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1905 In Sweden
Events from the year 1905 in Sweden Incumbents * List of Swedish monarchs, Monarch – Oscar II of Sweden, Oscar II * Prime Minister of Sweden, Prime Minister – ** until April 13: Erik Gustaf Boström ** April 13-August 2: Johan Ramstedt ** August 2-November 7: Christian Lundeberg ** starting November 7: Karl Staaff Events * February 4–12 – The Nordic Games take place in Stockholm. * April 14 – Erik Gustaf Boström resigns as the prime minister of Sweden, over the issue of the Swedish- Norwegian Union. His minister without portfolio, Johan Ramstedt, becomes the new prime minister of Sweden. * June 7 – The Norwegian Parliament declares the union with Sweden Dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden, dissolved, and Norway achieves full independence. * June 15 – Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Duke of Skåne (Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden). * August 2 – The businessman and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June 15
Events Pre-1600 * 763 BC – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history. * 844 – Louis II is crowned as king of Italy at Rome by pope Sergius II. * 923 – Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy. * 1184 – The naval Battle of Fimreite is won by the Birkebeiner pretender Sverre Sigurdsson. Sigurdsson takes the Norwegian throne and King Magnus V of Norway is killed. * 1215 – King John of England puts his seal to Magna Carta. * 1219 – Northern Crusades: Danish victory at the Battle of Lindanise (modern-day Tallinn) establishes the Danish Duchy of Estonia. * 1246 – With the death of Frederick II, Duke of Austria, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria. * 1300 – The city of Bilbao is founded. * 1310 – The Tiepolo conspiracy, seeking to seize power in the Republic of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torsten Nilsson
Harald Torsten Leonard Nilsson (1 April 1905 – 14 December 1997) was a Swedish Social Democratic politician. He served as minister for defence from 1951 to 1957, and as minister for foreign affairs from 1962 to 1971. Nilsson also served as minister for social affairs and minister of communications. Early life Nilsson was born on 1 April 1905, in , Malmöhus County, Sweden, the son of Lars Nilsson, a bricklayer, and his wife Hilda (née Persson). He completed his secondary education ('' realexamen'') and went on to attend vocational school and a folk high school in Germany. From 1922 to 1929, he worked as a bricklayer. He served as secretary of the Social Democratic Youth District of Scania from 1927 to 1930, and as its chairman from 1930 to 1934. That same year, he joined the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League (SSU). Between 1930 and 1934, he also worked as a journalist for the newspaper '' Arbetet'' in Malmö, and from 1937 to 1940, he was the editor of the SSU magazine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulf Von Euler
Ulf Svante von Euler (7 February 1905 – 9 March 1983) was a Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 for his work on neurotransmitters. Life Ulf Svante von Euler-Chelpin was born in Stockholm, the son of two noted scientists, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, a professor of chemistry, and Astrid Cleve, a professor of botany and geology. His father was German and the recipient of Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1929, and his maternal grandfather was Per Teodor Cleve, Professor of Chemistry at the Uppsala University, and the discoverer of the chemical elements thulium and holmium. Von Euler-Chelpin studied medicine at the Karolinska Institute in 1922. At Karolinska, he worked under Robin Fåhraeus in blood sedimentation and rheology and did research work on the pathophysiology of vasoconstriction. He presented his doctoral thesis in 1930, and was appointed as assistant professor in pharmacology in the same year, with the support ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arne Beurling
Arne Carl-August Beurling (3 February 1905 – 20 November 1986) was a Sweden, Swedish mathematician and professor of mathematics at Uppsala University (1937–1954) and later at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Beurling worked extensively in harmonic analysis, complex analysis and potential theory. The "Hardy space#Factorization into inner and outer functions (Beurling), Beurling factorization" helped mathematical scientists to understand the Wold decomposition, and inspired further work on the invariant subspaces of linear operators and operator algebras, e.g. Håkan Hedenmalm's factorization theorem for Bergman spaces. He is perhaps most famous for single-handedly decrypting an early version of the German cipher machine Siemens and Halske T52 in a matter of two weeks during 1940, using only pen and paper. This machine's cipher is generally considered to be more complicated than that of the more famous Enigma machine. Beurling's method of decrypting mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1975 In Sweden
Events from the year 1975 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf * Prime Minister – Olof Palme Events * 24 April – West German Embassy siege in Stockholm. * 14 May – The Parliament of Sweden in Stockholm passes an act, encouraging immigrants to keep the language and culture of their native countries. Births *20 February – Niclas Wallin, ice hockey player * 4 April – Thobias Fredriksson, cross country skier. * 10 April – Rickard Söderberg, tenor, singer and debater * 15 May – Peter Iwers, rock bassist * 11 June – Ulrika Bergman, curler. * 27 August – Björn Gelotte, rock musician * 9 October – Anders Göthberg, guitarist (died 2008) * 17 October – Stina Oscarson, theatre director and author (died 2025) Deaths * 17 January – Curt Hartzell, gymnast (born 1891). * 8 September – Erik Adlerz, diver (born 1892), won two Olympic gold medals in 1912. See also * 1975 in Swedish television Refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sven Rydell
