1965

14.06.1965 Demonstration in Stockholm against the American war in Vietnam. 3 participants arrested by the police. The demonstration is formative for the emergence of the Swedish Vietnam movement.
22.11.1965 The Swedish government breaks off business relations with Rhodesia.

1966

26.03.1966 2,000 participate in a demonstration against the American war in Vietnam.
01.05.1966 The American flag is burned outside the U.S. embassy in Stockholm during May Day demonstrations. The Swedish government apologizes to the U.S.
28.05.1966 Demonstration against the American War in Vietnam. The demonstrators burn American paper flags and battle with 100 police officers outside the U.S. embassy in Stockholm. 18 students are prosecuted for insults against another country.
10.10.1966 - 05.11.1966 Swedish school teachers on strike. Sweden's biggest labor dispute in 20 years.
14.11.1966 “Vietnam week” in Stockholm: Thousands of young people demonstrate against the American war in Vietnam. Anti-American feelings are increasing in Sweden. Some claim that television and press add to the hostility with regard to Vietnam. Since May, the U.S. embassy is under police protection.

1967

29.01.1967 Prime Minister Tage Erlander promises better police protection of the U.S. embassy after demonstrators had broken windows in the building during an anti-war demonstration the day before.
14.02.1967 A demonstrator that had forced his way into the U.S. embassy in protest against the American war in Vietnam during a demonstration on January 28 is sentenced to eight months imprisonment.
March, 1967 - May, 1967 The United FNL Groups (DFFG) is established in Sweden as an umbrella organization to coordinate all the Swedish demonstrations against the American war in Vietnam. The movement is dominated by the extreme leftwing Maoist.
04.03.1967 Demonstration against the American war in Vietnam outside the U.S. Trade Center in Stockholm. 250 demonstrators in clash with 40 police officers with dogs. The police arrest 20 people.
08.03.1967 The Swedish government declares that the US should stop the bombing of North Vietnam.
23.04.1967 About 2,000 participants in a demonstration against the military coup in Greece April 21.
02.05.1967 - 10.05.1967 The international Vietnam War Crimes Tribunal, established by opponents of the American war in Vietnam under the auspices of Bertrand Russell, opens its session in Stockholm to hear accusations of alleged American war crimes in Vietnam.
07.05.1967 Demonstration in Stockholm against the American war in Vietnam in connection with the Russel Tribunal.
25.06.1967 The Communist Association Marxist Leninist Party establishes itself.
09.10.1967 The pornographic film I am curious  – yellow, made by director Vilgot Sjöman, opens. The film is later banned in several countries.
21.10.1967 Nationwide demonstrations against the American war in Vietnam. The largest demonstrations gather about 12,000 participants.
27.11.1967 - 29.11.1967 Stokely Carmichael, SNNC member and representative of Black Power from the U.S., visits Sweden. Carmichael gives a speech in Uppsala and announces that the Black Power movement will not support any of the candidates in the 1968 US presidential election.
30.11.1967 A 23-year-old American soldier, William Percell, applies for political asylum in Sweden. He is one of many deserting American soldiers coming to Sweden in the following years. Sweden becomes a safe haven for US deserters, although many of them later return to their units and face disciplinary proceedings.
20.12.1967 Clashes between about 1,000 demonstrators and 150 police officers after a Vietnam meeting at the Community Center in Stockholm.

