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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
a charter of liberties to which the English barons forced King John to give his assent in June 1215 .A document constituting a fundamental guarantee of rights and privileges. Able to be trailed by a jury of your pairs. -
Dec 14, 1264
De Montfort's parliaments
De Montfort's Parliament was an English parliament held from 20 January 1265 until mid March the same year, instigated by Simon de Montfort, a baronial rebel leader. De Montfort had seized power in England following his victory over Henry III at the Battle of Lewes during the Second Baron’s War, but his grip on the country was under threat -
The Habeas Corpus Act
It doesnt give me the legit date.The Habeas Corpus Act of 1679, was passed during the reign of the restored monarchy of Charles II after the English Civil War. It strengthened the ancient and powerful writ which had been a feature of English Common Law since before Magna Carta. It served to safeguard individual liberty, preventing unlawful or arbitrary imprisonment. Habeas Corpus is Latin for “you may have the body” – subject to legal examination before a court, or a judge. -
French and Indian War
the war in America in which France and its Indian allies opposed England 1754–60: ended by Treaty of Paris in 1763.At the start of the war, several thousand French-speaking residents of Acadia ( Nova Scotia and adjacent areas) who refused to swear allegiance to Britain were exiled. Many eventually made their way to southern Louisiana, where they developed the distinctive language and culture known as Cajun. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British,was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. The incident was heavily propagandized by leading Patriots, such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams, to fuel animosity toward the British authorities.British troops had been stationed in Boston, capital of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, since 1768 in order to protect and support crown-appointed -
The Boston Tea Party
60 members of the Sons of Liberty, his underground resistance group. The British tea dumped in Boston Harbor on the night of December 16 was valued at some $18,000. -
The Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots ' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
The Declaration of Independence
The political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
