1920 in Sweden

Decades:	1900s; 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s;
See also:	Other events of 1920; Timeline of Swedish history;

Events from the year 1920 in Sweden

Incumbents

4–17 September – the 1920 Swedish general election
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.^[1]

August/September – at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Sweden won 64 Olympic medals, including nineteen gold medals.^[2]

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)^[6]
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)

^ Lilla Focus Uppslagsbok (Little Focus Encyclopedia) Focus Uppslagsböcker AB (1979) (Swedish)
^ "1920 Antwerpen Summer Games". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 5 May 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
^ "Författaren Bengt Anderberg är död" (in Swedish). Svenska Dagbladet. 30 September 2008. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
^ Godal, Anne Marit (ed.). "Bengt Anderberg". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
^ "Gunnar Gren". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
^ Kjellander, Rune (1979). "Clara Lachmann". Dictionary of Swedish National Biography (in Swedish). Vol. 22. p. 23.

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