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16th July 1661: Europe’s first banknotes issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco

16th July 2026
Tagged as: Bank, Banking, Copper, Economy, Europe, Finance, Merchant, Money, Stockholm, Sweden, Trade

The new banknotes were welcomed because they were lighter, easier to carry, and more convenient for trade. The bank also found that paper currency encouraged greater commercial activity.

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28th August 1973: Norrmalmstorg robbery in Stockholm ends, prompting the term ‘Stockholm Syndrome’

28th August 2024
Tagged as: Bank, Crime, Criminal, Hostage, Norrmalmstorg robbery, Psychiatry, Robbery, Stockholm, Stockholm Syndrome, Sweden

During a bank robbery in Stockholm, Jan-Erik Olsson took four bank workers hostage. They later began to exhibit sympathy towards their captors while becoming fearful of the police’s actions.

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8th November 1520: The Stockholm Bloodbath begins under Denmark’s Christian II

8th November 2022
Tagged as: Christian II, Denmark, Gustav Trolle, Gustav Vasa, Kalmar Union, Sten Sture, Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish Was of Liberation

Christian II had invaded Sweden in an attempt to preserve the Kalmar Union that joined the Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Sweden and Norway under a single monarch.

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16th July 1661: Europe’s first banknotes issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco

28th August 1973: Norrmalmstorg robbery in Stockholm ends, prompting the term ‘Stockholm Syndrome’

8th November 1520: The Stockholm Bloodbath begins under Denmark’s Christian II

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

5th September 1698: Peter the Great of Russia imposes a tax on beards

4th September 476: End of the Western Roman Empire when Romulus Augustulus is overthrown by the barbarian general Odoacer

3rd September 1260: Battle of Ain Jalut allows the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt to permanently halt the Mongol advance

1st September 1604: The Sikh Adi Granth first installed at the Golden Temple

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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