Human Rights Movement By maya.ryan 3000 BCE Ancient Egypt 539 BCE Cyrus the Great conquers Babylon 479 BCE Democracy in Athens 272 BCE Edictos De Ashoka 27 BCE Roman Empire 622 Constitution of Medina 1215 Magna Carta 1628 Petition of Rights 1689 British Bill of Rights 1776 America Declares Independence 1789 French Revolution 1791 US Bill of Rights 1800 Napoleon invades Europe 1915 Mahatma Gandhi leads India protest 1919 Jallianwala Bagh Massacre 1930 Gandhi leads Salt March 1931 Gandhi-Irwin Pact 1945 United Nations Established 1946 Eleanor Roosevelt Chairs UN Commission 1948 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights