Major Events
- Mar 25 Consecration of the Scrovegni Chapel (Arena Chapel) in Padua, Italy, with fresco masterpiece by Florentine painter Giotto
- Jun 5 Archbishop Bertrand the Got of Bordeaux elected Pope Clement V
- Jun 23 French-Flemish peace treaty signed at Athis-sur-Orge
- Aug 5 William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.
- Aug 23 Scottish patriot William Wallace is executed for high treason by Edward I of England at Smithfield, London
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Hanged, Drawn and Quartered
The life of William Wallace was dramatised by Mel Gibson in the film Braveheart. But it was his barbaric death on this day that gave him a footnote in historyAugust 23
William Wallace Executed
William Wallace on trial at Westminster Hall in a painting by Daniel MacliseAugust 23
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