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20 January – A 34-year-old academic lecturer, Alf Svensson, becomes party leader of the Swedish political party Kristen Demokratisk Samling (KDS). , a position he would hold for 31 years.
16 March – Residents of the municipality of Dorothea go on hunger strike in protest of the Swedish government's plans to merge with the municipalities of Åsele and Frederika, giving up after a week.
11 May – The Data Act (Sw. Datalagen) − the world's first national data protection law − is enacted in Sweden.
23–28 August – Norrmalmstorg robbery - a bank robbery and hostage crisis best known as the origin of the term Stockholm syndrome.