Events Tagged: "conspiracy"

Bacchanalia suppressed - Senate bans Bacchic mysteries after reports of orgies and conspiracy, 7000 executed

Catiline conspiracy crushed - Cicero exposes plot, executes conspirators without trial, hailed as 'Father of the Fatherland'

Gallienus assassinated - killed by officers at siege of Milan, capable but overwhelmed

Great Conspiracy - Picts, Scots, and Saxons coordinate attacks on Roman Britain, Hadrian's Wall overrun

Attack on Pope Leo III - Roman nobles try to blind and depose Pope, he flees to Charlemagne for protection

Edward murdered at Corfe - anti-monastic faction likely involved, Aethelred becomes king, monks lose royal protection

Aelfthryth implicated in Edward's murder - Aethelred's mother allegedly orchestrated killing at Corfe Castle to secure throne for her son

Pazzi Conspiracy - Giuliano de' Medici murdered in cathedral during Mass, Lorenzo wounded but escapes

North Berwick Witch Trials begin - Geillis Duncan reveals supposed coven of 200 witches plotting against King - Agnes Sampson brought before James at Holyrood Palace

Bronfman brothers charged with conspiracy to violate foreign nation's statutes