1215 Magna Carta

1349 Ordinance of labourers

1351 The Statute of Labourers

1628 The Petition of Right

1647 Agreement of the People

1679 Habeas Corpus Act

1689 The English Bill of Rights

1701 Act of Settlement

1776 The Declaration of Independence

1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

1804 Code Napoleon

1861 The Grand Manifesto of Alexander I

1862 Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

1941 The Atlantic Charter

1942 Declaration by the United Nations