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470 BCE
Democracy develops in Athens
470 B.C.E. Athenian politician Pericles came to the scene and helped develop these ideas into a more substantial political system for the Athenians.Participation was not open to all residents: to vote one had to be an adult, male citizen i.e. neither a foreign resident, slave or a woman -
27 BCE
Break down of the Roman empire
The Roman senate votes to give dictatorial powers to Octavian who then adopts the name Augustus, essentially ending the Roman Republic- democracy vanishes for centuries. -
John Locke writes two treaties of govt'
laid the groundwork for representative democracy -
Montesquieu writes the spirit of the laws
his writing explained the need foe three branches of government. Government should be responsible for the people. -
Ben Franklin writes about the organization of the Iroquois
He saw the ways of the First Nations set up and wanted that set up. Later he galvanized colonial union and the fight for independence from the British. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration announced that the thirteen American colonies at war with Great Britain would now regard themselves as thirteen independent states no longer under British rule. With the Declaration, these states formed a new nation USA -
Canada holds the first federal election to have secret ballod
secret ballots were held so the ection wouldn't be rigged or bought by the campaigners. -
British North America Act
This legislation, passed by the British Parliament, created Canada as a new, domestically self-governing federation, consisting of the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec, -
Lenin dies and Stalin takes power of the USSR
After the October Revolution, Stalin took military positions in the Russian Civil War and the Polish-Soviet War. Stalin was one of the Bolsheviks' chief operatives in the Caucasus and grew close to Lenin. After Lenin's death Stalin took control. -
The Persons Act
The famous five were a group of five women who wanted women to be seen as equal in the Canadian constitution. They spent most of their lives fighting for this right and when it was denied in Canada they went to Britain to fight there. It was accepted in Britain the the monarchy overthrow the Canadian gov't. -
Hitler passes the enabling act (democracy to dictatorship)
Constitution amendment that gave the German Cabinet – in effect, Chancellor Adolf Hitler the power to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag. -
First nation people of Canada are granted suffrage
They were giving the rights to vote and more freedoms in Canada. -
Soweto uprising in South Africa
protests the majority tyranny laws that prevent black students from getting an education in their preferred language under the Apartheid rules; some students are killed by police. -
The Reform Party of Canada
The Reform Party of Canada was a right-wing populist federal political party in Canada that existed from 1987 to 2000. Reform was founded as a Western Canada-based protest movement and eventually became a populist conservative party, with strong social conservative elements. -
Referendum on the Charlottetown Accord
The Charlottetown Accord of 1992 was a failed, joint attempt by the government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and all 10 provincial premiers to amend the Canadian Constitution, specifically to obtain Quebec's consent to the Constitution Act of 1982. The Accord would have also decentralized many federal powers to the provinces, and it was ultimately rejected by Canadian voters in a referendum. Meech lake accord was the First nations wanting similar rights as the french but it 1990. -
George W. Bush becomes president
When individuals cast votes in the general election, they are choosing electors and telling them whom they should vote for in the Electoral College. The "national popular vote" is the sum of all the votes cast in the general election nationwide. -
Zimbabwe blames UK for cholera outbreak, making UK a scapegoat
His ministers said the disease had been introduced to the country by the UK as part of a campaign of 'genocidal onslaught'. Government has blamed "biological warfare" waged by Britain for the cholera outbreak that has killed at least 800 people in Zimbabwe. -
Harper Government passes Bill C-16 + Act to amend the Canada elections
Bill C-16 was introduced to defend transgenders rights. Act to amend the canada elections act was fixed in include the transgenders in the amendment.
