Stockholm in History

Descartes accepts Queen Christina's invitation and travels to Stockholm to join her court.

Rene Descartes dies in Stockholm after a severe respiratory illness, aged fifty-three.

Is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for idealistic and artistically accomplished poetry.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering spontaneous radioactivity.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for research on radiation phenomena discovered by Henri Becquerel.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for radiation research.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Literature for poetry reflecting Provence and for his work as a Provençal philologist.

Delivers the Nobel lecture on radioactive substances.

Is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for idealism, sympathy, and commitment to truth in his writing.

Is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for elegant style, human sympathy, and distinguished literary achievement.

Bergson receives the Nobel Prize in Literature for his rich and vitalising ideas.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for artificial radioactivity.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Frederic Joliot-Curie.

Is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for truthful depictions of human conflict in Les Thibault.

Camus receives the Nobel Prize in Literature for illuminating problems of the human conscience.

Receives the Nobel Prize in Literature for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity opening new paths in Chinese literature.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning activation of innate immunity.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for experimental methods enabling measurement and manipulation of individual quantum systems.

Receives the Nobel Prize in Literature for the art of memory and evocations of life under occupation.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for a method of generating high-intensity, ultrashort optical pulses.

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for development of genome editing with CRISPR-Cas9.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments with entangled photons, Bell inequality violations and pioneering quantum information science.

Receives the Nobel Prize in Literature for courage and clinical acuity in exploring the roots and restraints of personal memory.

Is honoured for examining memory, estrangement, and collective restraints with courage and precision.

Shares the physics prize for experiments with entangled photons and advances in quantum information science.

Shares the physics prize for methods producing attosecond light pulses to study electron dynamics.

Shares the physics prize for methods producing attosecond light pulses to study electron dynamics.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering macroscopic quantum tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.