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Jan 1, 1215
Magna Carta Signing
- Magna Carta was created
- Lord Denning described it as "the greatest constitutional document of all times – the foundation of the freedom of the individual against the arbitrary authority of the despot".
- Lord Woolf described it as "first of a series of instruments that now are recognised as having a special constitutional status",
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British Petition of rights
- The Petition of Right is a major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing.
- Parliament refused to grant subsidies to support the war effort, leading to Charles gathering "forced loans" without Parliamentary approval and arbitrarily imprisoning those who refused to pay.
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British bill of rights
- is an Act of the Parliament of England passed on 16 December 1689.
- was a restatement in statutory form of the Declaration of Right presented by the Convention Parliament to William and Mary in March 1689
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America Independence
- The adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776,
- declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- The legal separation of the Thirteen Colonies from Great Britain,
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French Revolution
- Period of radical social and political upheaval in France.
- The common people of France were increasingly angered by the incompetency of King Louis XVI and the continued indifference and decadence of the aristocracy.
- The growth of republics and liberal democracies, the spread of secularism, the development of modern ideologies, and the invention of total war.
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India Protests
- Mahatma Grandhi leads india protests.
- Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest of the British government's decision to separate India's electoral system by caste.
- India's independence
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World war one
- Italy, Japan and the United States joined the Allies.
- More than 9 million combatants were killed.
- The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
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World War two
- It involved the vast majority of the world's nations, including all of the great powers.
- The Holocaust
- World War II is the deadliest conflict in human history.
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Holocaust
- Over one million Jewish children were killed in the Holocaust.
- Two million Jewish women and three million Jewish men died
- C oncentration camps were established in which inmates were subjected to slave labor until they died of exhaustion or disease.
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United Nations Established
- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the United States and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom proposed a set of principles for international collaboration in maintaining peace and security.
- Representatives of 26 Allied nations fighting against the Axis Powers met in Washington, D.C. to pledge their support for the Atlantic Charter by signing the "Declaration by United Nations".
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at Palais de Chaillot, Paris.
- The Declaration arose directly from the experience of the Second World War and represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled.
- It consists of 30 articles which have been elaborated in subsequent international treaties.
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Babylon cyrus
- Cyrus the Great is well recognized for his achievements in human rights, politics, and military strategy.
- Cyrus built his empire by conquering first the Median Empire
- Cyrus the Great created the largest empire the world had yet seen.
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Roman Empire
- The first two centuries of the Empire were a period of unprecedented stability and prosperity known as the Pax Romana
- Augustus took the official position that he had saved the Republic, and carefully framed his powers within republican constitutional principles
- the institutions and culture of Rome had a profound and lasting influence on the development of language, religion, architecture, philosophy, law, and forms of government in the territory it governed
