1909 in Sweden

← 1908 1907 1906 1909 in Sweden → 1910 1911 1912
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
See also:	Other events of 1909 Timeline of Swedish history

Events from the year 1909 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Gustaf V
• Prime Minister - Arvid Lindman

Events

• 6–14 February – The Nordic Games take place in Stockholm.^[1]
• 4 August to 4 September –
  Swedish General Strike (The Great Strike of 1909
  )
  • Introduction of the 8-hour day at the end of 1910s[2]
• 10 December – Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first woman to be given the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• The right for women to vote in municipal elections are extended to include married women, and women are made eligible to municipal councils.^[3]
• The phrase "Swedish man" is removed from the application forms to public offices and women are thereby approved as applicants to most public professions.^[4]

Births

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• 12 January – Barbro Alving, reporter (died 1987)

Deaths

• 1 January – Ivar Arosenius, painter (born 1878)
• Elsa Borg, social worker (born 1826)
• Hanna Hammarström, industrialist (born 1829)

References

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