2001 in Sweden
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Incumbents
Events
January
- 1 January - The name day list is updated.[1]
- 1 January - The Swedish Defence Research Agency is established.[2]
- 6 January - Landskrona Station is opened.[3]
- 16 January - The music concert Artister mot nazister is held in Globen.[4]
- 18 January - Nicola Vasmatzis is shot dead in a restroom at Bromma Gymnasium in Stockholm.[5]
- 19 January - Lennart Daleus resigns as leader of the Centre Party.[6]
February
- 11 February - Several houses from the 18th century burn down on the Arkadien block in eastern Jönköping.[7]
March
- 7 March - The Minister of Commerce and Industry Leif Pagrotsky and the Member of the European Parliament Marit Paulsen each get a cake thrown at their necks at a debate evening in Lund.[8]
- 15 March - The Alcohol Committee is established.[9]
- 19 March - Maud Olofsson is elected leader of the Centre Party at a party conference.[10] After the 2002 election, the Centre Party's first electoral upturn since 1973 was attributed to the "Maud effect."[11]
- 25 March - Sweden joins the Schengen Area.[12]
April
- 17 April - The Minister for Finance Bosse Ringholm is caked by a 21-year-old member of the Stockholm Cake Brigade when making the budget walk on Drottninggatan.[13]
May
- 22 May - The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is signed in Stockholm.[14]
- 29 May - Norrtåg is founded.[15]
June
- 14 June - 16 June - A European Council meeting is held in Gothenburg which causes the Gothenburg Riots.[16]
July
- 1 July - A new citizenship law is put into effect which allows Multiple citizenship.[17]
- 28 July - 5 August - Sweden's first major and international scout camp, SCOUT 2001, is held in Rinkaby, Kristianstad.[18]
- 31 July - Nordea buys Postgirot.[19]
August
September
- 5 September - The Kolbäck Bridge in Umeå is opened.[22]
- 11 September - A massive flood originating from the Selånger River destroys parts of Sundsvall.[23]
- 15 September - Löfbergs Arena in Karlstad is opened.[24]
- 16 September - The 2001 Church of Sweden elections are held.[25]
October
- 21 October - Hammarby Fotboll win their first gold in Swedish Championship in football.[26]
November
- 12 November - One of Sweden's oldest churches Södra Råda Old Church in Gullspång burns down after an arson attack by a 23-year-old murderer.[27]
December
- 6 December - The Carlbeck Committee is established.[28]
- 10 December - The Nobel Prize turns 100 and 161 previous winners are invited for its birthday party.[29]
- 18 December - The Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery takes place.[30]
- 31 December - Jan Malmsjö reads Ring Out, Wild Bells at Skansen due to Margaretha Krooks death.[31]
Popular culture
Film
- 24 October – Deadline, directed by Colin Nutley, released in Sweden
- Buy Bye Beauty, documentary film directed by Pål Hollender
Sports
- 24 March-1 April – The Bandy World Championship 2001 for men was played in Sweden and Finland
Births
- 19 June – William Hansson, alpine ski racer.[32]
Deaths
- 10 February – Helge Bengtsson, footballer (born 1916)
- 21 February – Philip Sandblom, sailor (born 1903).[33]
- 23 April – Lennart Atterwall, javelin thrower (born 1911).[34]
- 4 May – Arne Sucksdorff, film director (born 1917).[35]
- 7 May – Margaretha Krook, stage and film actress (born 1925).[36]
- 27 May – Agda Rössel, politician and diplomat (born 1910)
- 16 September – Ann-Margret Ahlstrand, athlete (born 1905)
- 9 November – Tore Zetterholm, novelist, playwright and journalist (born 1915).[37]
- 10 November – Carl-Gustav Esseen, mathematician (born 1918)
- 12 December – Berit Granquist, fencer (born 1909)