Episode 1 of 1

Execution in Pest

Name: Execution in Pest
Start: 1849-10-06
Location: Pest

When: 6 October 1849
Where: Pest
Part of: Event of 1849: Hungarian Revolution of 1848: Lajos Batthyány is executed in Pest.

Lajos Batthyány was executed by firing squad in Pest on 6 October 1849, the same day as the 13 Martyrs of Arad.

After being captured in Pest in January 1849 and imprisoned, Batthyány was sentenced by a Military Court in Olmütz in August 1849. He was executed by firing squad in Pest on 6 October 1849, coinciding with the execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad.

Sources

Lajos Batthyány Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-22

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.