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30th November 1786: Tuscany becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:02:49
Publish Date: 2017-11-29 21:05:31
Description: Pietro Leopoldo, the ruler of Tuscany, came to power in 1765 after his father, the Holy Roman Emperor Francis I, died. Pietro Leopoldo later became Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, but in the years immediately after his father’s death his mother Maria Theresa co-ruled the empire with his elder brother Joseph II. After five years Leopold successfully obtained a free hand to rule Tuscany as he liked after he travelled to Vienna where his mother agreed to remove her appointed counsellors. Leopold was an enlightened ruler who revitalised Tuscany’s economy through the introduction of new rates of taxation and the ...
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