Terrible people and terrible events have been far too common throughout history. Take the conman who styled himself “Witch Finder General”, and went about offering his services to the gullible. He ended up engineering England’s biggest mass execution. Or the delusional dictator of a small country who was a huge Napoleon fan boy. He renamed his country an empire, styled himself emperor, and staged a massive coronation party while his people starved. Following are thirty things about those and other terrible people and events from history