human rights timeline By ameliamahanidis 1215 BCE Magna Carta 539 BCE Cyrus Conquered Babylon 1628 Petition of rights 1776 America declared independence 1800 Napoleon invaded europe 1915 Mahatma Gahndi leads india protest 1931 Gandhi - Irwin pact 1945 United Nations established 1946 Eleanor Roosevelt chaired UN commision 1948 Universal declaration of human rights 1955 Vietnam war 1998 Sorry day 2005 Cronulla riots 2013 BLM movement 2014 Vietnam bombing