2013 in Sweden

Events from the year 2013 in Sweden

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See also:	Other events of 2013 Timeline of Swedish history

Incumbents

• Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf
• Prime Minister – Fredrik Reinfeldt

Events

• 7 May: Vatchareeya Bangsuan went missing from her home in Boden.^[1] Kim Marie Johansson would later be found responsible for her murder.
• 19 May 2013 Stockholm riots
• 14–18 May: The Eurovision Song Contest 2013 is held in the Malmö Arena in Malmö. The winner is Danish singer Emmelie de Forest with her song Only Teardrops.
• 10–28 July – The UEFA Women's Euro 2013 was held. Germany won the tournament.
• 16 October – Antje Jackelén is appointed the first female Church of Sweden archbishop.^[2]
• 5 November – The leader of the Sweden Democrats Jimmie Åkesson is caked at a book signing on Nytorget, Södermalm in Stockholm.^[3]

Deaths

Anders Carlberg in 2007.

Eric Ericson in 2007.

Princess Lilian

• 5 January – Ann-Britt Leyman, athlete (b. 1922).^[4]
• 5 January – Anders Carlberg, politician (b. 1943).^[5][6]
• 8 February – Kjell Hjertsson, footballer (b. 1922).
• 16 February – Eric Ericson, conductor (b. 1918).^[7]
• 21 February –Hasse Jeppson, footballer (b. 1925).
• 10 March – Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland (b. 1915).
• 21 March – Jörgen Ohlin, footballer (b. 1937).
• 1 May – Dick Heinegård, biochemist (b. 1942).^[8]
• 10 June – Petrus Kastenman, equestrian (b. 1924).^[9]

See also

• 2013 in Swedish television