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Seal of Stockholm known from an imprint from 1296; most likely the city's first seal mentioned in a letter from 1281. [ 1 ] The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Stockholm , Sweden .
Timeline of Stockholm history. Prehistory and origin of Stockholm; Stockholm during the Middle Ages (1250–1523) Stockholm Bloodbath (1520) Stockholm during the early Vasa era (1523–1611) Stockholm during the Swedish Empire (1611–1718) Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) Stockholm during the Age of Liberty (1718–1772)
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.
Ancient history – Aggregate of past events from the beginning of recorded human history and extending as far as the Early Middle Ages or the Postclassical Era. The span of recorded history is roughly five thousand years, beginning with the earliest linguistic records in the third millennium BC in Mesopotamia and Egypt .
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
By the turn of the 19th century, Stockholm largely consisted of the area today known as City Centre, roughly 35 km 2 (14 sq mi) or one-fifth of the current municipal area. In the ensuing decades several other areas were incorporated (such as Brännkyrka Municipality in 1913, at which time it had 25,000 inhabitants, and Spånga in 1949).
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.
Timelines by year are timelines for one particular year that show the developments for that year within the topical area of that timeline. Lists of years or Tables of years are indexes that list all of the individual timelines by year that pertain to a specific topic.