List of firsts in Sweden

Betty Pettersson, the first woman to study in a Swedish university.

This is a list of firsts in Sweden.

Politics and government

First Prime Minister: Louis De Geer: March 20, 1876 – April 19, 1880.
First female minister of cabinet: Karin Kock (s), 1947
First female leader of a Riksdag party: Karin Söder (c), 1985
First female Prime Minister: Magdalena Andersson: 30 November 2021 – 18 October 2022.
First openly homosexual minister of cabinet: Andreas Carlgren (c), 2006.
First minister of cabinet of African origin: Nyamko Sabuni (fp), 2006.
First speaker of the unicameral Riksdag: Henry Allard (s), 1971.

First university: Uppsala University, founded in 1477, continuous since 1593.
First female dentist: Rosalie Fougelberg, 1867 (Amalia Assur, was licensed in 1852, but only with a special permission)
First female medical doctor: Karolina Widerström, 1884
First female PhD: Ellen Fries, promoted in 1883
First female professor: Sofia Kovalevskaya, 1889
First female university student: Betty Pettersson, 1872
First (trained) nurse: Emmy Rappe, 1867
First female pharmacist: Agnes Arvidsson, 1903 (First female with a degree in pharmacology)
First female psychiatrist: Alfhild Tamm, 1908

Volvo's first automobile, the ÖV4.

First scientific discovery: Lymphatic system by Olaus Rudbeck.
First elephant: Imported from Ceylon in 1804.
First railway: Frykstadbanan, between Frykstad and Klara Älvs, in the province of Värmland, converted to steam operation in 1855.
First home-built automobile: a steam car built in 1891-92 by brothers Jöns and Anders Cederholm.
First aeroplane flight: Frenchman George Legagneux flew his aircraft in Stockholm, 1909.^[1]
First Volvo automobile: Volvo ÖV4, left production line on 14 April, 1927.
First line of the Stockholm metro: Slussen to Hökarängen, opened October 1, 1950.^[2]
First nuclear reactor: R1 at Royal Institute of Technology, started on July 13, 1954.
First motorway: Malmö-Lund, 1950s.

↑ "Svenska Flygplatser - Historik" (in Swedish). Official website. Retrieved August 23, 2017.
↑ "Tunnelbanans historia i Stockholm" (in Swedish). Citybanan-Konst. Retrieved August 23, 2017.

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