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| 1233 |
| | Gregory IX sends Dominican friars to root out the remains of the Catharist heresy in France, thus launching the Inquisition | |
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| 1244 |
| | The siege of the Catharist stronghold of Montségur ends when 200 heretics are herded into a wooden stockade and are burnt | |
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| 1290 |
| | The Jews in England are driven out of the country, soon to be followed by those in France | |
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| 1302 |
| | Dante, a member of the White faction in Florence, is sentenced to death by the Blacks - and never returns to his native city | |
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| 1310 |
| | Fifty-four Knights Templars are burned at the stake, during the campaign of the French king to destroy the order | |
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| 1348 |
| | Massacres of Jews, rumoured to have caused the Black Death by poisoning wells, begin in southern France and spread through much of Europe | |
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| 1415 |
| | John Huss, invited to Constance under a promise of safe conduct, is arrested, tried and burnt at the stake as a heretic | |
| | Huss burnt Fotofile CG
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| 1492 |
| | Torquemada persuades Ferdinand and Isabella to expel from Spain all Jews (about 160,000) who will not convert to Christianity | |
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| 1516 |
| | The original ghetto is established as a district to which the Jews of Venice are confined | |
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| 1520 |
| | Luther's writings are burnt in Rome by order of the pope | |
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