Many from Finland used this opportunity to secure better paying jobs in Sweden in the 1950s and 1960s, dominating Sweden's first wave of post-war labour immigrants.

With Sweden's reluctant agreement, this became the first European international agreement concluded directly through the League.

KTH was founded in 1827 as Sweden's first polytechnic and is one of Scandinavia's largest ( the largest by certain definitions ) institutions of higher education in technology.

At 18: 59 on 13th July, 1954, the reactor reached critical mass and sustained Sweden's first nuclear reaction.

The reactor hall remains an amusement to many as once it was next door to what used to be Sweden's first nuclear reactor.

* Christopher Polhem starts Sweden's first technical school.

* January 11 – Sweden's first Riksdag of the Estates is summoned under Engelbrekt.

Frederik IV of Denmark – Norway directed his first attack against Sweden's ally Holstein-Gottorp.

Then in 1960 came arguably the first rallying superstar ( and one of the first to be paid to rally full time ), Sweden's Erik Carlsson, driving for Saab.

He was the first Magnus to rule Sweden for any length of time, not generally regarded as a usurper or a pretender ( but third Magnus to have been proclaimed Sweden's king and ruled there ).

During Sweden's presidency of the EU in the first half of 2001, Persson with assistance from foreign minister Anna Lindh presided over the organization and contributed towards the enlargement which took place in 2004.

Sweden's first talkie, Konstgjorda Svensson ( Artificial Svensson ), premiered on October 14.

The King learned the sport during a visit in Britain in 1876 and founded Sweden's first tennis club on his return home.

Later, during the 19th century, Sweden's first industrial society developed in Jonsered.

Sweden's first terrace-houses in classical English style was also built there.

Nonetheless, the area was only a village until Sweden's first cement works was established in 1871.

Sweden's first railroad in 1849.

During that time, his wife Vera Oredsson took on the role as party leader and became Sweden's first female party leader.

BESK ( Binär Elektronisk SekvensKalkylator, Swedish for " Binary Electronic Sequence Calculator ") was Sweden's first electronic computer, using vacuum tubes instead of relays.

Sweden's switch from elective to hereditary monarchy in 1544 gave reason to Sweden's first law of constitutional character, in form of a treaty between the royal dynasty and the realm represented by the four Estates to be valid for all times.

However, central bank rates can, in fact, be negative ; in July 2009 Sweden's Riksbank was the first central bank to use negative interest rates, lowering its deposit rate to – 0. 25 %, a policy advocated by deputy governor Lars E. O. Svensson.

Influenced generally by Karl Kautsky's reformist views on socialism, Hansson succeeded Hjalmar Branting as editor of Social-Demokraten in 1917 and was appointed his Minister of Defence in Sweden's first Social Democratic cabinet in 1920, following a Liberal-Social Democratic coalition enacting equal suffrage for men and women ( in effect as of the 1921 election ).

This year also marked the first performance of Sweden's Carola Häggkvist, who took the third place and went on to win the contest in 1991 and represented her country again in 2006 ( coming fifth ).

Because of its ICT industries, it became referred to as Chipsta or Sweden's Silicon Valley in the 1980s.

A second football team, IFK Malmö played in Sweden's top flight for about 20 years and the club's quarterfinal in the European Cup is the club's greatest achievement in its history.

In 1630 Gustavus Adolphus concluded that Habsburg designs for Baltic supremacy threatened Sweden's very existence and also its religious freedom.

With its own businessmen in charge Sweden's economic strength grew rapidly, and by 1544 Gustavus controlled 60 % of the farmlands in all of Sweden.

Sweden's exhibit included the story of the salvaging of a 17th century man-of-war from Stockholm harbor, and San Marino's exhibit featured its postage stamps and pottery.

The present county was created in 1997 when Kristianstad County and Malmöhus County were merged, and it covers around 3 % of Sweden's total area, but its population of 1, 250, 000 comprises 13 % of Sweden's total population.

Sweden's counties are generally of greater importance than its provinces.

It is located by the shores of Lake Hornavan, Sweden's deepest lake and one of its largest.

In 1971 the city became a unitary municipality without addition of territory, and it is with its 35. 75 km² one of Sweden's smallest municipalities.

In 1983 the NCO corps, since 1972 called the Platoon Officer Corps, was disbanded and its members were given commissions as officers in ranks of Second or First Lieutenant in Sweden's new one-tier military leadership system.

Due to the success of this album and its lead single, Frida was voted " Best Female Artist Of The Year " 1982, by the readers of Sweden's biggest evening paper Aftonbladet, receiving the Swedish Music Award Price Rockbjörnen.

Of its total area, around 450 km² is water, but a part of lake Vänern ( Sweden's largest lake ) is also belonging to the province.

LTH is Sweden's third largest institute of technology and the third of its kind in Sweden.

With its own businessmen in charge Sweden's economic strength grew rapidly, and by 1544 Gustavus controlled 60 % of the farmlands in all of Sweden.

At the beginning of that year Charles had concluded an alliance with Tsar Vasili IV of Russia against their common foe, the Polish king ; but when, in 1610, Vasili was deposed by his own subjects and the whole tsardom seemed to be on the verge of dissolution, Sweden's policy towards Russia changed its character.

Sweden's disappointing performance in the war further hurting its international prestige.

With its total area of 3, 140 square kilometers, the island of Gotland and the other areas of the province of Gotland make up less than one percent of Sweden's total land area.

Olof Skötkonung was already king of Sweden and became its first Christian king and began c. 995 to mint Sweden's first coins with the help of English expertise.

Since November 2006 Radio Sweden's medium-wave broadcast from Solsberg ceased regular transmissions as a result of a modification in its shortwave time-share agreement which allows Radio Sweden to broadcast to North America via RCI's transmitters in Sackville and RCI to Europe via Radio Sweden.

The importations from Spain and China allowed Sweden to widen its international relation, thus the porcelain from China and the silver from Spain was exported to other countries, as well as Sweden's own products ; wood, iron and artillery.

Through its subsidiary Bonnier Tidskrifter AB, Bonnier AB also controls many of Sweden's most popular magazines, such as Amelia, Allt om Mat, Teknikens Värld and the business magazine Veckans Affärer.

It wanted Sweden's foreign policy to mainly concern itself with relations with Sweden's " real neighbours ," which it regarded to be ; Denmark, Finland, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Poland and Russia, as well as its trading partners in Europe and North America.