Timeline of Democracy

By Chrsil
  • 800 BCE

    Ancient Greece

    Democracy first appears
  • 753 BCE

    Ancient Roman Empire

    Republic begins
  • Jun 15, 1215

    Magna Carta

    Magna Carta Libertatum, commonly called Magna Carta, is a charter agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.
  • Iroquois

    Iroquois Confederacy was established 1600's.
  • Petition of Right

    The Petition of Right is a major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing.
  • John Locke

    John Locke was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism"
  • Montesquieu

    Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French lawyer, man of letters, and political philosopher who lived during the Age of Enlightenment.
  • Thomas Paine

    Thomas Paine was an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary.
  • Bill of Rights

    The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. Proposed following the oftentimes bitter 1787–88 battle over ratification of the U.S. Constitution.

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