Events from the year

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

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 ...

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Carl XVI Gustaf Carl XVI Gustaf (Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus; born 30 April 1946) is King of Sweden. He ascended the throne on the death of his grandfather, Gustaf VI Adolf, on 15 September 1973. He is the youngest child and only son of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Du ...

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 ...

– Fredrik Reinfeldt, Stefan Löfven

Events

March

* 8–9 March – Knife attacks in the

Möllevången Möllevången, also called Möllan, is a neighbourhood of Malmö, situated in the Borough of Södra Innerstaden, Malmö Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden. It covered an area of and had 9,989 inhabitants in 2008, which increased to 10,527 in 2 ...

neighbourhood of

Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal populat ...

, in which neo-Nazis connected to the

Party of the Swedes Party of the Swedes ( sv, Svenskarnas parti, SvP) was a Neo-Nazi political party in Sweden. The party described itself as nationalist and sought to limit Swedish citizenship only to individuals who belong to the "Western genetic and cultural lega ...

injure four people who had taken part in a demonstration celebrating

International Women's Day International Women's Day (IWD) is a global holiday celebrated annually on March 8 as a focal point in the women's rights movement, bringing attention to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse against wom ...

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 General elections were held in Sweden on 14 September 2014 to elect all 349 seats in the Riksdag, alongside elections for the 21 county councils, and 290 municipal assemblies. The centre-right Alliance for Sweden coalition (comprising the Mod ...

December

* 2 December – * 3 December – Prime Minister of Sweden Stefan Lofven calls a

snap general election A snap election is an election that is called earlier than the one that has been scheduled. Generally, a snap election in a parliamentary system (the dissolution of parliament) is called to capitalize on an unusual electoral opportunity or to ...

. * 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 Bertil Robert Herman Haase Vidarsson (5 June 1923 – 7 July 2014) was a Swedish pentathlete who competed at both Winter and Summer Olympics.Lars Mortimer Lars Mortimer (22 March 1946 – 25 August 2014) was a Swedish comic artist who wrote and illustrated, among many others, the Swedish comic strips ''Bobo'' and '' Hälge.'' Mortimer died after a short illness on 25 August 2014 in Alfta, Hälsing ...

, comic artist (b. 1946). * 29 August ** Brasse Brännström, actor and screenwriter (b. 1945). ** Björn Waldegård, rally driver (b. 1943). * 12 September – Bengt Saltin, professor of human physiology (b. 1935). * 29 October –

Klas Ingesson Klas Inge "Klabbe" Ingesson (20 August 1968 – 29 October 2014) was a Swedish professional footballer and manager. He spent most of his career as a midfielder in Sweden, Belgium, Netherlands, England, Italy and France. Ingesson represented the ...

, footballer (b. 1968). * 21 December – Åke Johansson, footballer (b. 1928).

References

Years of the 21st century in Sweden 2010s in Sweden

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