1726 Mother Clap's molly house in London is raided by police, resulting in Clap's death and the execution at Tyburn of all the men arrested 1730 – 1811 A widespread panic in the Dutch Republic leads to a spectacular series of trials for sodomy, with persecutions at their most severe from 1730 to 1737, 1764, 1776, and from 1795-1798. 1792 France decriminalizes sexual acts between men