{"slug": "tyburn", "label": "Tyburn", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyburn", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1362341", "qid": "Q1362341", "description": "village in the county of Middlesex close to the current location of Marble Arch in present-day London", "entries": 20, "years": 15, "span": [1388, 1783], "span_label": ["1388 CE", "1783 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 8}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 4}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}], "also_known_as": ["Tyburn, London"], "related": [{"slug": "hanging", "label": "Hanging", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "tower-of-london", "label": "Tower of London", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "archbishop-of-armagh", "label": "Archbishop of Armagh", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "primacy-of-ireland", "label": "Primacy of Ireland", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "oliver-plunkett", "label": "Oliver Plunkett", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "archbishop-of-canterbury", "label": "Archbishop of Canterbury", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thomas-cranmer", "label": "Thomas Cranmer", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "canonization", "label": "Canonization", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "george-ii-of-great-britain", "label": "George II of Great Britain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jacobitism", "label": "Jacobitism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "charles-edward-stuart", "label": "Charles Edward Stuart", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "carlisle-castle", "label": "Carlisle Castle", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1388, "year_label": "1388 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "February 20", "text": "February 20 – London's Lord Mayor Bembre is hanged in public at Tyburn after having been imprisoned in the Tower of London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360557860#January–March", "title": "1388", "revid": 1360557860, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1535, "year_label": "1535 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 4", "text": "May 4 – The first of the English Carthusian Martyrs of London, John Houghton of London, Robert Lawrence of Beauvale, and Augustine Webster of Axholme are executed at Tyburn after refusing to sign the English Oath of Supremacy. The three will be canonized 435 years later on October 25, 1970, as saints of the Roman Catholic Church, with a feast day of May 4.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369561145#April–June", "title": "1535", "revid": 1369561145, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1537, "year_label": "1537 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 3", "text": "February 3 – the rebel Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare (\"Silken Thomas\"), imprisoned in the Tower of London, is hanged, drawn and quartered, with his five uncles, at Tyburn.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1318938639#Events", "title": "1537 in Ireland", "revid": 1318938639, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1537, "year_label": "1537 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 3", "text": "February 3 – Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare, was hanged in Tyburn (b. 1513)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1318938639#Deaths", "title": "1537 in Ireland", "revid": 1318938639, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1537, "year_label": "1537 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 10", "text": "February 10 – Francis Bigod, leader of Bigod's rebellion is captured at Cumberland by the English Army and imprisoned at Carlisle Castle. He is hanged at Tyburn on June 2.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362632656#January–March", "title": "1537", "revid": 1362632656, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1541, "year_label": "1541 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "December 10", "text": "December 10 – Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are both executed at Tyburn after being convicted of treason in committing adultery with Queen Catherine. Culpeper is beheaded, while Dereham is hanged, drawn and quartered. As a warning to the public, the severed heads of both men are placed on spikes on the London Bridge.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361813253#October–December", "title": "1541", "revid": 1361813253, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1544, "year_label": "1544 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 7", "text": "March 7 – Five Roman Catholic priests— John Larke, John Ireland, the vicar of Eltham and Robert Singleton are executed at Tyburn, outside of London, in England after being convicted of participating in the Prebendaries' Plot to remove Thomas Cranmer, the Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359947848#January–March", "title": "1544", "revid": 1359947848, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1591, "year_label": "1591 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "November 3", "text": "3 November – O'Rourke is hanged at Tyburn. His son, Brian Oge O'Rourke, succeeds as lord.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1294797948#Events", "title": "1591 in Ireland", "revid": 1294797948, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1670, "year_label": "1670 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "January 21", "text": "21 January – French-born 'gentleman highwayman' Claude Duval is hanged at Tyburn gallows in London and subsequently buried in St Paul's, Covent Garden.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353737399#Events", "title": "1670 in England", "revid": 1353737399, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1681, "year_label": "1681 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 1", "text": "July 1 – Oliver Plunkett, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, falsely convicted in June of treason, is hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, London, the last Catholic martyr to die in England; he is canonised in 1975.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361310073#July–September", "title": "1681", "revid": 1361310073, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1681, "year_label": "1681 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 1", "text": "1 July – Oliver Plunkett, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, falsely convicted of treason, is hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, London, the last Catholic martyr to die in England. Catholic intriguer Edward Fitzharris is executed on the same day.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353737545#Events", "title": "1681 in England", "revid": 1353737545, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1685, "year_label": "1685 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 23", "text": "23 October – Elizabeth Gaunt, humanitarian, burned at the stake at Tyburn for alleged complicity in the Rye House Plot, becomes the last woman executed for political treason in England. She is not granted the customary mercy of strangulation before burning.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353737605#Events", "title": "1685 in England", "revid": 1353737605, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1725, "year_label": "1725 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "May 24", "text": "May 24 – Jonathan Wild, fraudulent 'Thief-Taker General', is hanged at Tyburn in London, for actually aiding criminals.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361335962#April–June", "title": "1725", "revid": 1361335962, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1725, "year_label": "1725 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "May 24", "text": "24 May – Jonathan Wild, fraudulent \"Thief Taker General\", is hanged in Tyburn, for actually aiding criminals.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1320245388#Events", "title": "1725 in Great Britain", "revid": 1320245388, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1726, "year_label": "1726 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "May 9", "text": "9 May – Catherine Hayes, convicted with two lovers for the brutal murder and dismemberment of her husband in London the previous year, becomes the last woman burned to death at the stake in England, at Tyburn (by this date it is usual for the condemned to be strangled before burning, but the process is botched in this case).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1324856151#Events", "title": "1726 in Great Britain", "revid": 1324856151, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1750, "year_label": "1750 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 3", "text": "3 October – 'Captain' James MacLaine (or Maclean), gentleman highwayman (born 1724) (hanged at Tyburn)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1275835160#Deaths", "title": "1750 in Great Britain", "revid": 1275835160, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1753, "year_label": "1753 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 7", "text": "7 June – Archibald Cameron of Lochiel (born 1707) becomes the last Jacobite to be executed for treason when he is hanged and beheaded at Tyburn in London under a bill of attainder. On 26 March he has returned from exile in France in the service of Charles Edward Stuart to retrieve the Loch Arkaig treasure and to participate in a desperate plot to assassinate George II of Great Britain and other members of the British royal family. However, while staying secretly at Brenachyle by Loch Katrine, he has been betrayed by Alastair Ruadh MacDonnell of Glengarry (the notorious spy \"Pickle\") and members of his own clan and arrested.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353738495#Events", "title": "1753 in Scotland", "revid": 1353738495, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1781, "year_label": "1781 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "July 27", "text": "July 27 – French spy François Henri de la Motte is hanged and drawn before a large crowd at Tyburn, London in England for high treason.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370562964#July–September", "title": "1781", "revid": 1370562964, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1781, "year_label": "1781 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "July 27", "text": "27 July – French spy François Henri de la Motte executed at Tyburn (London) for high treason.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374050988#Events", "title": "1781 in Great Britain", "revid": 1374050988, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1783, "year_label": "1783 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "November 7", "text": "7 November – the last public execution at Tyburn, London, is held, of highwayman John Austin for murder.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355084238#Events", "title": "1783 in Great Britain", "revid": 1355084238, "section": "Events"}}]}