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

When in the 17th century Gustav II Adolf introduced dragoons into the Swedish Army, he provided them with a sabre, an axe and a matchlock musket, utilizing them as " labourers on horseback ".

When Swedish colleagues feared for a possible German occupation, he managed to leave on a cargo ship, together with Ernst Cassirer ( the former rector of Hamburg University ) to New York City to become part of the wider community of intellectual émigrés who fled there.

When King Gustav Vasa finally besieged and conquered the city three years later, an event which ended the Kalmar Union and the Swedish Middle Ages, he noted every second building in the city was abandoned.

When the Social Democratic Party came into power in 1932, its leaders introduced a new political decision-making process, which later became known as " the Swedish model.

When Styrbjörn brought this fleet to Uppsala to claim the throne of Sweden, Harald broke his oath and fled with his Danes in order to avoid facing the Swedish army at the Battle of Fýrisvellir.

When the main army turned south to recover in Ukraine, the second army with supplies and reinforcements was intercepted and routed in Lesnaya-so were the supplies and reinforcements of Swedish ally Ivan Mazepa in Baturyn.

When the Swedish government needed 20 computers in the 1960s to calculate taxes, an evaluation between Saab's and IBM's machines proved Saab's better.

When the name SNARK became known, the name was briefly reversed to become KRANS ; this was quickly abandoned when someone objected that " krans " meant " funeral wreath " in Swedish ( though it simply means " wreath "; this part of the story may be apocryphal ).

When Hygelac's ( aka Chlochaicus ) brother Hæthcyn was fighting with the Swedes, Hygelac ( aka Chlochilaicus ) arrived one day too late at Hrefneshold to save his brother Herebeald, but managed to rescue the surviving Geatish warriors, who were besieged by the Swedish king Ongentheow had three sons named

When ABB's board made the pension payment public, a huge scandal ensued and Barnevik was forced to resign as chairman of Investor, the Swedish investment company controlled by the powerful Wallenberg family, and to hand back a large chunk of his pension to ABB.

When the revelations about Walther Sommerlath broke in the Swedish press, a palace spokesman said, " The Queen ’ s father has never been a part of the Royal Family and therefore I have no comment.

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.

When Swedish forces had entered the Duchy of Pomerania in 1630 and subsequently cleared it of imperial troops, Greifswald became the last imperial stronghold in Pomerania.

When the city arms was to be chosen in 1928 a Viking ship became the motif, in the colors of the Swedish flag.

When the first Swedish local government acts went into force in 1863, 20 rural municipal entities ( each corresponding to a parish of the Church of Sweden ) were created in the area.

When the papal diplomat William of Modena visited present Sweden around 1248, he urged the Swedish kings to fulfill the rules of the Catholic Church, an exhortation which Birger seems to have taken as a chance to strengthen his position by simply taking the side of the church against other members of his family ( alternatively possible to interpret as a manifestation of his pious side ).

When, in about November 1767, she was entrapped into a clandestine marriage with an adventurer who passed for a Swedish count ( the Count de Horn ), Reynolds helped extricate her, and it was doubtless owing to Reynolds's good offices that she was among the signatories to the petition to the king for the establishment of the Royal Academy.

When Niklas Sundin and Johan Larsson left HammerFall the following year, Glenn Ljungström ( then guitarist of In Flames ) and Fredrik Larsson ( bassist of the former Swedish death metal band Dispatched ), replaced them.

When the first flight landed at London, a Kuwaiti lawyer had the General Director, Kifah Hassan's documents and passport seized as well as the plane seized too, this however failed as the plane is owned by Swedish company, Tor Air.

When he was summoned to Stockholm in 1782 by Gustav III of Sweden to edit a Swedish Corpus diplomaticum, half an hour's private conversation with the young priest convinced Gustav that Nordin's proper place was in the political arena.

When Gustav IV of Sweden attained his majority, Armfelt was completely rehabilitated and sent as Swedish ambassador to Vienna in 1802, but was obliged to quit the post two years later for sharply attacking the Austrian government's attitude towards Napoleon Bonaparte.

When on 5 May a Russo-Prussian alliance eliminated Swedish hopes for future Russian assistance, and instead posed the threat of a Russian intervention on the Prussian side, Sweden was forced to make peace.

When Sweden broke away from the Kalmar Union, Denmark and Norway entered into their own union, ( see Denmark – Norway ), and the Danish king Christian III continued to carry the Swedish insignia of three crowns in his coat of arms, indicating a supposed claim of sovereignty.

When confronted with a drunk or an insane person I have no notion of what any one of them might do to me or to himself or to others.

When a person has thoughtlessly or deliberately caused us pain or hardship it is not always easy to say, `` Just forget it ''.

When a person meets God's requirements for the experience of forgiveness he is forgiven.

When he had left, I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles, laughingly, with a thick index finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action, not bothering to look.

When a hypothetical dilemma was given to 24 people and according to the dilemma they had the capability of pushing a stranger in front of a train so they could rescue five people, individuals who had taken selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors were not as likely to support the idea of pushing the person.

When, during his discourses, he recounts his experiences as a young aspirant, he regularly uses the phrase " When I was an unenlightened bodhisatta ..." The term therefore connotes a being who is " bound for enlightenment ", in other words, a person whose aim is to become fully enlightened.

When pressed, both women agreed that " a rational person doesn't see fairies ", but they denied having fabricated the photographs.

When there are many different groups within a nation, citizenship may be the only real bond which unites everybody as equals without discrimination — it is a " broad bond " linking " a person with the state " and gives people a universal identity as a legal member of a specific nation.

When strangers encounter the duo in person, they already know their famous history.

When what one person has experienced is put into words and transmitted to others, so doing risks giving unwarranted status to what inevitably must have had a subjective tinge.

When someone judges something to be good, or some action to be right, then the person is using the faculty of moral intuition.

When looking at these areas ( amygdala ), it was proposed that a person learns to fear regardless of whether they themselves have experienced trauma, or if they have observed the fear in others.

When a future event ( ex: a coin toss ) is described as part of a sequence, no matter how arbitrarily, a person will automatically consider the event as it relates to the past events, resulting in the gambler's fallacy.

When a person considers every event as independent, however, the fallacy can be greatly reduced.

When a person has not been unconscious, failure of carbohydrate to reverse the symptoms in 10 – 15 minutes increases the likelihood that hypoglycemia was not the cause of the symptoms.

When general health is good, the symptoms are not severe, and the person can fast normally through the night, experimentation with diet ( extra snacks with fat or protein, reduced sugar ) may be enough to solve the problem.

When this involves having sex with, or performing certain actual sexual acts for another person in exchange for money or something of value, it is called prostitution.

When a person dies, one does not say that the person's life has changed.

When a person is aware of approaching death, and feels that s / he has completed all duties, s / he willingly ceases to eat or drink gradually.

When Murgatroyd explained he was a kluge maker, the admiral asked him what a kluge was – the first person ever to do so.

When discussed in the abstract, love usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience felt by a person for another person.

When a person is dreaming, the eyes vibrate rapidly.

When a person is inside the powerful magnetic field of the scanner, the average magnetic moment of many protons becomes aligned with the direction of the field.