The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linköping_Bloodbath" id="mwHQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Linköping Bloodbath">Linköping Bloodbath</a> takes place on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maundy_Thursday" id="mwHg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Maundy Thursday">Maundy Thursday</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linköping" id="mwHw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Linköping">Linköping</a>, Sweden: five Swedish noblemen are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_execution" id="mwIA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Public execution">publicly beheaded</a> in the aftermath of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_against_Sigismund" id="mwIQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="War against Sigismund">War against Sigismund</a> (1598–1599).<sup about="#mwt15" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"}}' id="cite_ref-1" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_20#cite_note-1" id="mwIg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwIw">[1]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"><cite about="#mwt12" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFSergeĭ_Mikhaĭlovich_Solovʹev2002">Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich Solovʹev (2002). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=8LJoAAAAMAAJ" id="mwBtk" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBto">History of Russia: The Reign of Tsar Fedor</i></a>. Academic International Press. p.<span id="mwBts" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>187. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBtw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBt0" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-87569-243-2" id="mwBt4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-87569-243-2"><bdi id="mwBt8">978-0-87569-243-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt12" class="Z3988" id="mwBuA" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=History+of+Russia%3A+The+Reign+of+Tsar+Fedor&amp;rft.pages=187&amp;rft.pub=Academic+International+Press&amp;rft.date=2002&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-87569-243-2&amp;rft.au=Serge%C4%AD+Mikha%C4%ADlovich+Solov%CA%B9ev&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D8LJoAAAAMAAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+20"></span></span>