Events Tagged: "freedom"

Death of Demosthenes - takes poison rather than capture, spent life warning against Macedon

Freedom of Greece proclaimed - Flamininus declares Greek cities free at Isthmian Games, Romans as 'liberators'

Florence expels Medici again during Sack of Rome - last Florentine Republic established

Hugo Grotius writes Mare Liberum - freedom of the seas doctrine, foundation of international law

Somerset v. Stewart decided - slave freed on English soil, 'the air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe'