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1994 Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan agrees to abolish trade tariffs

1985 Bill to abolish Greater London Council receives royal assent

1880 Pennsylvania is 1st American state to abolish slavery

1847 Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state)

1847 Michigan is 1st state to abolish capital punishment

1804 New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery

1800 Free black community of Philadelphia petitions Congress to abolish slave

1792 Proposal by Collot D'Herbois, to abolish the monarchy in France

1780 Pennsylvania becomes 1st U.S. state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only)

1777 Vermont becomes 1st American colony to abolish slavery

1777 Georgia becomes 1st U.S. state to abolish both entail and primogeniture


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