2001 in Sweden
Events from the year '''2001 in Sweden'''
Incumbents
Events
January
- 1 January - The name day list is updated.
- 1 January - The Swedish Defence Research Agency is established.
- 6 January - Landskrona Station is opened.
- 16 January - The music concert Artister mot nazister is held in Globen.
- 18 January - Nicola Vasmatzis is shot dead in a restroom at Bromma Gymnasium in Stockholm.
- 19 January - Lennart Daleus resigns as leader of the Centre Party.
February
- 11 February - Several houses from the 18th century burn down on the Arkadien block in eastern Jönköping.
March
- 7 March - The Minister of Commerce and Industry Leif Pagrotsky and the Member of the European Parliament Marit Paulsen each get a cake thrown at their necks at a debate evening in Lund.
- 15 March - The Alcohol Committee is established.
- 19 March - Maud Olofsson is elected leader of the Centre Party at a party conference. After the 2002 election, the Centre Party's first electoral upturn since 1973 was attributed to the "Maud effect."
- 25 March - Sweden joins the Schengen Area.
April
- 17 April - The Minister for Finance Bosse Ringholm is caked by a 21-year-old member of the Stockholm Cake Brigade when making the budget walk on Drottninggatan.
May
- 22 May - The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is signed in Stockholm.
- 29 May - Norrtåg is founded.
June
- 14 June - 16 June - A European Council meeting is held in Gothenburg which causes the Gothenburg Riots.
July
- 1 July - A new citizenship law is put into effect which allows Multiple citizenship.
- 28 July - 5 August - Sweden's first major and international scout camp, SCOUT 2001, is held in Rinkaby, Kristianstad.
- 31 July - Nordea buys Postgirot.
August
- 1 August - The People's Park in Karlskoga burns down.
- 15 August - Christina Jutterström becomes new CEO for SVT.
September
- 5 September - The Kolbäck Bridge in Umeå is opened.
- 11 September - A massive flood originating from the Selånger River destroys parts of Sundsvall.
- 15 September - Löfbergs Arena in Karlstad is opened.
- 16 September - The 2001 Church of Sweden elections are held.
October
- 21 October - Hammarby Fotboll win their first gold in Swedish Championship in football.
November
- 12 November - One of Sweden's oldest churches Södra Råda Old Church in Gullspång burns down after an arson attack by a 23-year-old murderer.
December
- 6 December - The Carlbeck Committee is established.
- 10 December - The Nobel Prize turns 100 and 161 previous winners are invited for its birthday party.
- 18 December - The Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery takes place.
- 31 December - Jan Malmsjö reads Ring Out, Wild Bells at Skansen due to Margaretha Krooks death.
Popular culture
Film
- 24 October - Deadline, directed by Colin Nutley, released in Sweden Buy Bye Beauty, documentary film directed by Pål Hollender
Sports
- 24 March-1 April - The Bandy World Championship 2001 for men was played in Sweden and Finland
Births
- 19 June – William Hansson, alpine ski racer.
Deaths
- 10 February - Helge Bengtsson, footballer
- 21 February - Philip Sandblom, sailor.
- 23 April - Lennart Atterwall, javelin thrower.
- 4 May - Arne Sucksdorff, film director.
- 7 May - Margaretha Krook, stage and film actress.
- 16 September - Ann-Margret Ahlstrand, athlete
- 9 November - Tore Zetterholm, novelist, playwright and journalist.
- 10 November - Carl-Gustav Esseen, mathematician
- 12 December - Berit Granquist, fencer