{"slug": "tower-of-london", "label": "Tower of London", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_London", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62378", "qid": "Q62378", "description": "castle in central London, United Kingdom", "entries": 52, "years": 46, "span": [1078, 1885], "span_label": ["1078 CE", "1885 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 18}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 15}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 7}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 7}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 2}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "london", "label": "London", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "archbishop-of-canterbury", "label": "Archbishop of Canterbury", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "lord-chancellor", "label": "Lord Chancellor", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "lord-high-treasurer", "label": "Lord High Treasurer", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "church-of-england", "label": "Church of England", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "henry-iii-of-england", "label": "Henry III of England", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "house-of-lancaster", "label": "House of Lancaster", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "henry-vi-of-england", "label": "Henry VI of England", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "charles-ii-of-england", "label": "Charles II of England", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "jews", "label": "Jews", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "episcopal-see", "label": "Episcopal see", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "edward-ii", "label": "Edward II", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1078, "year_label": "1078 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Approximate date – The White Tower of the Tower of London is begun, under the direction of Gundulf (or Gundulph), bishop of Rochester.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1329585949#England", "title": "1078", "revid": 1329585949, "section": "Events › By place › England"}}, {"year": 1101, "year_label": "1101 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 3", "text": "February 3 – Ranulf Flambard, bishop of Durham, escapes from the Tower of London and flees to Normandy. There he joins Robert Curthose, duke of Normandy, who has just returned from the Crusades.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365268186#England", "title": "1101", "revid": 1365268186, "section": "Events › By place › England"}}, {"year": 1191, "year_label": "1191 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October", "text": "October – William de Longchamp tries to hold the Tower of London against John's supporters for three days. He surrenders the Tower and escapes to continue his support for Richard I. On October 29, William is captured when disguised as a female merchant. John orders that he be expelled from the country.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362170549#England", "title": "1191", "revid": 1362170549, "section": "Events › By place › England"}}, {"year": 1215, "year_label": "1215 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 17", "text": "May 17 – The gates to London are opened by supporters of the rebellious Barons. The houses of Jews are targeted for ransacking and burning. The rebels, under Robert Fitzwalter, call for the English nobles still on the side of King John to join them, and repair the walls. The Tower of London, held by John's supporters, is too well defended to fall into the hands of the rebels.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359458031#Europe", "title": "1215", "revid": 1359458031, "section": "Events › By continent › Europe"}}, {"year": 1220, "year_label": "1220 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Spring – King Henry III makes large alterations to the Tower of London including new curtain walls, an improved water-filled ditch, and a water gate, so that he can enter the castle directly from the Thames.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360552842#United_Kingdom", "title": "1220", "revid": 1360552842, "section": "Events › By place › United Kingdom"}}, {"year": 1261, "year_label": "1261 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 12", "text": "June 12 – King Henry III of England obtains a papal bull to absolve himself from his oath to maintain the Provisions of Oxford. He hires an army of 300 French knights as a bodyguard and takes up position in the Tower of London. He dismisses the baronial officials (led by Simon de Montfort) who wish the royal power to be modified by the principle of representation. This sets the stage for the Second Barons' War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350011180#British_Isles", "title": "1261", "revid": 1350011180, "section": "Events › By place › British Isles"}}, {"year": 1278, "year_label": "1278 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "November 17", "text": "November 17 – King Edward I (\"Longshanks\") raises the penalty for coin clipping from banishment to execution. All Jews are subjected to arrest and search of their homes on suspicion of coin clipping. Some 680 Jews are imprisoned in the Tower of London, with more than 300 subsequently executed. At this time, the Jewish population is believed to have been some 3,000.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1334774897#England", "title": "1278", "revid": 1334774897, "section": "Events › By place › England"}}, {"year": 1279, "year_label": "1279 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The Royal Mint is moved into the Tower of London. Mints outside London are reduced, with only a few local and episcopal mints continuing to operate.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362487704#England", "title": "1279", "revid": 1362487704, "section": "Events › By place › England"}}, {"year": 1321, "year_label": "1321 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 31", "text": "October 31 – Forces of Edward II of England capture Leeds Castle in Kent after Margaret de Clare, wife of Bartholomew Badlesmere, refuses Queen Isabella admittance in her husband's absence. When the Queen seeks to force an entry, Lady Badlesmere instructs her archers to shoot at Isabella and her party, six of whom are killed. After Edward occupies the castle, Lady Badlesmere becomes the first woman ever to be imprisoned in the Tower of London. She will be freed on November 3, 1322.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355655788#October_–_December", "title": "1321", "revid": 1355655788, "section": "Events › October – December"}}, {"year": 1322, "year_label": "1322 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "November 3", "text": "November 3 – Margaret de Clare, widow of the Contrariant Baron Baldesmere, is freed from incarceration after having spent more than a year as the first woman ever to be imprisoned in the Tower of London (having defied the queen). Margaret retires to a religious life at the convent of the Minorite Sisters (later known as the Poor Clares).