Rule of Law Milestones | Domina Law Group

1122 BC	Chou Dynasty begins	1050	The first law school opens in Pavia, Italy	1803	Marbury v. Madison, I Cranch 137
776 BC	First Olympic Games	1066	William the Conqueror invades England	1804	The Napoleonic Code
660 BC	Laws of Zaleucus at Locri	1086	The Domesday Book	1819	McCulloch v. Maryland, 4. Wheat 316
630 BC	Laws of Lycrugus at Sparta	1095- 1292	The Crusades	1857	Dred Scott v. Sanford, 60 US 393, invalidated the Missouri Compromise granting freedom to slaves thereby setting the stage for the Civil War
594 BC	Laws of Solon at Athens; Age of Seven Wisemen	1142	Gratian, Decretum	1861	Maine, Ancient Law
551- 478 BC	Confucius	1187	Glanvill, A Treatise on the Laws and Customs of England	1861- 1865	The Civil War
459- 430 BC	The Age of Pericles	1215	Magna Carta	1863	The Emancipation Proclamation promulgate by President Lincoln
450 BC	The Twelve Tables	1231	The beginning of the Papal Inquisition	1865	President Lincoln assassinated
432 BC	First Law to Check Electoral Corruption	1260	Bracton, On the Laws and Customs of England	1865	The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States abolishes slavery
399 BC	The death of Socrates - split jury	1295- 1535	The Yearbooks	1869	The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States ensures due process and equal protection of the laws
386 BC	Plato founds the Academy	1300- 1500	The Renaissance	1870	The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees the right to vote regardless of race, color, or prvious condition of servitude
356 BC	Alexander born	1355	Chapter 3, Statute 28 of Edward III - first use of the term " due process of law "	1871	James Langdell devixes the case method for teaching law and publishes the first case - method text, Selection of Cases on the Law of Contracts
334 BC	Aristotle opens the Lyceum	1362	Statute (written in French) decrees that English is to be the official language in all pleas, which must also be debated and judged in English	1880	Ex-Parte Virginia and Strauder v West Virginia affirms right of blacks not to be excluded systematically from juries because of race or color
326 BC	Lex Poetelia eliminates Law of Debt	1400	Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press	1881	Oliver Wendell Holmes, " The common Law"
323 BC	Death of Alexander	1478	The beginning of the Spanish Inquisition	1897	Pollock and Maitland, The History of English Law.
322 BC	Deaths of Aristotle, Demosthenes and Diogenes	1492	Columbus Discovers the New World	1902	Holmes appointed to the Supreme Court by Roosevelt
307 BC	Law Against Philosophers	1558	Beginning of the Elizabethan Age and the determination that North America would be under English, not Spanish, law	1905	Holme''s discent in Lochner v. New York, 198 US 45
62- 64 BC	Fall Seneca; Burning of Rome	1610	Dr. Bonham''s Case, 77 Eng. Rep 646, first recorded case where legislative act was ruled unconstitutional	1913	The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizes Congress to collect income taxes.
52 BC	Murder of Claudius; trial of Milo	1633	The trial of Galileo	1916	Louis Brandeis appointed to the Supreme Court by President W. Wilson
49 BC	Caesar takes Rome, Egypt, and Syria	1641	Massachusetts becomes the first colony to authorize slavery by statute	1918	Justice Holmes'' discent in Hammer v. Dagenhart, 247 US 251
44 BC	Caesar assassinated	1649	The meaningful emergence of parlimentary governing in Great Britain	1914- 1918	World War I
30 BC	Suicide Antony & Cleopatra; Annexation of Egypt	1651	Sir Edward Coke, Coke''s commentary on Littleton	1919	Holmes'' dissent in Abrams v. United States, 250 US 616
4 BC	Birth of Christ	1689	The English Declaration of Rights	1920	Emergence of the American Law Institute and the codification of laws through the Restatements
30 AD	Crucification	1690	Locke, Two Treaties of Civil Government	1920	The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States grants women the right to vote
93 AD	First Persecutions of Christians	1752	Des Montesquieu	1925	Tennessee v. Scopes, the "Monkey" trial
100 AD	Paper manufactured in China	1763	The Stamp Act and it''s reaction; the beginnings of representative government in North America	1927	The Sacco-Vanzetti case
271 AD	Barbarians invade Italy	1765	Blackstone, Commentaries on the Law of England	1938	Eric RR Co v. Tompkins, 304 US 64, mandates application of state law in diversity cases and overrules Swift v. Tyson
301 AD	Price edict of Diocletian	1774	The Declaration and Resolves of the first continental Congress embodying a statement of rights and principles, many of which were incorporated into the Declaration of Independence	1939- 1945	World War II
325 AD	Counsel of Nicaea	1776	Signing of the Declaration of Independence	1945	The Nuremberg trials
330 AD	Constantinople becomes capital	1778	Articles of Confederation	1954	Brown v. Board of Education, 347 US 483 overrules Plessy v. Ferguson''s 1896 "separate but equal" doctrine
372 AD	Plato publishes Republic	1780	Bentham, 1782 Fragment on Government; Principles of Morals and Legislation; of Laws in General	1964	Civil Rights Act passed by Congress
397 AD	Confessions of St. Augustine	1789	The Constitution of the United States	1964	New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 US 754, redefines First Amendment in liberal cases
570- 632 AD	Mohammed lives	1789	George Washington inaugurated as the first President of the United States	1966	Miranda v. Arizona, 384 US 436, creates a system of warnings as a precondition to admissibility of custodial confessions
754 AD	Baghdad becomes capital	1791	First 10 amendments to the Constitution of the United States are adopted	1973	Roe v. Wade, 410 US 113
830 AD	"House of Wisdom" at Baghdad	1792	The emergence of Walpole and the beginning of dominant parliamentary government	1998	President Clinton impeached by the House of Representatives
1000	Leif Ericsson "in Vinland"	1801	John Marshall appointed as Chief Justice of the United States by President Adams	2000	Bush v. Gore

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