2005 in Sweden

Events from the year 2005 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf
 * Prime Minister – Göran Persson

Events

 * January 1 - The train service between Oslo and Stockholm is closed after 133 years.
 * January 8–9 – A strong storm, Hurricane Gudrun, hits northern Europe, including southern Sweden. At least 18 people are killed, 300,000 households and 75 million cubic meters of forest are felled.
 * January 18 - The company SIBA's CEO Fabian Bengtsson disappears in central Gothenburg, probably kidnapped.
 * February 3 – Fabian Bengtsson is found alive in Gothenburg.
 * February 5 - Sweden's Prime Minister Göran Persson is appointed an honorary doctor of medicine at Örebro University. The appointment arouses strong protests, as it is considered a reward for the prime minister's having made Örebro University into a university.
 * March 11 - Nintendo launches its new game console Nintendo DS in Sweden and the rest of Europe.
 * March 21 - An arson attack is carried out against the Communist Party's Röda Stjärnan bookstore in Jönköping.
 * April 15 -The Swedish political party Feministisk initiative is founded, but the decision to run in the parliamentary elections was made on 9 September 2005.
 * May 16 – Second day of Pentecost is no longer a public holiday in Sweden, because the national day would be instead.
 * May 29- The commemorative note "Tumba Bruk 250 years" is issued, Sveriges riksbank
 * May 31 – The Brattås murders.
 * June 1 – Smoking ban is introduced in restaurants, pubs and cafes in Sweden.
 * Svenska Flaggans Dag den 6 juni 1916.jpg 6 - Sweden's national day becomes holiday.
 * June 10 – The new Svinesund Bridge is inaugurated and the older bridge is named the Old Svinesund Bridge.
 * July 1 - A new Swedish copyright law enters into force. The file sharing debate flares up again.
 * September 11 – The Armed Forces' telecommunications network and ground telecommunications unit (FMTM) is established.
 * September 18 - The Swedish church holds a church referendum.
 * November 1 – The healthcare guarantee starts to apply throughout Sweden.
 * November 25 – A Swedish vehicle from the Swedish Foreign Forces is exposed to a bomb attack during a reconnaissance mission in Afghanistan. Two of the four people in the vehicle later died in hospital.
 * December 3 – The yuletide in Gävle is lit by two dressed-up men at 9:08 p.m.
 * December 10 – The 2005 Nobel Prize (see prize winners below) is awarded as usual in Stockholm's concert hall and in Oslo, with associated ceremonies.

Literature

 * The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, crime novel by Stieg Larsson
 * The Stone Cutter, crime novel by Camilla Läckberg
 * Det lysande ögat, children's detective fiction

Film

 * 4 November – Mother of Mine, directed by Klaus Härö, released in Sweden
 * 11 November – Made in YU released
 * 18 November – Storm released

Born

 * March 11 – Axel Sandin Pelikka, Swedish ice hockey player.

Deaths

 * 6 January – Ivan Lidholm, 94, Swedish track and field athlete and sports journalist.
 * 13 January – Bengt Janson, 47, Swedish antique dealer, teacher and TV presenter.
 * 8 February – Germund Dahlquist, mathematician (born 1925)
 * 13 February – Sixten Ehrling, conductor (born 1918)
 * 12 May – Monica Zetterlund, singer and actress (born 1937)
 * 28 November – Carl Forssell, fencer (born 1917).

Full date missing

 * Anna Westberg, novelist and non-fiction writer (born 1946).