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1275 BCE Moses led Hebrews out of Egypt
1260 BCE The Ten Commandments (Jewish law)
753 BCE Rome founded (ruled by monarchy)
621 BCE Draco's Code of Laws (Ancient Greece)
551-479 BCE Confucius lived
550 Solon's Code of Law (Ancient Greece)
510-44 BCE Roman Republic
5th/4th century BCE Classical Greece
479-404 BCE Golden Age of Greece
450 BCE The Twelve Tables (Roman law)
375 BCE Plato's Republic
399 BCE Trial of Socrates
330 BCE Aristotle's Politics
200 BCE Old Testament translated into Greek
55, 54 BCE Julius Caesar invades Britain
53 BCE Cicero's De Republica
27 BCE-476 CE Roman Empire
4th/5th century CE Buddhism comes to Nepal
313 CE The Edict of Milan granted religious freedom in Roman Empire
330-1453 CE Byzantine Empire
527-565 CE Justinian ruled Byzantine Empire
529, 534 CE Justinian's Code (The Institutes, 533 CE)
570-632 CE Mohammed lived
604 CE Seventeen Article Constitution (Japan)
639 CE Muslim refugees flee Arab peninsula to Africa
1200 CE Islam arrived in Southeast Asia?
1215 CE Magna Carta
1300-1600 CE Renaissance in Europe (1450 CE)
ca. 1317 CE Inquistion
1325 CE Tenochtitlan, Aztec capital, started
1517 CE Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses
1517-1555 CE Protestant Reformation
1521 CE Tenochtitlan, Aztec capital, fell
1648 CE Peace of Westphalia
1651 CE Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan
1690 CE John Locke's Second Treatise
1679 CE English Habeas Corpus Act
1689 CE English Bill of Rights
1694-1778 CE Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) lived
1762 CE Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Social Contract
1750 CE Industrial Revolution began in England
1776 CE US Declaration of Independence written
1787 CE US Constitution written
1788 CE US Constitution ratified
1789 CE Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen written (France)
1789-1795 CE French Revolution
1791-1792 CE Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man
1791 CE U.S. Bill of Rights ratified
1804 CE Napoleonic Code
1835 CE Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America
1863 CE Abraham Lincoln's The Proclamation of Emancipation
1863 CE Founding of International Committee of the Red Cross
1864 CE Geneva Convention
1914-1918 CE World War I
1917-1924 CE V. I. Lenin ruled USSR
1919 CE Treaty of Versailles (League of Nations)
1922-1991 CE USSR (1917-1922 from revolution to "USSR")
1924-1953 CE Josef Stalin ruled USSR
1939-1945 CE World War II
1945-1946 CE Nuremberg War Crimes Trial
1945 CE United Nations Charter
1946 CE US Supreme Court rules on General Yamashita; he is executed
1947 CE India & Pakistan gain independence; Kashmir dispute begins
1948 CE Israel became a nation
1948 CE Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UN)
1963 CE Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech
1969 CE Vienna Convention on Treaties
1989 CE Kashmiri youths demand self-determination
1992 CE Former Yugoslavia divides; wars begin
1993 CE International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia established
1995 CE Dayton Peace Agreement (Dayton Accords) establishes borders in former Yugoslavia
1995 CE South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission established; investigates on 1960-1994
1998 CE International Criminal Court (ICC)
page created by Stella Bourgoin, ORIAS, July 2004.
Sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS), Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, Center for South Asia Studies, Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Institute of European Studies.
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