2009 in Sweden

Events from the year 2009 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf
• Prime Minister – Fredrik Reinfeldt

Events

• 1 january - The new Swedish FRA law comes into effect.
• 1 january - New authorities in Sweden will be the Discrimination Ombudsman and the Swedish Transport Agency.
• 1 january - Höganäs municipality introduces, as the second municipality in Sweden, the euro as a parallel currency.
• February 5 – In Sweden, the four party leaders of the agree on the Swedish energy policy, which means that the ban on new construction of nuclear power is lifted.
• February 24 – In Sweden, Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling announce that they are engaged and that the wedding will take place on June 19, 2010.
• March 25 – Sverker Göranson takes office as the new Commander-in-Chief.

• April 17 - In Sweden, the Stockholm district court's verdict against the four defendants in the Pirate Bay trial falls.
• May 26 - Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki declares that there is no intention to release Eritrean-Swedish journalist Dawit Isaak, who has been imprisoned in the country without trial since 2001.
• June 16 – Sweden's Riksdag decides by a vote of 153-150 that Sweden shall abolish general conscription,[12] which has existed since 1901, in peacetime and from July 1, 2010, replace it with voluntary basic military training.'
• June 17 – Member of Parliament Tobias Krantz is appointed as the new Swedish Minister of Higher Education and Research after the departed Lars Leijonborg.
• July 1 - Sweden will be the country holding the presidency of the European Union for the next six months, after the Czech Republic.
• July 23 – The two Gotland ferries M/S Gotland and HSC Gotlandia II collide just outside Nynäshamn, Sweden. 15 passengers are slightly injured.
• July 31 - Six crewmen die when the cargo ship Langeland sinks in Kosterfjorden, Sweden.
• September 12 – The first vaccination against the new flu in Sweden is carried out at a test group in Eskilstuna.
• September 23 - A very spectacular robbery against a safe deposit in Västberga owned by the security company G4S, is carried out with, among other things, a stolen helicopter. See more on the Helicopter robbery.
• October 5 - The UN names Norway as the best country in the world to live in. Sweden is seventh on the list, which means a drop from 2008.
• November 1 - AIK wins the Allsvenskan for men and thus becomes Swedish football champions for the first time in eleven years.

Full date unknown

• GuidePal company is founded in Stockholm.

Deaths

• 3 January – Ulf G. Lindén, businessperson (born 1937)
• 13 January – Folke Sundquist, actor (born 1925).
• 15 January – Viking Palm, wrestler, Olympic champion (born 1923).
• 17 January – Anders Isaksson, journalist (born 1943)
• 30 January – Ingemar Johansson, boxer, heavyweight world champion (born 1932)
• 31 January – Erland von Koch, composer (born 1910)
• 31 August – Torsten Lindberg, footballer (born 1917).
• 3 October – Olga Dahl, genealogist (b. 1917)
• 20 November – Elisabeth Söderström, singer (b. 1927)

See also

• 2009 in Swedish television

References