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500 BCE
Birth place of democracy
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Period: 500 BCE to
Timeline of Democracy
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Period: 500 BCE to
Timeline of Democracy
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5 BCE
Beginning of citizenship
It can be argued that this growth of slavery was what made Greeks particularly conscious of the value of freedom. After all, any Greek farmer might fall into debt and therefore might become a slave, at almost any time ... When the Greeks fought together, they fought in order to avoid being enslaved by warfare, to avoid being defeated by those who might take them into slavery. And they also arranged their political institutions so as to remain free men -
Dec 24, 1100
Iroquois confederacy
Great Law of Peace, Constitution of the Iroquois Federation -
Dec 24, 1215
England, Limit to absolute power
Magna Carta is a charter agreed by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215 -
American revolution
The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain, and founded the United States of America.
