human rights timeline

  • 2700 BCE

    27 bc Roman Empire

    naturally followed certain rules even if they weren't told to
  • 1800 BCE

    1800 Napoleon invades Europe

    napoleon decide to overthrow the french democracy and crown himself as empire
  • 1789 BCE

    1789 French revolution

    the french revolution immediately followed the Rome revolution
  • 1776 BCE

    1776 America declares independences

    before the king got the point that all men are created equal
  • 1628 BCE

    1628 petition of right

    they were now safe for those in power
  • 1215 BCE

    1215 ad mayna carta

    they agreed no one could rule the rights of the people not even a king
  • 539 BCE

    539 bc Cyrus conquers Babylon

    all slaves were free to go
  • 1915 Mahatma Gandhi leads India protests

    in the face of violence, he insisted all people that the world had rights
  • 1931 gandhi irwin pact

    two world wars erupted
  • 1945 unied nations established

    to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights in dignity and worth of the human person
  • 1946 Eleanor rosever chairs un commission

    it applied to everyone
  • 1948 universal declaration of human rights

    natrual rights
  • 2023

    people are still suffering from the loss of human rights