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History of Voting in the World

By john12345
  • Greece, Athens

    Greece, Athens

    Around 500 BCE the Greek City-State Athens adopted Democracy and other City-States soon followed their model of a government run by the people. But there were requirements for a person to vote.
  • Early Roman Republic

    Early Roman Republic

    Around 509 BCE the Roman monarch was overthrown and the Roman Republic was founded
  • End of the Roman Republic

    End of the Roman Republic

    27 BCE Roman Republic ends in civil war and is replaced by a triumverant and soon after the Roman Empire
  • Magna Carta

    Magna Carta

    in 1215 the Magna Carta was signed by King John of England, forced into doing so by English nobles after a uprising
  • Age of enlightenment

    Age of enlightenment

    1701 - 1804
    ideas of democracy and voting rights were fundimental to the principles of many of this era's philosphers
  • Corsican Republic

    Corsican Republic

    1755 - 1769
    First Nation to allow universal Sufferage for all citizens over age 25
  • Foundation of the United States of America

    Foundation of the United States of America

    July 4 1776
    Founded as a Democratic Republic
  • French Revolution

    French Revolution

    1789 - 1799
    the french moncarchy is overthrown and is replaced by a short lived republic
  • New Zealand

    New Zealand

    1893
    New Zealand adopts unversal sufferage
  • Iraq, first election after fall of Sadams Regime

    Iraq, first election after fall of Sadams Regime

    January 2005
    The Iraqi people were able to vote for a independent government
    and the us military provided security