2013 Event As part of an effort to protect human rights, China's CPC Central Committee announces a plan to abolish its 'reeducation through labor system' which began in the 1950s 1994 Event Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan agrees to abolish trade tariffs 1985 Event Bill to abolish Greater London Council receives royal assent 1847 Event Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state) 1847 Event Michigan is 1st state to abolish capital punishment 1804 Event New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery 1800 Event Free black community of Philadelphia petitions Congress to abolish slave 1792 Event Proposal by Collot D'Herbois, to abolish the monarchy in France 1780 Event Pennsylvania becomes 1st U.S. state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only) 1777 Event Vermont becomes 1st American colony to abolish slavery 1777 Event Georgia becomes 1st U.S. state to abolish both entail and primogeniture
