1914 in Sweden
1914 was the first year of the First World War, though this had little effect on the nation as for the entirety of the war, and most of Swedish modern history, the nation would remain neutral. Famously the Scandinavian kings would meet in Malmö to discuss neutrality in the great war.
Demographics
Life expectancy - ~58 yearsFertility rate - 3.2 births per woman
Population - 5.7 million
Important Figures
- Monarch – Gustaf V
- Prime Ministers - Karl Staaff, Hjalmar Hammarskjöld
- Minister for Foreign Affairs Knut Agathon Wallenberg
Events
- 6 February - Courtyard Speech
- 6 February - Peasant armament support march
- 27 March - March 1914 Swedish general election
- 28 May - Selma Lagerlöf inducted to the Swedish Academy.
- 5 September - September 1914 Swedish general election
- 31 July - Declaration of neutrality in the Austro-Serbian conflict
- 2 August - Knut Wallenberg speaks to Esmé Howard and tells him that if Sweden were to enter this conflict, then they would never fight on the side of Russia
- 3 August - Declaration of neutrality in the conflict between Germany, and France and Russia
- 8 August - Sweden enters a join declaration of neutrality between all belligerents in World War I with Norway
- 18–19 December - King Gustaf V meets with Christian X of Denmark and Haakon VII of Norway in Malmö
Births
This is an incomplete list- 30 January - Inga-Bodil Vetterlund, actor
- 14 February - Britt G. Hallqvist, poet
- 26 March - Åke Grönberg, actor
- 18 April - Tord Bernheim, actor
- 10 July - Henrik Schildt, actor
- 11 July - Sven Fahlman, fencer
- 25 July - Olle Nordemar, actor
- 9 October - Bengt Logardt, actor
Deaths
- 1 March - Tor Aulin, violinist
- 20 April – Ivar Wickman, physician who discovered the epidemic and contagious character of poliomyelitis in 1907
- 10 November - Nils Christoffer Dunér, astronomer