2000 in Sweden

← 1999 1998 1997 2000 in Sweden → 2001 2002 2003
Decades:	1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
See also:	Other events of 2000 Timeline of Swedish history

The following lists events that happened during 2000 in Sweden.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf
• Prime Minister – Göran Persson

Events

January

• January 1 - Sweden disestablishes the Church of Sweden as the official state religion.

Popular culture

Film

• 13 May – Faithless, directed by Liv Ullman, released.
• 4 August – Sleepwalker released
• 25 August – Together released in Sweden
• 22 December – Jalla! Jalla!, comedy film directed by Josef Fares

Literature

• The Return of the Dancing Master, crime novel by Henning Mankell
• Missing, crime fiction novel by Karin Alvtegen

Sports

• 10 December – The 2000 European Cross Country Championships were held in Malmö

Births

• 7 April – Julia Kedhammar, singer

Deaths

Nils Poppe.

• 8 January – Henry Eriksson, athlete (born 1920).^[1]
• 13 January – John Ljunggren, athlete (born 1919).^[2]
• 25 January – Folke Ekström, chess player (born 1906)
• 25 February – Doris Löve, botanist (born 1918)
• 19 March – Egon Jönsson, footballer (born 1921).
• 28 June – Nils Poppe, actor, director and screenwriter (born 1908)
• 29 July – Åke Hodell, fighter pilot and poet (born 1919)
• 30 July – Örjan Blomquist, cross-country skier (born 1957)
• 28 August – Knut Holmqvist, sport shooter (born 1918).^[3]
• 18 October – Inga Gill, film actress (born 1925)

References