Swedish History Timeline (Part 2)

Events 201 - 252 of 252

• 1974-06-06 A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy
• 1975-01-01 Sweden adopts constitution
• 1975-04-25 West German embassy blown up in Stockholm, Sweden

• 1978-01-23 Sweden becomes the first nation in the world to ban aerosol sprays, due to their harmful effect on the earth's ozone layer.
• 1978-10-05 Sweden's Fälldin government falls
• 1980-01-01 Sweden changes order of succession to throne
• 1980-01-01 Victoria is crowned princess of Sweden.
• 1981-10-05 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honorary American (posthumously)
• 1981-10-27 The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.

• 1984-04-30 1,700 skiers participate in an alpine event at Are, Sweden
• 1985-09-15 Olof Palme forms Sweden minority government
• 1986-03-15 Funeral services held for murdered Swedish PM Olaf Palme

• 1989-11-04 The congress of the Solidarity Party is inaugurated in Sweden. The congress decides, contrary to the proposal of the central committee, not to disband the party.
• 1989-12-13 The last issue of Gnistan (The Spark), the organ of the Solidaritetspartiet, is published in Sweden
• 1994-04-27 29.0°C in Genevad, Sweden (Swedish April high temperature record)
• 1994-06-11 Drunken police officer shoots 7 people dead in Falun, Sweden
• 1994-09-18 Sweden social-democratic SPD wins parliamentary election
• 1994-09-19 Swedish government of Bildt resigns
• 1994-10-07 Ingvar Carlsson forms Swedish government
• 1994-11-13 Sweden agrees to join European Union
• 1995-01-01 Austria, Finland & Sweden act to join European Union
• 1995-06-09 Dumb & Dumber (1994) premieres in Sweden

• 1999-05-28 Two Swedish police officers are murdered with their own fire arms by the bank robbers Jackie Arklöv and Tony Olsson after a dramatic car chase
• 2000-07-01 The Oresund Bridge, connecting Sweden and Denmark, opens for traffic
• 2003-09-11 Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh dies after being assaulted and fatally wounded on September 10.
• 2003-09-14 Sweden rejects adopting the Euro in a referendum
• 2004-03-19 A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Russian MiG-15 in the 1950s is finally recovered after years of work. The remains of the crew are left in place, pending further investigations.
• 2008-11-28 Sweden technically enters the recession after experiencing contraction of 0.1% in the second and third quarter
• 2009-05-01 Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden
• 2009-09-11 Sweden emerges from the recession after witnessing GDP growth of 0.2% in the second quarter
• 2010-12-11 Two explosions occur in a busy shopping district of Stockholm, Sweden, killing one and injuring two others. Officials say the incident is being treated as a terrorist attack.
• 2012-06-14 The world's first stem-cell assisted vein transplant is undertaken by Swedish doctors on a 10-year-old girl

• 2013-08-06 1 person is killed and 4 are injured after a hot air balloon crash in Montbovon, Sweden
• 2014-02-27 Chaos erupts after the Swedish Public Employment Service mistakenly invites 61,000 people to a job interview in Stockholm
• 2015-08-13 Swedish Prosecutors announce they are dropping allegations against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange of sexual molestation and coercion
• 2015-10-07 Nobel prize in Chemistry awarded to Tomas Lindahl (Sweden), Paul Modrich (US) and Aziz Sancar (Turkey) for work on cells DNA repair
• 2016-03-02 Oldest known land fossil (Tortotubus - 440 million years old) from Gotland, Sweden, revealed by British scientists

• 2017-10-13 Archaeologists announce the discovery of Arabic characters "Allah” and “Ali” on Viking funeral costumes from a grave in Gamla Uppsala, Sweden
• 2017-11-24 18 women accuse Jean-Claude Arnault with ties to the Nobel Prize Committee of sexual assault and harassment in Swedish Dagens Nyheter newspaper
• 2018-04-29 Sweden's official Twitter account confirms Swedish meatballs actually originated in Turkey
• 2018-06-12 French photographer Jean-Claude Arnault, at center of Nobel Prize Committee scandal, charged with rape in Sweden
• 2018-07-18 44 Forest fires in Sweden as far north as the Arctic Circle prompt Swedish government to request extra assistance, with drought and warm weather to blame
• 2018-08-01 Swedish crown jewels stolen in heist from Strängnäs Cathedral, Stockholm
• 2018-08-07 Swedish furniture brand Ikea opens its first store in India in Hyderabad
• 2018-09-09 Swedish General Election: no party wins a majority with far-right Sweden Democrats making gains

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