2001 Terrorists break into parliament building in New Delhi, murder at least 12
1997 Australian parliament overturns world's 1st and only euthanasia law
1996 Alain Poher, French President of European Parliament (1966-69), dies
1995 President Nazarbajev disbands Kazachstan parliament
1993 Troops of President Yelsin occupy Russian White House (parliament)
1993 Liechtenstein prince Hans-Adam II disbands parliament
1992 Parliament suspends president Fernando Collor
1992 Slovak parliament asks for self rule
1992 Bush is 1st U.S. President to address Australian Parliament
1991 Soviet parliament approves law allowing citizens to travel abroad
1990 Ian Gow, British Conservative parliament leader, murdered
1990 Parliament of W and E Germany recognize Oder-Neissegrens
1990 Latvia's parliament votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence
1990 1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for Nazi holocaust and asks for forgivenesss
1989 Alexander Dubcek elected parliament chairman of Czech
1989 Pavlos Bakoyannis, Greek parliament leader, murdered in Rome
1989 Danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals
1988 Meir Kahane renounced U.S. citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament
1988 Gorbachev pushes plan electing president and parliament in March, 1989
1988 President Zia ul-Haq fires government/disbands parliament in Pakistan
1988 Giorgio Almirante, Italy, fascist (member of parliament), dies at 73
1988 Australia's new parliament house is opened by Queen Elizabeth
1986 C Wttewaall van Stoetwegen, CHU Member of Dutch parliament, dies at 85
1985 West German Parliament ruled it illegal to deny the holocaust
1984 Centrum party expels 2nd Member of parliament Janmaat due to fraud
1984 South African election for parliament boycvotted
1983 Lebanese parliament accept peace accord with Israel
1983 Helmut Kohl's CDU/CSU wins West German parliament elections
1982 West Germany's Parliament ousts Helmut Schmidt for Helmut Kohl
1982 Dutch social dem party wins elections, fascist enters Dutch parliament
1982 Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament
1982 Piet Dankert elected chairman of European Parliament
1981 Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament
1980 Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel
1979 Piet Dankert appointed as chairman of European Parliament
1979 Simone Veil becomes chairman of European Parliament
1979 Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt
1979 Egyptian Parliament unanimously approve peace treaty with Israel
1977 Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament
1977 Kenya president Jomo Kenyatta disbands parliament
1976 Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 years of dictatorship
1976 Helmuth Kohl's CDU wins German parliament election
1975 Parliament disposes of premier sheik Mujib ur-Rahman
1974 European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament
1974 Josef Smrkovsky, Czechoslovakia parliament chairman, dies at 62
1973 Arabi El Goni, VP/Chad parliament, murdered
1973 Chilean parliament accuses President Allende violating laws
1972 British Parliament votes to join European Common Market
1971 Eyskens-Cools disbands Belgium parliament
1971 Chilean parliament nationalizes U.S. copper mines
1969 SPD wins West German Parliament elections
1968 President Da Costa e Silva disbands parliament/grabs power
1968 President De Gaulle disbands French parliament
1968 West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law
1965 Belgium Victor Leemans elected chairman of European Parliament
1965 Erhards CDU wins West German parliament elections
1965 Christian-democrats win parliament in Chile
1964 European Parliament accept Mansholt Plan
1963 King Hassan II opens 1st parliament in Morocco)
1963 Robert Schuman, French premier/chair (European Parliament), dies at 77
1963 Greek parliament leader Lambrakis injured
1962 Kerstin Hesselgren, 1st woman in Swedish parliament, dies at 90
1961 Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi party wins 1 seat by a single vote and parliament by a single seat
1960 Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed
1960 President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament
1959 President Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament
1958 Indonesian parliament accepts nationalisation of Dutch businesses
1958 West German parliament desires German atomic weapons
1957 Hand grenade explodes in Israel's Knesset (Parliament)
1956 U.S.S.R.'s Cominform (Parliament) dissolves
1955 Christine Oddy, British member European parliament
1955 Argentine parliament accepts separation of church and state
1955 Indies parliament accept hindu-divorce
1955 Robert H Woltjer, classical/AR-First-Member of parliament, dies at 76
1954 Pakistan governor-general Ghoelan Mohammed disbands parliament
1954 Anne Mcintosh, British member European parliament
1954 Queen Elizabeth II opens NZ parliament
1954 Yugoslav parliament chairman/VP Milovan Djilas criticize communism
