Events from the year 1920 in Sweden
Incumbents Source: Monarch – Gustaf V Prime Minister – Nils Edén, Hjalmar Branting, Gerhard Louis De Geer
Events Sweden joins the League of Nations. The local social democratic women's clubs of Sweden is organised in the Social Democratic Women in Sweden. Legal majority for married women and equal marriage rights.Lilla Focus Uppslagsbok (Little Focus Encyclopedia) Focus Uppslagsböcker AB (1979) (Swedish) 1 January - The Swedish Grace architecture style emerges. 14 August - Sweden wins 64 Olympic medals at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, including nineteen gold medals. 4 September - The 1920 Swedish general election is held. 31 December - The Silver Age of Swedish National Romanticism comes to an end.
Births ● 8 February – Bengt Ekerot, actor (died 26 November 1971).
● 28 February – Alf kjellin, actor and director (died 5 April 1988).
● 8 March – Eva Dahlbeck, actress (died 8 February 2008).
● 2 April – Jan molander, actor and director (died 30 June 2009). 17 April – Bengt Anderberg, writer. 31 October – Gunnar Gren, footballer (died 1991). 29 December – Viveca Lindfors, actress (died 25 October 1995).
Deaths 7 April – Hildegard Björck, scholar, first woman in Sweden to gain a degree (born 1847) 10 April - Amanda Kerfstedt, writer (born 1835) 21 June - Nanna Hoffman factory owner (born 1846) 10 August - Clara Lachmann, Danish-Swedish patron of the arts (born 1864) 20 November – Ida Göthilda Nilsson, sculptor (born 1840) 27 October - Agda Montelius, philanthropist and women's rights activist (born 1850) Anna Rönström, educator and mathematician (born 1847) Amanda Rylander, actress (born 1834)
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