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Dagen H. Dagen H ( H-day ), today usually called " Högertrafikomläggningen " ( lit. 'the right-hand traffic reorganisation' ), was on 3 September 1967, the day in which Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right. [ 2] The "H" stands for " Högertrafik ", the Swedish word for right-hand traffic.
In Sweden, the standard time is Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00; Swedish: centraleuropeisk tid ). [1] Daylight saving time is observed from the last Sunday in March (02:00 CET) to the last Sunday in October (03:00 CEST). [2] Sweden adopted CET in 1900.
First Sunday in October at 02:00. First Sunday in April at 02:00. 30 minutes. New Zealand. Last Sunday in September at 02:00 UTC+12:00 [ d] First Sunday in April at 02:00 UTC+12:00 [ d] 1 hour. In the table above, the DST start and end times refer to the local time before each change occurs, unless otherwise specified. The shift is the amount ...
1617. February 27. Treaty of Stolbovo ends Ingrian War: Russia cedes province and fortress of Kexholm, southwestern Karelia and province of Ingria to Sweden, laying foundation for Sweden's rise as a Great Power. 1621. City of Gothenburg founded. 1628. August 10. Sinking of the Swedish warship Vasa.
Swedish almanac indicating thirty days in February 1712. The Swedish calendar ( Swedish: svenska kalendern) or Swedish style ( svenska stilen) was a calendar in use in Sweden and its possessions from 1 March 1700 until 30 February 1712 (see below). It was one day ahead of the Julian calendar and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.
The history of Sweden can be traced back to the melting of the Northern Polar Ice Caps. From as early as 12000 BC, humans have inhabited this area. Throughout the Stone Age, between 8000 BC and 6000 BC, early inhabitants used stone-crafting methods to make tools and weapons for hunting, gathering and fishing as means of survival. [ 1]
Daylight saving time was used again during World War II as a way to save energy for war production and later became a national standard in the U.S. in 1966 when Congress passed the Uniform Time Act.
The name for Sweden is generally agreed to derive from the Proto-Indo-European root *s(w)e, meaning "one's own", referring to one's own tribe from the tribal period. [15] [16] [17] The native Swedish name, Sverige (a compound of the words Svea and rike, first recorded in the cognate Swēorice in Beowulf), [18] translates as "realm of the Swedes", which excluded the Geats in Götaland.