1953 Salazars party wins all parliament seats in Portugal
1952 European Parliament forms in Strasbourg
1951 Egyptian parliament accept denounces Suez Canal Treaty
1950 Swiss parliament refuses voting right for women
1950 South African parliament accept "Groups Area Act"
1949 King Faruk disbands Egyptian parliament
1948 Albert F Pollard, British historian (Evolution of parliament), dies at 78
1945 Queen Wilhelmina opens parliament in Hague
1945 Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament
1943 Asser B Kleerekoper, SDAP-Second-Member of parliament, dies at 62
1941 Winston Churchill addresses Canadian parliament
1940 Joris [Georges] van Severen, Flem fascist/Member of parliament, dies
1940 Joseph Limburg, liberal 2nd-Member of parliament (1905-19), dies at 75
1939 British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949
1939 Hitler proclaims to German parliament to exterminate all European Jews
1937 Jacobus H "Koos" van de Merwe, South Africa attorney/CP parliament leader
1936 Polish parliament gives President Ignacy Moscicki dictatorial power
1933 Dutch parliament accepts ban on uniforms
1933 Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes)
1933 Chancellor Dollfuss disdolves Austrian parliament
1933 Nazis set fire to German parliament building, Reichstag, blame it on Communists
1933 President von Hindenburg and von Papen end Prussian parliament
1933 2 days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves Parliament
1933 German Parliament disolves, Gen Ludendorf predicts catastrophe
1932 Von Hindenburg disbands German Parliament
1932 Admiral Makoto Saito forms parliament in Tokyo
1930 David M G Curry, South African Labour Party parliament leader
1928 King Fuad of Egypt grabs power/disbands parliament
1928 British parliament accept female sufferage
1927 Saad Zaghlul, Egyptian parliament chairman, dies at 74
1927 Simone Veil, President European parliament, France
1926 Haya van Someren-Downer, 2nd Member of parliament, Dutch Lib Party
1926 Belgian parliament accepts Locarno treaties
1925 German Parliament ratifies treaty of Locarno
1925 KPD proposes German Parliament expropriate possession of monarchy
1925 General Pangulos disbands Greek parliament
1925 SDAP-Second-Faction of parliament demands drastic disarmament
1925 Albanian parliament announces itself a republic; Ahmed Zogoe pres
1925 Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator
1924 Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists
1924 Italy fascists receives 65% of vote of parliament
1924 Greek parliament selects Admiral Paul Koundouriotis as premier
1924 Greek parliament proclaims republic
1924 Nationalist Wafd-party wins Egyptian parliament elections
1923 Labour/Liberals win British parliament
1923 [Auguste-]Maurice Barres, French writer/parliament leader, dies at 61
1923 Italian parliament accepts new constitution
1922 Belgian parliament rejects Dutch university in Ghent
1922 Polish parliament selects Stanislaw Wojcieckowski as president
1922 Italian parliament gives Mussolini dictatorial powers "for 1 year"
1922 Greek parliament bans prince Andreas for life
1922 German parliament mandates Ebert president until July 1925
1922 Irish Parliament adopts a constitution for an Irish Free State
1921 1st parliament for Northern Ireland elected
1921 Mussolini's fascists obtains 29 parliament seats
1920 Ireland divided into 2 parts, each with its own parliament
1920 British parliament accept Irish "Home Rule"-law
1919 Austria parliament approves 8-hour day
1919 Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament
1919 US-born Lady Astor elected 1st female member of British Parliament
1919 British Parliament passes a 48-hour work week with minimum wages
1919 Sinn Fein proclaims parliament of Free Ireland
1918 Danish parliament passed an act to grant Iceland independence
1918 SDAP'er Suze Groenweg elected 1st woman in Dutch parliament
1916 German parliament OKs unrestricted submarine warfare
1916 Canada's original Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, burns down
1914 Giorgio Almirante, born in Italy, fascist, member of parliament, 1948-87,
1913 Opening of China's 1st parliament takes place in Peking (now Beijing)
1911 Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords
1911 British house of commons accept Parliament Bill
1910 Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy
1910 Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting rights
1909 Rembt THPLA of Boneval Faure, lawyer/1st-Member of parliament, dies
1907 English suffragettes storm British Parliament and 60 women are arrested
1906 Lord Margadale, English Conserv parliament leader/large landowner
1906 German chancellor Bernhard von Bulow disbands the Parliament
1906 Russia's Duma (Parliament) meets for 1st time
1905 Tsar of Russia accepts 1st Duma (Parliament)
1903 Norwegian parliament vote unanimiously for female suffrage
1902 Australian parliament agrees to female suffrage
1901 Australia opens its 1st parliament in Melbourne
