Celsius ' participation in the Lapland expedition won him much respect in Sweden with the government and his peers, and played a key role in generating interest from the Swedish authorities in donating the resources required to construct a new modern observatory in Uppsala.

One role of the Swedish central bank was lending to the government, which was likewise true of the Bank of England, created in 1694 by Scottish businessman William Paterson in the City of London at the request of the English government to help pay for a war.

The foundation has its members appointed by the Swedish government ( 4 to 8 seats ), the departments appoints one member, the student union appoints one member and the president automatically gains one chair.

Swedish public housing models were planned by the government in a similar fashion as urban planning.

However in the late 90s the Swedish government decided that the dog tags were not needed any more, most probably because the Cold War had ended.

* 1660 – With the death of Swedish King Charles X Gustav, the Swedish government can start to seek peace with Sweden's enemies in the Second Northern War – something that Charles X Gustav had refused.

Officially the Swedish King and the Liberal-Social Democratic government proclaimed neutrality in war, as a consequence of pressures in both foreign and domestic policy.

The government of Sweden finally approved participation of volunteer Swedish soldiers in the Finnish Civil War, on the White side.

* List of Swedish government enterprises

However, he looked forward with anxiety for his release, which was delayed until March 1642 because the imperial government feared to see Horn at the head of the Swedish army and would not allow an exchange.

The deal, set to close September 30, 2009, included 600 million in financing from the European Investment Bank, guaranteed by the Swedish government.

Around 1965, the government initiated the so-called Million Programme, intending to offer affordable apartments in the outskirts of major Swedish cities.

* In Sweden, a municipality ( kommun ) is self-governing according to the Swedish constitution and constitutes local government.

In 2007, by government initiative, the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education employed an international expert committee to find and award the top five highest quality education areas among all universities and colleges in Sweden.

Many words spelled with E were changed to Ä ( elf-älf, hjerta-hjärta, jern-järn ), and under Q it was stated that Q may at will be replaced with K. By a government resolution on November 16, 1889, the spelling used in this edition of SAOL was to be used for teaching in Swedish highschools ( allmänna läroverk ) and teacher colleges ( seminarier ).

In 1903 the association of Swedish public school teachers ( Sveriges allmänna folkskollärarförening ) requested a government ruling that it " would no longer be considered wrong " (" ej måtte betraktas som fel ") to write tt instead of dt and v instead of f, fv and hv.

So, from its foundation, Stockholm has been the largest and most important Swedish city, inseparable from and dependent of the Swedish government.

Of the shares, 37 % are owned by the Swedish government, 13. 2 % by the Finnish government, and the rest by institutions, companies, and private investors worldwide.

The governing board of the university is the consistory, with representatives of the faculties as well as members representing the students and non-academic employees ( 3 professors and 3 students ), and a number of university outsiders appointed by the Swedish government ( 10 people ).

Nevertheless, during Kekkonen's presidency, a few parties were represented in most governments — mainly the Centrists, Social Democrats and Swedish People's Party — while the People's Democrats and Communists were often in government from 1966 onwards.

King Christian II took advantage of the growing dissatisfaction of the native clergy toward the papal government, and of Arcimboldi's interference in the Swedish revolt, to expel the nuncio and summon Lutheran theologians to Copenhagen in 1520.

In 1924, Assar Gabrielsson, a SKF Sales Manager, and Engineer Gustav Larson, the two founders, decided to start construction of a Swedish car.

The name of the Swedish microsatellite Astrid 1, launched on 24 January 1995, was originally selected only as a common Swedish female name, but within a short time it was decided to name the instruments after characters in Astrid Lindgren's books: PIPPI ( Prelude in Planetary Particle Imaging ), EMIL ( Electron Measurements-In-situ and Lightweight ), and MIO ( Miniature Imaging Optics ).

The matter was decided by one of the Swedish courtiers, Baron Karl Otto Mörner, who, entirely on his own initiative, offered the succession to the Swedish crown to Bernadotte.

During December 2006 – 2007 the band announced — on two different occasions — that they had started recording their seventh Swedish studio album, and that guitarist Harri Mänty had decided to leave the band.

The arrival of global chain stores in recent years has strikingly changed its character, and in a first effort to stem these changes, the City of Paris ( which has called this trend " banalisation ") initially decided in 2007 to prohibit the Swedish clothing chain H & M from opening a store on the Avenue ; however, a large H & M store opened two years later at 88 Champs-Élysées.

When the new county was established in 1997, it was decided to name it after the historical province Scania, or Skåne, as it is called in Swedish, so it was given the name Skåne län.

By 1885 12 new families had moved into the settlement and it was decided that they would change the name to “ Vasa ” in honor of the Swedish king Gustaf Vasa.

The future Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand of Hungary, decided to attack the Protestant territories in Southern Germany to draw the main Swedish and German armies away from Bohemia.

The same month the States-General, becoming ever more wary of Swedish king Charles X and his expansion plans, decided to intervene in the Northern Wars by sending a fleet to the Baltic Sea.

In 1658 the States-General under the advice of a leading member, ( one of the ) mayors of Amsterdam Cornelis de Graeff decided to once again send a fleet to the Baltic Sea to protect the important Baltic trade and to aid the Danes against Swedish aggression, continued despite a peace settlement.

Bergman then decided to shoot the film in Swedish and not in English like his previous film The Touch ( 1971 film ), and to finance Cries and Whispers through his own production company, Cinematograph.

After lengthy debate the Swedish parliament decided in 1747 to fortify the Russian frontier and to establish a naval base at Helsinki as a counter to Kronstadt.

Following discussions with the Swedish Central Association for the Application of Athletics, it was decided that the stone version should be built, and further funds were made available through a national lottery once guarantees were made that no further funding was to be asked for in order to build the stadium.

* The Swedish flag had not been displayed above the stadium, so the members of the Swedish team decided not to take part in the ceremony.

However, during the 1860s, under Tsar Alexander II, it was decided that legal equality between Finnish and Swedish as languages of administration was to be gradually introduced.

The Prizes are awarded in four categories and decided by committees of three of the Swedish Royal Academies:

* Logic and Philosophy ( decided by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences )

* Mathematics ( decided by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences )

* Visual Arts ( decided by the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts )

* Musical Arts ( decided by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music )