# 2005 in Sweden

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Events from the year 2005 in Sweden

## Incumbents

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

## Events

* 1 January – The train service between Oslo and Stockholm is closed after 133 years.
* 8–9 January – 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.
* 18 January – The company SIBA's CEO Fabian Bengtsson disappears in central Gothenburg, probably kidnapped.
* 3 February – Fabian Bengtsson is found alive in Gothenburg.
* 5 February – 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.
* 11 March – Nintendo launches its new game console Nintendo DS in Sweden and the rest of Europe.
* 21 March – An arson attack is carried out against the Communist Party's Röda Stjärnan bookstore in Jönköping.
* 15 April -The Swedish political party Feministisk initiative is founded, but the decision to run in the parliamentary elections was made on 9 September 2005.
* 16 May – Second day of Pentecost is no longer a public holiday in Sweden, because the national day would be instead.
* 29 May- The commemorative note "Tumba Bruk 250 years" is issued, Sveriges riksbank
* 31 May – The Brattås murders.
* 1 June – Smoking ban is introduced in restaurants, pubs and cafes in Sweden.
* Swedish national day becomes a public holiday6 June – Sweden's national day becomes holiday.
* 10 June – The new Svinesund Bridge is inaugurated and the older bridge is named the Old Svinesund Bridge.
* 1 July – A new Swedish copyright law enters into force. The file sharing debate flares up again.
* 11 September – The Armed Forces' telecommunications network and ground telecommunications unit (FMTM) is established.
* 18 September – The Swedish church holds a church referendum.
* 1 November – The healthcare guarantee starts to apply throughout Sweden.
* 25 November – 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.
* 3 December – The yuletide in Gävle is lit by two dressed-up men at 9:08 p.m.
* 10 December – The 2005 Nobel Prize (see prize winners below) is awarded as usual in Stockholm's concert hall and in Oslo, with associated ceremonies.

## Popular culture
### Literature

* 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

### Film

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

## Born

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

## Deaths

* 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).

### Full date missing

* Anna Westberg, novelist and non-fiction writer (born 1946).