Early Timeline
It should be noted that many of these changes were reversed in practice over the succeeding centuries.
- 960: Doge of Venice Pietro IV Candiano reconvened the popular assembly and had it approve of a law prohibiting the slave trade
- 1102: Trade in slaves and serfdom ruled illegal in London: Council of London (1102)
- 1117: Slavery abolished in Iceland
- 1200: Slavery virtually disappears in Japan; it was never widespread and mostly involved captives taken in civil wars.
- 1214: The Statute of the Town of Korčula (Croatia) abolishes slavery.
- 1215: Magna Carta signed. Clause 30, commonly known as Habeas Corpus, would form the basis of a law against slavery in English common law.
- 1256: The Liber Paradisus is promulgated. The Comune di Bologna abolishes slavery and serfdom and releases all the serfs in its territories.
- 1274: Landslova (Land's Law) in Norway mentions only former slaves, which indicates that slavery was abolished in Norway
- 1315: Louis X, king of France, publishes a decree proclaiming that "France" signifies freedom and that any slave setting foot on the French ground should be freed
- 1335: Sweden (including Finland at the time) makes slavery illegal.
- 1416: Republic of Ragusa (modern day Dubrovnik, Croatia) abolished slavery and slave trading
- 1435: Papal Encyclical - Sicut Dudum - of Pope Eugene IV banning enslavement on pain of excommunication.
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