Articles of war Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
...governs the discipline and conduct of serving soldiers and regulates institutions such as courts of inquiry and courts martial was not formulated until the late seventeenth century; in Denmark and Norway, for example, the first code was formulated in 1683 , and in England the Mutiny Act of 1689 was the first legal instrument to set out a code of discipline for armies during peacetime. The only exception to the lack of any legislative control concerned desertion, which in England had been a felony since the late fifteenth century. In the absence of codes of...
18th century: c. 1700 - 1800
...Wars and Revolutions 1789 1789 French doctor Joseph-Ignace Guillotin proposes a decapitation machine as a more humane form of capital punishment guillotine A Dictionary of World History 2 French Revolution Europe France Wars and Revolutions 1789 1789 Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against the captain, William Bligh Christian, Fletcher ( c. 1764– c. 1793) A Dictionary of World History 2 Politics Protest and rebellion Australia and Oceania Pacific Islands 1789 1789 Francisco de Goya is appointed court painter to the new Spanish king,...
