Bloody Assizes begin
1685 · Event
Judge George Jeffreys tries the Monmouth rebels in the West Country; well over a hundred are hanged and hundreds transported, damaging James II's reputation.
On these timelines: The Glorious Revolution, Master, United Kingdom (combined), England
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