2005 Luxembourg accepts a referendum on the E.U. constitution
2005 Dutch reject a referendum on the E.U. constitution
2005 French reject a referendum on the E.U. constitution
1997 5 sue Japanese PM Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life
1996 South Africa's Constitutional Assembly adopts permanent post-apartheid constitution
1994 Senate rejectes a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution
1993 Black and white leaders in South Africa approve new democratic constitution
1992 Andreas M Donner, Dutch state leader/jurist (Constitution), dies at 74
1992 Peru's President Alberto Fujimori suspend constitution and dissolved Congress
1990 Benin nullifies its constitution
1990 Namibia's constitution ratified
1989 Chad adopts its Constitution
1989 East Germany drops communist monopoly from its constitution
1989 Hungary revises constitution
1989 Chile amends its constitution
1989 Sudan suspends interim constitution following coup
1988 Brazil adopts its Constitution
1988 Fiji's new constitution is proposed
1988 Burma suspends its constitution
1988 South Korea adopts constitution
1987 Afghanistan Constitution adopted
1987 South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution
1987 Fiji's constitution is suspended
1987 Suriname constitution ratified
1987 Philadelphia celebrates 200th anniversary of Constitution
1987 Ethiopia adopts constitution
1987 Coup in Burundi suspends constitution
1987 Philippines constitution goes into effect
1987 Philippines adopts constitution
1987 New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect
1986 Central African Republic adopts constitution
1986 Bangladesh Constitution restored
1986 Constitution of Guatemala takes effect
1985 Pakistan restores constitution
1985 Sudan adopts interim constitution
1985 Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) adopts constitution
1985 South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands adopts constitution
1985 Uganda suspends constitution following coup
1985 Guatemala adopts constitution
1985 Sudan suspends constitution after coup under general Swarreddahab
1984 South Africa adopts constitution
1984 Guinea-Bissau adopts constitution
1984 Guinea suspends constitution after coup
1984 Tanzania adopts constitution
1983 El Salvador adopts constitution
1983 Haiti adopts constitution
1983 Netherlands adopts constitution
1982 Sao Tome and Principe constitution approved
1982 China adopts its constitution
1982 Turkey adopts constitution
1982 Portugal revises constitution
1982 Equatorial Guinea adopts constitution
1982 Guinea adopts constitution
1982 Canada Constitution Act replaces British North America Act
1982 Canada adopts its constitution
1982 Queen Elizabeth proclaims Canada's new constitution
1982 Anguilla, dependent territory of U.K., adopts constitution
1982 Honduras constitution goes into effect
1982 Honduras adopts constitution
1981 Lt Jerry Rawlings becomes head of Ghana, suspends constitution
1981 Burundia adopts its constitution
1981 Cambodia adopts its constitution
1981 Chile constitution takes effect, Augusto Pinochet 2nd term begins
1981 Cape Verde amends its constitution
1981 Palau adopts constitution
1980 Vietnam adopts constitution
1980 Mauritania provisional constitution published
1980 Uruguay's new constitution rejected by referendum
1980 Coup in Burkina abolishes constitution
1980 New South Korean constitution comes into effect
1980 Guyana adopts constitution
1980 Chile adopts its constitution
1980 Cape Verde adopts its constitution
1980 Angola revises its constitution
1980 Belgian constitution revised
1980 Peru adopts constitution, Fernando Belaunde Terry becomes president
1980 Togo's constitution becomes effective
1979 Togo adopts constitution
1979 Zimbabwe adopts constitution
1979 Iran accepts constitution
1979 Nigeria adopts constitution, Alhaji Shagari becomes president
1979 Ghana adopts constitution
1979 Somali constitution approved by president
1979 Somali adopts constitution
1979 Ecuador adopts its constitution
1979 Congo adopts constitution
1979 Mali's constitution goes into effect
1979 Seychelles adopts constitution
1979 Nigeria amends constitution
1979 Rhodesia agrees to new constitution
1978 Spain constitution goes into effect
1978 King Juan Carlos ratifies Spain's 1st democratic constitution
1978 Thailand adopts constitution
1978 Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda
1978 Spain adopts constitution
