The pig trial of Falaise
A pig is tried in court and executed dressed as a human
Medieval Europe put animals on trial like people, with prosecution, defence and sentence. In 1386 at Falaise a sow accused of killing a child was dressed in human clothes before her execution.
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In 1386 a sow was tried and executed in Falaise for killing an infant. The hangman was paid for his work and a new pair of gloves; later tales say she was dressed in human clothes. Animal trials were not rare in medieval Europe. Share →
Rats once had a lawyer. In 1522 they were tried at Autun in Burgundy for ruining barley, and the jurist Barthélemy de Chasseneuz won a delay: the rats could not attend court, since cats lay in wait along the way. Share →
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1380 Battle of Kulikovo — 6 years earlier
- 1410 Battle of Grunwald — 24 years later
- c. 1411 Andrei Rublev's Trinity — 25 years later
Middle East
- 1402 Battle of Ankara — 16 years later
Africa
- 1377 Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah — 9 years earlier
Asia
- 1368 Founding of the Ming dynasty — 18 years earlier
- 1370 Timur makes Samarkand his capital — 16 years earlier
- 1377 Jikji, printed with movable metal type — 9 years earlier
- 1392 Founding of Joseon — 6 years later
- c. 1400 Founding of Malacca — 14 years later
Alive at the time
- Timur (aged 50)
- Sergius of Radonezh (aged 72)
- Murad I (aged 60)
- Ibn Khaldun (aged 54)
- Dmitry Donskoy (aged 36)
- Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (aged 28)
- Andrei Rublev (aged 26)
- Bayezid I the Thunderbolt (aged 26)
- Richard II (aged 19)
- Sigismund (aged 18)