In November of 1520 the king of Sweden and Denmark, King Christian II, betrayed the Swedish nobility. After a feast, he imprisoned dozens of nobles and clergymen and then proceeded to execute 82 of them in the town square of Stockholm for heresy. This is the story of the Stockholm Bloodbath.

Sources

https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2021/11/the-stockholm-bloodbath-of-november-1520/

https://www.britannica.com/event/Stockholm-Bloodbath

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_Bloodbath

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