2014 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf
• Prime Minister – Fredrik Reinfeldt, Stefan Löfven

  Events

March

• 8–9 March – Knife attacks in the Möllevången neighbourhood of Malmö, in which neo-Nazis connected to the Party of the Swedes injure four people who had taken part in a demonstration celebrating International Women's Day that had just ended. Initial media reports of "a clash between leftwing and rightwing extremists" were widely condemned as misleading.
• 16 March – Thousands demonstrate against fascism in Malmö, in response to the International Women's Day knife attacks the previous weekend.

  July

• 31 July-11 August - 2014 Västmanland Wildfire.

  September

• 14 September – The 2014 Swedish general election

  December

• 2 December – The Sweden Democrats decide to vote for the opposition's budget proposal, likely forcing the collapse of Prime Minister Stefan Löfven's new government that came to power in the September elections.
• 3 December – Less than three months after winning the general election, Prime Minister of Sweden Stefan Lofven calls a snap general election after parliament rejected his government's budget proposal.
• 9 December – The Pirate Bay website goes offline after Swedish police seize its servers.

  Deaths

• 6 January - Lena Smedsaas, journalist.
• 11 February - Alice Babs, singer and actress.
• 6 March - Barbro Kollberg, film actress
• 7 July - Bertil Haase, modern pentathlete.
• 25 August - Lars Mortimer, comic artist.
• 29 August - Brasse Brännström, actor and screenwriter
• 12 September - Bengt Saltin, professor of human physiology.