2024 in Sweden

Events in the year 2024 in Sweden.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf
 * Prime minister – Ulf Kristersson
 * Speaker – Andreas Norlén

January

 * 4 January – At least 1,000 cars are left stranded on the E22 highway between Hörby and Kristianstad for a day with people spending the night in their vehicles due to heavy snow. The Swedish Army intervenes, helping citizens get out of their vehicles and supplying them with basic amenities.
 * 23 January – Turkey's Grand National Assembly approves Sweden's NATO membership bid.
 * 25 January – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan signs the proposal containing Sweden's accession protocol to NATO.

February

 * 12 February – One person is killed in a fire that destroys part of the Liseberg amusement park in Gothenburg.
 * 20 February – Sweden donates its largest military aid package to Ukraine to date with a further $680 million in aid.
 * 26 February – Hungary's parliament ratifies Sweden's bid to join NATO.

March

 * 7 March - Sweden officially joins NATO, becoming the 32nd member of the military alliance.

April

 * 17 April – The Riksdag votes 234-94 in favor of lowering the minimum age for citizens to legally change their gender from 18 years to 16.

May

 * 6 May – King Frederik X of Denmark and his wife, Queen Mary, make their first state visit to Sweden as new monarchs following the abdication of his mother Queen Margrethe II on 14 January.
 * 7–11 May – Eurovision Song Contest 2024 at Malmö
 * 9 May – Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters march in Malmö, against Israel's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 and the contest's ban of pro-Palestinian content and imagery. Among the protesters is climate activist Greta Thunberg.
 * 22 May – Sweden announces US$7 billion in military aid to Ukraine from 2024 to 2026.
 * 29 May – Sweden announces a further package of $1.23 billion in military aid to Ukraine; the largest so far that is has given.
 * 31 May – King Carl XVI Gustaf inducts pop music group ABBA, Nobel Prize laureates Anne L’Huillier and Svante Pääbo and nine other recipients into the Royal Order of Vasa in a ceremony at the Royal Palace in Stockholm, in the first distribution of the award since 1974.

June

 * 7 June – The Royal Swedish Opera is fined 3 million kronor ($300,000) for the death of a stage technician who fell from a balcony during a workplace accident in 2023.
 * 6–9 June – 2024 European Parliament election. The Social Democrats emerge as the largest party in the Swedish contingent to the European Parliament.
 * 14 June – The US State Department designates the Nordic Resistance Movement as a terrorist organization. Three of its leaders are subsequently designated as Specially Designated Global Terrorists.
 * 15 June – Hamid Nouri, an Iranian official serving life imprisonment in Sweden for his role in the 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners, is released in exchange for two Swedish nationals held on charges of spying in Iran as part of a prisoner swap brokered by Oman.
 * 20 June – The Stockholm District Court acquits former Syrian army general Mohammed Hamo on charges of aiding and abetting crimes against international law during the Syrian Civil War.

July

 * 3 July – Investigators in Germany and Sweden arrest eight suspects allied with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government over alleged participation in crimes against humanity in Syria.

Scheduled events

 * 13–25 August – 2024 World Masters Athletics Championships at Gothenburg

Art and entertainment

 * List of Swedish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Holidays
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 * 1 January – New Year's Day
 * 6 January – Epiphany
 * 29 March – Good Friday
 * 31 March – Easter Sunday
 * 1 April – Easter Monday
 * 1 May – International Workers' Day
 * 9 May – Ascension Day
 * 6 June – National Day of Sweden
 * 22 June – Midsummer Day
 * 2 November – All Saints' Day
 * 24 December – Christmas Eve
 * 25 December – Christmas Day
 * 26 December – 2nd Day of Christmas

January

 * 4 January – Marie Nilsson Lind, 62, singer (Ainbusk).
 * 8 January – Carl-Erik Asplund, 100, speed skater, Olympic bronze medalist (1952).
 * 14 January – Mohamed Said, 36, actor (Andra Avenyn).
 * 23 January – Anders Sandberg, 55, singer (Rednex).
 * 29 January – Arne Hegerfors, 81, sports journalist.

July

 * 7 July – Bengt I. Samuelsson, 90, biochemist and Nobel laureate (1982).