Habeas Corpus Act
1679 · Event
Statute formalising the right against unlawful detention; cornerstone of English liberty.
On these timelines: Master, United Kingdom (combined), England
Around 1679
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- Catherine the Great (1729)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Kingdom of Prussia proclaimed (1701)