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Famous Trials - Pre 1800's
Famous Trials Pre 1800's |
Famous Trials - 1800's |
Famous Trials 1900-1950 |
Famous Trials 1951-1999 |
Famous Trials 2000 - Current
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(399 B.C.) |
Trial of Socrates - The trial of Socrates refers to the trial and the subsequent execution of the Athenian philosopher Socrates in 399 BC. Socrates was tried and convicted by the courts of democratic Athens on a charge of corrupting the youth and disbelieving in the ancestral gods. |
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(70 B.C.) |
Gaius Verres Trial - Gaius Verres (c. or in 120 BC – 43 BC), was a Roman magistrate, notorious for his misgovernment of Sicily. It is not known to what gens he belonged, though some give him the nomen Licinius. |
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(30 A. D.) |
Trial of Jesus - The Sanhedrin Trial of Jesus is an event reported by all the Canonical Gospels of the Bible. (Mark 14:53–65, Matthew 26:57–68, Luke 22:63–71 and John 18:12-24). These accounts report that after Jesus Christ and his followers celebrated Passover as their Last Supper, Jesus was betrayed by his apostle Judas Iscariot, and arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane (sometimes known as the garden of tears by some hymn writers). |
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(1535) |
Sir Thomas More Trial - Sir Thomas More also known as Saint Thomas More (in Latin, Sanctus Thomas Morus; 7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535) was an English lawyer, author, and statesman who in his lifetime gained a reputation as a leading Renaissance humanist scholar, and occupied many public offices, including Lord Chancellor (1529–1532). He was beheaded in 1535 when he refused to sign the Act of Supremacy that declared King Henry VIII Supreme Head of the Church of England. |
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(1633) |
Galileo Trial - The Galileo affair, in which Galileo Galilei came into conflict with the Catholic Church (also known as the Roman Catholic Church) over his support of Copernican astronomy, is often considered a defining moment in the history of the relationship between religion and science. |
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(1692) |
Salem Witchcraft Trials - The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings before local magistrates followed by county court trials to prosecute people accused of witchcraft in Essex, Suffolk, and Middlesex counties of colonial Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693. Over 150 people were arrested and imprisoned, with even more accused but not formally pursued by the authorities. The two courts convicted twenty-nine people of the capital felony of witchcraft. |
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(1735) |
John Peter Zenger Trial - John Peter Zenger's acquittal deeply and firmly planted the roots of freedom of the press in American soil by overthrowing the orthodox legal view that the publication of stinging criticism or ridicule of public officials was, at the very least, a threat to law and order and, at the worst, treason, and thus worthy of severe punishment as "seditious libel." |
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(1741) |
Negro Plot Trial - The Conspiracy of 1741, also known as the Negro Plot of 1741 or the Slave Insurrection of 1741, was a supposed plot by slaves and poor whites in the British colony of New York in 1741 to revolt and level New York City with a series of fires. Historians disagree as to the existence of such a plot. |
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(1770) |
Boston Massacre Trials - The Boston Massacre refers to an incident involving the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British troops on March 5, 1770, the legal aftermath of which helped spark the rebellion in some of the British colonies in America, which culminated in the American Revolution. |
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(1792) |
Mutiny on the Bounty Court-Martial - On 4 April 1789, after five months in Tahiti, the Bounty set sail with its breadfruit cargo. On 28 April 1789, some 1,300 miles west of Tahiti, near Tonga, mutiny broke out. |
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