Human Rights Timeline

By jezelyvazquez
  • 539 BCE

    First Declaration of Human Rights

    The Persian emperor Cyrus the Great creates the first written legal code in which he states that everyone is free to choose a religion. People are free to live in all regions and take up a job provided that they never violate other’s rights
  • 539 BCE

    First Declaration of Human Rights

    First Declaration of Human Rights
    The Persian emperor Cyrus the Great creates the first written legal code in which he states that everyone is free to choose a religion. People are free to live in all regions and take up a job provided that they never violate other’s rights
  • 500 BCE

    Greeks ideologies

    Greeks ideologies
    The ancient Greeks believes all individuals were equal and they use words for “freedom of speech” and for “equality before the law”
  • Jun 15, 1215

    Carta Magna

    Carta Magna
    King John is forced to sign the Carta Magna. This document established that everybody was subject of the law and that no freeman could be imprison unless the law allows it. It only applied to feudal barons.

  • Habeas Corpus Act

    Habeas Corpus Act
    This act limited arbitrary actions by the state. No one can be looked up without trial or without seeing a judge.

  • English Bill of rights

    English Bill of rights
    This document reduced the power of the monarchy and also set the rights of Parliament, this includes the freedom of speech and also it prohibited of cruel and unusual punishment. It only applied to nobles and wealthy men.

  • U.S Declaration of Independence

    U.S Declaration of Independence
    This document defines the principal organs of government and their jurisdictions and the basic rights of citizens. As well this document protects freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right to keep and bear arms, the freedom of assembly and the freedom to petition. It also prohibits unreasonable search and seizure, cruel and unusual punishment and compelled self-incrimination.

  • Declaration of the rights of Man and Citizen

    Declaration of the rights of Man and Citizen
    A French declaration made by the National Assembly that agrees on basic rights; know more commonly as natural rights. This declaration only applied to men. The basic principle of the Declaration was that all “men are born and remain free and equal in rights”

  • Women’s March

    Women’s March
    As a protest for not being included in the declaration of the rights an angry multitude of women march to Versailles and forced the king to return to Paris because the lack of food and also in order to be included as citizens worthy of rights.

  • U.S Abolition of Slavery

    U.S Abolition of Slavery
    The Emancipation Proclamation signed by Abraham Lincoln stated that slaves were now free and had the same rights are the landowners. Even though this document was a huge step in the creation of Human Rights Declaration it also started racism and the segregation of the African American race.
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    Holocaust

    This event was a major violation to the human rights because it a major genocide committed against the Jews, and because of this the Allies (winners of the World War II) decided to take measurements in order to protect the human rights.

  • Creation of the United Nations

    Creation of the United Nations
    After the World War II the United Nations is greeted to reaffirm the dignity and worth of the human person. This organization is still working nowadays.

  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    These documents was written by the General Assembly and contains 30 articles in which it is stablished the human rights that apply to everyone and it also arrange the rights in three different categories: the civil political rights, the economic and social cultural rights, and the collective rights.