1914 in Sweden explained

1914 was the first year of the First World War in Sweden, which mostly consisted of Sweden deciding their stance on the war, eventually deciding on a neutrality. Sweden's neutrality lasted the entirety of the war.

Demographics

Life expectancy - ~58 years ^[1]

Fertility rate - 3.2 births per woman ^[2]

Population - 5.7 million ^[3]

Important Figures

• Monarch – Gustaf V
• Prime Ministers - Karl Staaff, Hjalmar Hammarskjöld
• Minister for Foreign Affairs Knut Agathon Wallenberg

Events

• 6 February - Courtyard Speech
• 6 February - Peasant armament support march
• 27 March - March 1914 Swedish general election
• 28 May – Selma Lagerlöf inducted to the Swedish Academy.
• 5 September - September 1914 Swedish general election
• 31 July - Declaration of neutrality in the Austro-Serbian conflict
• 2 August - Knut Wallenberg speaks to Esmé Howard and tells him that if Sweden were to enter this conflict, then they would never fight on the side of Russia^[4]
• 3 August - Declaration of neutrality in the conflict between Germany, and France and Russia
• 8 August - Sweden enters a join declaration of neutrality between all belligerents in World War I with Norway
• 18-19 December - King Gustaf V meets with Christian X of Denmark and Haakon VII of Norway in Malmö^[5]

Births

This is an incomplete list, if any editors wish to add more please do so by manually going through this list

• 30 January - Inga-Bodil Vetterlund, actor (died 14 September 1980 at 66)
• 14 February - Britt G. Hallqvist, poet (died 20 March 1997 at 83)
• 26 March - Åke Grönberg, actor (died 15 September 1969 at 55)
• 18 April - Tord Bernheim, actor (died 23 July 1992 at 78)
• 10 July - Henrik Schildt, actor (15 March 2001 at 87)
• 11 July - Sven Fahlman, fencer (died 23 June 2003 at 88)
• 25 July - Olle Nordemar, actor (died 18 February 1999 at 84)
• 9 October - Bengt Logardt, actor (died 25 September 1994 at 79)

Deaths

• 1 March - Tor Aulin, violinist (born 1866 in Sweden)
• 20 April – Ivar Wickman, physician who discovered the epidemic and contagious character of poliomyelitis in 1907 (born 1872)
• 10 November - Nils Christoffer Dunér, astronomer (born 1839)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Life expectancy . 2024-01-31 . Our World in Data.
2. Web site: Fertility rate: children per woman . 2024-01-31 . Our World in Data.
3. Web site: Population by age and sex. Year 1860 - 2022 . 2024-01-31 . Statistikdatabasen . en.
4. Web site: CONTENTdm . 2024-01-31 . dmr.bsu.edu.
5. Web site: 2016-03-04 . Mitt Hjärtas Malmö . 2024-02-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304235935/http://mitthjartasmalmo.se/filmerna/volym_4/trekungamotet_1914/trekungamotet/ . 2016-03-04 .