1914 in Sweden

1914 was the first year of the First World War in Sweden, which mostly consisted of Sweden deciding their stance on the war, eventually deciding on a neutrality. Sweden's neutrality lasted the entirety of the war.

Demographics
Life expectancy - ~58 years

Fertility rate - 3.2 births per woman

Population - 5.7 million

Important Figures

 * Monarch – Gustaf V
 * Prime Ministers - Karl Staaff, Hjalmar Hammarskjöld
 * Minister for Foreign Affairs Knut Agathon Wallenberg

Events

 * 6 February - Courtyard Speech
 * 6 February - Peasant armament support march
 * 27 March - March 1914 Swedish general election
 * 28 May – Selma Lagerlöf inducted to the Swedish Academy.
 * 5 September - September 1914 Swedish general election
 * 31 July - Declaration of neutrality in the Austro-Serbian conflict
 * 2 August - Knut Wallenberg speaks to Esmé Howard and tells him that if Sweden were to enter this conflict, then they would never fight on the side of Russia
 * 3 August - Declaration of neutrality in the conflict between Germany, and France and Russia
 * 8 August - Sweden enters a join declaration of neutrality between all belligerents in World War I with Norway
 * 18-19 December - King Gustaf V meets with Christian X of Denmark and Haakon VII of Norway in Malmö

Births
This is an incomplete list, if any editors wish to add more please do so by manually going through this list
 * 30 January - Inga-Bodil Vetterlund, actor (died 14 September 1980 at 66)
 * 14 February - Britt G. Hallqvist, poet (died 20 March 1997 at 83)
 * 26 March - Åke Grönberg, actor (died 15 September 1969 at 55)
 * 18 April - Tord Bernheim, actor (died 23 July 1992 at 78)
 * 10 July - Henrik Schildt, actor (15 March 2001 at 87)
 * 11 July - Sven Fahlman, fencer (died 23 June 2003 at 88)
 * 25 July - Olle Nordemar, actor (died 18 February 1999 at 84)
 * 9 October - Bengt Logardt, actor (died 25 September 1994 at 79)

Deaths

 * 1 March - Tor Aulin, violinist (born 1866 in Sweden)
 * 20 April – Ivar Wickman, physician who discovered the epidemic and contagious character of poliomyelitis in 1907 (born 1872)
 * 10 November - Nils Christoffer Dunér, astronomer (born 1839)