2024 in Sweden
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Events in the year 2024 in Sweden.
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]January
[edit]- 4 January – At least 1,000 cars are left stranded on the E22 highway between Hörby and Kristianstad for a day with people spending the night in their vehicles due to heavy snow. The Swedish Army intervenes, helping citizens get out of their vehicles and supplying them with basic amenities.[2]
- 23 January – Turkey's Grand National Assembly approves Sweden's NATO membership bid.[3]
- 25 January – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan signs the proposal containing Sweden's accession protocol to NATO.[4]
February
[edit]- 12 February – One person is killed in a fire while working on Liseberg's new waterpark called Oceana Liseberg in Gothenburg.[5]
- 20 February – Sweden donates its largest military aid package to Ukraine to date with a further $680 million in aid.[6]
- 26 February – Hungary's parliament ratifies Sweden's bid to join NATO.[7]
March
[edit]April
[edit]- 17 April – The Riksdag votes 234-94 in favor of lowering the minimum age for citizens to legally change their gender from 18 years to 16.[9]
May
[edit]- 6 May – King Frederik X of Denmark and his wife, Queen Mary, make their first state visit to Sweden as new monarchs following the abdication of his mother Queen Margrethe II on 14 January.[10]
- 7–11 May – Eurovision Song Contest 2024 at Malmö[11]
- 9 May – Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters march in Malmö, against Israel's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 and the contest's ban of pro-Palestinian content and imagery. Among the protesters is climate activist Greta Thunberg.[12]
- 22 May – Sweden announces US$7 billion in military aid to Ukraine from 2024 to 2026.[13]
- 29 May – Sweden announces a further package of $1.23 billion in military aid to Ukraine; the largest so far that it has given.[14]
- 31 May – King Carl XVI Gustaf inducts pop music group ABBA, Nobel Prize laureates Anne L’Huillier and Svante Pääbo and nine other recipients into the Royal Order of Vasa in a ceremony at the Royal Palace in Stockholm, in the first distribution of the award since 1974.[15]
June
[edit]- 7 June – The Royal Swedish Opera is fined 3 million kronor ($300,000) for the death of a stage technician who fell from a balcony during a workplace accident in 2023.[16]
- 6–9 June – 2024 European Parliament election. The Social Democrats emerge as the largest party in the Swedish contingent to the European Parliament.[17]
- 14 June – The US State Department designates the Nordic Resistance Movement as a terrorist organization. Three of its leaders are subsequently designated as Specially Designated Global Terrorists.[18]
- 15 June – Hamid Nouri, an Iranian official serving life imprisonment in Sweden for his role in the 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners, is released in exchange for two Swedish nationals held on charges of spying in Iran as part of a prisoner swap brokered by Oman.[19]
- 20 June – The Stockholm District Court acquits former Syrian army general Mohammed Hamo on charges of aiding and abetting crimes against international law during the Syrian Civil War.[20]
July
[edit]- 3 July – Investigators in Germany and Sweden arrest eight suspects allied with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government over alleged participation in crimes against humanity in Syria.[21]
- 11 July – Polish divers discover a 19th-century shipwreck in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Öland, with crates of champagne and porcelain inside.[22]
August
[edit]- 9 August – Mali expels the Swedish ambassador in response to Stockholm's decision to cut developmental aid to Bamako over its support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[23]
- 14 August – Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland form an international police hub in Stockholm to prevent escalating Swedish gang activity and criminal networks from spreading to other Nordic countries.[24]
- 13–25 August – 2024 World Masters Athletics Championships at Gothenburg[25]
- 15 August – The first case of clade 1b mpox outside Africa is discovered in Stockholm from a patient who had travelled to Africa.[26]
- 28 August – Prosecutors charge Salwan Momika and Salwan Najem with four counts of "offences of agitation against an ethnic or national group after the two desecrated the Quran and made derogatory remarks about Muslims in Stockholm in 2023.[27]