1968

02.01.1968 Four American deserters apply for political asylum in Sweden in protest against the American war in Vietnam.
04.01.1968 Demonstration in Stockholm against the American war in Vietnam. American deserters apply for political asylum in Sweden in protest against the war.
05.01.1968 Extensive demonstration organized by the Swedish Vietnam Committee during the OECD meeting in Stockholm in protest against the American OECD envoy Phillip Trezie. The demonstrators throw rotten eggs against him. The demonstrators threaten demonstrations against any official U.S. delegation visiting Sweden. The Prime Minister Tage Erlander condemns the demonstration as a break with democratic principles.
06.01.1968 2 American soldiers apply for political asylum in Sweden.
12.01.1968 3 American soldiers apply for political asylum in Sweden. Sweden grants secondary school students the right to participate directly in the administration of their schools.
13.01.1968 3 American deserters apply for political asylum in Sweden.
15.01.1968 100 participants in a demonstration in Stockholm in protest against the conviction of dissident authors in Moscow.
25.01.1968 The economist and professor Gunnar Myrdal condemns all forms of blind anti-Americanism and warns against violent actions.
01.02.1968 Robert Williams, a militant African-American activist, is denied permission to enter Sweden.
06.02.1968 Sweden grants asylum to six more American deserters. The number of American deserters allowed to stay in Sweden has reached 13. Up to this point, 22 deserters have applied for asylum in Sweden.
10.02.1968 After letters threatening the U.S. official, the Swedish Government gives the U.S. ambassador, William W. Heath police protection during his visit.
20.02.1968 - 25.02.1968 The North Vietnamese ambassador to the Soviet Union, Nguyen Tho Canh, arrives to present North Vietnam’s political perspective to the Swedish government. Talks with Foreign minister Torsten Nilsson and other Swedish leaders.
21.02.1968 The minister of Education, Olof Palme and the economist Gunnar Myrdal participate together with the North Vietnamese ambassador to Moscow in a demonstration in Stockholm against the American war in Vietnam. Palme criticizes the US in a speech at the rally. The Swedish Prime Minister as well as Foreign Minister had approved the speech in advance. 6,000 demonstrators of all ages and social groups participate. The participation of Minister Palme gives the Swedish anti-war movement greater public respectability.
29.02.1968 The Greek regime recalls its ambassador to Sweden and charges both Sweden and Denmark for interventions in Greece's domestic affairs.
05.03.1968 7 American deserters are granted asylum in Sweden.
07.03.1968 Rudi Dutschke gives a speech at a student meeting in Uppsala.
08.03.1968 The United States withdraw their ambassador from Stockholm for consultation in response to Minister of Education Olof Palme’s participation in an anti-war demonstration.
09.03.1968 Olof Palme gives an interview about Swedish – American relations and the issue of Vietnam.
12.03.1968 The first American deserters start to leave Sweden and return to their military units in West Germany.
17.03.1968 An alleged deserter attacks the U.S. consul in Stockholm.
22.03.1968 The Swedish government confirms its political contact with Hanoi.
29.03.1968 Demonstration in Stockholm.
06.04.1968 The Swedish government grants political asylum to 12 American soldiers.
17.04.1968 The U.S. ambassador is back in Sweden after consultations in Washington.
20.04.1968 2,000 participate in a demonstration against the American war in Vietnam.
29.04.1968 Demonstration against Greece outside the Greek Tourist office in Stockholm. The demonstration is part of a Nordic action plan.
03.05.1968 1,000 anti-Rhodesian demonstrators force officials to call off the first-round of Davis Cup matches between Rhodesia and Sweden. The police use batons to restore order. 
08.05.1968 8 women establish the feminist organization Group 8 (Grupp 8) in Stockholm.
13.05.1968 Demonstrations against the Israeli Foreign minister Abba Eban during his visit to Sweden. International conservative politicians gather in Stockholm. They agree that demonstrators cannot decide the foreign policy.
14.05.1968 The Swedish government arranges a conference with 60 different youth organizations to discuss the rights to demonstrate. The conference is arranged as a response to the riots in Båstad. Left wing groups that criticize the government and media’s coverage of the events in Båstad disturb the conference. Prime Minister Tage Erlander appeals to hold demonstrations within the limits of the law.
