# On 25 May 1895 Wilde is convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years’ hard labour

Date: 1895

## The fact

On 25 May 1895 the Old Bailey convicted [Oscar Wilde](/people/oscar-wilde) of gross indecency and imposed two years’ hard labour. His contribution is as the convicted target.

It is one event.

## Context

A sentence can be a later rights monument and was, then, a harm inflicted on him. Welfare sign here follows the later rights path the catalog is asked to store, not a celebration of the prison.

Oscar Wilde’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Justice Wills sentenced him. He did not author the count. Stored as the state’s conviction of a targeted person, later a rights-memory instrument. Hard labour’s health harm is the prison’s, not his contribution.
Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row.

## Evidence and sources

Famous Trials, London Archives, and Britannica independently date the 25 May 1895 conviction and sentence.

Official or archival record: Famous Trials — The Trials of Oscar Wilde (https://famous-trials.com/wilde/327-home; University of Missouri–Kansas City / Famous Trials).

## Significance

A named conviction under Labouchere became a durable minority-rights memory object.

Pentonville, Wandsworth, Reading are the state’s prisons.

A named conviction under Labouchere became a durable minority-rights memory object.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 25 May 1895 conviction and two-year sentence. Not established: that this verdict created 1967’s Sexual Offences Act.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Oscar Wilde.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes.

They are not a public rating.

## People

- Oscar Wilde: https://factrail.ai/people/oscar-wilde

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oscar-Wilde
- https://famous-trials.com/wilde/327-home

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/wil-conviction-1895