Video: 'The BRUTAL Execution Of King Louis XVI Of France'

(Monday, January 21, 1793, 10:22 a.m. local time; during the French Revolution) — King Louis XVI, condemned for treason, was beheaded today by guillotine on the Place de la Révolution, ending more than a thousand years of the continuous French monarchy.

Video: '21st January 1793: Louis XVI executed for high treason'

At a trial on Jan. 17, 1793, the National Convention convicted the 38-year-old king of high treason in a near-unanimous vote; while no one voted “not guilty,” several deputies abstained. Ultimately, they condemned him to death by a simple majority.

The execution was performed four days later by Charles-Henri Sanson, then High Executioner of the French First Republic and previously royal executioner under Louis.