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Time Line of Western Legal History
Professor Golash
Fall 1996
4000 B.C.
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Settlements of Sumer and Akkad in Tigris and Euphrates valley.
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Egyptians settled in Nile valley.
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First written records.
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Development of agriculture
3000 B.C.
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Sumerian cities of Ur, Kish, Erech, and Nippur founded.
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2800-2200 B.C. Old Kingdom of Egypt.
2500 B.C.
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Sumer conquered by Sargon I of Akkad.
2000 B.C. -1700 B.C.
1800 B .C.
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First Babylonian Empire
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Code of Hammurabi
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1670 B.C. Hyksos conquer Egypt.
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1650 B.C. Hebrews move into areas controlled by Egypt.
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1580-1525 B.C. New Kingdom of Egypt
1500 B.C.
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1391-1350 B.C. King Akhenaten ruler of Egypt
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1350 B.C. King
Tutankhamen ruler of Egypt
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1350-1115 B.C. Rameses Dynasty - Egypt
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Mycenaean Period in Greece
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Dorian invasion destroys Mycenaean civilization
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1250 B.C. Hebrews leave Egypt, establish religious state in Canaan (Israel)
[Exodus]
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1200 B.C. Trojan War [Homer, Iliad] [Aeschylus, Eumenides]
1000 B.C.
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800 B.C. Homer, Iliad
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776 B.C. First Olympic Games (traditional date)
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753 B.C. Foundation of Rome (traditional date)
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624 B.C. Draco's Code (Athens)
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593 B.C. Solon's Code (Athens)
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Council of Four Hundred in Athens
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546-410 B.C. Age of Tyrants (Athens)
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509 B.C. Rome becomes a republic
500 B.C.
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480 B.C. Greeks defeat Persian invasion
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Socrates (469-399 B.C.)(Athens) [Plato, Apology, Crito]
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451-448 B.C. Laws of the Twelve Tables
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431 B.C. Pelopponesian War between Athens and Sparta
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Plato
(427-347 B.C.) Gorgias
400 B.C.
300 B.C.
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Hebrew Law collected
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287 B.C. Hortensian Law (Rome): plebiscites become binding on senate
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264-202 B.C. First and Second Punic Wars (Rome v. Carthage); Defeat of
Hannibal
200 B.C.
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146 B.C. Roman conquest of Greece
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Destruction of Corinth & Carthage
100 B.C.
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58-50 B.C. Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul
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44 B.C. Assassination of Julius Caesar
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40-43 B.C. Cicero, De Legibus
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30 B.C. Suicide of Antony and Cleopatra
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27 B.C. Augustus
Caesar named Emperor of Rome
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4-6 B.C. Birth of Christ
1 A.D.
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14-37 A.D. Tiberius
Emperor of Rome
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43 A.D. Roman Conquest of Britain
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61 A.D. Queen Boadicea's Revolt
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70 A.D. Romans take Jerusalem
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79 A.D. Destruction of
Pompeii by eruption of Vesuvius
100 A.D.
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Plutarch
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117-138 A.D. Hadrian
Emperor of Rome
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120 A.D. Institutes of Gaius
200 A.D.
300 A.D.
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313 A.D. Constantine
recognizes Christianity as official religion of the Roman Empire
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330 A.D. Constantinople founded as capital of Roman Empire in East
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354-430 A.D. Augustine,
Letters
400 A.D.
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Western Europe invaded by Goths, Vandals, and Franks
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410 A.D. Sack of Rome by Alaric
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410-450 A.D. Withdrawal of Romans from Britain
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433 A.D. Europe invaded by Huns, led by Attila
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455 A.D. Sack of Rome by Vandals
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Anglo-Saxon conquest of England
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476 A.D. End of Roman Empire in West
500 A.D.
500 A.D.
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529 A.D. Justinian closes Plato's Academy as pagan
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540 A.D. Institutes of Justinian
600 A.D.
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602 A.D. Earliest Anglo-Saxon code of law: Laws of Aethelberht
700 A.D.
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Moslem invasion of North Africa, Spain, and France
800 A.D.
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800 A.D. Charlemagne
crowned Holy Roman Emperor
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878 A.D. Defeat of Danish invasion of England by King Alfred of Wessex
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890-92 A.D. Laws of Alfred
900 A.D.
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924-39 A.D. Laws of Aethelstan
1000 A.D.
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1016 A.D. Canute of Denmark crowned King of England
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1042 A.D. Edward the Confessor crowned
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1066 A.D. William
the Conqueror of Normandy invades and conquers Britain
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1086 A.D. Domesday Book
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1095 A.D. First Crusade
1100 A.D. Henry I King of England
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1147 A.D. Second Crusade
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Henry II King of England
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beginning of trial by jury
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1164 A.D. Constitutions of Clarendon
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1166 A.D. Assize of Clarendon
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1170 A.D. Murder of Thomas a Becket
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1184 A.D. Assize of the Forest
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1188 A.D. Saladin Tithe
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1189 A.D. Third Crusade Richard the Lionhearted (1189-1199 A.D.)
1200 A.D.
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King John (1200-1216 A.D.)
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1201 A.D. Fourth Crusade
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1212 A.D. Children's Crusade
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1215 A.D. Magna
Carta
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1215 A.D. Fourth Lateran Council forbids priests to participate in trial
by ordeal
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Henry II (1216-1272 A.D.)
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1233 A.D. Inquisition established
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1274 A.D. Aquinas,
Summa Theologica
1300 A.D.
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1336 A.D. Outbreak of Hundred Years' War between France and England
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1348 A.D. Outbreak of Black
Death
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Chaucer
1400 A.D.
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1429 A.D. Siege of Orleans
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Joan of Arc (1412-1431 A.D.)
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1453 A.D. End of Hundred Years' War
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Fall of Constantinople to Turks
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1455-85 A.D. Wars of the Roses
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1492 A.D. Columbus
arrives in West Indies
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1509 A.D. Henry
VIII King of England [A Man for All Seasons]
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1517 A.D. Luther, 95 Theses
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Calvin
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1534 A.D. Church of England breaks from Rome
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Act of Supremacy
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1535 A.D. Queen Mary ("Bloody
Mary")
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1558 A.D. Elizabeth
I Queen of England
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1588 A.D. Defeat of Spanish
Armada by Britain
1600 A.D.
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1603 A.D. James
I King of England; asserts divine right of kings
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1628 A.D. Petition
of Right
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1629-40 A.D. Charles
I rules without Parliament
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1649 A.D. Charles I beheaded
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1649-1660 A.D. Interregnum; rule of Oliver
Cromwell
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1651 A.D. Hobbes, Leviathan
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1660 A.D. Restoration of Charles II
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1670 A.D. Bushell's Case
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1688 A.D. Glorious Revolution; James II deposed
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1689 A.D. Reign of William & Mary; English Bill of Rights
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1690 A.D. Locke, Second Treatise of Government
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1692 A.D. Salem Witch Trials
1700 A.D.
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1702 A.D. Queen Anne (1702-14)
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1714 A.D. George I (1714-1727)
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1727 A.D. George II (1727-1760)
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1760 A.D. George III (1760-1820)
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1776 A.D. American Revolution
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1787 A.D. U.S. Constitution
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1789 A.D. French Revolution;
U.S. Bill of Rights
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