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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 | |
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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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| 1847 |
| | | Don Pacifico's house in Athens is burnt by an anti-Semitic crowd, provoking an international incident | |
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| 1849 |
| | | An anti-British mob attacks the New York theatre where William Macready is appearing as Macbeth, leaving 22 dead and many injured | |
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