Execution of Thomas More

Date: July 6, 1536 • Location: Rome, Italy

Thomas More is executed after having been condemned on perjured evidence.

Sir Thomas More, venerated in the Catholic Church as a martyr and saint, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, theologian and Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord Chancellor from October 1529 to May 1532. He wrote Utopia, published in 1516, which describes the political system of an imaginary island state.