2021 in Sweden
Sweden-related events during 2021
Events in the year 2021 in Sweden.
Incumbents
Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf
Prime minister – Stefan Löfven, Magdalena Andersson
Events
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden
31 January – Sweden loses to Denmark in the final of the 2021 World Men's Handball Championship, winning silver in the competition.
3 March – Vetlanda stabbing attack: A man in his twenties injures 7 people with an axe in Vetlanda. He was shot and wounded by police before being arrested.
22–28 March – 2021 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Stockholm.
1 April – Kalix train station is opened.
21 June – Swedish government crisis.
29 June – Sweden men's national football team are knocked out of the UEFA Euro 2020 competition at the Round of 16 by Ukraine.
8 July – A single-engine DHC-2 Beaver carrying 8 skydivers plus 1 pilot crashed shortly after takeoff from Örebro Airport. All 9 people died.
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