2005 in Sweden

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See also:	Other events of 2005 Timeline of Swedish history

Events from the year 2005 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf
• Prime Minister – Göran Persson

Events

• 1 January – The train service between Oslo and Stockholm is closed after 133 years.
• 8–9 January – A strong storm, Hurricane Gudrun, hits northern Europe, including southern Sweden. At least 18 people are killed, 300,000 households and 75 million cubic meters of forest are felled.
• 18 January – The company SIBA's CEO Fabian Bengtsson disappears in central Gothenburg, probably kidnapped.
• 3 February – Fabian Bengtsson is found alive in Gothenburg.
• 5 February – Sweden's Prime Minister Göran Persson is appointed an honorary doctor of medicine at Örebro University. The appointment arouses strong protests, as it is considered a reward for the prime minister's having made Örebro University into a university.
• 11 March – Nintendo launches its new game console Nintendo DS in Sweden and the rest of Europe.
• 21 March – An arson attack is carried out against the Communist Party's Röda Stjärnan bookstore in Jönköping.
• 15 April -The Swedish political party Feministisk initiative is founded, but the decision to run in the parliamentary elections was made on 9 September 2005.
• 16 May – Second day of Pentecost is no longer a public holiday in Sweden, because the national day would be instead.
• 29 May- The commemorative note "Tumba Bruk 250 years" is issued, Sveriges riksbank
• 31 May – The Brattås murders.
• 1 June – Smoking ban is introduced in restaurants, pubs and cafes in Sweden.

• 

  Swedish national day becomes a public holiday

  6 June – Sweden's national day becomes holiday.
• 10 June – The new Svinesund Bridge is inaugurated and the older bridge is named the Old Svinesund Bridge.
• 1 July – A new Swedish copyright law enters into force. The file sharing debate flares up again.
• 11 September – The Armed Forces' telecommunications network and ground telecommunications unit (FMTM) is established.
• 18 September – The Swedish church holds a church referendum.
• 1 November – The healthcare guarantee starts to apply throughout Sweden.
• 25 November – A Swedish vehicle from the Swedish Foreign Forces is exposed to a bomb attack during a reconnaissance mission in Afghanistan. Two of the four people in the vehicle later died in hospital.
• 3 December – The yuletide in Gävle is lit by two dressed-up men at 9:08 p.m.
• 10 December – The 2005 Nobel Prize (see prize winners below) is awarded as usual in Stockholm's concert hall and in Oslo, with associated ceremonies.

Popular culture

Literature

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , crime novel by Stieg Larsson
• The Stone Cutter , crime novel by Camilla Läckberg
• Det lysande ögat , children's detective fiction

Film

• 4 November – Mother of Mine , directed by Klaus Härö, released in Sweden
• 11 November – Made in YU released
• 18 November – Storm released

Born

• 11 March – Axel Sandin Pelikka, Swedish ice hockey player.

Deaths

• 6 January – Ivan Lidholm, 94, Swedish track and field athlete and sports journalist.
• 13 January – Bengt Janson, 47, Swedish antique dealer, teacher and TV presenter.
• 8 February – Germund Dahlquist, mathematician (born 1925)
• 13 February – Sixten Ehrling, conductor (born 1918)
• 12 May – Monica Zetterlund, singer and actress (born 1937)
• 28 November – Carl Forssell, fencer (born 1917). ^[1]

Full date missing

• Anna Westberg, novelist and non-fiction writer (born 1946). ^[2]

See also

• 2005 in Swedish television

References

1. "Carl Forssell". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
2. Godal, Anne Marit (ed.). "Anna Westberg". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 16 November 2014.