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Vor 2 Tagen · Denmark's minister Johann Struensee, a social reformer, was publicly executed in 1772 for usurping royal authority. Frederick the Great, the king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786, saw himself as a leader of the Enlightenment and patronized philosophers and scientists at his court in Berlin. Voltaire, who had been imprisoned and maltreated by the ...
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Vor 4 Tagen · Lynching, a form of violence in which a mob, under the pretext of administering justice without trial, executes a presumed offender, often after inflicting torture. The term is derived from the name of Charles Lynch (1736–96), who led an irregular court formed to punish loyalists during the American Revolutionary War.
Vor 3 Tagen · On the occasion of Charles II's triumphant entry into Whitehall on 29th May, 1660, the site of the cross was utilised. A few months later (from 13th to 17th October) saw the execution of Harrison and seven other of the regicides "att Charring Cross w th in the rayles." The site was also used for purposes of a lighter character. The overseers ...
Vor 4 Tagen · Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, 1587 Raleigh just before being beheaded in 1618– an illustration from c. 1860 This contemporary German print depicts Charles I's decapitation in 1649. Execution of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth by Jack Ketch on Tower Hill, 15 July 1685 (O.S), in a popular print.
Vor 3 Tagen · In 1428, Charles VII retook Montereau, only to see the English once again take it over within a short time. Finally, on 10 October 1437, Charles VII was victorious in regaining Montereau-Fault-Yonne. While Henry was in England, his brother Thomas, Duke of Clarence, led the English forces in France.
