903). However, Märtha Leth did obtain a bachelor's degree in pharmacology in 1897, a ...

becomes the first woman to graduate in pharmacology. * Public medical offices open to women. * Forming of the Central Employers' Association (SAF) ** The SAF game rather late in the labor union movement of Sweden ** Counterpart of the labor union, LO ** Acted as open cartel

Popular culture

Literature

* August Strindberg's novel ''

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'' ( sv, Ensam) is published.

Births

* 31 January – Ivar Johansson, wrestler (died 1979). * 21 June –

Alf Sjöberg Sven Erik Alf Sjöberg (21 June 1903 – 17 April 1980) was a Sweden, Swedish theatre director, theatre and film director. He won the Palme d'Or, Grand Prix du Festival at the Cannes Film Festival twice: in 1946 for ''Torment (1944 film), Torment ...

, theatre and film director (died 1980)

Exact date missing

Israel Ruong Israel Ruong (1903 Arjeplog, Sweden −1986) was a Swedish-Sámi linguist, politician and professor of Sámi languages and culture at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. Israel Ruong spoke Pite Sámi as his mother tongue. His parents were ca ...

, Swedish-Sámi linguist and politician (died 1986).

Deaths

* 19 May –

Carl Snoilsky Count Carl Johan Gustaf Snoilsky (8 September 1841 – 19 May 1903) was a Swedish lyric poet, known for his realist poetry. Biography Snoilsky was born in Stockholm to Sigrid (née Banér), a painter and countess, and Nils Snoilsky, a Justi ...

, poet (born 1841) * 27 July –

Lina Sandell Lina Sandell (full name: Karolina Wilhelmina Sandell-Berg) (3 October 1832 – 27 July 1903) was a Swedish poet and author of gospel hymns. Background The daughter of a Lutheran minister, Sandell grew up in the rectory at Fröderyd parish in t ...

, hymn writer (born 1832). * 14 September – Johanna Berglind, sign language teacher and principal (born 1816). * March –

Josefina Wettergrund ''Josefina'' Leontina Amanda Wettergrund, née ''Lundberg'' pseudonym ''Lea'' (2 September 1830, in Ronneby – 8 March 1903, in Stockholm), was a Swedish writer and poet. She was the editor of the family magazine ''Svalan'' in 1871–75. Life ...

, writer (born

1830 It is known in European history as a rather tumultuous year with the Revolutions of 1830 in France, Belgium, Poland, Switzerland and Italy. Events January–March * January 11 – LaGrange College (later the University of North Alabama) b ...

)

References

Years of the 20th century in Sweden {{Sweden-year-stub