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Inquisition
The Inquisition, Inquisitio Haereticae Pravitatis , was the "fight against heretics" by several institutions within the justice-system of the Roman Catholic Church. It started in the 12th century, with the introduction of torture in the persecution of heresy...
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1484
12.5.1484
Pope Innocent VIII issues the ''Summis desiderantes'', a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany and leads to one of the most oppressive witch hunts in European history.
1633
2.13.1633
Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
4.12.1633
The formal inquest of Galileo Galilei by the Inquisition begins.