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mar 9, 1765 - After a public campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son

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Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have committed suicide.

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mar 9, 1765
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~ 261 years ago