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350577150#October_–_December", "title": "1322", "revid": 1350577150, "section": "Events › October – December"}}, {"year": 1326, "year_label": "1326 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 24", "text": "September 24 – Invasion of England: Isabella of France and her supporters (including Roger Mortimer) land at the River Orwell in Suffolk. Their aim is to remove King Edward II from his throne and place Prince Edward there as the new ruler. Meanwhile, residing at the Tower of London, Edward tries to raise support in the capital, but instead, there is anarchy in London and mobs killing Edward's officials (including his treasurer, Walter de Stapledon).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367237136#July_–_September", "title": "1326", "revid": 1367237136, "section": "Events › July – September"}}, {"year": 1381, "year_label": "1381 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 14", "text": "June 14 – Peasants' Revolt: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Simon Sudbury", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365430794#April–June", "title": "1381", "revid": 1365430794, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1388, "year_label": "1388 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "February 20", "text": "February 20 – London's Lord Mayor Bembre is hanged in public at Tyburn after having been imprisoned in the Tower of London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360557860#January–March", "title": "1388", "revid": 1360557860, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1399, "year_label": "1399 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "September 1", "text": "September 1 – Richard II, though still nominally the King of England, is imprisoned by Henry Bolingbroke at the Tower of London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362188981#July–September", "title": "1399", "revid": 1362188981, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1460, "year_label": "1460 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 4", "text": "July 4 – The cannons of the Tower of London, still in Lancastrian hands, are fired on the city of London, which is mostly in Yorkist. The Tower is surrendered on July 19.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371496065#July–September", "title": "1460", "revid": 1371496065, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1465, "year_label": "1465 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "July 24", "text": "July 24 – Henry of Lancaster, the former King Henry VI of England, is imprisoned in the Tower of London by order of King Edward IV. His queen consort Margaret of Anjou and Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, have fled to France.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370409749#July–September", "title": "1465", "revid": 1370409749, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1470, "year_label": "1470 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "October 3", "text": "October 3 – The Earl of Warwick releases King Henry VI of England from imprisonment in the Tower of London, and restores him to the throne.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359853032#October–December", "title": "1470", "revid": 1359853032, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1471, "year_label": "1471 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 12", "text": "May 12 – The siege of London is attempted by hundreds of supporters of England's House of Lancaster, who are attempting to free the former King Henry VI from imprisonment in the Tower of London. Led by Thomas Neville, the Lancastrians set cannons up on the south bank of the Thames and attempt to bombard London, but are unable to break the defense put up by Londoners led by Edward Woodville, Lord Scales, and the attack fails after three days.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370196979#April–June", "title": "1471", "revid": 1370196979, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1471, "year_label": "1471 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "May 21", "text": "May 21 – King Edward IV celebrates his victories with a triumphal parade on his return to London. The captured Queen Margaret is paraded through the streets. On the same day Henry VI of England is murdered in the Tower of London, eliminating all Lancastrian opposition to the House of York.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370196979#April–June", "title": "1471", "revid": 1370196979, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1478, "year_label": "1478 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 18", "text": "February 18 – George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother King Edward IV of England, is privately executed in the Tower of London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359855585#January–March", "title": "1478", "revid": 1359855585, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1483, "year_label": "1483 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "June 13", "text": "June 13 – William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, is executed, in the first recorded execution at the Tower of London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369188840#April–June", "title": "1483", "revid": 1369188840, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1483, "year_label": "1483 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "June 16", "text": "June 16 – Richard, Duke of York, the younger brother of King Edward V, arrives at the Tower of London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369188840#April–June", "title": "1483", "revid": 1369188840, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1483, "year_label": "1483 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 19", "text": "May 19 – King Edward V moves into the Tower of London, the traditional residence of monarchs prior to a coronation. King Edward's coronation had recently been rescheduled for June 25.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369188840#April–June", "title": "1483", "revid": 1369188840, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1483, "year_label": "1483 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "September 3", "text": "September 3 – The Princes in the Tower, uncrowned 12-year-old Edward V, recently deposed as King of England, is murdered in the Tower of London along with his 10-year-old brother, Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, on the orders of their uncle, King Richard III.