1914 in Sweden

1914 was the first year of the First World War, though this had little effect on the nation as for the entirety of the war, and most of Swedish modern history, the nation would remain neutral. Famously the Scandinavian kings would meet in Malmö to discuss neutrality in the great war.

Demographics

← 1913 1912 1911 1914 in Sweden → 1915 1916 1917
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
See also:	Other events of 1914 Timeline of Swedish history

Life expectancy - ~58 years ^[1] Fertility rate - 3.2 births per woman ^[2]

Swedish Population Pyramid that includes 1914

Population - 5.7 million ^[3]

King Gustaf V during the Courtyard Speech

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]

Card representing the Trekungamötet (Meeting of the three kings) in Malmö, December 18, 1914

Births

This is an incomplete 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)

References

1. "Life expectancy". Our World in Data. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
2. "Fertility rate: children per woman". Our World in Data. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
3. "Population by age and sex. Year 1860 - 2022". Statistikdatabasen. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
4. "CONTENTdm". dmr.bsu.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
5. "Mitt Hjärtas Malmö". 2016-03-04. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2024-02-01.