7 events with tag "abolition"
1258
ID: 5243
Louis IX abolishes trial by ordeal - replaces with rational judicial procedures, witnesses and evidence
ID: 5243
1789
ID: 633
August 1789
National Assembly abolishes feudalism and adopts Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
ID: 633
1792
ID: 3767
Denmark first to ban slave trade - becomes first European nation to abolish transatlantic slave trade
ID: 3767
1794
ID: 651
Slavery abolished in French colonies
ID: 651
1848
ID: 867
Communist ten-point program: abolish property, inheritance, progressive tax, state control
ID: 867
1861
ID: 2346
English Bankruptcy Act - abolishes debtors' prisons except for fraud, bankruptcy becomes economic not moral issue
ID: 2346
1869
ID: 2350
Debtors Act abolishes imprisonment for debt in England - except for deliberate refusal to pay when able
ID: 2350