This Day in Halloween: Sixty Knights Templar are arrested in Paris by order of King Phillip IV on Friday the 13th of October, 1307. / Illustration by Alexander Dellosa.
Grand Master Jacques de Molay and sixty fellow Knights Templar are arrested in Paris by order of King Phillip IV of France on Friday the 13th of October,1307. The incident is at least one possible origin of the Friday the 13th superstition.