September
[edit]- 4 September – Foreign Minister Tobias Billström announced his resignation from the government and the Riksdag effective 10 September.[28] He is replaced by Maria Malmer Stenergard as part of a cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson.[29]
- 9 September – The exiled National Council of Resistance of Iran claims that its offices in Stockholm were firebombed overnight with Molotov cocktails. The Swedish Police Authority announces that they have opened an investigation into arson.[30]
- 24 September –
- Swedish authorities formally accuse Iran of carrying out a 2023 cyberattack involving the dissemination of 15,000 messages calling for revenge against people who had burned Korans.[31]
- Lithium-ion technology developer Northvolt announces revised company operational scopes and its intention to layoff 1,600 workers in the country.[32]
October
[edit]- 1 October – Unidentified gunmen open fire at the Israeli embassy in Stockholm.[33]
- 8 October – The government issues an update of the country's civil defence guidelines for the first time since 2018 to take into account Sweden's accession into NATO and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[34]
November
[edit]- 5 November – Rasmus Paludan, the leader of the far-right Stram Kurs party, is convicted by the Malmö District Court of "incitement against an ethnic group" following racist and Islamophobic comments made in 2022 and is sentenced to four months' imprisonment.[35]
Art and entertainment
[edit]Holidays
[edit]Source:[36]
- 1 January – New Year's Day
- 6 January – Epiphany
- 29 March – Good Friday
- 31 March – Easter Sunday
- 1 April – Easter Monday
- 1 May – International Workers' Day
- 9 May – Ascension Day
- 6 June – National Day of Sweden
- 22 June – Midsummer Day
- 2 November – All Saints' Day
- 24 December – Christmas Eve
- 25 December – Christmas Day
- 26 December – 2nd Day of Christmas
Deaths
[edit]January
[edit]- 4 January – Marie Nilsson Lind, 62, singer (Ainbusk).[37]
- 8 January – Carl-Erik Asplund, 100, speed skater, Olympic bronze medalist (1952).[38]
- 14 January – Mohamed Said, 36, actor (Andra Avenyn).[39]
- 23 January – Anders Sandberg, 55, singer (Rednex).[40]
- 29 January – Arne Hegerfors, 81, sports journalist.[41]
July
[edit]- 7 July – Bengt I. Samuelsson, 90, biochemist and Nobel laureate (1982).[42]
August
[edit]- 8 August – Boo Ahl, ice hockey goaltender (born 1969, died in Norway).[43]
- 23 August – Peter Lundgren, 59, tennis player and coach.[44] (death announced on this day)
- 26 August – Sven-Göran Eriksson, 76, football player and manager (IFK Göteborg, Benfica, England national team), pancreatic cancer.[45]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Carl XVI Gustaf | king of Sweden | Britannica". www.britannica.com. 26 April 2023. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
- ^ "Duizenden auto's vast in sneeuw in Denemarken en Zweden, leger ingezet". nos.nl (in Dutch). 4 January 2024. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
- ^ Sariyuce, Isil; Gretener, Jessie; Wilson, Kristin (23 January 2024). "Turkish parliament approves Sweden's NATO membership bid". CNN. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
- ^ "Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan, İsveç'in NATO üyeliği kararını onayladı" (in Turkish). ntv.com.tr. 25 January 2024. Archived from the original on 6 February 2024. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
- ^ "Sweden: Police find dead person inside charred remains of a water park under construction". www.ptinews.com. 12 February 2024. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
- ^ "Sweden to Send Ukraine $680 Million Military Aid Package". Bloomberg.com. 20 February 2024. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
- ^ "Hungary's parliament clears path for Sweden's Nato membership". 26 February 2024. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
- ^ "Sweden set to become NATO's 32nd member as PM visits Washington". MSN. 7 March 2024.
- ^ "Swedish Parliament votes to make it easier for people to legally change their gender". Associated Press. 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Danish King Frederik and his Australian-born wife visit Sweden on their first official trip abroad". AP News. 6 May 2024. Retrieved 6 May 2024.
