Lisbon Massacre of New Christians
April 19, 1506
During a drought and plague, a Dominican friar whipped a Lisbon crowd into a frenzy against conversos suspected of secret Judaism. For three days mobs dragged men, women, and children from their homes and burned them in the streets. Nearly two thousand died before King Manuel restored order. King Manuel punished the instigators by executing several friars, but tensions between Old and New Christians fueled persecution for centuries.
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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