1940 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Gustav V
• Prime Minister – Per Albin Hansson

  Events

• April - Initiation of regular transit of German troops through Sweden to and from Norway

  Births

• 22 January - Tobias Berggren, poet.
• 11 June - Gunnar Harding, poet.
• 18 October - Carl von Essen, fencer.

  Deaths

• 16 March - Selma Lagerlöf, writer
• 24 November - Janne Lundblad, horse rider.
• 12 October - Ann-Margret Holmgren, feminist and pacifist writer
• - Agnes von Krusenstjerna