page_title: Lisbon massacre
hierarchical_section_title: Lisbon massacre
context_page_description: The Lisbon massacre was an incident in April, 1506, in Lisbon in the Kingdom of Portugal in which a crowd of Catholics, as well as foreign sailors who were anchored in the Tagus, persecuted, tortured, killed, and burnt at the stake hundreds of people who were accused of being Jews and, thus, guilty of deicide and heresy. This incident took place thirty years before the establishment of the Portuguese Inquisition and nine years after the Jews were forced to convert to the Catholic Church in 1497 during the reign of King Manuel I.
context_section_description: The Lisbon massacre (alternatively known as the Lisbon pogrom or the 1506 Easter Slaughter) was an incident in April, 1506, in Lisbon in the Kingdom of Portugal  in which a crowd of Catholics, as well as foreign sailors who were anchored in the Tagus, persecuted, tortured, killed, and burnt at the stake hundreds of people who were accused of being Jews and, thus, guilty of deicide and heresy. This incident took place thirty years before the establishment of the Portuguese Inquisition and nine years after the Jews were forced to convert to the Catholic Church in 1497 during the reign of King Manuel I.
caption: A German woodcut depicting the massacre, one of the few woodcuts that survived the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and the fire at Torre do Tombo National Archive
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