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| 1678 |
| | The Popish Plot, an invented Jesuit conspiracy to kill Charles II, results in the execution of about thirty-five Roman Catholics | |
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| c. 1680 |
| | Louis XIV persecutes the Huguenots by means of dragonnades - the billetting of unruly dragoons in the homes of villagers | |
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| 1685 |
| | 400,000 Huguenots leave France after Louis XIV deprives them of their rights by revoking the Edict of Nantes | |
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| 1692 |
| | Government soldiers, mainly Campbells, massacre their MacDonald hosts in Glencoe | |
| | Order for the massacre of Glencoe National Library of Scotland
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| 1692 |
| | The Massachusetts town of Salem is gripped by witch-hunting hysteria | |
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| 1692 |
| | Twenty people convicted of witchcraft are hanged in Salem, and one is pressed to death | |
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| 1794 |
| | French chemist Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier is guillotined for having been involved with tax collection in the ancien régime | |
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| 1819 |
| | Magistrates order troops to fire on a crowd in Manchester, in what becomes known as the Peterloo massacre | |
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| 1829 |
| | The state government of Georgia declares that it is illegal for for the Cherokees to hold political assemblies | |
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| 1831 |
| | Mameluke power ends with their suppression in Baghdad, following a massacre in Cairo twenty years earlier | |
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