1909 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Gustav V
• Prime Minister - Arvid Lindman

  Events

• 4 August to 4 September - Swedish General Strike
• * High cost of living during WWI
• * 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" are 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

  Deaths

• 1 January – Ivar Arosenius, painter
• Elsa Borg, social worker
• Hanna Hammarström, industrialist