On this date in 1441, North Jutland peasant leader Henrik Reventlow was executed.
Reventlow was a nobleman who came to the fore of a 25,000-strong peasant army in rebellion over rising taxes.
The uprising threatened to derail the months-old reign of the young King Christian III … but he successfully defeated it by adroitly offering some pardons and leaving the remnants to be crushed.
On this day..
- 1951: John Dand - 2020
- 1941: Pittsburgh Phil - 2018
- Feast Day of Saint Eskil - 2017
- 1741: John Hughson, Sarah Hughson and Peggy Kerry, "so abandoned to confederate with Slaves" - 2016
- 1896: Chiefs Kahimemua and Nicodemus, Mbanderu rebels - 2015
- 1535: Elisabeth Wandscherer, wife of Jan van Leiden - 2014
- 1863: John P. Wood, of the Army of the Potomac - 2013
- 1857: Return Ward, dismemberer - 2012
- 1903: Ora Copenhaver and William Jackson, a double hanging - 2011
- 1956: Juan Jose Valle, Peronist putschist - 2010
- 1987: Jimmy Glass, electrocution appellant - 2009
- 1937: Mikhail Tukhachevsky and seven other Soviet commanders purged - 2008
sorry, typo: should be Christopher III, not Christian III