1920 in Sweden

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• Monarch – Gustaf V
• Prime Minister – Nils Edén, Hjalmar Branting, Gerhard Louis De Geer

• 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.{{Cite web |title=~ 1920-1930: Tjugotalsklassicism |url=https://www.sekelskifte.com/en/page/1920-swedish-grace |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=Sekelskifte |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Swedish Grace |url=https://www.nationalmuseum.se/en/swedish-grace |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=Nationalmuseum |language=en}}
• 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.{{Cite journal |last=Barton |first=H. Arnold |date=2002 |title=The Silver Age of Swedish National Romanticism, 1905-1920 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40920403 |journal=Scandinavian Studies |volume=74 |issue=4 |pages=505–520 |jstor=40920403 |issn=0036-5637}}

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• 17 April – Bengt Anderberg, writer.{{cite news|url=http://www.svd.se/kultur/forfattaren-bengt-anderberg-ar-dod_1808917.svd|title=Författaren Bengt Anderberg är död |date=30 September 2008|publisher=Svenska Dagbladet|language=sv|access-date=29 November 2014}}{{cite encyclopedia|title=Bengt Anderberg |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |editor-last=Godal | editor-first=Anne Marit | editor-link=Anne Marit Godal |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/Bengt_Anderberg |language=no|access-date=29 November 2014}}
• 31 October – Gunnar Gren, footballer (died 1991).{{cite web|title=Gunnar Gren |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gr/gunnar-gren-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417203538/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gr/gunnar-gren-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=29 November 2014}}

• 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){{Cite encyclopedia |year=1979 |title=Clara Lachmann |encyclopedia=Dictionary of Swedish National Biography |url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/Sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=10817 |last=Kjellander |first=Rune |volume=22 |page=23 |language=sv}}
• 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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