1978 Dominica gains independence from U.K. and adopts constitution
1978 People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South) adopts constitution
1978 Swaziland's new constitution promulgated bans political parties
1978 Comoros adopts constitution
1978 Constitution adopted by Sri Lanka
1978 Sierra Leone adopts constitution
1978 Zaire revises constitution
1978 Angola revises its constitution
1977 U.S.S.R. adopts constitution
1977 British Virgin Islands adopts constitution
1977 Benin adopts its constitution
1977 Libya amends constitution
1976 Albania constitution goes into effect
1976 Algeria Constitution goes into effect
1976 Trinidad and Tobago adopts constitution
1976 Turks and Caicos Islands adopts constitution
1976 Portugal adopts constitution
1976 Portuguese constitution assumed
1976 Cuba adopts its constitution
1976 Macau adopts constitution (Organic Law of Macau)
1975 Constitution of Democratic Republic of Madagascar comes into force
1975 Madagascar adopts constitution
1975 Sao Tome and Principe adopts constitution
1975 Greece adopts constitution
1975 Gabon amends constitution
1975 Sweden adopts constitution
1974 German DR amends constitution
1974 Yemen Arab Republic, North Yemen, suspends constitution
1974 Malta's constitution goes into effect
1974 Malta adopts constitution
1974 Yugoslavia adopts constitution
1974 Burma accepts its constitution
1973 Grenada adopts constitution
1973 Bahrain's constitution goes into effect
1973 Zambia adopts constitution
1973 Bahamas declares Independence from U.K. and adopts constitution
1973 Uruguay suspends constitution
1973 Bahrain adopts it's constitution
1973 Sudan adopts constitution
1973 Swaziland suspends constitution
1973 Pakistan suspends constitution
1973 Syria adopts constitution
1973 Morocco adopts constitution
1973 Pope Paul VI publishes constitution motu proprio Quo aptius
1973 New Philippine constitution names Marcos president for life
1972 New North Korean constitution comes into effect
1972 Bangladesh Constitution goes into effect
1972 Bangladesh adopts constitution
1972 Panama adopts constitution
1972 Ceylon becomes Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified
1972 Republic of Cameroon declared as constitution is ratified
1972 Hungary revises constitution
1972 Revised Dutch constitution proclaimed
1971 Egypt adopts its constitution
1971 Bulgarian constitution goes into effect
1971 Bulgaria adopts it's constitution
1970 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) adopts constitution
1970 Iraq's constitution goes into effect
1970 Senegal adopts constitution
1970 Constitution of Singapore enacted
1969 Libya adopts constitution
1969 Gibraltar adopts constitution
1969 Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Sacra Ritum Congregation
1968 Iraq adopts constitution
1968 Bermuda adopts its constitution
1968 New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted
1968 German DR adopts constitution
1968 New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect
1968 94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution
1968 Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect
1968 Nauru adopts constitution
1967 Nguyen Van Thieu elected President of South Vietnam under a new constitution
1967 Paraguay accepts its constitution
1967 Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Regimini Ecclesiae Universae
1967 Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Pro comperto sane
1967 Zaire adopts constitution
1967 Bolivia adopts its constitution
1967 St. Helena adopts constitution
1967 Tonga revises constitution
1966 Dominican Republic adopts constitution
1966 Uruguay adopts constitution
1965 Romania adopts constitution
1965 Morocco King Hassan suspends constitution, grabs power
1964 Maldives adopts constitution
1964 24th Amendment to U.S. Constitution goes into effect and states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes
1963 Algerian population accepts constitution
1963 Senegal adopts constitution
1962 Current constitution of Monaco promulgated
1962 Nepal gets constitution/becomes Constitutional Hindu Monarchy
1962 Kuwait adopts constitution (1st, Islamitic)
1962 Some provisions of Kuwaiti constitution are suspended
1961 U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision in Md's constitution requiring state office holders to believe in God
1961 Mauritania adopts constitution
1961 Gabon adopts constitution
