Lisbon Massacre

When

19 Apr 1506 – 1 May 1506

Kind

Pogrom

Deaths

2,500 (1,000–4,000)

Coordinates

38.71° N, 9.14° W

Description

antisemitic massacre on April 19, 1506 in Lisbon, Portugal

1506 antisemitic riot in the Kingdom of Portugal

On 19 April 1506, a crowd of churchgoers in Lisbon attacked and killed several people in the congregation whom they suspected were Jews. The violence escalated into a city-wide, antisemitic riot that killed between 500 and 4,000 "New Christians", the name for Jews who had been forcibly converted to Christianity.

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• Wikidata: massacres and genocidesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Lisbon Massacre begins in Portugal with three days of violence, in which thousands of Jews are tortured and killed by Catholics”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “massacres de nouveaux chrétiens (Juifs et musulmans convertis) à Lisbonne”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “se lleva a cabo la Masacre de Lisboa que dura tres días”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page