1909 in Sweden

Events from the year 1909 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Gustaf V
 * Prime Minister - Arvid Lindman

Events

 * 6–14 February – The Nordic Games take place in Stockholm.
 * 4 August to 4 September – Swedish General Strike (The Great Strike of 1909)
 * Introduction of the 8-hour day at the end of 1910s
 * 10 December – Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first woman to be given the Nobel Prize in Literature.
 * The right for women to vote in municipal elections are extended to include married women, and women are made eligible to municipal councils.
 * The phrase "Swedish man" is removed from the application forms to public offices and women are thereby approved as applicants to most public professions.

Births

 * 12 January – Barbro Alving, reporter (died 1987)

Deaths

 * 1 January – Ivar Arosenius, painter (born 1878)
 * Elsa Borg, social worker (born 1826)
 * Hanna Hammarström, industrialist (born 1829)