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The Black Death's first wave in Sweden killed 30-40% to two-thirds of the then Swedish population. [1] Famine: Sweden-wide: 100,000: 1770s: Famine due to crop failure. Pandemic: Sweden-wide: 37,573 (probably more) 1918–1920: In Sweden, 37,573 people died from the Spanish flu pandemic according to official statistics. [2] Pandemic: Sweden-wide ...
The Black Death would return regularly, but with fewer death victims, until the 18th century. Sweden was reached also by the second and third European Black Death epidemic of 1359–1360 and 1368–1370. King Magnus Eriksson's son and co-regent Erik Magnusson, his consort Beatrix, and their children possibly died of the plague in 1359. [4]
The double murder of eight-year-old Mohammed Ammouri and 56-year-old Anna-Lena Svensson occurred on 19 October 2004 in Linköping, Sweden. Both were stabbed to death at Åsgatan in Linköping. The murders remained unsolved and with no suspects for 16 years, until the new method of ancestral DNA analysis was used. In June 2020, a suspect was ...
A mass shooting at an adult educational facility in Sweden on Tuesday was the deadliest such incident in the country's history, with 11 people killed, including the alleged shooter, law ...
Five people died in an elevator accident on Monday at a construction site on the outskirts of Stockholm and prosecutors are investigating the incident, Sweden's Prosecution Authority said on Tuesday.
When I looked behind me, I saw three people on the floor bleeding," Marwa, who only gave her first name, told TV4 Sweden. Eleven people died after Tuesday's attack at Risbergska school in Orebro ...
It was the only time a guillotine was used in Sweden (after it replaced manual beheading in 1906) and the only execution under King Gustaf V of Sweden. The executioner was Albert Gustaf Dahlman, who died in 1920. At his death at 72, he was the last of all executioners in Sweden.
A gunman opened fire at an adult education center in the Swedish city of Örebro on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people in what the country’s prime minister called the “worst mass shooting in ...