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On December 10, 1317: The Nyköping Banquet: Birger, King of Sweden treacherously seizes his two brothers, dukes Valdemar and Erik, who are subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköping Castle.

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The Nyköping Banquet: Birger, King of Sweden treacherously seizes his two brothers, dukes Valdemar and Erik, who are subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköping Castle.

The Nyköping Banquet was King Birger of Sweden's Christmas celebration 11 December 1317 at Nyköping Castle in Sweden. Among the guests were his two brothers Duke Valdemar and Duke Eric, who later that night were imprisoned and have been assumed to have subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköping Castle. The principal source to these events is the very biased Eric Chronicle.

People

Born on December 10

Jeremie Frimpong 2000– Dutch footballer (born 2000)
Reiss Nelson 1999– English footballer (born 1998)
Lucia Bronzetti 1998– Italian tennis player (born 1998)
Viktoriia Savtsova 1997– Ukrainian Paralympic swimmer
Joe Burrow 1996– American football player (born 1996)
Kang Daniel 1996– South Korean singer (born 1996)
Tacko Fall 1995– Senegalese basketball player (born 1995)
Richard Kennar 1994– Samoan rugby league footballer
Matti Klinga 1994– Finnish footballer (born 1994)
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Carlos Rodón 1992– American baseball player (born 1992)
Melissa Roxburgh 1992– Canadian actress (born 1992)
KiKi Layne 1991– American actress (born 1991)
Eric Reid 1991– American football player (born 1991)
Dion Waiters 1991– American basketball player (born 1991)
Kazenga LuaLua 1990– Congolese footballer (born 1990)
Sakiko Matsui 1990– Japanese singer and pianist (born 1990)
Wil Myers 1990– American baseball player (born 1990)
Teyana Taylor 1990– American singer and actress (born 1990)

People

Died on December 10

Jeffery Garcia American comedian and actor (1975–2025)
Rocky Colavito American baseball player (1933–2024)
Michael Cole American actor (1940–2024)
Kreskin American mentalist (1935–2024)
S. M. Krishna Indian politician (1932–2024)
Julian Carroll American politician (1931–2023)
Michael Nesmith American musician and actor (1942–2021)
Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr. American actor and wrestler (1958–2020)
Joseph Safra Lebanese-Brazilian banker (1938–2020)
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Carol Sutton American actress (1944–2020)
Barbara Windsor English actress (1937–2020)
Philip McKeon American actor (1964–2019)
Gershon Kingsley German-American composer and musician (1922–2019)
Emily Mason American painter and printmaker (1932–2019)
Bruce Brown American filmmaker (1937–2017)
Max Clifford English publicist and sex offender (1943–2017)
Charles M. Green Jr. American YouTube personality (1950–2017)
Curtis W. Harris American politician

Timeline

Every December 10 on record

  1. 1317 The Nyköping Banquet: Birger, King of Sweden treacherously seizes his two brothers, dukes Valdemar and Erik, who are subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköping Castle.

    1317 Christmas celebration in Sweden

    The Nyköping Banquet was King Birger of Sweden's Christmas celebration 11 December 1317 at Nyköping Castle in Sweden. Among the guests were his two brothers Duke Valdemar and Duke Eric, who later that night were imprisoned and have been assumed to have subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköping Castle. The principal source to these events is the very biased Eric Chronicle.

  2. 1508 The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice.

    Fourth & Fifth phase of the Italian Wars (1508–1516)

    The War of the League of Cambrai, also known by its second stage as the War of the Holy League, was fought from December 1508 to December 1516, as part of the wider Italian Wars of 1494–1559. The main participants of the war, who fought for its entire duration, were France, the Holy Roman Empire, the Papal States, and the Republic of Venice; they were joined at various times by nearly every significant power in Western Europe, including Spain, England, the Duchy of Milan, the Republic of Florence, the Duchy of Ferrara, and the Swiss.

  3. 1520 Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate.

    German priest, theologian and author (1483–1546)

    Martin Luther was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, professor, and former Augustinian friar. Luther was the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation, and his theological beliefs form the basis of Lutheranism. He is considered one of the most influential figures in Western and Christian history.

  4. 1541 Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.

    English courtier

    Thomas Culpeper was an English courtier and close friend of Henry VIII, and was related to two of his queens, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard. He is known to have had many private meetings with Catherine during her marriage, though these may have involved political intrigue rather than sex. " Accused of adultery with Henry's young consort, Culpeper denied it and blamed the Queen for the situation, saying that he had tried to end his friendship with her, but that she was "dying of love for him".

  5. 1652 Defeat at the Battle of Dungeness causes the Commonwealth of England to reform its navy.

    First Anglo-Dutch War naval battle

    The naval Battle of Dungeness took place on 30 November 1652 during the First Anglo-Dutch War near the cape of Dungeness in Kent.

  6. 1665 The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter.
  7. 1684 Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.
  8. 1768 The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
  9. 1799 France adopts the metre as its official unit of length.
  10. 1817 Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
  11. 1861 American Civil War: The Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 12th state of the Confederacy.
  12. 1861 Forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance.
  13. 1864 American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.
  14. 1877 Russo-Turkish War: The Russian Army captures Plevna after a 5-month siege. The garrison of 25,000 surviving Turks surrenders. The Russian victory is decisive for the outcome of the war and the Liberation of Bulgaria.
  15. 1896 Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.
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  1. 1898 Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict. Spain cedes administration of Cuba to the United States, and the United States agrees to pay Spain $20 million for the Philippines.
  2. 1901 The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
  3. 1902 The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
  4. 1906 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize in any field.
  5. 1907 The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students, protesting against the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected, clash with 400 police officers.
  6. 1909 Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  7. 1932 Thailand becomes a constitutional monarchy.
  8. 1936 Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
  9. 1941 World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near British Malaya.
  10. 1941 World War II: Battle of the Philippines: Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on Luzon.
  11. 1942 World War II: Government of Poland in exile send Raczyński's Note (the first official report on the Holocaust) to 26 governments who signed the Declaration by United Nations.
  12. 1948 The Human Rights Convention is signed by the United Nations.
  13. 1949 Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.
  14. 1953 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  15. 1963 Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah.

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