15.05.1968 The Minister of Education Martin Kling answers questions in Parliament about the demonstration in Båstad during the Davis Cup match. The government meets with youths to discuss demonstrations, politics and the use of violence.
20.05.1968 Student action against an assistant professor at the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Stockholm. A group of radical students demand his resignation because of his alleged lack of objectivity and his pro-Western attitudes to the Cold War. The activists tape his lectures to gather proof. They also attack the use of American literature as proof of ongoing indoctrination.
23.05.1968 Students from the universities in Lund and Uppsala, Southern Sweden, are on hunger strike in Stockholm. They demand increases in the Swedish development aid to the Third World.
24.05.1968 - 27.05.1968 Student meeting in the students’ Community Center in Holländargatan, Stockholm. On the agenda is a discussion of the Government’s new proposals for a new university reform - UKAS. Olof Palme, participates in the discussion. 200 -300 students occupy their own community center (Kårhusokkupationen) in the aftermath of the meeting in protest against the proposed reforms. The students appeal to the Swedish workers to join their protests and start to occupy factories. The workers unions do not respond. Palme characterizes the actions as sectarian.
25.05.1968 Clashes between 3,000 demonstrators and police in the streets of Stockholm. 400 police officers with horses prevent demonstrators from occupying the opera, the concert hall, and the central railway station in Stockholm. Students protest what they claim are reactionary textbooks. Clashes between left and right wing radicals. The demonstrators shout slogans such as “Crush Capitalism” and “Power to the people!”. The students accuse television and the press for being biased and lying to the public.
26.05.1968 The Prime minister Tage Erlander blames the riots on the Swedish Communist Party. The leader of the Swedish Communist Party, C. H. Hermansson, condemns the violence and the anarchist elements in the riots. The students claim that the Swedish press is biased. 
27.05.1968 The students give up the occupation of the Student Community Center in Stockholm, admitting that it was a mistake to try to occupy the opera.
12.06.1968 A meeting of radical students and teachers declare that the U.S. ambassador Heath is not welcome as a guest at the 300 years anniversary of the University in Lund.
13.06.1968 - 15.06.1968 300 years anniversary of the university in Lund. Rumors of protest plans cause the police to gather 300 police officers to protect the ceremony in Lund. The U.S. ambassador Heath participates under police protection.
03.07.1968 - 10.07.1968 The World Councils of Churches opens its conference in Uppsala. Protestant and Orthodox leaders from more than 80 countries open the Fourth Assembly of the World Council of Churches. There are 3,000 participators from 100 countries. Fears of demonstrations are articulated in the press. The police prevent a demonstration outside the church during the opening ceremony.
07.07.1968 ”The Poor People’s March” from Stockholm to Uppsala. The radical group Club 68 summons prominent theologians for questioning in special debate meetings that pass resolutions to the church conference.
11.07.1968 Protest meeting in Stockholm against the visit of Soviet Prime minister Aleksej Kosygin organized by the  Baltic Committee and several other Soviet exile groups in Sweden.
19.07.1968 Youths occupy the cathedral in Uppsala. Protestors arrange a “pray-in” for their revolutionary manifest after a jazz concert in the church.
19.07.1968 Swedish receive guerilla training. – International students’ camp in Cuba with Danish and Norwegian participants.
22.08.1968 Demonstration in Stockholm against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
28.08.1968 Sweden grants asylum to 3 American deserters.
14.09.1968 General election in Sweden.
20.09.1968 The Hippie musical Hair opens in Stockholm.
01.12.1968 500 participate in a demonstration in Stockholm in protest against ”the forthcoming Christmas gluttony”.
13.12.1968 - 15.12.1968 “Vietnam week”: Conference in Stockholm about the American war in Vietnam organized by the Swedish Vietnam Committee. Participants from a dozen countries are invited to the conference.
17.12.1968 The Greek junta allegedly kidnapped Greek defector Panthalis Marketeakis in Sweden before his testimony in the civil rights suit in Strasbourg against Greece filed by the Nordic countries. The Greek embassy claims that he voluntarily wanted to go home to Greece.
20.12.1968 Demonstration against the American war in Vietnam as part of the 8th anniversary of the establishment of FNL.

