A parallel, sort of (27/03/22 08:31:11)
(Denmark-Norway) "Struensee held absolute sway for almost thirteen months, between 18 December 1770 and 16 January 1772. During this time he issued no fewer than 1069 cabinet orders, or more than three a day." "Reforms initiated by Struensee included:[6] abolition of torture abolition of unfree labor (corvée) abolition of the censorship of the press abolition of the practice of preferring nobles for state offices abolition of noble privileges abolition of "undeserved" revenues for nobles abolition of the etiquette rules at the Royal Court abolition of the Royal Court's aristocracy abolition of state funding of unproductive manufacturers abolition of several holidays introduction of a tax on gambling and luxury horses to fund nursing of foundlings ban of slave trade in the Danish colonies rewarding only actual achievements with feudal titles and decorations criminalization and punishment of bribery re-organization of the judicial institutions to minimize corruption introduction of state-owned grain storages to balance out the grain price assignment of farmland to peasants re-organization and reduction of the army university reforms reform of the state-owned medical institutions" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Friedrich_Struensee Trouble was: He had no strong popular alliance behind him - and his enemies could topple him because he had an affair with the queen. So the reactionaries had him executed. |
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