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12 matches to Pazzi Conspiracy
Pazzi Conspiracy. 1478. Failed attempt to depose Medicis in Florence.
Amboise Conspiracy. 1560. Failed Huguenot plot to kidnap French king. Led to massacre of 1200 Huguenots.
Babeuf, François. 1760-97. French Socialist egalitarian revolutionary. “Conspiracy of Equals” vs Directory.
Cato St. Conspiracy. 1820. Thistlewood plot to assassinate cabinet ministers.
Condé, Louis I de Bourbon, Prince. 1530-60. Led Amboise Conspiracy.
Decembrists. 1825. Conspiracy to overthrow Czar Nicholas I. Betrayed. Established Russia’s revolutionary tradition.
Doctors’ Plot. 1953. Stalinist conspiracy.
Gunpowder Plot. Nov 5, 1605. Conspiracy of Catholics against James I. Betrayed, the Houses of Parliament were not blown up. Guy Fawkes is burned in effigy each year. Catesby.
July Conspiracy. Stauffenberg.
Popish Plot. 1678. Oates’ fictitious allegations of conspiracy led to persecution of Catholics.
Thistlewood, Arthur. 1774-1820. English failed Cato St Conspiracy.
Throckmorton, Francis. 1554-84. Led failed conspiracy vs Elizabeth I to restore Roman Catholicism.