Events from the year 2009 in Sweden
Incumbents Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf Prime Minister – Fredrik Reinfeldt
Events
1 January – The new Swedish FRA law comes into effect. 1 January – New authorities in Sweden will be the Discrimination Ombudsman and the Swedish Transport Agency. 1 January – Höganäs municipality introduces, as the second municipality in Sweden, the euro as a parallel currency. 5 February – In Sweden, the four party leaders of the agree on the Swedish energy policy, which means that the ban on new construction of nuclear power is lifted. 24 February – In Sweden, Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling announce that they are engaged and that the wedding will take place on 19 June 2010. 25 March – Sverker Göranson takes office as the new Commander-in-Chief. 17 April – In Sweden, the Stockholm district court's verdict against the four defendants in the Pirate Bay trial falls. 26 May – Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki declares that there is no intention to release Eritrean-Swedish journalist Dawit Isaak, who has been imprisoned in the country without trial since 2001. 16 June – Sweden's Riksdag decides by a vote of 153-150 that Sweden shall abolish general conscription, which has existed since 1901, in peacetime and from 1 July 2010, replace it with voluntary basic military training.' 17 June – Member of Parliament Tobias Krantz is appointed as the new Swedish Minister of Higher Education and Research after the departed Lars Leijonborg. 1 July – Sweden will be the country holding the presidency of the European Union for the next six months, after the Czech Republic. 23 July – The two Gotland ferries M/S Gotland and HSC Gotlandia II collide just outside Nynäshamn, Sweden. 15 passengers are slightly injured. 31 July – Six crewmen die when the cargo ship Langeland sinks in Kosterfjorden, Sweden. 12 September – The first vaccination against the new flu in Sweden is carried out at a test group in Eskilstuna. 23 September – A very spectacular robbery against a safe deposit in Västberga owned by the security company G4S, is carried out with, among other things, a stolen helicopter. See more on the Helicopter robbery. 5 October – The UN names Norway as the best country in the world to live in. Sweden is seventh on the list, which means a drop from 2008. 1 November – AIK wins the Allsvenskan for men and thus becomes Swedish football champions for the first time in eleven years.
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Deaths
3 January – Ulf G. Lindén, businessperson (born 1937) 13 January – Folke Sundquist, actor (born 1925). 15 January – Viking Palm, wrestler, Olympic champion (born 1923). 17 January – Anders Isaksson, journalist (born 1943) 30 January – Ingemar Johansson, boxer, heavyweight world champion (born 1932) 31 January – Erland von Koch, composer (born 1910) 31 August – Torsten Lindberg, footballer (born 1917). 3 October – Olga Dahl, genealogist (b. 1917) 20 November – Elisabeth Söderström, singer (b. 1927)
See also 2009 in Swedish television
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