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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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