• Source: 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.


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      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

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