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Pausing #BadEurope for a little bit until new job/commute settles down - it's been intense!
It will return, here and elsewhere.
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Cornelis Appelman, Anabaptist terrorist and raider, was burned at the stake #onthisday in 1545.
He was part of an violent, raiding Anabaptist group called the Batenburgers, who were radicalised by the MΓΌnster rebellion.
Under the name of 'The Judge' he summarily executed many. #badeurope
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Reformation preacher Georg Wagner was burned at the stake #onthisday in 1527 for his Anabaptist tendencies.
The Duke of Bavaria offered him a rich, prosperous benefice to return to Catholicism. He refused. #badeurope
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Saint Adelheid of Vilich (DE), powerful 11th century abbess and worker of extraordinary miracles (if you believe the legends) died #onthisday in 1015.
Just goes to show, anything could get you back in the day. #badeurope
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Jewish financier in the WΓΌrttemberg (DE) ducal court, Josef 'SΓΌΓ' Oppenheimer was executed on trumped up charges of corruption #onthisday in 1738 - he'd actually.been uncovering grift and he was quickly framed by others.
His body hung in a gibbet on the Pragsattel for years. #badeurope
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Otto von Paykull, a soldier who'd left his Swedish Livonian home to go fight for Saxony was executed #onthisday in 1707, for treason.
In a last ditch attempt to (literally) save his neck, he claimed to be an alchemist, and promised the Swedes gold to release him. No dice. #badeurope
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Papal forces murdered most of the population of Cesena, Emilia-Romagna (IT) #onthisday in 1377 for daring to stand up to them.
This was during the War of the Eight Saints, to determine who controlled the Italian Peninsula. #badeurope
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Despite having been killed in battle a few weeks prior, Sten Sture the Younger, Regent of Sweden, was burned at the stake #onthisday in 1520.
This was on orders of the archbishop under the new king because, goddamn it, they hated him that dang much. #badeurope
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Pierre Canal, doctor and scholar of Geneva (CH) was 'executed twice' #onthisday in 1610.
First he was broken on the wheel for treason relating to support of the city's foe, the Duke of Savoy.
His remains were then burned at the stake, because he wasn't getting out of it that easily. #badeurope
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Rampant financial speculation over tulip bulbs in Amsterdam reached a crescendo #onthisday in 1637 before dropping (and correcting) dramatically, leaving some destitute.
'Tulipmania' is widely considered one of the first financial crashes caused by speculation in a specific resource. #badeurope
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If you liked Sir Radzig in #KingdomComeDeliverance, you won't like today's #BadEurope.
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Ottoman forces resorted to assaulting the encampment of Charles XII of Sweden, who had fled to Ottoman territory near Bender (MD) and stayed there for four long years, following a failed war against Russia.
He'd been asked repeatedly to leave.
The king was captured and sent packing. #badeurope
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Noblewoman Elisabeth Katharina SmiΕickΓ‘ von SmiΕice blew up her palace in JiΔΓn (CZ) #onthisday in 1620, rather than let it pass to her sister in an inheritance dispute. She was killed, along with the entire party sent to seize the palace. #badeurope
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Spanish forces - specifically Spanish cavalry - utterly decimated the Dutch rebels facing them at the Battle of Gembloux #onthisday in 1578, during the Eighty Years War.
The Dutch lost around 10,000 killed and wounded. The Spanish lost 25. That's it. 25. #badeurope
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Amsterdam erupted into rioting #onthisday in 1696, when a new, poorly-worded ordinance reducing the number of undertakers led the populace believe they wouldn't receive Christian burials.
It took bloodshed and executions to restore order.
[Stares into camera for a long, long time.] #badeurope
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A highway robber in Meudon (FR) escaped the noose #onthisday in 1474, but it came with a catch: He had to allow himself to be operated on for kidney stones, to give doctors some practice.
Luckily, the procedure healed quite nicely, the man survived and lived on. #badeurope
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Sophia Agnes von Langenberg, nun, was strangled for 'witchcraft' in KΓΆln/Cologne (DE) #onthisday in 1627.
Quite the fall from grace. She'd been reversed as a 'living saint' for her visions and supposed healing powers, before a Papal investigation sowed doubts. #badeurope
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The churchyard of Saint-Medard was forcibly closed #onthisday in January to prevent the Jansenist 'Convulsionaires' sect from congregating and going into ecstatic trances, foaming at the mouth, writing on the ground and tearing at their clothes.
I dunno, sounds fun! #badeurope
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Johann Georg Aberle, Matthias Mayer, Johann Clanze, Sebastian Senser and Johann Georg Kidler were beheaded by a sword in Munich #onthisday in 1706 for their role in a failed uprising against Austrian occupiers, during the War of the Spanish Succession. #badeurope
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Four dancers were killed - and King Charles VI almost lost his life - #onthisday in 1393.
They were set alight accidentally by a torch at a masque in Paris called 'The Ball of the Wild Men'.
Fragile before, the event is to have sent the king completely mad. #badeurope
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Count William II of Holland was slaughtered by the Frisians his forces were battling against #onthisday in 1256.
Trying to take a shortcut across a frozen lake mid-battle, his horse crashed through the ice, leaving his floundering in frigid water.
Horrible way to go. Ugh. #badeurope
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Three would-be assassins - Benedetto Accolti, Antonio Canossa, and Taddeo Manfredi - had their brains dashed about by a rather large mace #onthisday in 1565, after a co-conspirator turned them in.
Their intended target? Pope Pius IV - who ended up dying a few months later anyway. #badeurope
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Pope Clement VI issued the Papal Bull, 'Unigenitus Dei filius' #onthisday in 1343, that formally laid out the Catholic Church's support for the sale of 'indulgences' - essentially time taken off purgatory.
200 years later, a German monk in Wittenberg would not take this well. #badeurope
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I think the #badeurope tag may be wrong here. Executing insurrectionists feels spot on to me
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Approximately 30,000 Lisboners died when a 7.1 earthquake struck the city, along with several tsunamis, #onthisday in 1531.
Less than 250 years later, the city would be utterly levelled by another seismic event. #badeurope
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Hilger Quattermart von der Stesse, politician of KΓΆln/Cologne, was executed for attempting to instigate a coup following his exile, #onthisday in 1398.
Presented without comment. #badeurope
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Dominique Phinot, renaissance composer, known for his choral compositions, was executed for the crime of sodomy #onthisday in 1556.
Phinot had served in many noble courts across France and Italy prior to his execution. #badeurope
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Ygo Gales Galama, Frisian freedom fighter or warlord (all depending on your local allegiances), was beaten to death following his wounding in battle #onthisday in 1492.
Part of a long line of similar figures, who made the 15th century a wild era in the region. #badeurope
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