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A conspiracy of nobles aimed at murdering King Joseph and the Marquis gave Pombal the opportunity ( some say, the pretext ) to get rid of the Távora family, and to expel the Jesuits in September 1759, thus gaining control of public education and a wealth of church lands and ushering Portugal, which had been a backwater dominated by the High Aristocracy and a very conservative brand of Catholicism, into the Enlightenment age.
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But when Gustav made war on Russia and did poorly he was assassinated by a conspiracy of nobles angry that he tried to restrict their privileges for the benefit of the peasant farmers.
Mary's husband, Lord Darnley, is said to have been jealous of their friendship, because of rumours that he had made Mary pregnant, and joined in a conspiracy of Protestant nobles, led by Patrick Ruthven, 3rd Lord Ruthven, to murder him.
In 1057, after being humiliated by the Emperor Michael VI, he rebelled in Paphlagonia, and joined with the nobles of the capital in a conspiracy against Michael VI.
Bahram II is said to have ruled at first tyrannically, and to have greatly disgusted all his principal nobles, who went so far as to form a conspiracy against him, and intended to put him to death.
The policy of Maio led to a general conspiracy, and in November 1160 Maio was murdered in Palermo by Matthew Bonello, leader of the Sicilian nobles.
The Articles and Resolutions of the Spanish Inquisition to Invade and Impede the Netherlands imputed a conspiracy to the Holy Office to starve the Dutch population, and exterminate its leading nobles, " as the Spanish had done in the Indies.
Although, in 1045, he averted the conspiracy of some Hungarian nobles, he lost the support of the clergy in 1046 because he exiled the Dowager Queen Giselle from Hungary.
But he also attributed the nobles ' disloyalty to a Europe-wide conspiracy aimed at destroying ruling monarchies, religion and morale.
The cause is debated and may be a reflection of the division between the Hispanic communities and the Visigoths ( Baetica was more susceptible to outbreaks of dissension that the center of the Iberian peninsula ), or even a conspiracy of Visigothic nobles.
In the Fieschi conspiracy of 1547, Giovanni Luigi Fieschi and the nobles unsuccessfully attempted to recapture the dogate from Andrea Doria, and the power of the Fieschi was broken.
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The disregarded duke took part in a conspiracy aimed at the murder of Stephen I, but the assassination attempt failed and Vazul had his eyes gouged out and molten lead poured in his ears.
The iniquities of the Popish Plot ( Titus Oates ' fabricated conspiracy aimed at excluding the Catholic Duke of York from the English accession ), meant temporary banishment for James – an exile that would last nearly three years.
D ' Enghien was found guilty of being in violation of Article 2 of a law of 6 October 1791, to wit, " Any conspiracy and plot aimed at disturbing the State by civil war, and arming the citizens against one another, or against lawful authority, will be punished by death.
: However, reading the document quickly shows that Kronstadt was not a product of a White conspiracy but rather that the White " National Centre " aimed to try and use a spontaneous " uprising " it thought was likely to " erupt there in the coming spring " for its own ends.
However, the elderly king's cousin, Vazul, who was suspected to be following pagan customs, took part in a conspiracy aimed at the murder of King Stephen.
Infessura became entangled in the conspiracy of Stefano Porcari against Nicholas V ( 1453 ), which aimed at overturning the papal secular powers in Rome and the Papal States and reviving the Roman republic of antiquity.
* December the finding of the Conspiration de Cellamare headed by the Duke of Maine and his wife Anne Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon ; the conspiracy was aimed at placing Philip V of Spain as head of the regency in France with the help of the Spanish Ambassador the " príncipe de Cellamare "; the Duke and Duchess are exiled from court and return in 1720 to their home at the Château de Sceaux ;
He does this under extreme risk, as the entire Solar system is riddled with early warning systems which will detect the Whitestar and possibly expose him as a member of the " conspiracy of light " aimed against President Clark.
This demonstration was aimed at discrediting a John F. Kennedy conspiracy theory that points out that the fatal gunshot rocked Kennedy toward the shot through the use of simple principles of physics ( i. e., " back and to the left.
He took part in a conspiracy aimed at murdering king Stephen.
The GKChP members and their accomplices were charged with treason in the form of a conspiracy aimed at capturing power.
The alleged coincidence of this battle with the naval battle of Salamis and the resultant derailing of a Punic-Persian conspiracy aimed at destroying the Greek civilization is rejected by modern scholars.
Perennial topics included conspiracy theories ( typically aimed at Freemasons, socialists, communists, freethinkers, or any combination thereof ), conservative Roman Catholic dogma, the domination of Quebec by English Canada, and the subversive effects of the Boy Scout movement.
In 1686, Fatio by chance became a witness to a conspiracy aimed at William of Orange, which he helped to foil.
This document accused the NLG of playing a part in " an overall Communist strategy aimed at weakening our nation ’ s defenses against the international Communist conspiracy.
He knows nothing of the secrets the top-secret military installation holds until he is caught up in the desperate series of events to stop the mothership flight after participating in a strange operation surrounding the government conspiracy aimed at keeping the American public in the dark about what is in the Groom Lake complex.
The English authorities in Dublin overreacted to the rebellion, which they characterized as ' a most disloyal and detestable conspiracy intended by some evil affected Irish Papists ' which they claimed was aimed at ' a general massacre of all English and Protestant inhabitants '.
