1920 in Sweden
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Incumbents
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Events
- Sweden joins the League of Nations.[2]
- The local social democratic women's clubs of Sweden is organised in the Social Democratic Women in Sweden.
- Legal majority for married women and equal marriage rights.[3]
- 1 January - The Swedish Grace architecture style emerges.[4][5]
- 14 August - Sweden wins 64 Olympic medals at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, including nineteen gold medals.
- 4 September - The 1920 Swedish general election is held.
- 31 December - The Silver Age of Swedish National Romanticism comes to an end.[6]
Births
- 17 April â Bengt Anderberg, writer.[7][8]
- 31 October â Gunnar Gren, footballer (died 1991).[9]
Deaths
- 7 April â Hildegard Björck, scholar, first woman in Sweden to gain a degree[10] (born 1847)
- 10 April - Amanda Kerfstedt, writer (born 1835)
- 21 June - Nanna Hoffman factory owner (born 1846)
- 10 August - Clara Lachmann, Danish-Swedish patron of the arts (born 1864)[11]
- 20 November â Ida Göthilda Nilsson, sculptor (born 1840)
- 27 October - Agda Montelius, philanthropist and women's rights activist (born 1850)
- Anna Rönström, educator and mathematician (born 1847)
- Amanda Rylander, actress (born 1834)
