Timeline Sunday 17 October 1660

Events on Sunday 17 October 1660 1

• 1660 Execution of the regicides Surviving signatories of Charles I's death warrant are executed In October 1660, following the Restoration, several men who had signed Charles I's death warrant or played leading roles in his trial were hanged, drawn, and quartered in London. Thomas Harrison was the first to die, on 13 October, as the new regime made examples of the regicides while sparing others under the Act of Indemnity and Oblivion.