Alfred Nobel's death mask, at the Nobel museum in Stockholm, Sweden.

Nobel and his parents returned to Sweden from Russia and Nobel devoted himself to the study of explosives, and especially to the safe manufacture and use of nitroglycerine ( discovered in 1847 by Ascanio Sobrero, one of his fellow students under Théophile-Jules Pelouze at the University of Turin ).

He afforded refuge in Ottoman territory to Charles XII of Sweden ( 1682 – 1718 ) after the Swedish defeat at the hands of Peter I of Russia ( 1672 – 1725 ) in the Battle of Poltava of 1709.

Weil returned to France via Sweden and the United Kingdom, and was detained at Le Havre in January 1940.

The production at Rome of his opera Gli Equivoci nell sembiante ( 1679 ) gained him the support of Queen Christina of Sweden ( who at the time was living in Rome ), and he became her Maestro di Cappella.

The sculpture Non Violence placed at Kungsportsavenyn in Göteborg, Sweden.

Another production opened at the Royal Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden, on 8 January 1880, while productions in Christiania ( with Johanne Juell as Nora and Arnoldus Reimers as Torvald ) and Bergen followed shortly after.

Recent excavations at the Viking harbor town of Fröjel, Gotland in Sweden have revealed a small number of rock crystal lenses known as the Visby lenses.

Finds from Eadgils ' mound, left, excavated in 1874 at Gamla Uppsala | Uppsala In Sweden supported Beowulf and the sagas.

He was selected for the squad which competed at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, but didn't kick a ball, something at which critics expressed surprise and bewilderment, even allowing for his lacklustre performance in Belgrade.

:" This Gautbert, who at his consecration received the honoured name of the apostle Simeon, went to Sweden, and was honourably received by the king and the people ; and he began, amidst general goodwill and approval, to build a church there --" ( Chapter XIV )

Archbishopric of Hamburg-Bremen that oversaw the missionary work in Scandinavia until 1103, had appointed bishops to Sweden at least from 1014 onwards, the first see being in Skara.

He then returned to Sweden, where he became professor of botany at Uppsala.

This was a result of the adaptation to the Bologna process that started in 2004 at Chalmers ( as the first technical university in Sweden ).

Currently, about 10 % of all students at Chalmers come from countries outside Sweden to enroll in a Master's or PhD program.

Crane shotCrane camera in action at Götaplatsen, Göteborg, Sweden, during MTV World Stage 2012.

Type SL X60 | X60 at Stockholm Central in Sweden

Thus, the first Olympic medals in curling, which at the time was played outside, were awarded for the 1924 Winter Games, with the gold medal won by Great Britain and Ireland, two silver medals by Sweden, and the bronze by France.

In 1638 New Sweden, a Swedish trading post and colony, was established at Fort Christina ( now in Wilmington ) by Peter Minuit at the head of a group of Swedes, Finns and Dutch.

In 1651, the Dutch, reinvigorated by the leadership of Peter Stuyvesant, established a fort at present-day New Castle, and in 1655 they conquered the New Sweden colony, annexing it into the Dutch New Netherland.

In Sweden, Codd's paper was also read and Mimer SQL was developed from the mid-70s at Uppsala University.

It ends in Helsingborg in Sweden, at the port for the ferry to Elsinore in Denmark.

* 1323 – Signature of the Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod ( Russia ), that regulates the border between the two countries for the first time.

The people were mentioned as Helsinger ( which may mean " the people of the strait ") for the first time in King Valdemar the Victorious's Liber Census Daniæ from 1231, but they should not be confused with the Helsings of Hälsingland in Sweden.

In Denmark too, church wall paintings or kalkmalerier were widely used in the Middle Ages ( first Romanesque then Gothic ) and can be seen in some 600 Danish churches as well as in churches in the south of Sweden which was Danish at the time.

Sanskrit priyā " beloved ") and was known among many northern European cultures with slight name variations over time: e. g. Friggja in Sweden, Frīg ( genitive Frīge ) in Old English, and Fricka in Richard Wagner's operatic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.

In 1813, for the fourth and final time, Austria turned against France and joined Great Britain, Russia, Prussia and Sweden in their war against Napoleon.

It was by far the greatest civil engineering project ever undertaken in Sweden up to that time, taking 22 years of effort by more than 58, 000 workers.

At the time, the King of Sweden was Gustavus Adolphus ' cousin Sigismund.

At the same time, Finland remains one of the last non-NATO members in Europe and there seems to be not enough support for full membership unless Sweden joins first.

In this time period, the game of Bandie ball was adapted to the ice, evolving into bandy, which endured in popularity in Europe into the 20th century, and remains popular today in Sweden, Russia, Finland and Norway.

He spent time in Finland, Sweden, and Denmark and, in 1804, published a travel report of Silesia.

At the same time, Charles XIII is elected to succeed Gustav IV Adolf as King of Sweden.

Quite popular in Finland and Sweden at the time, this event soon faded into obscurity, together with similar variations of the shot and the discus.

In Sweden, this was a time of conflict between king Albert of Mecklenburg and leaders of the nobility.

At the time, the union between Sweden and Norway under one monarch, together with the fact that King Frederick VII of Denmark had no male heir, gave rise to the idea of reuniting the countries of the Kalmar Union, except for Finland.

Latvia, in whole or in parts, remained under foreign rule for the next eight centuries, finding itself at the cross-roads of all the regional superpowers of their day, including Denmark ( the Danes held on lands around the Gulf of Riga ), Sweden, and Russia, with southern ( Courland ) Latvia being at one time a vassal to Poland-Lithuania as well as Latgale falling directly under Poland-Lithuania rule.

The 1686 church law ( kyrkolagen ) of the Kingdom of Sweden ( which at the time included all of modern Sweden, Finland, and Estonia ) enforced literacy on the people, and by 1800 the ability to read was close to 100 %.

Some sorts of lute were still used for some time in Germany, Sweden, Ukraine.

Historically, Poland often saw itself in partnership with non-Slavic nations most of the time, such as Hungary, Saxony, Sweden or Lithuania under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1569 to 1795.

It was at this time that Amundsen received news that Norway had formally become independent of Sweden and had a new king.

On June 16, 2009, the Parliament of Sweden passed a law dropping the peace time draft.

There was a widespread recognition that something must be done, and " in 1858 Morse was awarded the sum of 400, 000 French francs ( equivalent to about $ 80, 000 at the time ) by the governments of France, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Piedmont, Russia, Sweden, Tuscany and Turkey, each of which contributed a share according to the number of Morse instruments in use in each country.

* 1655 – Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge, making it the first time the city is captured by a foreign army.