The bloodbath itself was a series of events taking place between November 7 and November 9 in 1520, climaxing on the 8th, when around 80-90 people ( mostly nobility and clergy supporting the Sture party ) were executed, despite a promise by King Christian for general amnesty.

The Malay prince was married to a Khmer princess who had fled an Angkorian dynastic bloodbath.

In the aftermath of the War against Sigismund, the town was the site of the Åbo bloodbath.

Initially of low standing, Gustav rose to lead the rebel movement following the bloodbath in which his father was executed, and his election as King on June 6, 1523 ( currently recognised as the National holiday of Sweden ) and his triumphant entry into Stockholm eleven days later meant the end of Medieval Sweden's elective monarchy as well as the Kalmar Union, which had united the Nordic kingdoms since 1397, and the commencing of a hereditary monarchy under the House of Vasa which, currently under the House of Bernadotte, continues to date.

Pickett's Charge was a bloodbath.

Margaret Leijonhuvfud was a member of one of Sweden's most powerful noble families, daughter of Erik Abrahamsson Leijonhufvud, a man executed in the Stockholm bloodbath, and Ebba Eriksdotter Vasa ( a relative of the king ) and was already engaged when the king decided to marry her.

The engagement was a bloodbath: Visigothic losses were extremely high, and the Muslims lost as many as 3, 000 men, or a quarter of their force.

As the capital was guarded by some of the best-trained soldiers in New Spain, Hidalgo might have feared a bloodbath.

King Christian had those accused executed at the Stockholm bloodbath in late 1520, including Sten Sture's corpse which was desecrated as a heretic's ( burnt at the stake ).

He feared bloodbath due to hostile response from the Japanese to such a move, and was concerned with prospects of future Allied retribution.

The battle was a bloodbath for Burgoyne's troops: nearly 900 men were killed, wounded, or captured, compared to about 150 for the Americans.

When Trương Như Tạng was appointed Vietcong justice minister soon after Huế, he understood this to be a critical position because the massacre had, " left us with a special need to address fears among the Southern people that a revolutionary victory would bring with it a bloodbath or reign of terror.

The bloodbath was perpetrated by the bandit Salvatore Giuliano who was possibly backed by local Mafia bosses.

In 390AD Bezabda was taken by the Persians and a terrible bloodbath ensued against the inhabitants and garrison.

Seemingly undeterred by the earlier suppression of his Richard II, Tate offered a Coriolanus that was faithful to Shakespeare through four acts before becoming a Websterian bloodbath in the fifth act.

It keeps the basic Senecan design brought to English drama by Thomas Kyd: a young man is driven to avenge an elder's death ( in this case it's a lover, Gloriana, instead ), which was caused by the villainy of a powerful older man ; the avenger schemes to effect his revenge, often by morally questionable means ; he finally succeeds in a bloodbath that costs him his own life as well.

He reportedly caused some consternation in the American camp when he told former US Secretary of State Robert S. McNamara, who was also in attendance, " that would have to take charge of the bloodbath " if Bazin came to power through a rigged election.

Lord Wavell claimed during his meeting on 27 August 1946 that Gandhi had told him, " If India wants bloodbath she shall have it ... if a bloodbath was necessary, it would come about in spite of non-violence ".

The one-month battle, which culminated in a terrible bloodbath and total devastation of the city, was the scene of the worst urban fighting in the Pacific theater, and ended almost three years of Japanese military occupation in the Philippines ( 1942 – 1945 ).

In May 2003, Ntumba was forced to seek refuge at UN controlled facilities during a local bloodbath that killed more than 112 people.

The city of Gondar was swamped by these two tense armies, and a bloodbath seemed imminent.

They dispatched soldiers and what happened next could only be described as a “ bloodbath .” At least nine hundred Indians were killed and it did not matter whether they were women, children or men.

A bloodbath ensues and Julius, the only survivor, tells the tale to Bruno.

The advent of Buenos Aires Province Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas led to Escribano's 1829 destitution as commander ; though the intervention of an officer, Isidoro Suárez, averted a bloodbath.

Morgan demanded to find out who his partner would be and when he did not get an answer, threatened to turn his match against Generation Me ( Jeremy and Max Buck ) into a bloodbath.

Inchiquin had already attacked Cashel with relentless ferocity, and when news of that bloodbath reached Fethard its citizens submitted to him.

