Åbo Bloodbath
1599 PUBLIC EXECUTION IN TURKU (ÅBO), FINLAND
Bloodbath of Åbo; Abo bloodbath; Bloodbath of Abo; Turku bloodbath; Bloodbath of Turku; Åbo blodbad; Åbo bloodbath; Abo Bloodbath
The Åbo Bloodbath (; ) of 10 November 1599 was a public execution in the Finnish town of Turku (Åbo), then part of the Kingdom of Sweden, in the context of the War against Sigismund and the Club War. Sweden was by then in the final phase of a civil war, with one faction supporting king Sigismund III Vasa, who also was king and Grand Duke of Poland–Lithuania, and another faction supporting duke Charles of Södermanland, the later Charles IX, Sigismund's paternal uncle.