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81Second Desmond Rebellion — The Second Desmond rebellion (1579 1583) was the more widespread and bloody of the two Desmond Rebellions launched by the Fitzgerald dynasty of Desmond in Munster, southern Ireland, against English rule in Ireland. The second rebellion began in… …
82Richard Harliston — Vice Admiral Sir Richard Harliston, born circa 1425 in Humberstone, Lincolnshire, and brought up in the household of Richard, Duke of York.On the accession of Edward IV, Richard Harliston became a yeoman of the king s chamber and was made Vice… …
83Frankfurter Judengasse — The Frankfurter Judengasse (from German: “Jews Alley”) was the Jewish ghetto of Frankfurt and one of the earliest ghettos in Germany. It existed from 1462 until 1796 and was home to Germany s largest Jewish community in early modern times.At the… …
84Capital punishment in Italy — In Italy, the first pre unitarian state to abolish the death penalty was the Grand Duchy of Tuscany as of November 30, 1786, under the reign of Leopold II. It was the first civil state in the world to do away with torture and capital punishment.… …
85amnesty — am•nes•ty [[t]ˈæm nə sti[/t]] n. pl. ties 1) gov a general pardon for offenses, esp. political offenses, against a government 2) a forgetting or overlooking of any past offense 3) to grant amnesty to; pardon • Etymology: 1570–80; (< MF… …
86amnesty — /ˈæmnəsti / (say amnuhstee) noun (plural amnesties) 1. a general pardon for offences against a government. 2. the granting of immunity for past offences against the laws of war. 3. Law a pardon granted by an act of Parliament originated by the… …
87List of Acts of Parliament of the Great Britain Parliament, 1707-1719 — This is an incomplete list of Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the years 1707 1719. For acts passed prior to 1707 see List of Acts of Parliament of the English Parliament and List of Acts of the Scottish Parliament to 1707.For Acts of… …
88Silvia Baraldini — (born December 12, 1947) was active in both the Black Power and Puerto Rican independence movements in the United States in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. In 1982 she was sentenced to 43 years under the RICO acts for conspiring to commit two armed… …
89Francis Lascelles — See also Francis Lascelles (disambiguation) Francis Lascelles [Some sources spell his name Francis Lassels (Mark Noble (1798). The Lives of the English Regicides: And Other Commissioners of the Pretended, J. Stockdale.… …
90Catalonian Civil War — The Catalonian Civil War, also called the War against John II, was a civil war in the Principality of Catalonia between 1462 and 1472. The two factions, the royalists who supported John II of Aragon and the Catalan constitutionalists (Catalanists …
