Editing Timeline of zoophilia (section)

====18th century====
* '''1711''' – Kingdom of Denmark makes those convicted of bestiality should be strangled as well as burned.<ref name="Bestiality and Zoophilia: Sexual Relations with Animals" />
* '''March 1724''' – In the Kingdom of France, an execution is carried out for someone accused of blasphemy and bestiality; however, he was executed only for blasphemy.<ref name="Attitudes to Homosexuality in Eighteenth-century France" />
* '''23 January 1736''' – In the Kingdom of Sweden, the Civil Code of 1734 was enacted, making both male and female bestiality a capital punishment.<ref name="Sinners and Citizens: Bestiality and Homosexuality in Sweden, 1880-1950" />
* '''1768''' – The Constitutio Criminalis Theresiana (Article 74) makes bestiality in the Habsburg Monarchy punishable with capital punishment by burning.<ref>[http://www.glbtqarchive.com/ssh/austria_S.pdf Austria]</ref><ref name="Sociolegal Control of Homosexuality: A Multi-Nation Comparison">{{cite book |editor-last=West |editor-first=Donald |editor2-last=Green |editor2-first=Richard |title=Sociolegal Control of Homosexuality: A Multi-Nation Comparisony |date=2002 |pages= |url= https://books.google.com/?id=37HdBgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false |isbn=978-0306455322}}</ref>
[[File:Official Presidential portrait of Thomas Jefferson (by Rembrandt Peale, 1800).jpg|thumb|Thomas Jefferson believed bestiality should be decriminalized entirely because "it can never make any progress".<ref name="Male-Male Intimacy in Early America: Beyond Romantic Friendships">{{cite book |author-last=Benemann |author-first=William |title=Male-Male Intimacy in Early America: Beyond Romantic Friendships |date=2006 |pages=133 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Isi3AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA133#v=onepage&q&f=false |isbn=978-1560233459}}</ref>]]
* '''1779''' – Thomas Jefferson wrote a law in Commonwealth of Virginia which contained a punishment of castration for those who engage in bestiality. However, what was intended by Jefferson's law was a liberalization of the sodomy laws in Virginia at that time, which continued to prescribe capital punishment by hanging as the maximum penalty for the crime of bestiality in the commonwealth. Jefferson's law was rejected by the Virginia Legislature.<ref name="Male-Male [[Intimacy]] in Early America: Beyond Romantic Friendships" /><ref>{{cite web|author=Patricia S. Ticer, State Senator (D-30) in the |url=http://www.glapn.org/sodomylaws/usa/virginia/virginia.htm |title=Virginia |publisher=Glapn.org |date= |accessdate=August 31, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendVIIIs10.html |title=Amendment VIII: Thomas Jefferson, A Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments |publisher=Press-pubs.uchicago.edu |date= |accessdate=March 11, 2014}}</ref>
* '''1787''' – The Constitutio Criminalis Josephina reduced the crime of bestiality in the Habsburg Monarchy from the penalty of capital punishment to a misdemeanor.<ref name="Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships: A Study of National, European ...">{{cite book |author-last= Wintemute |author-first=Robert |author2-last= Andenas |author2-first= Mads |title=Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships: A Study of National, European ... |date=2001 |pages=549 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=eMzbBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA549#v=onepage&q&f=false |isbn=978-1841131382}}</ref>
* '''25 September''' – '''6 October 1791''' – The French Penal Code of 1791 is adopted in the Kingdom of France, legalizing bestiality.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Aldrich |editor-first=Robert |editor2-last= Wotherspoon |editor2-first=Garry |title=Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War II (Vol 1) |date=2001 |pages=80 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=tLkYkutHlyAC&pg=PA80#v=onepage&q&f=false |isbn=978-0415159821}}</ref>
*'''1 June 1792''' – The Commonwealth of Kentucky becomes a U.S. state and receives all laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, making bestiality a capital punishment in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.<ref name="Calendar for June" />
* '''1792–1798''' – The French Republic adopts the Penal Code of 1791 and applies it to other territories annexed by France: 
**'''27 November 1792''' – Savoy.
** '''31 January 1793''' – County of Nice.
** '''14 February 1793''' – Principality of Monaco.
** '''2 March 1793''' – Principality of Salm-Salm.
** '''11 October 1793''' – County of Montbéliard.
**'''1793''' – County of Dagsburg, County of Hanau-Lichtenberg, County of Kriechingen, County of La Petite-Pierre, and the County of Sarrewerden.
**'''18 September 1794''' Austrian Netherlands.
**'''1795''' – Left Bank of the Rhine, the Lordship of Lixing, and the Prince-Bishopric of Liège.
**'''1796''' – Riquewihr and the County of Horbourg.
** '''28 January 1798''' – Republic of Mulhouse.
**'''1798''' – Republic of Geneva.