1905 in Sweden

Events from the year 1905 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Oscar II
 * Prime Minister –
 * until April 13: Erik Gustaf Boström
 * April 13-August 2: Johan Ramstedt
 * August 2-November 7: Christian Lundeberg
 * starting November 7: Karl Staaff

Events

 * February 4–12 – The Nordic Games take place in Stockholm.
 * April 14 – Erik Gustaf Boström resigns as the Prime Minister of Sweden, over the issue of the Swedish- Norwegian Union. His Minister without Portfolio, Johan Ramstedt, becomes the new Prime Minister of Sweden.
 * June 7 – The Norwegian Parliament declares the union with Sweden dissolved, and Norway achieves full independence.
 * June 15 – Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Duke of Skåne (Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden).
 * August 2 – The businessman and right-wing politician Christian Lundeberg becomes Prime Minister of Sweden.
 * October 26 – Sweden agrees to the repeal of the union with Norway.
 * November 7 – The lawyer and liberal politician Karl Staaff becomes Prime Minister of Sweden, after an Riksdag election based mainly about, voting rights reform.
 * November 8 – Foundation of the Women's Cooperative Swedish Home by Anna Whitlock in Stockholm.

Births

 * – Sven Rydell, football player (died 1975)
 * – Arne Beurling, mathematician
 * – Ulf von Euler, physiologist
 * – Torsten Nilsson, social democrat

Deaths

 * 16 April – Thérèse Elfforss, actress (born 1823)
 * – Emily Nonnen, writer (born 1812)
 * December – Martin Wiberg, inventor (born 1826)
 * – Hjalmar Stolpe, entomologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer (born 1841)