Events in History Relating to Execution
December 30, 1066
Granada massacre: A Muslim mob storms the royal palace in Granada, crucifies Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacres most of the Jewish population of the city.
April 11, 1079
Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.
January 27, 1142
Execution, believed wrongful, of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei.
May 2, 1230
William de Braose, 10th Baron Abergavenny is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.
July 15, 1381
John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of Richard II of England.
November 16, 1491
An auto de fe, held in the Brasero de la Dehesa outside of Ávila, concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects.
June 24, 1497
Cornish traitors Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London.
November 10, 1520
Danish King Christian II executes dozens of people in the Stockholm Bloodbath after a successful invasion of Sweden.
June 26, 1541
Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
February 13, 1542
Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
February 17, 1600
The philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de' Fiori in Rome for heresy.
March 20, 1600
The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden.
January 27, 1606
Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.
January 31, 1606
Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.
June 21, 1621
Execution of 27 Czech noblemen on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
May 26, 1647
Alse Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, when she is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut.
June 1, 1660
Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
April 30, 1671
Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.
June 2, 1692
Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Found guilty, she is hanged on June 10.
June 10, 1692
Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".
July 19, 1692
Salem Witch Trials: Five women are hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts.
November 20, 1695
Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed.
May 23, 1701
After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
November 11, 1724
Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.
May 9, 1726
Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
November 3, 1783
John Austin, a highwayman, is the last person to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows.
April 25, 1792
Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
June 2, 1793
Jean-Paul Marat recites the names of 29 people to the French National Convention. Almost all of these people are guillotined, followed by 17,000 more over the course of the next year during the Reign of Terror.
November 3, 1793
French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
May 8, 1794
Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Générale, is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris.
January 17, 1799
Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed.
August 18, 1848
Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
December 2, 1859
Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper's Ferry.
February 18, 1873
Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
June 21, 1877
The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.
December 18, 1878
John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires is executed in Pennsylvania.
June 30, 1882
Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of President James Garfield.
November 11, 1887
Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
November 24, 1922
Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
February 8, 1924
Capital punishment: The first state execution using gas in the United States takes place in Nevada.
March 20, 1933
Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
April 3, 1936
Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh II, the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
June 17, 1939
Last public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre.
January 31, 1945
US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
April 3, 1946
Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
June 1, 1946
Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" (leader) of Romania during World War 2, is executed.
June 19, 1953
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
June 16, 1958
Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
December 15, 1961
In Jerusalem, Adolph Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization.
May 30, 1966
Former Congolese Prime Minister Evariste Kimba and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
February 3, 1967
Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne.
June 2, 1967
Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
December 7, 1982
In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
November 6, 1985
In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the April 19 Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.
December 25, 1989
Nicolae Ceauşescu, former communist dictator of Romania and his wife Elena are condemned to death and executed under a wide range of charges.
January 5, 1993
Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the last legal hanging in America since 1965).
February 3, 1998
Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
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