Benny Andersson also wrote the film score for the 2012 documentary Palme about Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.

In 1967, Yngve Gamlin, the president of the republic at that time, went to see the Swedish prime minister Tage Erlander about merging with Västernorrland county.

* June 13 – Tage Erlander, Swedish politician ( social democrat ), prime minister of Sweden for 23 years ( 1946 – 1969 ) ( died 1985 )

Former Swedish prime minister Olof Palme is an important proponent of democratic socialism.

Aho was the prime minister of the centre-right coalition government ( Centre Party, National Coalition Party, Christian Democrats and Swedish People's Party ) from 1991 to 1995.

In Lund he met with Tage Erlander, the Swedish prime minister and his aide Olof Palme, later to become Erlanders successor.

Most of modern surveys of Rus ' history narrate that in these Frankish annals the ruler of the Rhos / Rus ( people of Swedish origin ) was called chaganus ( Latin form of the Turk word khaqan, or khagan, qaghan, qagan ), similar to the Khazar chaqan ( khaqan ), a title of a prime ruler in the nomadic societies in Eurasia.

Image: The cabinet of Sweden 1939 and prime minister Hansson. jpg | The newly appointed Swedish cabinet, assembled outside the Royal Palace in Stockholm, December 13, 1939.

For example, his explanation of why he, at such a young age, was appointed prime minister, was that in the narrow circles of Swedish nobility at the time, it was difficult to find anyone with at least the mediocre intelligence which was needed for the office.

In number theory, Cramér's conjecture, formulated by the Swedish mathematician Harald Cramér in 1936, is an estimate for the size of gaps between consecutive prime numbers: intuitively, that gaps between consecutive primes are always small, and the conjecture quantifies asymptotically just how small they can be.

Long well known in diplomatic and journalistic circles, Holbrooke achieved great public prominence when he, together with former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt, brokered a peace agreement among the warring factions in Bosnia that led to the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords, in 1995.

At the time of the attack, Lindh was not protected by bodyguards from the Swedish Security Service, a controversial predicament similar to that of prime minister Olof Palme in 1986, the first murder of a government member in Sweden's modern history.

* Harpsund manor, another official residence of the Swedish prime minister

He was described, already before he became prime minister, as " gentle, pensive and a good listener " and his " cool, soft-spoken approach " is said to go down well with Swedish voters ; it also fits well with the promotion of the policies of his cabinet as being not ideological, but motivated by non-political reason and common sense, in implicit contrast to the " ideological excesses " of the Social Democrats and their allies.

In the 17th century due to the Swedish wars, plagues, fires and floods the town lost its trading importance and fell from its prime.

* Odin, a Royal Swedish steamship that ran aground off Jutland in 1836 with the Swedish prime minister on board

349, prime number, sum of three consecutive primes ( 109 + 113 + 127 ), the number of seats in the Swedish parliament.

For many years he was international secretary in the Swedish Socialdemocratic Party and a close assistant to the Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.

In 2009 Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt admitted:

On the 19th of September 2010 her bid to become Swedish prime minister failed and SAP received the lowest recorded percentage of the votes in their long history but still is the largest party in Sweden by a slim margin.

* Carl Gustaf Ekman ( 1872 – 1945 ), Swedish prime minister

The buffet table originates from the Brännvinsbord — Swedish snaps ( shot of alcoholic beverage ) table from the middle of 16th century, and had its prime during the early 18th century, and was developed into the buffet we more know today not until the beginning of 19th century.

In December 1999 Estonian foreign minister ( and since 2006, president of Estonia ) Toomas Hendrik Ilves delivered a speech entitled " Estonia as a Nordic Country " to the Swedish Institute for International Affairs .< ref >

* Tuve Hasselquist ( 1816 – 1891 ), Swedish American Lutheran minister and church leader

* 11-Anna Lindh, 46, Swedish foreign minister.

* Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh was assassinated on September 10, 2003, after being stabbed in the chest, stomach, and arms by Serbian national Mijailo Mijailović while shopping in a Stockholm department store.

* December 24 – Swedish Prime minister Olof Palme compares the American bombings of North Vietnam to Nazi massacres.

Following this report, which also claimed that the CIA had been involved in the assassination of the Swedish Prime minister Olof Palme, then President Francesco Cossiga requested the opening of investigations while the CIA itself officially denied these allegations.

During his time, he has faced several shocking incidents, such as the Gothenburg riots in 2001, the 2003 murder of the minister of foreign affairs, Anna Lindh, the tsunami disaster in 2004, and the conflict over the publication of satirical Muhammed cartoons in Danish newspapers, leading to threats of violence against Scandinavians and burning of embassies in the Middle East and the resignation of Swedish Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds.

