2014 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf
• Prime Minister – Fredrik Reinfeldt, Stefan Löfven

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

• 14 September – The 2014 Swedish general election

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.