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369188840#July–September", "title": "1483", "revid": 1369188840, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1499, "year_label": "1499 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 23", "text": "November 23 – Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the throne of England, is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369343359#October–December", "title": "1499", "revid": 1369343359, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1499, "year_label": "1499 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 28", "text": "November 28 – Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, last male member of the House of York, is executed for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369343359#October–December", "title": "1499", "revid": 1369343359, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1534, "year_label": "1534 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 13", "text": "April 13 – Sir Thomas More, having been brought before a royal commission to swear his allegiance to the Act of Succession, testifies that he accepts Parliament's right to declare Anne Boleyn the legitimate Queen of England, but denies that the marriage is spiritually valid of the king's second marriage\". Holding fast to the Roman Catholic doctrine of papal supremacy, More refuses to take the oath of supremacy toward King Henry VIII. More is confined in the Tower of London. He will be executed on July 6, 1535.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369558671#April–June", "title": "1534", "revid": 1369558671, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1546, "year_label": "1546 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "December 12", "text": "December 12 – Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk and the Lord High Treasurer of England since 1522 is arrested along with his eldest son, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and both are imprisoned in the Tower of London. The Earl of Surrey is executed for treason on January 19; the Duke of Norfolk is sentenced to death, but before the sentence can be carried out, King Henry VIII passes away and Norfolk remains in the Tower until being pardoned in 1553.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368296265#October—December", "title": "1546", "revid": 1368296265, "section": "Events › October—December"}}, {"year": 1554, "year_label": "1554 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 18", "text": "March 18 – Princess Elizabeth is imprisoned in the Tower of London on charges of working with the organizers of Wyatt's rebellion for the overthrow of Queen Mary of England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366649182#January–March", "title": "1554", "revid": 1366649182, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1557, "year_label": "1557 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 28", "text": "May 28 – English rebel Thomas Stafford and 32 of his followers are beheaded at the Tower of London after being convicted of treason.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365955110#April–June", "title": "1557", "revid": 1365955110, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1576, "year_label": "1576 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "February 8", "text": "February 8 – Peter Wentworth, a Puritan M.P. of the Parliament of England, is arrested in the middle of giving an address criticizing \"rumours and messages\" given to suppress freedom of speech. When he says that \"the devil was the first author of them, from whom proceedeth nothing but wickedness\", he is interrupted and taken to the Tower of London for imprisonment.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362635528#January–March", "title": "1576", "revid": 1362635528, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1584, "year_label": "1584 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "January 16", "text": "January 16 – Roman Catholic priest George Haydock, imprisoned in the Tower of London since 1582, states during an interrogation that he claimed that Queen Elizabeth, leader of the Church of England, was a heretic. Convicted of treason, he is executed on February 12.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369561067#January–March", "title": "1584", "revid": 1369561067, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1587, "year_label": "1587 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 27", "text": "February 27 – Sir Anthony Cope, a member of the English Parliament, is imprisoned in the Tower of London after presenting a Puritan revision of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer to the Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir John Puckering. He is released on March 23.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362478812#January–March", "title": "1587", "revid": 1362478812, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1603, "year_label": "1603 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "November 17", "text": "November 17 – Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason, in the converted Great Hall of Winchester Castle. He is found guilty, but his life is spared by King James I at this time, and he is returned to imprisonment in the Tower of London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366656830#October–December", "title": "1603", "revid": 1366656830, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1615, "year_label": "1615 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Mary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury, is released from the Tower of London, in recognition of her role in helping to discover the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365922608#Date_unknown", "title": "1615", "revid": 1365922608, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1616, "year_label": "1616 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March 19", "text": "March 19 – Sir Walter Ralegh, English explorer of the New World, is released from prison in the Tower of London, where he has been imprisoned for treason, in order to conduct a second (ill-fated) expedition, in search of El Dorado in South America.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366307823#March-April", "title": "1616", "revid": 1366307823, "section": "Events › March-April"}}, {"year": 1617, "year_label": "1617 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "December 30", "text": "December 30 – Lord Clifton is imprisoned at the Tower of London for threatening Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor. Clifton is prosecuted by the Star Chamber on March 17 and eventually commits suicide in Fleet Prison.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367152520#October–December", "title": "1617", "revid": 1367152520, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1651, "year_label": "1651 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 28", "text": "August 28 – The \"Onfall of Alyth takes place in the Scottish town of the same name when most of the members of Scotland's governing body, the Committee of States, are betrayed to English invaders. The Earl of Leven, the Earl of Crawford, the Earl Marischal, Lord Nairne and other prominent people are captured and imprisoned in the Tower of London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365975166#July–September", "title": "1651", "revid": 1365975166, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1658, "year_label": "1658 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 13", "text": "January 13 – Edward Sexby, who had plotted against Oliver Cromwell, dies in the Tower of London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365986033#January–March", "title": "1658", "revid": 1365986033, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1660, "year_label": "1660 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "March 3", "text": "March 3 – General John Lambert, who had attempted to stop the Restoration, is arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London. He escapes on April 9 but is recaptured on April 24. Though spared the death penalty for treason in 1662, he remains incarcerated on the island of Guernsey for the rest of his life until his death at age 64 on March 1, 1684.