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Thirteen women and two men were executed. [4] The Salem witch trials followed in 1692–93, culminating in the executions of 20 people. Five others died in jail. It has been estimated that tens of thousands of people were executed for witchcraft in Europe and the American colonies over several hundred years.
Cephalus; raped by Eos. Chrysippus of Elis; raped by King Laius of Thebes, father of Oedipus by Jocasta. Cinyras raped by his daughter, Myrrha, via deception and alcohol. Daphnis, son of Hermes raped by Echenais, with the aid of wine. Endymion raped by Selene as he slept. Ganymede raped by Zeus.
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirty people were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men). One other man, Giles Corey, died under ...
The massacre claimed the lives of an estimated 14,000 to 40,000 Haitian men, women, and children. [176] Dominican troops interrogated thousands of civilians demanding that each victim say the word "parsley" (perejil). If the accused could not pronounce the word to the interrogators' satisfaction, they were deemed to be Haitians and killed. [177 ...
This is a list of notable crowd collapses, crushes, and stampedes.Many such accidents are also in the list of accidents and disasters by death toll.The deadliest modern crowd crush incidents have both occurred during the Hajj pilgrimage, with the 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy claiming 1,426 lives and the 2015 Mina stampede claiming 2,400.
Many of the witchcraft accusations were driven at least in part by acrimonious relations between the families of the plaintiffs and defendants. Unless otherwise specified, dates provided in this list use Julian-dated month and day but New Style-enumerated year (i.e., years begin on January 1 and end on December 31, in the modern style).
Louis Pierre Louvel (1820) assassination of Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry. Naseeruddin Mauzi (1920) assassination of Robert William Douglas Willoughby. Hafız Mehmet (1926) conspiracy to assassinate Mustafa Kemal Pasha. Timofey Mikhailov (1881) assassination of Alexander II.
Killed by a group of people who blamed Ridge, who signed the Treaty of New Echota, for the deaths of 4,000 Cherokees on the Trail of Tears. His son, John, and his nephew, Elias Boudinot, were also killed. 27 June 1844: Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism and 1844 presidential candidate