2015 Event Animal rights activists lose a case to free two chimpanzees being held for research purposes; the activists argued that the animals are highly intelligent and should be treated as humans with similar legal rights 2015 Event Two animal rights activists are placed under house arrest, awaiting trial for acts of terrorism against the fur industry; in 2013, Joseph Buddenberg and Nicole Kissane released minks from mink farms and vandalized fur businesses across the U.S. 2014 Event North Korea threatens nuclear tests, and activity has been detected at one of the nation's nuclear facilities; the threat was made after the U.N. recommended trying North Korean officials in the International Criminal Court for human rights crimes 2014 Event The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi for their work in advocating children's rights; 17-year-old Yousafzai, who was shot by Taliban in retaliation for her activism, is the youngest recipient in history 2014 Event Former Haitian leader Jean Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier dies of a heart attack at age 63; known for an oppressive regime, he fled the country in 1986 but returned in 2011, pleading not guilty to charges of corruption and human rights violations 2014 Event Amazon announces its new Kindle Unlimited program, a subscription service providing borrowing rights to a large selection of books for a monthly fee; the service is drawing comparisons to movie rental company Netflix 2014 Event After restricting its ties with Cuba since 1996, the European Union agrees to launch negotiations; the talks aim to increase the dialogue on human rights and increase trade and investment between Cuba and the EU 2014 Event U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry criticizes Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, for legislation he signed last week to ban same-sex marriage and criminalize gay rights groups and their activities; the law includes penalties of up to 14 years imprisonment 2013 Event Syria, Iran and North Korea are condemned for human rights violations by the United Nations 2013 Event Angola's Ministry of Justice and Human Rights deny the country has banned Islam and is dismantling mosques in an effort to stop the spread of Muslim extremism; they claim mosques are closed because Islam has not gone through the process of approval or legalization 2013 Event As part of an effort to protect human rights, China's CPC Central Committee announces a plan to abolish its 'reeducation through labor system' which began in the 1950s 2013 Event The International Olympic Committee announces it will punish athletes who support Russian LGBT rights at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games 2013 Event Texas State Senator Wendy Davis, famous for her 11-hour filibuster against restricting abortion rights, announces she will run for either the Texas State Senate seat or for Governor of Texas 2013 Event A portion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which protects minority voting rights, is struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, ruling that Congress has not taken into account the nation's racial progress when singling out certain states for federal oversight 2013 Event The U.N. Human Rights Office determine it is a violation of international law to force-feed hunger strikers at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison 2013 Event Russia threatens retaliation after the U.S. imposes sanctions on '18 Magnitsky list' Russians accues of humans rights violations 2013 Event In Saudi Arabia, Egyptian human rights lawyer Ahmed al-Gizawi is sentenced to five years in prison and 300 lashes, for possession of Xanax anti-anxiety pills 2012 Event George Lucas sells Lucasfilm Ltd. to the Walt Disney Company for $4.05 billion; the sale includes the rights to the 'Indiana Jones' and 'Star Wars' franchises 2012 Event Noam Chomsky, a Jewish-American philosopher, linguist and human rights activist, visits Gaza for the first time, attending a seminar with Gazan thinkers and intellectuals 2012 Event The 2012 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the European Union for 'over six decades (having) contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe' 2012 Event The Dutch non-profit organization's Women on Waves abortion rights activist ship, which provides abortions and related medical services to women from countries with restrictive abortion laws, was blocked from entering Morocco's port of Smir 2011 Event Sprint Nextel reportedly pays $20 billion for the exclusive rights to Apple's next mobile cell phone 2011 Event The Government of Syria is under investigation by the U.N. Human Rights Council for alleged human rights violations during the 2011 Syrian uprising 2011 Event The first condemnation of discrimination against gays, lesbians and transgender people is issued by the United Nations Human Rights Council 2011 Event In Rome, Italy, over 500,000 people demonstrate, demanding same-sex rights 2011 Event The U.S. intends to impose sanctions on Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria, for alleged human rights breaches during the 2011 Syrian Uprising 2011 Event In Brazil, the Supreme Federal Court rules that same-sex couples receive the same rights of existing civil unions 2011 Event U.S. conductor Daniel Barenboim holds a 'Peace Concert' in the Gaza Strip; he is a supporter of Palestinian rights 2011 Event China releases two prominent human rights lawyers, Liu Xiaoyuan and Jiang Tianyong 2011 Event Iran's Government rejects an investigation into alleged human rights abuses called for by the United Nations Human Rights