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365986539#January–March", "title": "1660", "revid": 1365986539, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1667, "year_label": "1667 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "June 27", "text": "June 27 – George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, one of the five members of the Cabal ministry in England (Lords Chudleigh, Arlington, Buckingham, Ashley and Lauderdale), turns himself in after a warrant for his arrest is issued on February 25 on charges of treason (including the casting of the horoscope of King Charles II). He is held in the Tower of London for four years before being released on July 17, 1671.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365989201#April–June", "title": "1667", "revid": 1365989201, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1671, "year_label": "1671 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "May 9", "text": "May 9 – Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom from the Tower of London. He is immediately caught, because he is too drunk to run with the loot. He is later condemned to death, and then mysteriously pardoned and exiled by King Charles II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365991065#April–June", "title": "1671", "revid": 1365991065, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1677, "year_label": "1677 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "February 15", "text": "February 15 – Four members of the English House of Lords embarrass King Charles II at the opening of the latest session of the \"Cavalier Parliament\" by proclaiming that the session is not legitimate because it had not met in more than a year. The Duke of Buckingham, backed by Lord Shaftesbury, Lord Salisbury and Baron Wharton, makes an unsuccessful motion to end the session. When the four Lords refuse to apologize, they are arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360727449#January–March", "title": "1677", "revid": 1360727449, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1678, "year_label": "1678 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "November 11", "text": "November 11 (November 1 O.S.) – England's House of Commons votes to begin impeachment proceedings against five Roman Catholic members of the House of Lords, Viscount Stafford, the Marquess of Powis, Baron Arundell, Baron Petre and Baron Belasyse accused by Protestant members as participating in a \"Popish Plot\". Viscount Stafford is convicted and executed, while the other four are imprisoned in the Tower of London for more than five years.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368552109#October–December", "title": "1678", "revid": 1368552109, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1688, "year_label": "1688 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 4", "text": "May 4 – King James II of England orders his Declaration of Indulgence, suspending penal laws against Catholics, to be read from every Anglican pulpit in England. The Church of England and its staunchest supporters, the peers and gentry, are outraged; on June 8 the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Sancroft, is imprisoned in the Tower of London for refusing to proclaim it.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373154069#April–June", "title": "1688", "revid": 1373154069, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1696, "year_label": "1696 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "March 18", "text": "March 18 – Robert Charnock, who had been arrested for the Jacobite plot to kill King William is hanged at the Tower of London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361123555#January–March", "title": "1696", "revid": 1361123555, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1716, "year_label": "1716 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 4", "text": "August 4 – George Seton, 5th Earl of Winton, under sentence of death for his part in the Jacobite rising of 1715, escapes from the Tower of London and flees into exile on the continent.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360559357#July–September", "title": "1716", "revid": 1360559357, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1722, "year_label": "1722 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "August 24", "text": "August 24 – Francis Atterbury, Anglican Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster, is arrested in his deanery and confined in the Tower of London for treason, accused of leading the Jacobite \"Atterbury Plot\" in support of the pretender James Francis Edward Stuart with the aim of overthrowing the House of Hanover and King George I of Great Britain and restoring the House of Stuart by installing Prince James as \"King James III\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365128046#July–September", "title": "1722", "revid": 1365128046, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1746, "year_label": "1746 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 18", "text": "August 18 – Two of the four rebellious Scottish lords, Earl of Kilmarnock and Lord Balmerinoch, are beheaded in the Tower of London (Lord Lovat is executed in 1747).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360271173#July–September", "title": "1746", "revid": 1360271173, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1746, "year_label": "1746 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 27", "text": "May 27 – The three Scottish leaders of the Jacobite uprising— the Earl of Kilmarnock, Lord Balmerino, and Lord Lovat— are imprisoned for treason in the Tower of London, where they are held by the British government until their execution. Boyd and Balmerino are beheaded in August, while Fraser is not put to death until April 1747.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360271173#April–June", "title": "1746", "revid": 1360271173, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1841, "year_label": "1841 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "October 30", "text": "October 30 – A fire at the Tower of London destroys its Grand Armoury and causes a quarter of a million pounds' worth of damage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360265400#October–December", "title": "1841", "revid": 1360265400, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1885, "year_label": "1885 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "January 24", "text": "January 24 – Irish rebels damage Westminster Hall and the Tower of London with dynamite.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366156062#January", "title": "1885", "revid": 1366156062, "section": "Events › January"}}]}