Timeline of LGBT history
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14th century
- 1327 – The deposed King Edward II of England is killed, allegedly by forcing a red-hot poker through his rectum. Edward II had a history of conflict with the nobility, who repeatedly banished his former lover Piers Gaveston, the Earl of Cornwall.
- 1370s – Jan van Aersdone and Willem Case were two men executed in Antwerp in the 1370s. The charge against them was gay sex, which was illegal and strenuously vilified in medieval Europe. Aersdone and Case stand out because records of their names have survived. One other couple still known by name from the 14th century were Giovanni Braganza and Nicoleto Marmagna of Venice.
- Dante's Inferno places sodomites in the 7th Circle
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15th Century
- 1432- 1502 In a 70 year span, the Florentine Officers of the Night tried over 15,000 men and convicted over 2,000 of sodomy. Sodomy had begun to be equated with treason.
- 1476 Leonardo Da Vinci is charged with sodomy but no verdict was rendered in his trial.
- 1483 The Spanish Inquisition begins. Sodomites were stoned, castrated, and burned. Between 1540 and 1700, more than 1,600 people were prosecuted for sodomy.
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16th century
- 1532 Holy Roman Empire makes sodomy punishable by death.
- 1533 – King Henry VIII passes the Buggery Act 1533 making all male-male sexual activity punishable by death. --R v Jacobs (1817) Russ & Ry 331 confirmed that buggery related only to intercourse per anum by a man with a man or woman or intercourse per anum or per vaginum by either a man or a woman with an animal. Other forms of "unnatural intercourse" may amount to indecent assault or gross indecency, but do not constitute buggery. See generally, Smith & Hogan, Criminal Law (10th ed), ISBN 0 406 94801 1
- 1553 Mary Tudor ascends the English throne and removes all of the laws passed by Henry VIII.
- 1558 Elizabeth I ascends the English throne and reinstates the sodomy laws.
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See also
- LGBT history
- Table of years in LGBT rights
- Timeline of sexual orientation and medicine
- History of human sexuality
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