Stockholm in History

Receives the greater part of Pomerania under the Treaty of Stockholm

Receives the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for serum therapy against diphtheria.

Receives the first Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the radiation later called X-rays.

Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on sugar and purine syntheses.

Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on sugar and purine synthesis.

Is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his historical writing, especially A History of Rome.

Is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for philosophical works advancing an idealistic view of life.

Is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for an idealistic and accomplished literary career.

Is honored for foundational discoveries concerning black-body heat radiation.

Receives the Nobel Prize for laws governing thermal radiation.

Reviews experimental and theoretical work leading toward quantum physics.

Delivers his Nobel lecture on the laws of thermal radiation.

Is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for varied and outstanding dramatic writing.

Is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, principally for the novel Buddenbrooks.

Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research on hemin and chlorophyll, including the synthesis of hemin.

Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on carotenoids and vitamins.

Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on sex hormones.

Occupation of the West German embassy & murder of Andreas von Mirbach and Dr. Heinz Hillegaart

Occupation of the West German embassy & murder of Andreas von Mirbach and Dr. Heinz Hillegaart

The West German embassy in Stockholm was seized by members of the RAF; two of the hostages are murdered as the German Government under Chancellor Helmut Schmidt refuses to give in to their demands

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies.

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

Receives the Nobel Prize in Literature for poetry and prose depicting the landscape of the dispossessed.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering a supermassive compact object at the centre of the Milky Way.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering a supermassive compact object at the centre of the Milky Way.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing asymmetric organocatalysis.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing asymmetric organocatalysis.

Is honoured for climate modelling that connected weather variability with long-term climate change.