{"slug": "death-by-burning", "label": "Death by burning", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_burning", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q468455", "qid": "Q468455", "description": "execution method", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [687, 1730], "span_label": ["687 CE", "1730 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "scotland", "label": "Scotland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "british-isles", "label": "British Isles", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "fatimid-caliphate", "label": "Fatimid Caliphate", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "palestine-region", "label": "Palestine (region)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "nikephoros-ii-phokas", "label": "Nikephoros II Phokas", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "greek-orthodox-patriarch-of-jerusalem", "label": "Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hungary", "label": "Hungary", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-kent", "label": "Kingdom of Kent", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "knights-templar", "label": "Knights Templar", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "philip-iv-of-france", "label": "Philip IV of France", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "seine", "label": "Seine", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "notre-dame-de-paris", "label": "Notre-Dame de Paris", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 687, "year_label": "687 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Mul of Kent and 12 companions are burnt to death, during a Kentish uprising. His brother, King Cædwalla of Wessex, ravages the kingdom in revenge.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806293#Britain", "title": "687", "revid": 1340806293, "section": "Events › By place › Europe › Britain"}}, {"year": 966, "year_label": "966 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "John VII, patriarch of Jerusalem, is burned at the stake by a Muslim mob after writing to Emperor Nikephoros II, pleading him to intervene in Palestine and retake it from the Fatimid Caliphate.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341513206#Religion", "title": "966", "revid": 1341513206, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1300, "year_label": "1300 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 18", "text": "July 18 – Gerard Segarelli, Italian founder of the Apostolic Brethren, is burned at the stake in Parma during a brutal repression of the Apostolics.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363832742#July_–_September", "title": "1300", "revid": 1363832742, "section": "July – September"}}, {"year": 1314, "year_label": "1314 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 18", "text": "March 18 – Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar and Geoffroi de Charney, are, by orders of King Philip IV of France (\"Philip the Fair\"), burned at the stake in front of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris on the Île de la Cité in the Seine. Jacques declares his innocence and that the Templar Order is also innocent of all the charges of heresy. It is said that Jacques correctly predicts the deaths of both Philip and Pope Clement V within the year.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373434387#January_–_March", "title": "1314", "revid": 1373434387, "section": "Events › January – March"}}, {"year": 1402, "year_label": "1402 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "October 28", "text": "October 28 – The \"False Olaf\", a Bohemian immigrant who bore a resemblance to the late King Olaf of Denmark and Norway and impersonated the late monarch earlier in the year, is burned at the stake as punishment.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371594109#October–December", "title": "1402", "revid": 1371594109, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1727, "year_label": "1727 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "An old woman known as Janet (Jenny) Horne of Loth, Sutherland becomes the last alleged witch in the British Isles to be executed, when she is burned at the stake in Dornoch, Scotland. (Some sources give the date as June 1722.)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360176234#Date_unknown", "title": "1727", "revid": 1360176234, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1728, "year_label": "1728 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "July 23", "text": "July 23 – At the conclusion of the Szeged witch trials in the city of the same name in Hungary, six men and six women are burned at the stake on the island of Boszorkány Sziget (Hungarian for \"Witch Island\").", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363462071#July–September", "title": "1728", "revid": 1363462071, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1730, "year_label": "1730 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "June 1", "text": "June 1 – Enslaved woman Sally Basset is put on trial for murder in Bermuda; she will eventually be convicted and burned at the stake.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369560881#April–June", "title": "1730", "revid": 1369560881, "section": "Events › April–June"}}]}