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2000 in Sweden

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Decades:
  
1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

See also:
  
Other events of 2000 Timeline of Swedish history

The following lists events that happened during 2000 in Sweden.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • January

  • January 1 - Sweden disestablishes the Church of Sweden as the official state religion.

    • Film

  • 13 May – Faithless, directed by Liv Ullman, released.
  • 4 August – Sleepwalker released
  • 25 August – Together released in Sweden
  • 22 December – Jalla! Jalla!, comedy film directed by Josef Fares

    • Literature

  • The Return of the Dancing Master, crime novel by Henning Mankell
  • Missing, crime fiction novel by Karin Alvtegen

    • Sports

  • 10 December – The 2000 European Cross Country Championships were held in Malmö

    • Births

  • 7 April – Julia Kedhammar, singer

    • Deaths

  • 8 January – Henry Eriksson, athlete (born 1920).
  • 13 January – John Ljunggren, athlete (born 1919).
  • 25 January – Folke Ekström, chess player (born 1906)
  • 25 February – Doris Löve, botanist (born 1918)
  • 19 March – Egon Jönsson, footballer (born 1921).
  • 28 June – Nils Poppe, actor, director and screenwriter (born 1908)
  • 29 July – Åke Hodell, fighter pilot and poet (born 1919)
  • 30 July – Örjan Blomquist, cross-country skier (born 1957)
  • 28 August – Knut Holmqvist, sport shooter (born 1918).
  • 18 October – Inga Gill, film actress (born 1925)

    • References

    2000 in Sweden Wikipedia
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