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1652
| 1652 • Rhode Island passes the first law in North America making slavery illegal. |
1684
Mar 29
Age: 32y
marriageAbigail Adams Huntington, Long Island, New York, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1684 • Japanese Chief Minister Hotta Masatoshi is assassinated, leaving Shogun Tsunayoshi without any adequate advisors, leading him to issue impractical edicts and create hardships for the Japanese people. |
1685
Age: 33y
birth of childEdward Higbee III Huntington, Long Island, New York, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1685 • The Bloody Assizes begin in Winchester; over 1000 of Monmouth's rebels tried and condemned to death or transportation. |
1717
Age: 65y
| 1717 • François-Marie Arouet is sentenced to imprisonment in the Bastille for eleven months because of a satirical verse against the Régent of France and his infamous daughter Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans who at the time was hiding an illegitimate pregnancy and soon to give birth;Jean-Michel Raynaud, Voltaire soi-disant, Presses Universitaires de Lille, 1983, vol.1, p.289 Arouet will emerge with the pseudonym Voltaire and the completed text of his first play, Œdipe. |