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The history of Stockholm, capital of Sweden, for many centuries coincided with the development of what is today known as Gamla stan, the Stockholm Old Town. Stockholm's raison d'être always was to be the Swedish capital and by far the largest city in the country.
Poster from Stockholmskällan, showing a suicide note from 1820, Stockholm City Archives. The heading Historia på riktigt! translates as "History for real!". Stockholmskällan is a database with over 30 000 archive items related to history of Stockholm , made available as a website since 2006 and freely accessible to the public.
Stockholm in the mid-16th century. 1520: The Stockholm bloodbath is perpetrated by Christian II of Denmark; 1521: Gustav Vasa marches into Stockholm. 1527-28: The Swedish Reformation close down all convents operating in Stockholm. 1558: Danviken Hospital is inaugurated to replace the social care previously managed by the convents.
North-bound cliffs of Södermalm. Stockholm stands on a bedrock of gneiss and granite approximately 2 billion years old. Over millions of years, north-west to south-east oriented cracks appeared in the rock, which rivers transformed into the valleys still present in the landscape, for example the lakes Långsjön, Magelungen, and Drevviken.
The ship Vasa gives an idea of the era.. In Swedish history, the first half of the 17th century was a period of awakening.As a leading European power, a role which the country was to impose itself following the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), required the capital to be refurnished with a worthy architectonic rob—the nation was determined never to repeat the embarrassment experienced ...
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Stockholm during the Middle Ages is the period in the history of Stockholm stretching from the foundation of the city c. 1250 to the end of the Kalmar Union in 1523. During this period, Stockholm still didn't fill up the small island Stadsholmen (the "city islet") which today known as the Stockholm Old Town (Gamla stan), and as a consequence this article to some extent overlaps that of Gamla stan.
This is a timeline of Swedish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Sweden and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Sweden. See also the list of Swedish monarchs and list of prime ministers of Sweden