1963 Event Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya 1957 Event Indonesia begins nationalizing Dutch possessions 1940 Event Nazis deprive Jews of possessions 1862 Event Slavery abolished in all U.S. possessions 1797 Event Peace of Campo Formio: Austrian Dutch possessions and France 1733 Event England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum and molasses imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions 1683 Event King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French possessions in America 1536 Event Danish/Norw king Christian III leads reform in Catholic possessions 1527 Event Gustaaf I begins Reformation in Sweden, taking RC possessions 1477 Event Burgundy and acquires Burgundian possessions in the Netherlands and France 1453 Event French banker Jacques Coeurs possessions confiscated
