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1554. Thomas Wyatt the younger. Sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered for Wyatt's rebellion, but the sentence was commuted to beheading [ 17] May 1554. William Thomas (scholar) Accused of planning to murder Mary I of England. 1577. Cuthbert Mayne.
The Boston Massacre (known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street[ 1]) was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles. The event was heavily publicized as "a massacre" by leading Patriots ...
Hanged, drawn and quartered. To be hanged, drawn and quartered became a statutory penalty for men convicted of high treason in the Kingdom of England from 1352 under King Edward III (1327–1377), although similar rituals are recorded during the reign of King Henry III (1216–1272). The convicted traitor was fastened to a hurdle, or wooden ...
Kiku Day, writing in The Guardian said, "We were a liberal and tolerant people until the 1990s, when we suddenly awoke to find that for the first time in our history we had a significant minority group living among us. Confronted with the terrifying novelty of being a multicultural country, Denmark took a step not merely to the right but to the ...
10–24 October – Great Britain competes at the Olympics in Tokyo and wins 4 gold, 12 silver and 2 bronze medals. 15 October – 1964 United Kingdom general election. The Labour Party defeats the Conservatives and Harold Wilson becomes Prime Minister, having gained a majority of five seats.
March. 4 March – Purley rail crash: two trains collide at Purley, Surrey killing six people. [ 8] 6 March – Glasgow Bellgrove rail accident: two trains collide in Scotland, killing two people. 7 March – Iran breaks off diplomatic relations with the UK over Salman Rushdie 's controversial book The Satanic Verses.
[5] [6] In West Berlin, a bomb planted in sympathy with the Provisional IRA at the British Yacht Club explodes fatally. [7] 3–13 February – Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan, but do not win any medals. 5 February – 91 people are hurt and 122 arrested as mounted police charge protestors in ...
7 August. Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925 passed in the aftermath of Lloyd George 's sale of peerages and other honours for political party funds. [ 10] National Library of Scotland established by Act of Parliament to take over the national responsibilities of the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh. 2 October – In London :