1969

10.01.1969 The Swedish Government announces that it will establish full diplomatic relations with North Vietnam as the first Western European country to do so.
17.01.1969 The Swedish Foreign Ministry expresses regrets to the U.S. ambassador for a television news program showing the American flag used as a doormat. The producer is later on put on trial.
20.01.1969 Demonstration organized by the Vietnam Committee against the American war in Vietnam as part of an international protest at the same time as president Nixon holds his Inaugural Address.
21.01.1969 After extensive protests against the university reform “UKAS”, the Minister of Education Olof Palme puts forward a new proposal for reform. “PUKAS” gives students a greater say in the running of the universities, but regulates the direction of the study programs.
01.02.1969 - 03.02.1969 A conference called by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation on the Soviet-led invasion and occupation of Czechoslovakia opens in Stockholm.
19.03.1969 The Swedish parliament passes the controversial university reform – PUKAS.
30.05.1969 Anti-Greece demonstration in Stockholm.
28.09.1969 Tage Erlander, Swedish Prime minister of 23 years, steps down and resigns as Prime minister and as leader of the Social Democratic Party.
01.10.1969 Olof Palme, the Minister of Education, is elected the leader of the Social Democratic party and, in effect, Sweden's next Prime minister.
15.10.1969 Portuguese government formally protests Swedish aid to nationalist movements in Angola and Portuguese Guinea.
15.10.1969 Portuguese Government formally protests Swedish aid to nationalist movements in Angola and Portuguese Guinea.
12.11.1969 Dock workers in Gothenburg on strike
11.12.1969 - 04.02.1970 4,800 workers at the state-owned mines at LKAB- Kiruna, Svappavaara and Malmberget in northern Sweden are on strike. The strike lasts for 8 weeks and has a profound political impact. The Social Democrats are regarded as traitors to the working class. The strike also has a significant impact on the increasing support of the Maoist Parties in both Sweden and Norway.

1970

09.04.1970 100 demonstrators meet Jerome H. Holland, the new U.S. ambassador to Sweden, for his first arrival in Sweden at the airport.
14.04.1970 The new U.S. ambassador, Jerome H. Holland is met with racist slogans and by 50 anti-war demonstrators outside the King’s Palace in Stockholm.
05.05.1970 1,000 participate in an anti-American demonstration in Gothenburg in protest against the U.S. ambassador Jerome Holland and the American invasion of Cambodia.
23.05.1970 40 demonstrators at Ørebro pelt the U.S. ambassador and his car with eggs.
26.05.1970 The U.S. ambassador complains that he has been subjected to "disgraceful" demonstrations protesting United States policy in Southeast Asia and warns that they could have "far-reaching implications."
20.09.1970 The Social Democratic Party loses its majority in the parliament in the general election for the first time since 1932. Prime minister Palme is now dependent on the Communists.
29.11.1970 300 delegates from 16 countries participate in the World Conference on Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in Stockholm. The U.S. bombing of North Vietnam is condemned as "a new U.S. crime of aggression".
30.12.1970 Eighteen Ethiopian students, members or supporters of the Eritrean Liberation Front, occupy the Ethiopian embassy in Stockholm. The occupation is a protest against Ethiopian bombings of Eritrea.

1971

07.04.1971 The Yugoslavian ambassador to Sweden is shot down and killed by two Croats in Stockholm.
12.05.1971 - 13.05.1971 Environmental demonstration in “Kungsträdgården” in Stockholm. Clashes between demonstrators and police in the  “elms fight”. The protestors fight to conserve some elm trees in danger of being cut down for construction work for a new underground station.

1972

01.05.1972 May Day demonstration at Norra Bank Square in Stockholm in protest against the American war in Vietnam. The FNL movement, the Social Democrats and the parties on the political left organize the demonstration. The demonstration is the culmination of Vietnam protest in Sweden and the largest demonstration in Sweden since the Second World War.