1900 Queen Victoria disbands British parliament
1900 JH Scheps, Dutch 2nd-Member of parliament, social democratic
1897 Carlo A Alfieri, Italian Member of parliament, dies at 70
1894 Joris [Georges] of Severen, Flemish fascist/Member of parliament
1892 Gyorgy Klapka, Hungarian general/parliament leader, dies at 72
1880 Asser B Kleerekoper, journalist/2nd-Member of parliament, SDAP
1879 Henri-Honore Giraud, French general/member of parliament
1878 Robert H Woltjer, classical/AR-1st-Member of parliament, About Plato
1875 Suze Groeneweg, 1st Dutch female parliament member, SDAP, 1918-37
1868 Jacob van Lennep, Dutch 2nd member of parliament, dies at 66
1867 Brit parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women suffrage
1866 Joseph Limburg, liberal Second-Member of parliament, 1905-19
1865 Philipp Scheidemann, German Parliament, SPD, /mayor of Kassel
1864 Greek parliament accept new Constitution
1863 Hugo Haase, German SPD-German parliament/revolutionary
1863 Albartus Telting, Fries poet/2nd-Member of parliament, dies
1862 [Auguste-]Maurice Barres, French writer/member of parliament
1862 Dirk Bos, Dutch liberal 2nd Member of parliament
1860 1st Italian Parliament met at Turin
1859 John LA Luyten, Catholic Member of Dutch 2nd parliament, dies at 72
1858 Baron Lionel de Rothschild is 1st Jew elected to British Parliament
1858 Jewish Disabilities Removal Act passed by British Parliament
1857 Conrad T van Deventer, lawyer/2nd-Member of parliament
1856 J Keir Hardie, 1st Labour representative in British Parliament
1848 German Parliament demands Dutch province of Limburg
1848 Sicily accepts new Constitution (choose parliament/freedom of press)
1841 1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario
1840 Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper and Lower Canada
1838 Eugen Richter, German parliament member, Liberal
1836 British parliament accept registration of birth/marriage/death
1834 London parliament catches fire; historic documents burn
1834 Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian/parliament member
1834 Belgian parliament accept railway laws
1833 Joseph Pease, a Quaker, admitted to Parliament on his affirmation
1832 British Parliament passes reform bill
1830 Dutch King Willem I fires him displeasing parliament members
1829 Dutch parliament accepts new press laws
1828 Count d'Andreossi, French general/parliament leader, dies at 67
1825 Dadabhai Naoroji, 1st Indian in British parliament
1809 Francois de Canrobert, French marshal/parliament member
1808 Gyorgy Apponyi, Hungarian Parliament member
1807 British Parliament abolishes slave trade
1805 Pieter J Elout van Soeterwoude, Dutch judge/member of parliament
1803 John ACA van Nispen Sevenaer, Member of Dutch 2nd parliament, 1848-75
1797 Edmund Burke, British author/parliament leader (Reflections), dies at 68
1793 Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/parliament member, dies
1788 Vizille France population demands local parliament
1788 English parliament accepts abolishing of slave trade
1787 Parliament of Paris banished to Troyes
1787 Parliament impeaches Warren Hastings
1784 English parliament accept India Act
1780 Anti Catholic demonstration attacks parliament in London
1775 Edmund Burke presents his 13 articles to the English parliament
1775 English Parliament declares Massachusetts colony is in rebellion
1774 English parliament accepts Quebec Act
1774 English Parliament passes Boston Port Bill
1773 British Parliament passes Tea Act (Boston won't like this)
1772 Gustav III seizes effective control of Swedish government and restores full power of monarchy, which had been subordinate to parliament since 1720
1762 British parliament accept Treaty of Paris
1761 Earl d'Andreossi, French general and member of parliament
1753 English parliament grants Jewish English citizenship
1753 King Louis XV disbands French parliament
1749 British parliament accept Consolidation Act: fleet reorganization
1741 Queen Maria Theresa addresses Hungarian Parliament
1738 English parliament declares war on Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear)
1732 Parliament of Ratisborn accept Pragmatic Sanctions
1722 Hungarian Parliament condemns emperor Karel VI's Pragmatic Sanctions
1714 Parliament of Paris accepts Pope Clemens XI's "Unigenitus" degree
1707 English/Scottish parliament accept Act of Union, form Great Britain
1705 Parliament declares Hungary independently/French Rakoczi becomes king
1702 Queen Anne Stuart addresses English parliament
1697 English parliament accept army reduction
1697 Polish parliament selects monarch August van Saksen as king
1694 Bank of England granted 12 year charter by Act of Parliament
1689 English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution
1689 English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants
1689 German Parliament declares war on France
1689 English parliament places Mary Stuart/Prince Willem III on the throne
1689 British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights
