Sendling's Night of Murder

When

25 Dec 1705

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

48.12° N, 11.54° E

Description

1705 massacre in Sendling, Germany

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

1705 massacre in Sendling, Germany

Sendling's Christmas (night) of murder was a massacre in 1705 in Sendling, then 2 km south west of Munich. An army of peasants, protesting the Austrian regime during the Bavarian People's Uprising, had marched on Munich, but was betrayed from within and massacred. Some 1,100 peasants were killed.

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• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In Munich, capital of Bavaria, 1,100 militiamen from the Oberland are killed during the Sendlinger Mordweihnacht after a failed attempt to break through…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In der „Sendlinger Mordweihnacht“ werden über 1000 Freiheitskämpfer aus Oberbayern, in der Hauptsache Bauern, von der kaiserlichen Reichsarmee hingemetzelt”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• Bavarian People's UprisingNov 1705 · Rebellion