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Treason


1992 Loek Elfferich, Dutch journalist/historian (Treason in Rotterdam), die

1987 Mehdi Hashemi, Iranian aid of Ayatollah Khomeini, shot for treason

1977 Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason

1971 Budapest in 1956 to escape treason charges, ends exile and flies to Rome

1963 Anti-Kennedy "WANTED FOR TREASON" pamphlets scattered in Dallas

1961 After a 4 year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted on treason charge

1950 U.S.S.R. re-introduces death penalty for treason, espionage and sabotage

1948 Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treason

1946 William Joyce, (Lord Haw Haw), hanged in Britain for treason

1945 William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) British radio traitor charged with treason

1945 Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during WW II, arrested for treason

1941 Queen Wilhelmina on Radio Orange warns against treason

1895 French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent

1894 French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated)

1892 Rebecca West, Cicily I F Andrews, English author, Meaning of Treason

1869 Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped

1862 William B Mumford, 1st U.S. citizen hanged for treason, at 42

1851 Jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31

1847 Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state)

1807 Former Vice President Aaron Burr is tried for treason in Richmond Virginia (acquitted)

1807 Vice President Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent

1795 William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason

1792 France's King Louis XVI went on trial, accused of treason

1776 Thomas Hickey, American sergeant convicted of treason, hanged

1765 Patrick Henry historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of "Treason!" with, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"

1691 Jacob Leisler, becomes 1st American colonist hanged for treason

1681 Earl of Shaftesbury accused of high treason in London

1649 Charles I, King of Great Britain (1625-49), beheaded for treason

1645 William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded for treason at 71

1635 Virginia Governor John Harvey accused of treason and removed from office

1618 Walter Raleigh, English scholar, poet and historian, beheaded for treason

1601 Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, executed for treason against Elizabeth

1577 Treason of Don Juan in Brussels

1553 English Lady Jane Grey/bishop Cranmer accused of high treason

1552 Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, beheaded for treason

1547 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, executed for treason

1535 Thomas More, philosopher (Utopia), executed for treason at 57

1535 Sir Thomas More goes on trial in England charged with treason


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