2025 in Sweden
Events in the year 2025 in Sweden.
Incumbents
Events
January
- 28 January – A man is arrested after ramming his car into the gate of the Russian embassy in Stockholm.
- 29 January – Salwan Momika, who became controversial for burning a copy of the Koran outside the Stockholm Mosque in 2023, is shot dead in Södertälje.
February
- 4 February – Eleven people, including the gunman, are killed in a shooting at the Campus Risbergska adult education centre in Örebro.
- 21 February – A section of a submarine telecommunications cable running under the Baltic Sea between Finland and Germany is severed off the coast of Gotland.
- 27 February – A court in Germany sentences two Afghan nationals to up to five years imprisonment for plotting to attack the Riksdag and assassinate lawmakers in response to the burning of copies of the Koran.
April
- 29 April – Three people are killed in a shooting at a hair salon in Uppsala.
Predicted and scheduled events
- 9–25 May – 2025 IIHF World Championship in Denmark and Sweden.
Art and entertainment
Births
- 7 February – Princess Ines, Duchess of Västerbotten.
Deaths
- 30 January – Leif Olsson, 82, radio and television presenter and handball referee.
- 21 April – Walter Frankenstein, 100, German-born engineer and Holocaust survivor.
Holidays
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- 1 January – New Year's Day
- 6 January – Epiphany
- 18 April – Good Friday
- 20 April – Easter Sunday
- 21 April – Easter Monday
- 1 May – International Workers' Day
- 29 May – Ascension Day
- 6 June – National Day of Sweden
- 21 June – Midsummer Day
- 1 November – All Saints' Day
- 24 December – Christmas Eve
- 25 December – Christmas Day
- 26 December – 2nd Day of Christmas