2025 in Sweden
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Events in the year 2025 in Sweden.
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]- 28 January – A man is arrested after ramming his car into the gate of the Russian embassy in Stockholm.[1]
- 29 January – Salwan Momika, who became controversial for burning a copy of the Koran outside the Stockholm Mosque in 2023, is shot dead in Södertälje.[2]
- 4 February – Eleven people, including the gunman, are killed in a shooting at the Campus Risbergska adult education centre in Örebro.[3]
- 21 February – A section of a submarine telecommunications cable running under the Baltic Sea between Finland and Germany is severed off the coast of Gotland.[4]
- 27 February – A court in Germany sentences two Afghan nationals to up to five years imprisonment for plotting to attack the Riksdag and assassinate lawmakers in response to the burning of copies of the Koran.[5]
Predicted and scheduled events
[edit]- 9–25 May – 2025 IIHF World Championship in Denmark and Sweden.[6][7]
Art and entertainment
[edit]Births
[edit]- 7 February – Princess Ines, Duchess of Västerbotten.[8]
Deaths
[edit]- 30 January – Leif Olsson, 82, radio and television presenter and handball referee.[9]
Holidays
[edit]Source:[10]
- 1 January – New Year's Day
- 6 January – Epiphany
- 18 April – Good Friday
- 20 April – Easter Sunday
- 21 April – Easter Monday
- 1 May – International Workers' Day
- 29 May – Ascension Day
- 6 June – National Day of Sweden
- 21 June – Midsummer Day
- 1 November – All Saints' Day
- 24 December – Christmas Eve
- 25 December – Christmas Day
- 26 December – 2nd Day of Christmas
References
[edit]- ^ "Swedish Police Arrest Man Who Rammed Car Into Russian Embassy Gate". The Moscow Times. 28 January 2025. Retrieved 29 January 2025.
- ^ "Man who burned Quran 'shot dead in Sweden'". BBC. 30 January 2025. Retrieved 30 January 2025.
- ^ "Sweden's worst mass shooting leaves at least 11 dead, 5 seriously wounded at adult education center". AP News. 5 February 2025. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
- ^ "Sweden investigates suspected sabotage of undersea telecoms cable". BBC. 21 February 2025. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
- ^ "A German court sentences 2 Afghans to prison for plotting to attack the Swedish parliament". AP News. 27 February 2025. Retrieved 27 February 2025.
- ^ "IIHF – IIHF Worlds bids in for '23, '24, '25". IIHF International Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
- ^ "Danmark bliver VM-vært i 2025 sammen med Sverige". ishockey.dk (in Danish). 24 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
- ^ "TRH Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia welcome their fourth child – a daughter". kungahuset.se. 7 February 2025. Retrieved 7 February 2025.
- ^ Michaela Karlén & Caroline Widenheim (31 January 2025). "Leif "Loket" Olsson är död" (in Swedish). Göteborgs-Posten. Retrieved 11 February 2025.
- ^ "Sweden Public Holidays 2025". Public Holidays Global. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
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