Speyer
Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
1096
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- The city's Jews were massacred by participants in the First Crusade.
1349
- January 1349
- The city's Jews, under suspicion of conspiring to cause the Plague, were burned to death. Their bodies were placed in big wine casks and sent floating down the Rhine.
1356
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- A man was burned to death for spreading the teachings of the Free Spirit heresy.
1533
- 10 September 1533
- Caspar Schwenckfeld arrived here, on his way to Augsburg.
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