1909 in Sweden
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Incumbents
Events
- 6â14 February â The Nordic Games take place in Stockholm.[1]
- 4 August to 4 September â Swedish General Strike (The Great Strike of 1909)
- Introduction of the 8-hour day at the end of 1910s[2]
- 10 December â Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first woman to be given the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- The right for women to vote in municipal elections are extended to include married women, and women are made eligible to municipal councils.[3]
- The phrase "Swedish man" is removed from the application forms to public offices and women are thereby approved as applicants to most public professions.[4]
Births
- 12 January â Barbro Alving, reporter (died 1987)
- 21 March â Miff Görling, bandleader, trombonist, arranger, and composer (died 1988).
- 20 July â Sigfrid Heyner, Olympic swimmer (died 1995)
Deaths
- 1 January â Ivar Arosenius, painter (born 1878)
- Elsa Borg, social worker (born 1826)
- Hanna Hammarström, industrialist (born 1829)