But it may also be argued that this was what he had aimed at with the war itself ; and that even after the unsuccessful attack on Russia he might indeed have been fully capable of achieving this, even without the boost in public opinion the Anjala conspiracy offered.
Many of the Kefauver Committee's hearings were aimed at proving that an Italian – Sicilian organization based on strong family ties centrally controlled a vast organized crime conspiracy in the United States, but the committee never came close to justifying such a claim.
Olszewski defending his minister named the actions of Macierewicz ‘ itself a concerted conspiracy perpetrated by circles of former high ranking communist secret police officers ’ aimed at dismembering his government and thwart plans to purge off former communists from public offices and services.
Attorney and historian George Levy maintains the " conspiracy " began as a con aimed at Confederate agents that evolved into a hoax exploited by Colonel Sweet for his own advantage.
Stephen gave shelter to the Pechenegs ( besenyő ), who had been defeated totally by the Byzantine Emperor John II Komnenos, and organised them in a troop of bodyguards, which resulted in a conspiracy aimed at the restoration of the king's blinded uncle, Duke Álmos.
He soon moved to Guanajuato, where he was able to follow the progress of the conspiracy led by Miguel Hidalgo that aimed to achieve the independence of Mexico from Spain.
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Let us look at the heavy-electrical-goods industry in which General Electric, Westinghouse and a number of other manufacturers were recently convicted of engaging in a conspiracy to rig prices and allocate the market.
While the Byzantine troops were assembling for the expedition, Alexios was approached by the Doukas faction at court, who convinced him to join a conspiracy against Nikephoros III.
* 1969 – The " Chicago Eight " plead not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
11: 11 ); and when David fled from Jerusalem at the time of Absalom's conspiracy, the Ark was carried along with him until he ordered Zadok the priest to return it to Jerusalem ( 2 Sam.
This resulted in two of his most original operas being consigned to his desk drawer, namely Cublai, gran kan de ' Tartari ( Kublai Grand Kahn of Tartary ) a satire on the autocracy and court intrigues at the court of the Russian Czarina, Catherine the Great, and Catilina ( Cataline ) a semi-comic-semi-tragic account of the Catiline conspiracy that attempted to overthrow the Roman republic during the consulship of Cicero.
According to anthropologists Todd Sanders and Harry G. West, evidence suggests that a broad cross section of Americans today gives credence to at least some conspiracy theories.
It was at least more plausible that the conspiracy theory of Mr. Charles Beade, ..."
Throughout human history, political and economic leaders genuinely have been the cause of enormous amounts of death and misery, and they sometimes have engaged in conspiracies while at the same time promoting conspiracy theories about their targets.
" But if conspiracies exist, they rarely move history ; they make a difference at the margins from time to time, but with the unforeseen consequences of a logic outside the control of their authors: and this is what is wrong with ' conspiracy theory.
Most good investigative reporters are also conspiracy theorists, according to Fox, and some of their theories turn out to be at least partly true.
Belief in conspiracy theories has become a topic of interest for sociologists, psychologists and experts in folklore since at least the 1960s, when the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy eventually provoked an unprecedented public response directed against the official version of the case as expounded in the Report of the Warren Commission.
Clare Birchall at the University of Kent describes conspiracy theory as a form of popular knowledge.
Some research carried out at the University of Kent, UK suggests people may be influenced by conspiracy theories without being aware that their attitudes have changed.
Historians show that every real conspiracy has had at least four characteristic features: groups, not isolated individuals ; illegal or sinister aims, not ones that would benefit society as a whole ; orchestrated acts, not a series of spontaneous and haphazard ones ; and secret planning, not public discussion.
Conspiracy theorists on the internet are often dismissed as a " fringe " group, but evidence suggests that a broad cross section of Americans today — traversing ethnic, gender, education, occupation, and other divides — gives credence to at least some conspiracy theories.
After a three-month police surveillance operation, nine members of the DPM crew were convicted of conspiracy to commit criminal damage costing at least £ 1 million.
Garnet's meeting with Catesby, at which the former was said to have absolved the latter of any blame in the plot, was proof enough that the Jesuits were central to the conspiracy ; according to Coke the Gunpowder Plot would always be known as the Jesuit Treason.
No conclusive proof has linked Booth's kidnapping or assassination plots to a conspiracy involving the leadership of the Confederate government, although historians such as David Herbert Donald have said, " It is clear that, at least at the lower levels of the Southern secret service, the abduction of the Union President was under consideration ".
Abbadie had also written, at the request of the king, Histoire de la dernière Conspiration d ' Angleterre, 1696, a history of the conspiracy of 1696, which was reprinted in Holland and translated into English, and for which the Earl of Portland and Secretary Sir William Trumbull placed original documents at the author's disposal.
George Brown, Canadian politician and editor of the Toronto Globe hit back at his striking employees, pressing police to charge the Typographical Union with " conspiracy.
The estrangement was not of long continuance, with Antony meeting the dictator at Narbo ( 45 BC ) and rejecting the suggestion of Trebonius that he should join in the conspiracy that was already afoot.
However, in 725, possibly at the emperor ’ s request, Marinus, who had been sent from Constantinople to govern the Duchy of Rome, encouraged a conspiracy to murder the pope.
If there is any truth to Martin of Opava ’ s account of the torture and maiming of Stephen VIII by supporters of Alberic ( see below ), it must have occurred at this juncture, in the aftermath of the conspiracy, and just prior to Stephen ’ s death.
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