1961 Venezuela adopts constitution
1960 Ivory Coast adopts constitution
1960 Czechoslovakia adopts Constitution
1960 Mongolia adopts constitution
1960 Montserrat adopts constitution
1959 Sultan of Brunei promulgates a constitution
1959 Indonesia restores constitution
1959 Singapore adopts constitution
1959 Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
1959 Gabon adopts its constitution
1959 Castro proclaims new Cuban constitution
1958 France adopts constitution
1956 Vietnam promulgates its constitution
1954 1st National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution
1954 Virgin Islands (U.S.) adopts constitution (Revised Organic Act)
1953 British premier Winston Churchill aproves Guyanese Constitution
1953 Denmark adopts a new constitution
1952 "I am an American Day" and "Constitution Day" renamed "Citizenship Day"
1952 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created (Constitution Day)
1952 Poland adopts Communist-imposed Constitution
1952 Puerto Rico's constitution approved by U.S. Congress
1952 Puerto Rico approves their 1st self written constitution
1952 Jordan adopts constitution
1951 Constitution of Jordan passes
1951 Uruguay accepts its constitution
1951 22nd amendment to Constitution is ratified
1950 West Berlin granted a constitution
1950 Indies Constitution goes into effect
1950 Guam adopts constitution (Organic Act)
1950 Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own constitution)
1949 India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic
1949 Costa Rica adopts Constitution
1949 Hungary (Magyar People's Republic) accepts constitution
1949 Hungary adopts constitution
1949 East Germans constitution approved
1949 West German constitution approved
1948 Proclamation of constitution of Republic of (South) Korea
1948 Italy adopts constitution
1947 Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution
1947 Laos accepts constitution for parliamentary democracy
1947 General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution
1946 Constitution accepted in Taiwan
1946 Emperor Hirohito proclaims new Japanese constitution
1946 Panama accepts its new constitution
1946 Yugoslavia adopts new constitution, becomes a federal republic
1944 Iceland adopts constitution
1944 Generals Giraud and de Gaulle reach agreement on constitution
1937 2nd Irish constitution goes into effect; Irish Free State renamed Erie
1937 Ireland adopts constitution (Irish Free State becomes Eire)
1936 Virgin Islands receives a constitution from U.S., Organic Act
1934 Austrian gets "Austrian facist" constitution
1932 King Rama VII (Prajadhipok) grants Thailand a constitution
1930 Eduard David, German minister (constitution of Weimar), dies at 67
1930 Supreme Court rules buying liquor does not violate the Constitution
1930 USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a national shrine
1929 Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador
1926 Lebanon adopts constitution
1926 Lebanese constitution forms under French mandate
1925 Greek republican constitution enforced
1923 Italian parliament accepts new constitution
1922 Dutch Constitution proclaimed
1922 1st constitution of Irish Free State comes into operation
1922 Irish Parliament adopts a constitution for an Irish Free State
1921 Present constitution of Liechtenstein comes into effect
1919 Germany accepts Weimar Constitution
1919 Finland adopts constitution
1918 Soviets disallows a Constitution Assembly
1917 Present Mexican constitution adopted
1906 Ecuador adopts its constitution
1900 Australia accepts its constitution
1898 Louisiana adopts new constitution with "grandfather clause" designed to eliminate black voters
1889 Washington voters adopt state constitution in referendum
1889 Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890
1887 Philadelphia celebrates 100th anniversary of U.S. Constitution
1886 Colombia adopts constitution
1877 Burkina adopts its constitution
1876 Turkey's 1st constitution proclaimed
1875 Tonga adopts constitution
1874 Present constitution of Switzerland takes effect
1868 Constitution of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg comes into effect
1868 Louisiana voters approve new constitution
1868 South Carolina voters approved constitution, 70,758 to 27,228
1867 British North America Act (Canadian constitution) passes
1865 Tennessee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery
1864 Greek parliament accept new Constitution