Sven Åke Albert Rydell (14 January 1905 – 4 April 1975) was a Swedish footballer who played as a forward. He represented Holmens IS, Örgryte IS, and Redbergslids IK during a club career that spanned between 1920 and 1934. A full international between 1923 and 1932, he won 43 caps and scored 49 goals for the Sweden national team. He scored five goals at the 1924 Summer Olympics where Sweden finished third. He was the all-time leading scorer for the Sweden national team for more than 80 years before his record was overtaken by Zlatan Ibrahimović in September 2014. Club career At club level, Rydell played for Örgryte IS, Redbergslids IK, and Holmens IS.Sven Rydell Swedish Olympic Committee Rydell had scored a record of nine |
Anna Whitlock
Anna Whitlock (13June 185216June 1930) was a Swedish reform pedagogue, journalist, suffragette and feminist. She was co-founder and twice chairperson of the National Association for Women's Suffrage. She was also the co-founder of the women's cooperative food association Kvinnornas Andelsförening Svenska Hem. Early life Anna Whitlock was the daughter of the merchant Gustaf Whitlock and Sophie Forsgrén, and the sister of the feminist and author (1848–1936). When her father, a moderately well off businessman, was ruined, the family was supported by her mother, who was many years younger than her father, and who educated herself as a photographer and worked as a translator to support the family. It is said that Whitlock was given her interest in women's issues from her mother. After an inheritance, Sophie Whitlock engaged in building, had apartment buildings set up for female professionals, and also worked as a secretary for the women's organization Fredrika Bremer Associ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kvinnornas Andelsförening Svenska Hem
Kvinnornas Andelsförening Svenska Hem (literally: Women's Cooperative Society Swedish Home) or commonly just Svenska Hem (Swedish Home) was a Swedish food cooperative, founded in 1905, and merged with the Kooperativa Förbundet in 1916.Björk, Monika; Kaijser Eva (2005). Svenska hem: en passionerad affär. Stockholm: Stockholmia. Libris länk. During its existence, it was, for a time, the biggest food cooperative in Sweden, with five groceries and 3,300 members. History The cooperative was co-founded 8 November 1905 in Stockholm by Anna Whitlock and Ina Almén as an effort to ensure good quality of the food in the city's groceries. At the time it was not uncommon for grocers to mask bad food by such means as, for example, mixing chalk into sugar. The idea of Svenska Hem was a cooperative managed by women, which was to provide healthy food with high quality at reasonable prices. A bonus system was established for the benefit of the customers. It sold meals of prepared food, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
November 8
Events Pre-1600 * 960 – Battle of Andrassos: Byzantines under Leo Phokas the Younger score a crushing victory over the Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo, Sayf al-Dawla. * 1278 – Trần Thánh Tông, the second emperor of the Trần dynasty, decides to pass the throne to his crown prince Trần Khâm and take up the post of Retired Emperor. * 1291 – The Republic of Venice enacts a law confining most of Venice's glassmaking industry to the "island of Murano". * 1519 – Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration. * 1520 – Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people, mostly noblemen. * 1576 – Eighty Years' War: Pacification of Ghent: The States General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation. 1601–1900 * 1602 – The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
November 7
Events Pre-1600 * 335 – Athanasius, 20th pope of Alexandria, is banished to Trier on the charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople. * 680 – The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople. * 921 – Treaty of Bonn: The Frankish kings Charles the Simple and Henry the Fowler sign a peace treaty or 'pact of friendship' () to recognize their borders along the Rhine. * 1426 – uprising: rebels emerge victorious against the Ming army in the Battle of taking place in , in now Hanoi. * 1492 – The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France. * 1504 – Christopher Columbus returns from his fourth and last voyage. 1601–1900 * 1619 – Elizabeth Stuart is crowned Queen of Bohemia. * 1665 – '' The London Gazette'', the oldest surviving journal, is first published. * 1723 &ndash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October 26
Events Pre-1600 * 1185 – The Uprising of Asen and Peter begins on the feast day of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki and ends with the creation of the Second Bulgarian Empire. * 1341 – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 formally begins with the proclamation of John VI Kantakouzenos as Byzantine Emperor. * 1377 – Tvrtko I is crowned the first king of Bosnia. * 1520 – Charles V is crowned as Holy Roman Emperor. * 1597 – Imjin War: Korean Admiral Yi Sun-sin routs the Japanese Navy of 300 ships with only 13 ships at the Battle of Myeongnyang. 1601–1900 * 1640 – The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Covenanter Scotland and King Charles I of England. * 1689 – General Enea Silvio Piccolomini of Austria burns down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera; he dies of the disease soon afterwards. * 1774 – American Revolution: The First Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia. * 1813 – War of 1812: A c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
