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Habeus Corpus

Name: Habeus Corpus – Great Britain factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

Great Britain · Government / Whig Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1794Date range

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1Places

Chronological records

1794

William Pitt the Younger Chatham, 2nd11 November 1794

London · Government / Whig Party Government

Suspends Habeus Corpus because of fears of Jacobinism & the French revolution

Names involved

William Pitt the Younger Chatham, 2nd

Provenance

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