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15th July 1834: Abolition of the Spanish Inquisition, formally known as the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition

15th July 2026
Tagged as: Catholicism, Christianity, Inquisition, Judaism, Religion, Spain, Spanish Inquisition

By the time it was abolished, up to 150,000 people had been tried by the Spanish Inquisition, of whom somewhere between two and five thousand were executed.

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22nd June 1633: Galileo Galilei forced to recant his belief in heliocentrism after being found ‘suspect of heresy’ by the Papal Inquisition

22nd June 2023
Tagged as: Astronomy, Catholicism, Galileo, Heliocentrism, Inquisition, Italy, Papal Inquisition, Pope, Religion, Rome, Science, Space, Universe

Galileo was sentenced to house arrest where he remained for the final nine years of his life.

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15th July 1834: Abolition of the Spanish Inquisition, formally known as the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition

22nd June 1633: Galileo Galilei forced to recant his belief in heliocentrism after being found ‘suspect of heresy’ by the Papal Inquisition

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites

13th October 1908: Suffragette Margaret Travers Symons becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons when she burst into the main chamber

12th October 539 BCE: Babylon falls to the Persian king Cyrus the Great

11th October 1521: King Henry VIII of England given the title Defender of the Faith by Pope Leo X

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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