Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Paris VIIIe, Île-de-France, France || Place de la Révolution

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Maudsley hacked at Roberts' skull with a makeshift dagger and then struck his head against the wall multiple times. Maudsley calmly walked into the prison officer's room, placed the dagger on the table and told him that the next roll call would be two short. Before Maudsley had already killed murderer Salney Darwood in his cell.
(29 july 1978)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

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Place de la Révolution, VIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Related events:

Sunday 3rd of November 1793 (-) — Feminist, activist, playwright and abolitionist Olympe de Gouges is executed by the Guillotine
de Gouges was sentenced to death for seditious behaviour and attempting to reinstate the monarchy.
Monday 21st of January 1793 (-) — King of France and Navarre Louis XVI is executed by the Guillotine
While Louis's blood dripped to the ground many members of the crowd ran forward to dip their handkerchiefs in it.
Wednesday 16th of October 1793 (-) — Excessive Queen consort of France and Navarre Marie Antoinette is executed by the Guillotine
Marie Antoinette was accused of orchestrating orgies in Versailles, sending millions of livres of treasury money to Austria, plotting to kill the Duke of Orléans, orchestrating the massacre of the Swiss Guards in 1792, declaring her son to be the new king of France, and sexual abuse of her son Louis Charles. Marie Antoinette was declared guilty of treason and condemned to death.
Monday 28th of July 1794 (-) — Leader of the French Revolution Maximilien Robespierre is executed by the Guillotine
Thursday 8th of May 1794 (-) — Nobleman and chemist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier is executed by the Guillotine
Lavoisier was charged with tax fraud and selling adulterated tobacco and tried, convicted and executed on the same day.