Events Tagged: "rights"

First Secession of the Plebs - plebeians withdraw to Sacred Mount, win right to elect tribunes to protect them from patricians

Law of Twelve Tables published - first written Roman law, displayed in Forum, foundation of legal system

Petition of Right - Parliamentary declaration against forced loans and arbitrary imprisonment, constitutional milestone

English Bill of Rights enacted - catalogue of rights and liberties, parliamentary control of taxation and army

National Assembly abolishes feudalism and adopts Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen

Mary Wollstonecraft Vindication of Rights of Woman - applies but critiques Rousseau on women

William Hume-Rothery: Parliament must protect rights of man, vaccination acts trample parent rights