1920 in Sweden
Years in Sweden: | 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 |
Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century |
Decades: | 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s |
Years: | 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 |
Events from the year 1920 in Sweden
Incumbents
- Monarch – Gustaf V
- Prime Minister – Nils Edén, Hjalmar Branting, Gerhard Louis De Geer
Events
- 4–17 September – the 1920 Swedish general election
- The local social democratic women's clubs of Sweden is organised in the Social Democratic Women in Sweden.
- Legal majority for married women and equal marriage rights.[1]
Sports
- August/September – at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Sweden won 64 Olympic medals, including nineteen gold medals.[2]
Births
- 17 April – Bengt Anderberg, writer.[3][4]
- 31 October – Gunnar Gren, footballer (died 1991).[5]
Deaths
- 7 April – Hildegard Björck, scholar, first woman in Sweden to gain a degree (born 1847)
- 10 April - Amanda Kerfstedt, writer (born 1835)
- 21 June - Nanna Hoffman factory owner (born 1846)
- 20 November – Ida Göthilda Nilsson, sculptor (born 1840)
- 27 October - Agda Montelius, philanthropist and women's rights activist (born 1850)
- Anna Rönström, educator and mathematician (born 1847)
- Amanda Rylander, actress (born 1834)
gollark: Solution: maintain consistency, legalize all weapons whatsoever.
gollark: Oh, and regarding this I'm more inclined to blame it on stupid tribal culture-warring.
gollark: "Is giving everyone nuclear weapons an issue? No, if it kills people they are either stupid enough to get killed by it or stupid enough to use nuclear weapons for killings."
gollark: Yes.
gollark: You can apply that to... anything whatsoever?
References
- Lilla Focus Uppslagsbok (Little Focus Encyclopedia) Focus Uppslagsböcker AB (1979) (Swedish)
- "1920 Antwerpen Summer Games". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 5 May 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
- "Författaren Bengt Anderberg är död" (in Swedish). Svenska Dagbladet. 30 September 2008. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
- Godal, Anne Marit (ed.). "Bengt Anderberg". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
- "Gunnar Gren". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
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