Unspecified Year: Faust’s Gretchen 1763: Hannah Dagoe, violently
May 3rd, 2008
Headsman
Two centuries ago today, Napoleon’s troops executed hundreds of prisoners taken during a quashed uprising against them in Madrid.
The carnage gives posterity an 1814 Goya masterpiece. (And this blog’s frontispiece.)
More reading: Napoleon’s Cursed War, by Ronald Fraser.
On this day..
- Feast Day of James, the brother of Jesus - 2020
- 1766: Edmund Sheehy, James Buxton, and Buck Farrell, Whiteboys - 2019
- Themed Set: The Easter Rising - 2018
- 1916: Thomas MacDonagh, Patrick Pearse, and Thomas Clarke - 2018
- 1919: Rudolf Egelhofer, Bavarian Soviet commandante - 2017
- 1867: Modiste Villebrun, but not Sophie Boisclair - 2016
- 1606: Henry Garnet, Gunpowder Plot confessor - 2015
- 1740: Elizabeth and Mary Branch, tyrannical mistresses - 2014
- 1664: Elsje Christiaens, Rembrandt model - 2013
- 1738: Katherine Garret, Pequot infanticide - 2012
- 1909: Jesus Malverde, narco patron saint - 2011
- 738: Copan king 18-Rabbit (Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil) - 2010
- 1946: Not Willie Francis, who survived the electric chair - 2009
Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Arts and Literature,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Execution,France,History,Innocent Bystanders,Known But To God,Martyrs,Mass Executions,No Formal Charge,Occupation and Colonialism,Popular Culture,Power,Public Executions,Revolutionaries,Shot,Soldiers,Spain,Summary Executions,Wartime Executions
Archives
Categories
6 thoughts on “1808: The Executions of the Third of May”