Archive: Tyburn

1680–1689 CE

Plunkett’s Tyburn Summer

Plunkett’s Tyburn Summer

The central firmly dated event was Plunkett’s death at Tyburn on 1 July 1681 in the English and Irish calendar then in use. England and Ireland still followed the Julian calendar; the corresponding Gregorian date was 11 July. The distinction explains why modern accounts sometimes give different July dates for the same execution.