- ^ "Malmö will host the 68th Eurovision Song Contest in May 2024". Eurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union (EBU). 7 July 2023. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
- ^ "Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters march in Malmo against Israel's Eurovision participation". AP News. 9 May 2024. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
- ^ "Sweden providing Ukraine with military support totaling $7 billion". VOA. 22 May 2024. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- ^ "Sweden to donate $1.23 billion in military aid to Ukraine". AP News. 29 May 2024. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
- ^ "ABBA get a prestigious Swedish knighthood for their pop career that started at Eurovision". AP News. 31 May 2024. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- ^ "Sweden's foremost opera and ballet theater fined $300,000 for 2023 fatal fall of stage technician". AP News. 7 June 2024. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
- ^ "European elections are 1st electoral setback for Sweden's populist party with far-right roots". AP News. 10 June 2024. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
- ^ "US designates Nordic neo-Nazi group as terrorists". CNN. 14 June 2024.
- ^ "Iran and Sweden exchange prisoners in Oman-mediated swap". France 24. 16 June 2024. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ "Swedish court acquits former Syrian army general accused of role in war crimes". Associated Press. 20 June 2024. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
- ^ "Germany, Sweden arrest eight over Syria crimes against humanity". France 24. 3 July 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
- ^ "Sunken treasure: Is the champagne nestled in a 19th-century shipwreck still fit for a toast?". Associated Press. 26 July 2024. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ^ Adam Durbin. "Mali orders Swedish ambassador to leave within 72 hours". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ "Nordic countries join forces to combat spread of Swedish gang crime". Reuters. 14 August 2024.
- ^ "World Masters Athletics Championships 2024". City of Gothenburg. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
- ^ "First case of more contagious mpox found outside Africa". BBC. 15 August 2024.
- ^ "Sweden charges two men over 2023 Quran burnings". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
- ^ "Sweden's foreign minister announces shock departure from politics". Associated Press. 4 September 2024. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
- ^ "Sweden gets a new foreign minister after Billström's shock departure last week". Associated Press. 10 September 2024. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
- ^ "Exiled Iran opposition group says Stockholm offices firebombed". 9 September 2024.
- ^ "Sweden accuses Iran over 'revenge' messages after 2023 Qur'an burnings". The Guardian. 24 September 2024.
- ^ "Northvolt announces 1,600 layoffs in Sweden, insists Quebec EV battery plant won't be affected". 23 September 2024.
- ^ "Two explosions heard near Israeli Embassy in Copenhagen". Euronews. 2 October 2024. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
- ^ "Sweden updates its Cold War-era preparedness booklet". Associated Press. 8 October 2024. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ^ "Swedish court sentences far-right politician for insulting Muslims". Associated Press. 5 November 2024. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
- ^ "Sweden Public Holidays 2024". Public Holidays Global. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
- ^ "Ainbusk-sångaren Marie Nilsson Lind död – blev 62 år gammal". www.aftonbladet.se (in Swedish). 5 January 2024. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
- ^ "Skridskolegendaren är död – blev 100 år". Östersunds-Posten (in Swedish). 12 January 2024. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
- ^ ""Andra avenyn"-skådespelaren Mohamed Said död". www.aftonbladet.se (in Swedish). 14 January 2024. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
- ^ "Rednex-sångaren Anders Sandberg är död". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). 23 January 2024. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
- ^ "Sport: Arne Hegerfors är död". SVT Sport (in Swedish). 29 January 2024. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
- ^ "Nobelpristagaren Bengt Samuelsson död". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). 7 July 2024. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
- ^ Rise, Bendik; Remvik, Joachim (12 August 2024). "Døde på ferie i Norge". dagbladet.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 13 August 2024.
- ^ "Remembering Peter Lundgren, former Top 25 player and coach to Federer & more". ATP Tour. 23 August 2024. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
- ^ "Former England manager Eriksson dies aged 76". BBC Sport. BBC. 26 August 2024.
