2014 in Sweden
Events from the year 2014 in Sweden.
Incumbents
Events
March
- 8–9 March – Knife attacks in the Möllevången neighbourhood of Malmö, in which neo-Nazis connected to the Party of the Swedes injure four people who had taken part in a demonstration celebrating International Women's Day that had just ended. Initial media reports of "a clash between leftwing and rightwing extremists" were widely condemned as misleading.
- 16 March – Thousands demonstrate against fascism in Malmö, in response to the International Women's Day knife attacks the previous weekend.
July
- 31 July-11 August – 2014 Västmanland Wildfire.
September
December
- 2 December –
- 3 December – Prime Minister of Sweden Stefan Lofven calls a snap general election after the Riksdag rejected the proposed Government budget in favour of a budget promoted by the centre-right opposition.
- 9 December – The Pirate Bay website goes offline after Swedish police seize its servers.
Deaths
- 6 January – Lena Smedsaas, journalist.
- 11 February – Alice Babs, singer and actress.
- 6 March – Barbro Kollberg, film actress.
- 7 July – Bertil Haase, modern pentathlete.
- 25 August – Lars Mortimer, comic artist.
- 29 August
- * Brasse Brännström, actor and screenwriter.
- * Björn Waldegård, rally driver.
- 12 September – Bengt Saltin, professor of human physiology.
- 29 October – Klas Ingesson, footballer.
- 21 December – Åke Johansson, footballer.