2005 in Sweden

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Events from the year 2005 in Sweden

• Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf
• Prime Minister – Göran Persson

• January 1 - The train service between Oslo and Stockholm is closed after 133 years.
• January 8–9 – A strong storm, Hurricane Gudrun, hits northern Europe, including southern Sweden. At least 18 people are killed, 300,000 households and 75 million cubic meters of forest are felled.
• January 18 - The company SIBA's CEO Fabian Bengtsson disappears in central Gothenburg, probably kidnapped.
• February 3 – Fabian Bengtsson is found alive in Gothenburg.
• February 5 - Sweden's Prime Minister Göran Persson is appointed an honorary doctor of medicine at Örebro University. The appointment arouses strong protests, as it is considered a reward for the prime minister's having made Örebro University into a university.
• March 11 - Nintendo launches its new game console Nintendo DS in Sweden and the rest of Europe.
• March 21 - An arson attack is carried out against the Communist Party's Röda Stjärnan bookstore in Jönköping.
• April 15 -The Swedish political party Feministisk initiative is founded, but the decision to run in the parliamentary elections was made on 9 September 2005.
• May 16 – Second day of Pentecost is no longer a public holiday in Sweden, because the national day would be instead.
• May 29- The commemorative note "Tumba Bruk 250 years" is issued, Sveriges riksbank
• May 31 – The Brattås murders.
• June 1 – Smoking ban is introduced in restaurants, pubs and cafes in Sweden.

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  June 6 - Sweden's national day becomes holiday.
• June 10 – The new Svinesund Bridge is inaugurated and the older bridge is named the Old Svinesund Bridge.
• July 1 - A new Swedish copyright law enters into force. The file sharing debate flares up again.
• September 11 – The Armed Forces' telecommunications network and ground telecommunications unit (FMTM) is established.
• September 18 - The Swedish church holds a church referendum.
• November 1 – The healthcare guarantee starts to apply throughout Sweden.
• November 25 – A Swedish vehicle from the Swedish Foreign Forces is exposed to a bomb attack during a reconnaissance mission in Afghanistan. Two of the four people in the vehicle later died in hospital.
• December 3 – The yuletide in Gävle is lit by two dressed-up men at 9:08 p.m.
• December 10 – The 2005 Nobel Prize (see prize winners below) is awarded as usual in Stockholm's concert hall and in Oslo, with associated ceremonies.

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, crime novel by Stieg Larsson
• The Stone Cutter, crime novel by Camilla Läckberg
• Det lysande ögat, children's detective fiction

• 4 November – Mother of Mine, directed by Klaus Härö, released in Sweden
• 11 November – Made in YU released
• 18 November – Storm released

• March 11 – Axel Sandin Pelikka, Swedish ice hockey player.

• 6 January – Ivan Lidholm, 94, Swedish track and field athlete and sports journalist.
• 13 January – Bengt Janson, 47, Swedish antique dealer, teacher and TV presenter.
• 8 February – Germund Dahlquist, mathematician (born 1925)
• 13 February – Sixten Ehrling, conductor (born 1918)
• 12 May – Monica Zetterlund, singer and actress (born 1937)
• 28 November – Carl Forssell, fencer (born 1917).^[1]

• Anna Westberg, novelist and non-fiction writer (born 1946).^[2]

• 2005 in Swedish television

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