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1622: Samuel Korecki, defeated magnate
On this date in 1622, the swashbuckling Ruthenian nobleman Samuel Korecki was strangled by the Ottomans. Korecki English Wikipedia entry | Polish) was a szlachcic of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth...
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756: Yang Guifei, favored concubine
On this date in 756, the imperial consort Yang Guifei was expediently executed during the An Lushan Rebellion. The Tang dynasty Emperor Xuanzong, whose beloved concubine Yang was, undertook this cruel...
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1517: Cardinal Alfonso Petrucci, plotter
On this date in 1517, the Italian cardinal Alfonso Petrucci was put to death for a conspiracy to murder Pope Leo X. Leo had been acclaimed pope in 1513 at a conclave noted for nearly electing the worst...
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1897: Michele Angiolillo, assassin of Canovas
On this date in 1897,* anarchist Michele Angiolillo was garroted in Vergara prison for assassinating the Spanish Prime Minister. Angiolillo (English Wikipedia entry | Spanish) was an Italian expatriate...
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1822: Francisco Javier de Elio
On this date in 1922, Spanish royalist Gen. Francisco Javier de Elio was garroted in Republican Valencia. Elio (English Wikipedia link | Spanish) was a career Spanish officer noted for being the last...
View Article1751: Lobsang Trashi and the Lhasa Rebellion leaders
On January 23, 1751 Lhasa … witnessed another horrible example of Chinese justice. Lobsang Trashi and six other leaders of the rebellion were executed by cutting them into pieces. Other people were...
View Article904: Pope Leo V and Antipope Christopher, at the dawn of the Pornocracy
Around this time in 904, Pope Sergius III allegedly had one or both of his deposed predecessors put to death in prison. Sergius held the throne of St. Peter for seven years, which was a longer...
View Article1923: Jesus Saleta and Pascal Aguirre, Terrassa anarchists
On this date in 1923, two anarchists were garroted in the Catalan city of Terrassa. Terrassa was unwillingly under new management, having been occupied by the Captain-General of Catalonia Miguel Primo...
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1730: Nevsehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Tulip Era Grand Vizier
On this date in 1730, the Ottoman Grand Vizier Nevsehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha was deposed by strangulation. Ibrahim Pasha (English Wikipedia entry | Turkish)* was the minister of Sultan Ahmed III; more...
View Article1512: Five young Ottoman princes
For many generations from the 14th to 17th centuries, new Ottoman heirs maintained themselves by the cruel practice of preventive fratricide. Enforced at varying levels of systematicity, the...
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1979: Nur Muhammad Taraki, grandfather of the Afghan War
When our party took over political power, the exploiting classes and reactionary forces went into action. The only rusty and antiquated tool that they use against us is preaching in the name of faith...
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1569: Orthodox Metropolitan Philip II of Moscow
This date in 1569, Orthodox Metropolitan Philip II of Moscow was martyred for his opposition to Ivan the Terrible. He was elevated in 1566 as Russia’s top prelate* by that same Ivan, who soon regretted...
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1622: Sultan Osman II
On this date in 1622, the deposed Ottoman Sultan Osman II was strangled in Yedikule Fortress. A boy-emperor still in his 18th year at death, Osman had been the subject of a strange succession dispute:...
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1927: Three Saragossa robbers
From the London Times, Nov. 28, 1927: (From our own correspondent.) MADRID, Nov. 28. At Saragossa this morning three men convicted of murder and robbery were executed by the garrotte. On July 23 last...
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1716: Stefan Cantacuzino, Wallachian prince
On this date in 1716, the Ottomans extinguished their Wallachian (Romanian) client king — and with him native rule on that soil. The Cantacuzino family has bequeathed Romania no small quantity of...
View Article1618: Nicole Regnault and the brothers Bouleaux
On this date in 1618, Venice crushed a Spanish conspiracy with sudden violence. The reality of this conspiracy has been argued for the four hundred years since it was exposed or “exposed” but there is...
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1648: Sultan Ibrahim the Mad
On this date in 1648, the once-debauched and now-deposed Ottoman sultan Ibrahim I “the Mad” was strangled to make way for his seven-year-old son. He’s fondly remembered as a debauched madman at the...
View Article1781: Beata Dolores, the last victim of the Spanish Inquisition
(Thanks to Henry Charles Lea for the guest post on the last person done to death by the Spanish Inquisition, “Beata Dolores”, who on August 24 of 1781* became in Seville the last person ever sent to...
View Article1667: Pedro Bohorquez, Inca Hualpa
Spanish adventurer Pedro Bohorquez — better known as Inca Hualpa, a title he asserted for himself based on his final racket pretending to be an Incan prince — was garroted in Lima on this date in 1667...
View Article1632: Topal Recep Pasha, Grand Vizier
Ottoman Grand Vizier Topal Recep Pasha was put to death by Sultan Murad IV on this date in 1632. Come to the throne as a mere boy of 11, Murad’s early reign was long constrained by the rivalries and...
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