12 events with tag "burning"
330 BC
ID: 294
Alexander burns Persepolis - revenge for burning Athens, or drunken mistake, regrets it later
ID: 294
55 BC
ID: 5392
Caesar describes wicker man sacrifices - claims druids burn criminals alive in huge wicker cages shaped like men
ID: 5392
52 BC
ID: 5382
Cenabum massacre starts Gallic rebellion - Carnutes kill Roman merchants, signal for general uprising under Vercingetorix
ID: 5382
155
ID: 3804
St. Polycarp martyred at 86 - 'Eighty-six years I have served Him', fire refuses to burn him, finally killed by sword
ID: 3804
1155
ID: 5056
Arnold of Brescia executed - political reformer who attacked Church property burned at stake in Rome
ID: 5056
1210
ID: 5299
July 1210
Massacre at Minerve - 140 Cathar perfecti refuse to recant and are burned alive, first mass burning of the crusade
ID: 5299
1211
ID: 5300
May 3, 1211
Massacre at Lavaur - 400 Cathar perfecti burned, Lady Guiraude thrown down well and stoned, 80 knights hanged
ID: 5300
1244
ID: 5305
March 16, 1244
Burning at Montségur - 225 Cathar perfecti refuse to recant, walk voluntarily into huge pyre at base of mountain
ID: 5305
1321
ID: 5307
Last known Cathar perfectus burned - Guillaume Bélibaste executed in Villerouge-Termenès, Catharism extinct
ID: 5307
1415
ID: 5060
July 6, 1415
Jan Hus burned at Constance - Bohemian reformer executed for heresy despite safe conduct
ID: 5060
1498
ID: 5142
May 23, 1498
Savonarola burned at stake in Florence - executed where he held Bonfire of Vanities, ashes thrown in Arno
ID: 5142
1793
ID: 5260
Revolutionaries burn St. Genevieve's relics - remains publicly burned at Place de Grève, ashes thrown in Seine, some relics hidden
ID: 5260