1689 English parliament ends king Charles II reign
1689 Prince Willem III calls English parliament together
1687 King James II disbands English parliament
1681 Hungarian parliament promises protestants freedom of religion
1681 3rd Exclusion Parliament meets in London
1680 Parliament of Breisach accept French sovereignty over Elzas
1679 King Charles II disbands English parliament
1678 Roman Catholics banned from English parliament
1675 English king Charles II adjourns parliament
1674 German Parliament declares war on France
1671 King Charles II sits in on English parliament
1669 Polish parliament selects Litouwer Michael Wisniopwiecki as king
1663 English parliament accepts Staple Act
1661 Parliament confirms Navigation Act
1660 English parliament asks King Charles II to resigns
1660 London Convention Parliament begins
1660 Parliament meets and votes to restore Charles II
1660 English Long Parliament disbands
1659 Long Parliament reforms in Westminster
1659 Lord protector Cromwell disbands English parliament
1653 Russian parliament accepts annexation of Ukraine
1653 British Barebones Parliament goes into session
1653 German Parliament selects Ferdinand II king of Austria
1653 Cromwell routes English parliament to house
1651 Henry Ireton, English gen/parliament leader (Marston Moor), dies at 40
1651 English parliament proclaims Navigation Act off
1648 Pride's Purge: Thomas Pride prevents 96 presbyterians from sitting in English parliament
1647 King Charles I handed over to English parliament
1647 Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for 40 pounds
1647 Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English parliament
1646 English parliament sets king Charles I Newcastle Propositions
1645 English parliament accept Self-Denying Ordinance
1645 Robert Devereux resigns as parliament supreme commander
1642 Battle at Turnham Green, London: King Charles I vs English parliament
1642 Battle at Edgeville (Warwick): King Charles I vs English parliament
1642 Civil War in England began between Royalists and Parliament
1642 King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament
1640 English Long Parliament forms
1640 English Short Parliament unites
1640 English Short Parliament forms
1632 John Eliot, English parliament leader/author (In Jail), dies at 40
1630 Emperor Ferdinand II opens German Parliament
1629 King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he called it back 11 years later
1626 King Charles I disbands English parliament
1624 English parliament comes together
1622 King James I disbands the English parliament
1621 English king James I cracks Protestation of Parliament
1621 English parliament accept unanimously, Protestation
1619 John Lambert, English general-major/parliament leader
1614 2nd parliament of King James I, dissolves passing no legislation
1614 2nd parliament of King James I begin session (no enactments)
1610 Parliament of Paris appoints Louis XIII (8) as French king
1605 Gunpowder Plot; Catholics try to blow up English Parliament. Plot uncovered and leader Guy Fawkes hanged
1600 Charles I, king of England, 1625-49, ; executed by Parliament
1587 English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower
1587 English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower
1584 English parliament throws out Jesuits
1581 English parliament passes laws against Catholicism
1575 Polish Parliament selects Istvan Bathory as king of Poland
1573 Polish Parliament selects duke of Anjou as king
1569 Latvia Parliament accept Union of Lublin, incorporate into Poland
1555 English parliament refuses to recognize Philip of Spain as king
1545 German Parliament opens in Worms
1542 Richard Grenville, English parliament leader/vice-admiral, Roanoke
1542 Parliament passes bill of attainder against Queen Katherine Howard
1541 Irish parliament selects Henry VIII as king of Ireland
1534 English parliament accepts Act of Supremacy: Henry VIII church leader
1534 English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church - a role formerly held by the Pope
1532 English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome
1531 English Reformation parliament's 2nd sitting
1530 German Parliament joins to Augsburg together
1529 2nd Parliament of Spiers bans Lutheranism
1526 Parliament of Spiers: Lutheran monarchy freed of their belief
1525 Paris' parliament begins pursuit of Protestants
1521 Parliament of Worms: Cardinal Alexander questions Maarten Luther
1376 English "Good Parliament" meets
1376 English parliament demands supervision on royal outlay
1265 1st English Parliament formally convened (some authorities)
1265 1st English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester
1048 Parliament of Worms: Emperor Henry III names his cousin count Bruno van Egisheim/Dagsburg as Pope Leo IX
930 World's oldest parliament, the Iceland Parliament, established
887 Parliament in Tribur: King Charles III resigns
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