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1535 - The monetary reform in Russia. What is the importance and the event? Well, this was the first centralized reform. I held it, when Moscow rulila Glinskaya Elena, mother of Ivan IV, the Terrible in the future, and in those days the minor son. The state had circulated all sorts of different banknotes minted where no hitting, for the most part already cut at the edges. With this it was necessary to do something. Resolved, that in the future will be a coin minted exclusively on the sovereign Mint. They began to mint a penny, which depicted a man on a horse and with a spear, money, equal to half a penny on it was also a horse, but with a saber. Farthing (quarter penny) were rare and had them ptichka.Rubl not minted since such a coin would weigh 68 grams. He served as the calculation of the measure.
1792 - Approved the use of the guillotine. Easy thing proved to be a lot of merits. Firstly, it did not require skilled labor. He pressed a button - and order. It's not an ax or a sword swing. Second - equalized all the layers. Penalty as the nobles of that of Louis XVI, during the reign of which was approved by this device, and commoners. To execute a long time relied privselyudno, and with this fun tradition was finished only in 1939, when, during the execution of Eugene Weidman, happened neshuteynye excitement. By the way, the custom to raise his head by the hair on the scaffold - it is not an act of celebration, but some of those executed last service. It was believed that after the Beheading head keeps the ability to see for ten seconds. That's raised above the crowd - look, they say, the last time
. Abolish this penalty only in 1977. By the way, after that it is not executed not only in France, but throughout Western Europe