Lars Paul Esbjörn, the first Swedish Lutheran minister in the United States, and a group of Swedish immigrants arrived in Andover during 1849.

The Swedish minister and missionary Petrus Læstadius ( 1802 – 1841 ; brother of Lars Levi Læstadius, founder of the largest Christian revival movement in Norrland ) collected old stories and myths in the area in the 19th century, which create the basis for our knowledge from that time.

The anger of the Danes was turned against the envoys of the Swedish sovereign ; Coyet succeeded in escaping, but the second minister, Sten Bielke, and the rest of the staff were arrested and thrown into prison.

However, if a Deputy Prime Minister is absent or has not been appointed, the minister in the cabinet who has served the longest time – and if there are several with equal experience, the one who is oldest – takes over as acting head of government ( see Swedish governmental line of succession for the present governmental line of succession ).

On the arrival of Charles XII from Turkey at Stralsund, Görtz was the first to visit him, and emerged from his presence chief minister or " grand-vizier " as the Swedes preferred to call the bold and crafty satrap, whose absolute devotion to the Swedish king took no account of the intense wretchedness of the Swedish nation.

Ostensibly, he was only the Holstein minister at Charles's court, in reality he was everything in Sweden except a Swedish subject-finance minister, plenipotentiary to foreign powers, factotum, and responsible to the king alone, though he had not a line of instructions.

Of the longer pieces of the volume none is so memorable as `` Nameless And Immortal '', which at once took rank among the finest poems ever written in the Swedish language.

The Danish and Norwegian alphabets end with æ — ø — å, whereas the Swedish, Finnish and Estonian ones conventionally put å — ä — ö at the end.

Through his father, Alfred Nobel was a descendant of the Swedish scientist Olaus Rudbeck ( 1630 – 1702 ), and in his turn the boy was interested in engineering, particularly explosives, learning the basic principles from his father at a young age.

He afforded refuge in Ottoman territory to Charles XII of Sweden ( 1682 – 1718 ) after the Swedish defeat at the hands of Peter I of Russia ( 1672 – 1725 ) in the Battle of Poltava of 1709.

* When 2000 was approaching, at least three large Swedish magazines ranked penicillin as the most important discovery of the millennium.

He supported the formation of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm in 1739 by Linnaeus and five others, and was elected a member at the first meeting of this academy.

Beowulf decides to follow the dragon into its lair, at Earnanæs, but only his young Swedish relative Wiglaf dares join him along with Tinshaw.

Swedish folklorist Carl Wilhelm Von Sydow argued against both Scandinavian translation and source material due to his theory that Beowulf is fundamentally Christian and written at a time when any Norse tale would have most likely been pagan in nature.

In the Prose Edda Snorri Sturluson quotes many stanzas attributed to Bragi Boddason the old ( Bragi Boddason inn gamli ), a court poet who served several Swedish kings, Ragnar Lodbrok, Östen Beli and Björn at Hauge who reigned in the first half of the 9th century.

Rimbert's interests were in the Christian faith, not so much in the Swedish geopolicy, so his descriptions of Birka remain approximate at best.

-- With great difficulty they accomplished their long journey on foot, traversing also the intervening seas ( maria ), where it was possible, by ship, and eventually arrived at the Swedish port called Birka.

* Birka and Hovgården at the Swedish National Heritage Board

* Birka at the Swedish National Heritage Board

Linnaeus ' father began teaching him Latin, religion, and geography at an early age ; one account says that due to family use of Latin for conversation, the boy learned Latin before he learned Swedish.

They are also an ingredient of the gräddfil sauce served with the traditional herring dish served at Swedish midsummer celebrations.

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.

In Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish, besides the ordinal naming of centuries another system is often used based on the hundreds part of the year, and consequently centuries start at even multiples of 100.

In 1638 New Sweden, a Swedish trading post and colony, was established at Fort Christina ( now in Wilmington ) by Peter Minuit at the head of a group of Swedes, Finns and Dutch.

The Swedish army bombarding the fortress of Daugavgriva at the Daugava's estuary in Latvia.

Swedish high diver Arvid Spangberg at the 1908 Olympic Games from the fourth Olympiad

The work is based on a speech given at DEF CON 13 by Ian Clarke and Swedish mathematician Oskar Sandberg.

The Spanish and Swedish claims of Gothic origins led to a clash at the Council of Basel in 1434.

He was King of Sweden ( 1611 – 1632 ) and founder of the Swedish Empire ( or Stormaktstiden " the era of great power ") at the beginning of the Golden Age of Sweden.

Gustavus intervened on the anti-Imperial side, which at the time was losing to the Holy Roman Empire and its Catholic allies ; the Swedish forces would quickly reverse that situation.