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  • 1776: Empress Maria Theresa Abolishes Torture

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    1776: Empress Maria Theresa Abolishes Torture

    1776: Empress Maria Theresa Abolishes Torture

    On this day in 1776, an official decree abolishing torture in Austria, Bohemia, Galicia, and the Banate w ...

    On this day in 1776, an official decree abolishing torture in Austria, Bohemia, Galicia, and the Banate was issued. It was one of the measures of the so-called enlightened absolutism in the time of Em ...

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