43 events with tag "execution"
586 BC
ID: 2775
Zedekiah blinded - sons killed before his eyes, then blinded and taken to Babylon in chains
ID: 2775
406 BC
ID: 258
Battle of Arginusae - Athens wins but executes generals for not saving drowning sailors
ID: 258
63 BC
ID: 2689
Catiline conspiracy crushed - Cicero exposes plot, executes conspirators without trial, hailed as 'Father of the Fatherland'
ID: 2689
46 BC
ID: 5400
Vercingetorix executed after Caesar's triumph - Gallic leader strangled in Tullianum prison after 6 years captivity, symbol of resistance dies
ID: 5400
29 BC
ID: 2997
Herod executes wife Mariamne - kills Hasmonean wife in paranoid rage, later executes own sons
ID: 2997
31
ID: 3986
Fall of Sejanus - Tiberius discovers Praetorian Prefect's conspiracy, massive purge follows
ID: 3986
274
ID: 4655
Execution of Mani - Zoroastrian priests have him killed as heretic, Kartir persecutes Manichaeans
ID: 4655
531
ID: 4657
Mazdak executed - egalitarian Zoroastrian reformer killed after threatening social order
ID: 4657
613
ID: 2851
Execution of Brunhilda - Chlothar II captures 70-year-old queen, tortured for three days, torn apart by horses
ID: 2851
782
ID: 2897
Massacre of Verden - Charlemagne executes 4,500 Saxon nobles in one day for rebellion, brutality shocks contemporaries
ID: 2897
867
ID: 3704
March 21, 867
Blood Eagle execution of King Aella - Northumbrian king killed by sons of Ragnar in ritual revenge execution
ID: 3704
1155
ID: 5056
Arnold of Brescia executed - political reformer who attacked Church property burned at stake in Rome
ID: 5056
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
1282
ID: 2410
Second Welsh War begins - Llywelyn killed, his brother Dafydd captured and executed as traitor
ID: 2410
1305
ID: 2417
August 23, 1305
Execution of William Wallace - hanged, drawn and quartered at Smithfield, head displayed on London Bridge
ID: 2417
1314
ID: 60
March 18, 1314
Jacques de Molay burned at stake - last Templar Grand Master curses king and pope
ID: 60
1314
ID: 5230
March 18, 1314
Jacques de Molay burned at stake - last Templar Grand Master curses Philip IV and Pope from flames
ID: 5230
1315
ID: 5233
April 30, 1315
Enguerrand de Marigny hanged - Philip IV's minister executed by Louis X, scapegoat for previous reign
ID: 5233
1321
ID: 5307
Last known Cathar perfectus burned - Guillaume Bélibaste executed in Villerouge-Termenès, Catharism extinct
ID: 5307
1322
ID: 2426
March 16, 1322
Battle of Boroughbridge - Edward II defeats Thomas of Lancaster, executions follow, Despenser rule supreme
ID: 2426
1330
ID: 2432
November 29, 1330
Execution of Roger Mortimer - hanged at Tyburn for treason, Isabella retired to Castle Rising
ID: 2432
1354
ID: 4786
Fra Moriale executed in Rome - 'Montreal' led Great Company, captured by Cola di Rienzo, beheaded
ID: 4786
1388
ID: 2453
Merciless Parliament - Lords Appellant execute Richard's favorites, king forced to submit
ID: 2453
1400
ID: 2465
Epiphany Rising fails - attempt to restore Richard II crushed, conspirators executed
ID: 2465
1405
ID: 2468
Archbishop Scrope's rebellion - executed for treason, Henry IV said to develop leprosy as divine punishment
ID: 2468
1415
ID: 5060
July 6, 1415
Jan Hus burned at Constance - Bohemian reformer executed for heresy despite safe conduct
ID: 5060
1431
ID: 28
May 30, 1431
St. Joan burned at Rouen - dies crying 'Jesus!' Heart found intact in ashes
ID: 28
1478
ID: 2507
February 18, 1478
Execution of George, Duke of Clarence - drowned in butt of malmsey wine in Tower for treason
ID: 2507
1483
ID: 2510
June 13, 1483
Lord Hastings executed - Richard accuses him of treason at council meeting, immediate beheading
ID: 2510
1498
ID: 87
May 23, 1498
Savonarola burned in Florence - reformer becomes ash in Piazza della Signoria
ID: 87
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
1587
ID: 3512
February 8, 1587
Execution of Mary Queen of Scots at Fotheringhay - Protestant-raised James VI learns of Catholic mother's beheading - Creates lifelong pattern: outward Protestant conformity masking deep anxieties
ID: 3512
1600
ID: 3444
Giordano Bruno burned in Rome - Dominican friar turned hermetic magus - Vision of reformed universal religion combining all faiths - Creates martyrdom narrative for hermetic tradition
ID: 3444
1612
ID: 3456
Lancashire Witch Trials (Pendle Witches) - James's 'Daemonologie' cited as legal authority - 10 executed based on spectral evidence
ID: 3456
1730
ID: 494
Crown Prince Frederick attempts escape from Prussia with von Katte; forced to watch friend's execution and undergo Pietist re-education
ID: 494
1793
ID: 648
Execution of Louis XVI by guillotine
ID: 648
1793
ID: 650
Execution of Marie Antoinette
ID: 650
1794
ID: 653
9 Thermidor - Fall and execution of Robespierre, ending Reign of Terror
ID: 653
1816
ID: 719
St. Joseph Cafasso begins prison ministry in Turin - accompanies 60 condemned to execution
ID: 719
1896
ID: 5628
December 30, 1896
José Rizal executed by firing squad at Bagumbayan (now Rizal Park) in Manila for rebellion, sedition and conspiracy
ID: 5628
1919
ID: 1277
December 25, 1919
Lenin orders execution of Christmas celebrants: 'those who do not show up for work because of Nikola are shot'
ID: 1277
1945
ID: 1556
President Truman formally orders execution of Operation Paperclip
ID: 1556
1945
ID: 4597
January 1945
Planck's son Erwin executed by Nazis - implicated in July 20 plot against Hitler, Planck's last son
ID: 4597