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The Occasion of the First Award. The first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded at a meeting of the Norwegian Parliament which took place at ten o'clock on the morning of December 10, 1901. The ceremony was brief, lasting only fifteen minutes.
The Nobel Prizes, first awarded in 1901, were established by the will of Alfred Nobel and are traditionally awarded on December 10, the anniversary of his death. The awards are decided by boards of deputies appointed by Swedish learned societies and, in the case of the peace prize, by the Norwegian Parliament.