# 2001 in Sweden

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Events from the year 2001 in Sweden

## Incumbents

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

## Events
### January

* 1 January - The name day list is updated.
* 1 January - The Swedish Defence Research Agency is established.
* 6 January - Landskrona Station is opened.
* 16 January - The music concert Artister mot nazister is held in Globen.
* 18 January - Nicola Vasmatzis is shot dead in a restroom at Bromma Gymnasium in Stockholm.
* 19 January - Lennart Daleus resigns as leader of the Centre Party.

### February

* 11 February - Several houses from the 18th century burn down on the Arkadien block in eastern Jönköping.

### March

* 7 March - The Minister of Commerce and Industry Leif Pagrotsky and the Member of the European Parliament Marit Paulsen each get a cake thrown at their necks at a debate evening in Lund.
* 15 March - The Alcohol Committee is established.
* 19 March - Maud Olofsson is elected leader of the Centre Party at a party conference. After the 2002 election, the Centre Party's first electoral upturn since 1973 was attributed to the "Maud effect."
* 25 March - Sweden joins the Schengen Area.

### April

* 17 April - The Minister for Finance Bosse Ringholm is caked by a 21-year-old member of the Stockholm Cake Brigade when making the budget walk on Drottninggatan.

### May

* 22 May - The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is signed in Stockholm.
* 29 May - Norrtåg is founded.

### June

* 14 June - 16 June - A European Council meeting is held in Gothenburg which causes the Gothenburg Riots.

### July

* 1 July - A new citizenship law is put into effect which allows Multiple citizenship.
* 28 July - 5 August - Sweden's first major and international scout camp, SCOUT 2001, is held in Rinkaby, Kristianstad.
* 31 July - Nordea buys Postgirot.

### August

* 1 August - The People's Park in Karlskoga burns down.
* 15 August - Christina Jutterström becomes new CEO for SVT.

### September

* 5 September - The Kolbäck Bridge in Umeå is opened.
* 11 September - A massive flood originating from the Selånger River destroys parts of Sundsvall.
* 15 September - Löfbergs Arena in Karlstad is opened.
* 16 September - The 2001 Church of Sweden elections are held.

### October

* 21 October - Hammarby Fotboll win their first gold in Swedish Championship in football.

### November

* 12 November - One of Sweden's oldest churches Södra Råda Old Church in Gullspång burns down after an arson attack by a 23-year-old murderer.

### December

* 6 December - The Carlbeck Committee is established.
* 10 December - The Nobel Prize turns 100 and 161 previous winners are invited for its birthday party.
* 18 December - The Repatriation of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery takes place.
* 31 December - Jan Malmsjö reads Ring Out, Wild Bells at Skansen due to Margaretha Krooks death.

## Popular culture
### Film

* 24 October – Deadline, directed by Colin Nutley, released in Sweden
* Buy Bye Beauty, documentary film directed by Pål Hollender

### Sports

* 24 March-1 April – The Bandy World Championship 2001 for men was played in Sweden and Finland

## Births

* 19 June – William Hansson, alpine ski racer.

## Deaths

* 10 February – Helge Bengtsson, footballer (born 1916)
* 21 February – Philip Sandblom, sailor (born 1903).
* 23 April – Lennart Atterwall, javelin thrower (born 1911).
* 4 May – Arne Sucksdorff, film director (born 1917).
* 7 May – Margaretha Krook, stage and film actress (born 1925).
* 16 September – Ann-Margret Ahlstrand, athlete (born 1905)
* 9 November – Tore Zetterholm, novelist, playwright and journalist (born 1915).
* 10 November – Carl-Gustav Esseen, mathematician (born 1918)
* 12 December – Berit Granquist, fencer (born 1909)