Events from the year 1927 in

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

Incumbents

Monarch A monarch () is a head of stateWebster's II New College Dictionary. "Monarch". Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest ...

– Gustaf V *

Prime Minister A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...

– Carl Gustaf Ekman

Events

* The

Volvo The Volvo Group (; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo, stylized as VOLVO) is a Swedish multinational manufacturing corporation headquartered in Gothenburg. While its core activity is the production, distribution and sale of truck ...

car manufacturing company was founded in Gothenburg, as a subsidiary to the Swedish ball bearing factory AB. * Forex Bank established * The Norra Kvill National Park established.

Arts and culture

* The comic strip '' Kronblom'' was created by Elov Persson

Births

* 30 January –

Olof Palme Sven Olof Joachim Palme (; ; 30 January 1927 – 28 February 1986) was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1969 to 1976 and 1982 to 1986. Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until as ...

, politician (died 1986) * 30 April – Lars Hall, modern pentathlete, Olympic champion 1952 and 1956 (died 1991). * 7 May – Åke Hansson, footballer * 25 June – Kjell Tånnander, Swedish decathlete * 22 November – Gullan Bornemark, musician

Deaths

* 7 July – Gösta Mittag-Leffler, mathematician (born 1846) * 19 August – Johan Edman, tug-of-war competitor (born 1875). * 2 October –

Svante Arrhenius Svante August Arrhenius ( , ; 19 February 1859 – 2 October 1927) was a Swedish scientist. Originally a physicist, but often referred to as a chemist, Arrhenius was one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry. In 1903, he received ...

, scientist (born 1859) * 24 December – Karl Oskar Medin, paediatrician (born 1847)

References

Years of the 20th century in Sweden {{Sweden-year-stub