2018 in Sweden
Events in the year 2018 in Sweden.
Incumbents
Events
- 5 March – Alternative for Sweden is formed from a split from Sweden Democrats. Two Sweden Democrat members of the Riksdag, Olle Felten and Jeff Ahl, defected to the party later that month.
- May–August – 2018 Sweden wildfires
- 14 August - More Than 100 Cars Burned in Mass Arson Attack in Sweden.
- 20 August – 15 years old Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg starts to stay out of school in an attempt to give attention to the climate change issue.
- 9 September -2018 Swedish general election is held.
Sports
- 21 to 28 April - The 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship ar held in Östersund.
Deaths
- 4 January – Johannes Brost, actor.
- 23 January – Anders Åberg, painter, cartoonist and sculptor
- 27 January – Ingvar Kamprad, businessman, founder of IKEA
- 1 February – Robert Larsson, ice hockey player
- 3 March – Kenneth Gärdestad, songwriter
- 5 March – Kjerstin Dellert, opera singer
- 20 March – Ann-Charlotte Alverfors, writer
- 21 March – Ulrica Hydman Vallien, artist
- 25 March – Jerry Williams, singer and actor
- 29 March – Sven-Olov Sjödelius, canoeist, Olympic champion in 1960 and 1964
- 3 April – Lill-Babs, singer and actress
- 20 April – Avicii, musician, DJ, remixer and record producer
- 28 May – Ola Ullsten, politician, former Prime Minister
- 6 June – Åke Wärnström, boxer.
- 8 June – Per Ahlmark, politician.
- 29 June – Arvid Carlsson, neuropharmacologist and Nobel Prize laureate
- 2 August – Eric Torell, man with Down syndrome who was shot by police
- 11 October – Labinot Harbuzi, footballer
- 18 October – Lisbeth Palme, child psychologist, former chairwoman of UNICEF