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| 1898 |
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| Universal male suffrage passed by Storting. | 1 |
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| 1899 |
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| Passage of the Åkarp law, which provided protection to strikebreakers, angered trade unions. In 1902, a three-day strike for suffrage resulted in the formation of an employers’ association, the Swedish Employers Federation (SAF). | 2 |
| General Swedish Cooperative Congress was called, and the Cooperative Union was organized. The congress sought to improve the organization of cooperatives and, after a slow start, began to show substantial growth in 1909. It was endorsed by the Social Democrats in 1901. | 3 |
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| 1905 |
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| Act of Union between Norway and Sweden was dissolved. This dissolution was the result of protracted difficulties in creating any negotiated settlement between the two countries, growing military independence, and the apparent removal of the Russian threat as a result of the Russo-Japanese War. | 4 |
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| Nov. 18 |
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| The Storting unanimously elected Prince Carl of Denmark as Haakon VII, king of Norway. | 5 |
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