Historical place archive

Stockholm in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Stockholm in Denmark. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

21 records13 event labels13 people1497โ€“2022

Historical events in Stockholm

1497

1497
Capture of Stockholm
John I ยท Denmark War

Enters Stckholm after the Battle of Brenkeberg

1520

1520
Capture of Stockholm
Christian II ยท Sweden War

Captures Sweden & massacres its nobility in Stockholm

8 November 1520
Execution
Christian II ยท Sweden War

Christian II earns the name, "Christian the Tyrant". 80 Swedish noble are executed after a show trial by Christian II

8 November 1520
Siege of Stockholm
Christian II ยท Sweden War

80 Swedish noble are executed after a show trial by Christian II

1903

1903
Nobel Prize
Niels Ryberg Finsen ยท Medicine

Receives the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for treating disease, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation.

1917

10 December 1917
Nobel Prize in Literature
Henrik Pontoppidan ยท Literature

Shares the Nobel Prize in Literature for authentic descriptions of contemporary Danish life.

10 December 1917
Nobel Prize in Literature
Karl Gjellerup ยท Literature

Shares the Nobel Prize in Literature for varied and idealistic poetry.

1920

10 December 1920
Capillary Regulation Recognition
Schack August Steenberg Krogh ยท Medicine

Is recognized for explaining blood-flow control in skeletal muscle capillaries.

10 December 1920
Nobel Prize in Medicine
Schack August Steenberg Krogh ยท Medicine

Receives the medicine prize for discovering capillary motor regulation.

1922

10 December 1922
Atomic Structure Recognition
Niels Henrik David Bohr ยท Physics

Gains recognition for applying quantum ideas to the structure of atoms.

10 December 1922
Nobel Prize in Physics
Niels Henrik David Bohr ยท Physics

Receives the physics prize for research on atomic structure and radiation.

1926

1926
Nobel Prize
Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger ยท Medicine

Receives the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research on Spiroptera carcinoma.

1943

10 December 1943
Nobel Prize in Medicine
Henrik Carl Peter Dam ยท Medicine

Shares the medicine prize for discovering vitamin K.

10 December 1943
Vitamin K Discovery Recognition
Henrik Carl Peter Dam ยท Medicine

Receives recognition for research connecting nutrition with blood coagulation.

1975

10 December 1975
Collective Nuclear Motion Recognition
Aage Niels Bohr ยท Physics

Receives recognition for connecting nuclear structure with collective behavior.

10 December 1975
Nobel Prize in Physics
Aage Niels Bohr ยท Physics

Shares the physics prize for describing collective motion in atomic nuclei.

1984

1984
Nobel Prize
Niels Jerne ยท Medicine

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for theories concerning the specificity and control of the immune system.

1997

10 December 1997
Ion Transport Enzyme Recognition
Jens Christian Skou ยท Medicine

Is honored for identifying the first enzyme that actively transports ions.

10 December 1997
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Jens Christian Skou ยท Medicine

Receives half the chemistry prize for discovering sodium-potassium ATPase.

2022

2022
Nobel Prize
Morten Meldal ยท Chemistry

Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.

10 December 2022
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Morten Meldal ยท Chemistry

Shares the chemistry prize for click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.

Provenance

About these place records

These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match Denmark and Stockholm. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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