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Saul – after he fell on his sword at the Battle of Mount Gilboa (1 Samuel 31:3–6); the Philistines cut off his head and fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan. [ 68 ] Sheba son of Bichri – killed by the people of Abel-beth-maachah to stop the soldiers of David pursuing him from destroying the city
Map of Turku (Åbo) in 1634. The massacre took place in the Old Great Square, to the east of the bend in the Aura River.. The Åbo Bloodbath (Swedish: Åbo blodbad; Finnish: Turun verilöyly) of 10 November 1599 was a public execution in the town of Turku (Åbo), Finland, then part of the Kingdom of Sweden, in the context of the war against Sigismund.
The turning point of his Swedish campaign was the Battle of Stångebro on 25 September 1598, also known as the Battle of Linköping, where Sigismund became trapped in an unfavourable position and had to agree to a truce with Charles. [1] One of Charles' conditions for the truce was the handing over of Swedish privy counsellors from Sigismund's ...
Ronneby Bloodbath, a 1564 massacre in the then-Danish city of Ronneby by the Swedish army; Kalmar Bloodbath (1599), an execution of Sigismund loyalists on the order of Duke Charles; Åbo Bloodbath, an execution of Sigismund's followers by the end of the war against Sigismund; Linköping Bloodbath, a massacre of the defeated advisers of King ...
The Stockholm Bloodbath has been depicted in several pieces of fiction: The event is depicted in the 1901 novel Kongens Fald (The Fall of the King), by Nobel Laureate Johannes V. Jensen. [17] The bloodbath forms a large part of the 1948 historical novel The Adventurer (original title Mikael Karvajalka) by the Finnish writer Mika Waltari. The ...
A 13-year-old boy said he is the first person to beat the original Tetris and reach the game’s kill screen. The teen, who goes by the nickname Blue Scuti on social media, ...
King Hans of Denmark, who ordered the mass execution at Kalmar.. The Kalmar Bloodbath (Swedish: Kalmar blodbad), sometimes described as the First Kalmar Bloodbath to distinguish it from a later massacre in the same location, was a politically motivated mass execution that was carried out in Kalmar, Sweden, on July 2, 1505, immediately after a conviction of treason and a sentence of death had ...
Former President Donald Trump threatened Saturday to levy a “100% tariff” on cars manufactured in Mexico by China if he wins a second term, warning that there would be a “bloodbath” if he ...