Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gubernatorial seat of Västra Götaland County, with a population of approximately 600,000 in the city proper and about 1.1 million inhabitants in the metropolitan area.
Erik Sven Fernström, known by his stage name Jerry Williams, was a Swedish singer and actor. He began his career as the lead singer of The Violents, before launching a solo career.
Until the late 2000s, terrorism in Sweden was not seen as a serious threat to the security of the state. However, there has been a rise in far right and Islamist terrorist activity in the 21st century.
The West Link is a railway project under construction in Gothenburg, Sweden. It consists of 8 kilometers of railway, including 6 kilometers of tunnel, including three new underground stations: Centralen, Haga and Korsvägen. The purpose of the project is to increase capacity and reduce travel times for commuter and regional trains.
The Gothenburg quadricentennial jubilee was originally scheduled to be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2021 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the city. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden, organizers have postponed the celebrations to 2023, while a small-scale event will still take place in 2021. The anniversary follows the city's tricentennial jubilee held in 1923.
Viljo Nousiainen was a Finnish athletics coach.
In the 2014 season, Djurgårdens IF competed in the Allsvenskan and Svenska Cupen. Per Olsson took over from Per-Mathias Høgmo as manager, after the Norwegian left the club to coach the Norway national football team. Djurgården finished 7th in Allsvenskan and in the groups stage of Svenska Cupen
The Shoreline memorial is a monument located in Slottsskogen, a large park in central Gothenburg, Sweden. The installation commemorates the location of the final reunion of the band Broder Daniel in 2008.
Anna Frida Wiktoria Johansson is a Swedish politician of the Social Democrats. She was the Minister for Infrastructure in the Swedish Government from 2014 to 2017.
Daria Sofia Elisabeth (Lisa) Aschan is a Swedish film director and screenwriter.
On 12 June 2015, four people, including a 4-year-old girl, were killed in a car bombing in Gothenburg, Sweden. The bombing was seen as part of the gang conflicts in the city, as at least one of the victims was a known gang leader.
On 7 April 2017, a vehicle-ramming Islamist terrorist attack took place in central Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. A hijacked truck was deliberately driven into crowds along Drottninggatan before being crashed into an Åhléns department store. Five people were killed and 14 others were seriously injured.
Bombings in Sweden are attacks and sabotage using explosive devices by criminals in Sweden. The weapons used are weapons such as hand grenades and explosives intended for either civilian or military use. Legal authorities use the term allmänfarlig ödeläggelse genom sprängning and media in Sweden use the shorter term sprängdåd. This crime was not categorized separately prior to 2017. In 2018 there were 162 explosions, and in the first nine months of 2019, 97 explosions were registered, usually carried out by criminal gangs. According to Swedish police commissioner Anders Thornberg in 2019, there is no international equivalent to Sweden's wave of bombings.
Events in the year 2020 in Sweden.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden is a part of the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. As of 22 March 2023, there have been 2,701,192 confirmed cumulative cases and 23,851 deaths with confirmed COVID-19 in Sweden. Sweden ranks 57th in per capita deaths worldwide, and out of 47 European countries, Sweden places 30th. A 2022 estimate of excess mortality during the pandemic using IHME COVID model estimated 18,300 excess deaths during 2020–2021 The Economist model value estimated 13,670 excess deaths between 16th 2020-Mar 6th 2022.
Events in the year 2021 in Sweden.
Events in the year 2023 in Sweden.
The Dahlsjö Case refers to the mass disappearance of Kjell-Åke Johansson, Jan Olof Dahlsjö and Gay Roger Karlsson from a café in the city of Gothenburg, Sweden on 29 July 1965. The trio, who after being witnessed departing from the café in a midnight blue 1956 Volvo PV444 belonging to Dahlsjö, have never been seen since, even though various purported sightings of the trio were reported in August 1965 and 1966.