1864 Maryland voters adopt new constitution, including abolition of slavery
1863 Eduard David, German undersecretary, constitution of Weimar
1862 Kingdom of Nepal accepts its constitution
1862 Confederate Constitution and presidency are declared permanent
1861 Washington D.C. - Crittenden resolution is passed stating that the war is to be fought to preserve union and uphold the Constitution, not to alter slavery
1861 Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution
1861 Confederate Provisional Congress declares all laws under the U.S. Constitution were consistent with constitution of Confederate states
1857 Mexican constitution of force (fiercely attacked by Pope Pius IX)
1856 Constitution of South Australia adopted
1853 Argentina adopts it's constitution
1848 Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution
1848 Toscane gets liberal Constitution
1848 Sicily accepts new Constitution (choose parliament/freedom of press)
1848 King of Naples grants his subjects a constitution
1845 Texas ratifies a state constitution
1840 1st Hawaiian constitution proclaimed
1837 Spain gets new Constitution
1836 Texas approves a constitution
1832 Polish constitution abolished/replaced by Czar Nicholas I
1831 Belgium adopts it's Constitution
1814 Norwegian constitution passed by constitutent assembly at Eidsvoll
1812 U.S. warship Constitution defeats British warship Guerriere
1809 Ignacy Potocki, Polish Foreign Minister (constitution), dies
1804 12th amendment to U.S. constitution, regulating judicial power
1803 Congress accepts Ohio's constitution, statehood not ratified till 1953
1798 Dutch emperor accepts new Constitution
1797 U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston
1797 U.S. frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston
1795 Freedom of worship established in France under constitution
1795 11th Amendment to U.S. Constitution ratified, affirms power of states
1793 1st republican constitution in France adopted
1791 France's King Louis XVI accepts constitution
1791 French Constitution passed by French National Assembly
1791 Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy
1790 1st book copyrighted under constitution, "Philadelphia Spelling Book"
1790 Rhode Is becomes last of original 13 colonies ratifying Constitution
1789 North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th U.S. state
1789 Oath of Tennis Court (for a new constitution) in France taken
1789 U.S. constitution goes into effect
1789 1st Congress declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 reps)
1788 Cornelis J van Assen, Dutch jurist, Language of the Constitution
1788 New York becomes 11th state to ratify constitution
1788 Virginia becomes 10th state to ratify U.S. constitution
1788 U.S. Constitution goes into effect as New Hampshire is 9th to ratify
1788 South Carolina becomes 8th state to ratify U.S. constitution
1788 Maryland becomes 7th state to ratify constitution
1788 Massachusetts becomes 6th state to ratify constitution
1788 Georgia is 4th state to ratify U.S. constitution
1787 New Jersey becomes 3rd state to ratify constitution
1787 Pennsylvania becomes 2nd state to ratify U.S. constitution
1787 Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution
1787 "Federalist Papers" published, calls for ratification of Constitution
1787 Congress sends Constitution to state legislatures for their approval
1787 Constitution submitted to states for ratification
1787 U.S. constitution adopted by Philadelphia convention
1787 Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up U.S. constitution
1777 New York adopts new constitution as an independent state
1777 New York adopts new constitution as an independent state
1776 Virginia state constitution adopted and Patrick Henry made governor
1776 Assembly of New Hampshire adopts its 1st state constitution
1755 Rufus King, framer of U.S. constitution
1739 George Clymer, U.S. merchant, signed Decl of, Indiana, Constitution
1723 Emperor Karel VI's Pragmatic Sanctie declares Constitution
1721 Roger Sherman, signer, Decl of, Indiana, Constitution
1669 John Lockes Constitution of English colony Carolina approved
1641 General court declares RI a democracy and adopts new constitution
1639 1st Connecticut constitution (Fundamental Orders) adopted in Hartford
1600 San Marino adopts constitution
1484 Joachim I Nestor, elector, Brandenburg, Constitution
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