Rule of Law Milestones

Rule of Law Milestones

1122
BC
Chou Dynasty begins 1050 The first law school opens in Pavia, Italy 1803 Marbury v. Madison, I Cranch 137
776
BC
First Olympic Games 1066

William the Conqueror invades England

1804 The Napoleonic Code
660
BC
Laws of Zaleucus at Locri 1086

The Domesday Book

1819 McCulloch v. Maryland, 4. Wheat 316
630
BC
Laws of Lycrugus at Sparta 1095- 1292 The Crusades 1857 Dred Scott v. Sanford, 60 US 393, invalidated the Missouri Compromise granting freedom to slaves thereby setting the stage for the Civil War
594
BC

Laws of Solon at Athens; Age of Seven Wisemen

1142 Gratian, Decretum 1861 Maine, Ancient Law
551- 478
BC
Confucius 1187 Glanvill, A Treatise on the Laws and Customs of England 1861- 1865 The Civil War
459- 430
BC
The Age of Pericles 1215 Magna Carta 1863 The Emancipation Proclamation promulgate by President Lincoln
450
BC
The Twelve Tables 1231 The beginning of the Papal Inquisition 1865 President Lincoln assassinated
432
BC
First Law to Check Electoral Corruption 1260 Bracton, On the Laws and Customs of England 1865 The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States abolishes slavery
399
BC
The death of Socrates - split jury 1295- 1535 The Yearbooks 1869 The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States ensures due process and equal protection of the laws
386
BC
Plato founds the Academy 1300- 1500 The Renaissance 1870 The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees the right to vote regardless of race, color, or prvious condition of servitude
356
BC
Alexander born 1355 Chapter 3, Statute 28 of Edward III - first use of the term " due process of law " 1871 James Langdell devixes the case method for teaching law and publishes the first case - method text, Selection of Cases on the Law of Contracts
334
BC
Aristotle opens the Lyceum 1362 Statute (written in French) decrees that English is to be the official language in all pleas, which must also be debated and judged in English 1880 Ex-Parte Virginia and Strauder v West Virginia affirms right of blacks not to be excluded systematically from juries because of race or color
326
BC
Lex Poetelia eliminates Law of Debt 1400 Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press 1881 Oliver Wendell Holmes, " The common Law"
323
BC
Death of Alexander 1478 The beginning of the Spanish Inquisition 1897 Pollock and Maitland, The History of English Law.
322
BC
Deaths of Aristotle,

Demosthenes and Diogenes

1492 Columbus Discovers the New World 1902 Holmes appointed to the Supreme Court by Roosevelt
307
BC
Law Against Philosophers 1558 Beginning of the Elizabethan Age and the determination that North America would be under English, not Spanish, law 1905 Holme''s discent in Lochner v. New York, 198 US 45
62- 64
BC
Fall Seneca; Burning of Rome 1610 Dr. Bonham''s Case, 77 Eng. Rep 646, first recorded case where legislative act was ruled unconstitutional 1913 The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizes Congress to collect income taxes.
52
BC
Murder of Claudius; trial of Milo 1633 The trial of Galileo 1916 Louis Brandeis appointed to the Supreme Court by President W. Wilson
49
BC
Caesar takes Rome, Egypt, and Syria 1641 Massachusetts becomes the first colony to authorize slavery by statute 1918 Justice Holmes'' discent in Hammer v. Dagenhart, 247 US 251
44
BC
Caesar assassinated 1649 The meaningful emergence of parlimentary governing in Great Britain 1914- 1918 World War I
30
BC
Suicide Antony & Cleopatra; Annexation of Egypt 1651 Sir Edward Coke, Coke''s commentary on Littleton 1919 Holmes'' dissent in Abrams v. United States, 250 US 616
4
BC
Birth of Christ 1689 The English Declaration of Rights 1920 Emergence of the American Law Institute and the codification of laws through the Restatements
30
AD
Crucification 1690 Locke, Two Treaties of Civil Government 1920 The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States grants women the right to vote
93
AD
First Persecutions of Christians 1752 Des Montesquieu 1925 Tennessee v. Scopes, the "Monkey" trial
100
AD
Paper manufactured in China 1763 The Stamp Act and it''s reaction; the beginnings of representative government in North America 1927 The Sacco-Vanzetti case
271
AD
Barbarians invade Italy 1765 Blackstone, Commentaries on the Law of England 1938 Eric RR Co v. Tompkins, 304 US 64, mandates application of state law in diversity cases and overrules Swift v. Tyson
301
AD
Price edict of Diocletian 1774 The Declaration and Resolves of the first continental Congress embodying a statement of rights and principles, many of which were incorporated into the Declaration of Independence 1939- 1945 World War II
325
AD
Counsel of Nicaea 1776 Signing of the Declaration of Independence 1945 The Nuremberg trials
330
AD
Constantinople becomes capital 1778 Articles of Confederation 1954 Brown v. Board of Education, 347 US 483 overrules Plessy v. Ferguson''s 1896 "separate but equal" doctrine
372
AD
Plato publishes Republic 1780 Bentham, 1782 Fragment on Government; Principles of Morals and Legislation; of Laws in General 1964 Civil Rights Act passed by Congress
397
AD
Confessions of St. Augustine 1789 The Constitution of the United States 1964 New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 US 754, redefines First Amendment in liberal cases
570- 632
AD
Mohammed lives 1789 George Washington inaugurated as the first President of the United States 1966 Miranda v. Arizona, 384 US 436, creates a system of warnings as a precondition to admissibility of custodial confessions
754
AD
Baghdad becomes capital 1791 First 10 amendments to the Constitution of the United States are adopted 1973 Roe v. Wade, 410 US 113
830
AD
"House of Wisdom" at Baghdad 1792 The emergence of Walpole and the beginning of dominant parliamentary government 1998 President Clinton impeached by the House of Representatives
1000 Leif Ericsson "in Vinland" 1801 John Marshall appointed as Chief Justice of the United States by President Adams 2000 Bush v. Gore

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