Historical place archive

Tyburn in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Tyburn in Scotland. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

3 records3 event labels1 people1305–1305

Historical events in Tyburn

1305

23 August 1305
Treason
William Wallace · Government of Scotland

Found guilty of treason despite never being a subject of the English Crown

23 August 1305
Trial
William Wallace · Government of Scotland

Found guilty of treason despite never being a subject of the English Crown

24 August 1305
Execution
William Wallace · Government of Scotland

Hanged at Tyburn, diembowelled & quartered

Provenance

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