Historical place archive

Stockholm in History

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

9 records5 event labels5 people1903–2018

Historical events in Stockholm

1903

10 December 1903
Nobel Prize
Marie Sklodowska Curie · Medicine

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics and becomes the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize.

10 December 1903
Nobel Prize in Physics
Marie Sklodowska Curie · Medicine

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for radiation research.

1905

6 June 1905
Nobel Visit
Marie Sklodowska Curie · Medicine

Travels to Stockholm for the delayed Nobel ceremonies.

10 December 1905
Nobel Prize in Literature
Henryk Sienkiewicz · Literature

Is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for outstanding achievement as an epic novelist.

1911

10 December 1911
Nobel Prize
Marie Sklodowska Curie · Chemistry

Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on radium and polonium, including the isolation and study of radium.

10 December 1911
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Marie Sklodowska Curie · Chemistry

Wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for radium and polonium.

1924

10 December 1924
Nobel Prize in Literature
Wladyslaw Reymont · Literature

Is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his national epic The Peasants.

1996

1996
Nobel Prize
Wisława Szymborska · Literature

Receives the Nobel Prize in Literature for poetry whose ironic precision illuminates historical and biological contexts in fragments of human reality.

2018

2018
Nobel Prize
Olga Tokarczuk · Literature

Receives the Nobel Prize in Literature for narrative imagination that represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.

Provenance

About these place records

These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match Poland 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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