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25th April 1792: First use of the guillotine as a method of execution in France

25th April 2023
Tagged as: Beheading, Crime, Decapitation, Enlightenment, Execution, France, French Revolution, Guillotine, Highwayman, Murder, National Convention, Punishment

Nicolas Jacques Pelletier, a French highwayman who was found guilty of killing a man during one of his robberies, was the first victim of the French decapitation machine.

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31st July 1703: English writer Daniel Defoe put in the pillory for seditious libel

31st July 2021
Tagged as: Crime, Culture, England, London, Non-Conformism, Novel, Pillory, Punishment, Queen Anne, Religion

The English writer Daniel Defoe was put in the pillory for seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet.

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25th April 1792: First use of the guillotine as a method of execution in France

31st July 1703: English writer Daniel Defoe put in the pillory for seditious libel

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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

5th December 1848: President James K. Polk sparks the California Gold Rush as a result of his State of the Union Address

4th December 1971: A fire during a concert at the Montreux Casino inspires the song “Smoke on the Water” by Deep Purple

3rd December 1775: The first national US Grand Union Flag flown for the first time on the ship ‘Alfred’

2nd December 1805: The Battle of Austerlitz sees Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grande Armée defeat Russia and Austria

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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