Slavery was abolished in these nations in these years:
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Hungary: Stephen I of Hungary, the first Hungarian Christian king (near 1000) - frees all slaves
Sweden: Magnus IV of Sweden declared the end of thralldom in 1335
- participation in the transatlantic slave trade was forbidden in 1813
Japan: In 1587 Toyotomi Hideyoshi ordered all slave trading to be abolished.
Portugal: 1761 in Portugal and Portuguese India (1869, African colonies)
England and Wales: In practice, 1772, as a result of Somersett's case;
Scotland: 1799 by an act of the Parliament of Great Britain
Vermont Republic: 1777, Commonwealth of Vermont,
Bukovina: 1783, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor issued an order abolishing slavery on 19 June 1783
Central Great Lakes Region of the United States: 1787, pre-dating the United States Constitution by the Northwest Ordinance
Haiti: French commissioner of the colony ended slavery in 1794.
Upper Canada: 1793, by Act Against Slavery (children of current slaves would become free at age 25)
Chile: 1811 partially, and in 1823 for all
Argentina: 1813
Gran Colombia (Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, and Venezuela): 1821, through a gradual emancipation plan (Colombia in 1853, Venezuela in 1854)
Federal Republic of Central America, present (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica): 1824
Mexico: 1829
British Empire: 1833, including all colonies (with effect from 1 August 1834; in East Indies from 1 August 1838).
- Slavery was ruled illegal in England in 1772.
- In 1807 slave trading was abolished
Mauritius: 1 February 1835
Denmark: 1848,
France: 1848, including all colonies
Peru: 1969, the year slavery finally ended
Moldavia: 1855
Wallachia: 1856
Russia: In 1861 Emancipation of Serfs, releasing 20 million, under Tsar Alexander II
The Netherlands: 1863, including all colonies,
The United States: 1865, after the American Civil War (Many states abolished slavery for themselves at various dates between 1777 and 1864)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism
