1940 in Sweden

Events from the year 1940 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Gustaf V
 * Prime Minister – Per Albin Hansson

Events

 * April – Initiation of regular transit of German troops through Sweden to and from Norway
 * 30 December – Victor Hasselblad forms the Victor Hasselblad AB Camera Company.

Births

 * 22 January – Tobias Berggren, poet.
 * 12 May – Lill Lindfors, Finnish-Swedish singer
 * 11 June – Gunnar Harding, poet.
 * 18 October – Carl von Essen, fencer.
 * 12 October – Gösta Pettersson, cyclist

Deaths

 * 10 March – Agnes von Krusenstjerna, writer (born 1894)
 * 16 March – Selma Lagerlöf, writer (born 1858)
 * 24 November – Janne Lundblad, horse rider (born 1877).
 * 12 October – Ann-Margret Holmgren, feminist and pacifist writer (born 1850)