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
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Walpole's premiership (1721)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Peter the Great (1672)