He left the Autobots to die and invaded the peaceful world of Klo, causing a bloodbath, and when the Autobots tried to stop him, he ambushed and exterminated them.

The event turns into a bloodbath when Zuo Lengchan ( chief of the Mount Song Sect ) and other orthodox sects accuse Liu Zhengfeng of being unfaithful to their code for befriending Qu Yang of the heretical Sun Moon Holy Cult.

Nur-Pashi said the final bloodbath started when Russian snipers killed two hostage-takers who were carrying detonators for the explosives strung around the gymnasium.

If this arbitrary bloodbath ( motivated by the king's hyperbolic vanity and the general's hyperbolic pride ) is not enough of a deflation, when the Queen comes in to bewail her virginity, her lady simply says, " I'll fit you with a Husband in a Trice ;/ Here's Rigdum Funnidos, a proper Man ,/ If anyone can please a Queen, he can " ( I. v 61 – 4 ).

His court officials ( many of whom would rise to great influence in later years, often in former Douglas lands ) then joined in the bloodbath, one allegedly striking out the Earl's brain with an axe.

Massoud ordered the retreat of his troops among them Jamiat to avoid another bloodbath.

The battered Chinese troops, who had just emerged from the bloodbath in Shanghai and were hoping to enter the defense lines, found that they were not able to utilize these fortifications.

A key event in the war, barely mentioned in this book, is the death of Kensie Graeme, and the manner in which his brother's honor prevents the bloodbath which could have resulted at the hands of Kensie's angry troops.

After capturing the southern railway station during a two-day bloodbath, Soviet troops advanced to Castle Hill.

Fierce fighting took place primarily in the East of Austria, especially in the streets of some outer Vienna districts, where large fortress-like municipal workers ' buildings were situated, and in the northern, industrial areas of the province of Styria, where Nazi agents had great interest in a bloodbath between security forces and workers ' militias.

Annie retreats to the cabin and accidentally stabs Jake and drags him to the cellar door, where he is killed by Henrietta in a bloodbath.

After the briefly successful reconquest of Sweden by Christian II and the subsequent Stockholm bloodbath in 1520, the Swedes rose in yet another rebellion which ousted the Danish forces once again in 1521, though Stockholm did not surrender until the summer of 1523.

The Pompeion and many other buildings in the vicinity of the Sacred Gate were razed to the ground by the marauding army of the Roman dictator Sulla, during his sacking of Athens in 86 BC ; an episode that Plutarch described as a bloodbath.

The bloodbath swiftly takes Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into realms of arrogance, madness, and death.

In the turmoil that surrounded the event, Antony escaped Rome dressed as a slave ; fearing that the dictator's assassination would be the start of a bloodbath among his supporters.

On November 7, the events of the Stockholm bloodbath began to unfold.

In an interview with Richardson in 1979, Danish historian Mikael Venge, author of the article about Christian II in Dansk Biografisk Leksikon said: " I think you ought to protest the next time the Swedish radio claims anything so utterly unfounded that could be understood as if the Danes approved of the Stockholm bloodbath.

* October 2 – Tlatelolco massacre: A student demonstration ends in bloodbath at La Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, Mexico, 10 days before the inauguration of the 1968 Summer Olympics.

* November 8 – November 10 – 82 noblemen and clergymen, having been sentenced to death for their involvement in the Swedish resistance against the Danish invasion, are executed by beheading in the Stockholm bloodbath.

Many believed that Aldington's suffering in the bloodbath of Europe during World War I caused him to resent Lawrence's reputation, gained in the Middle Eastern arena.

The bloodbath destroyed any lingering hope of Scandinavian union.

Despite, and certainly to some extent because of, this bloodbath, the Liu Song produced much great poetry ( shi 詩 ) and other poetic genres, notably the rhapsody, fu 賦.

It can also be seen in the tragedies Women Beware Women and The Revenger's Tragedy, in which enjoyably amoral Italian courtiers endlessly plot against each other, resulting in a climactic bloodbath.

Officials at the German Federal Police headquarters in Potsdam, outside Berlin, concerned about the potential for a bloodbath, had also spoken out against the operation.

In the popular young adult novel The Hunger Games, the Cornucopia is a giant golden horn overflowing with weapons and supplies, which is the center of the bloodbath, the opening fight in the Games.

The strikers chose to disperse, averting a potential bloodbath.