Events from the year 2014 in Sweden.
Incumbents Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf Prime Minister – Fredrik Reinfeldt, Stefan Löfven
Events March 8–9 March – Knife attacks in the Möllevången neighbourhood of Malmö, in which neo-Nazis connected to the Party of the Swedes injure four people who had taken part in a demonstration celebrating International Women's Day 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
December 2 December – 3 December – Prime Minister of Sweden Stefan Lofven calls a snap general election after the Riksdag rejected the proposed Government budget in favour of a budget promoted by the centre-right opposition. 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, modern pentathlete (b. 1923). 25 August – Lars Mortimer, 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, footballer (b. 1968). 21 December – Åke Johansson, footballer (b. 1928).
See also 2014 in Swedish television
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