Sweden National Day, 6 June

National Day of Sweden is celebrated annually on June 6 and this date is also notable in Sweden as on that day in 1809, the Instrument of Government was adopted, forming a key part of Sweden's constitution. June 6th is also the day when new Swedish citizens receive their official documents. Normally, the National Day of Sweden celebration took place at the Skansen, a museum in Stockholm with parades and marching bands and the King and Queen of Sweden always took part in a ceremony.

History

Sweden's human history began around 10,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age, once the Scandinavian ice sheet had melted. Tribes from central Europe migrated into the south of Sweden, and ancestors of the Sami people hunted reindeer from Siberia into the northern regions.

These nomadic Stone Age hunter-gatherers gradually made more permanent settlements, keeping animals, catching fish and growing crops. A typical relic of this period (3000 BC to 1800 BC) is the gångrift, a dolmen or rectangular passage-tomb covered with capstones, then a mound of earth. Pottery, amber beads and valuable flint tools were buried with the dead. The island of Öland, in southeast Sweden, is a good place to see clusters of Stone Age barrows.

Sources:

Ohlsen, B. (2006). Sweden (3rd ed.). Lonely Planet
The National Day of Sweden. (2021, May 14). https://sweden.se/culture/celebrations/the-national-day-of-sweden


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