Council 2011 Event In Morocco, thousands rally to demand and end to corruption and more civil rights for the Moroccan people 2011 Event Human Rights Watch reports 24 people were killed in Libya's 'Day of Rage' anti-regime protest 2011 Event The United Nations Human Rights Council criticizes Burma for its human rights record 2011 Event China places new controls on text messages sent on mobile phones containing references to democracy, human rights and corruption 2010 Event In Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, the government dismisses criticism from rights groups and opens a 'protest park' 2010 Event Indonesian rights groups applaud the end of a Suharto-era law that bans books deemed 'offensive' or a 'threat to public order' 2010 Event An Iranian woman convicted of adultery is sentenced to death by stoning; Iranian human rights activist Mina Ahadi tries to stop this barbaric act 2009 Event An ethnic conflict over fishing rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills 100 people, displaces 50,000 1999 Death Daisy Bates, civil rights leader, dies at 84 1997 Death Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate, dies at 89 1997 Event Edison International purchases Anaheim Stadium naming rights for $50M 1996 Event Ford buys rights to named Detroit domed stadium for $40 million 1996 Death Kronid Arkadyevich Lyubarsky, human rights activist, dies at 61 1996 Death Claude Bourdet, human rights activist/journalist, dies at 86 1996 Death Lucius E Burch, Jr., U.S. civil rights leader, dies at 84 1994 Event Court upholds NBA salary cap and draft rights 1994 Event Spanish fishing boats sink a French fishing boat over fishing rights 1994 Event Richard Jacobs buys naming rights to Indians new ball park at Gateway for $13.8 million (renamed Jacobs Field) 1993 Event Police officers found guilty of violating Rodney Kings civil rights 1993 Event Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles California 1992 Event 4 cops in Rodney King beating case indicted on civil rights charge 1992 Event Supreme Court rules hate crime laws violated free-speech rights 1991 Death Marietta Tree, ambassador (U.N. Comm of Human Rights), dies at 74 1990 Death Ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist, dies at 64 1990 Event Allies cede any remaining rights as occupiers of Germany 1990 Event European court rules pension rights for both men and women 1990 Death Ralph David Abernathy, U.S. civil rights leader, dies 1990 Death Dom Heider Camara, nonviolent/human rights Bishop of Brazil, dies 1990 Event Civil Rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton is stabbed in Bensonhurst Bkln 1990 Event FCC implements "SYNDEX" giving independent stations more rights over cable TV outlets for exclusive syndicated programs 1989 Event 100s of Bulgarian demonstrate in Sofia for democratic rights 1989 Event Reverend Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst 1988 Event Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's department store, London 1988 Event CBS' $1.1 B bid wins exclusive 1990-94 major-league baseball rights 1988 Event NBC bids record $401M to capture rights to 1992 Barcelona Olympics 1988 Event South Africa anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize 1988 Event Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour begins in Wembley 1988 Death Clarence M Pendleton, chairman of Commission on Civil Rights (1981-88) dies 1988 Event Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill 1987 Event Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Commission assassinated by death squads 1987 Event 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington 1987 Death Bayard Rustin, U.S. civil rights activist, dies at 77 1985 Event Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president 1982 Event Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification 1982 Event Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended 1982 Event Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat 1982 Event Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote 1982 Event Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days 1981 Death French Duynstee, Dutch states rights leader, dies at 67 1979 Death Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader and civil rights pioneer, dies at 90 1978 Event Columbia Pictures pays $9.5 million for movie rights to "Annie" 1977 Event Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay rights law 1977 Event Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason 1977 Event President Carter announces U.S. foreign aid will consider human rights 1977 Event Huyman Rights Charta '77 established in Prague 1977 Event Czechoslovakian intellects begin Human Rights Group Chapter 77 1976 Death Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, actress (Hostage Rights), dies at 99 1976 Event International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying) 1975 Event David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon 1975 Event Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations 1975 Event NBC paid $5M for rights to show 'Gone with the Wind' one time 1974 Event John Ehrlichman convicted of violating Daniel Ellsberg's rights 1973 Event ABC announces it obtained TV rights for 1976 Olympics 1973 Event U.S. Supreme Court approves equal rights to females in military 1972 Death Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement, dies at 87 1972 Event Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified) 1971 Event U.S. canal rights in Nicaragua and rights to Corn Islands expire 1970 Event Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Comittee 1970 Death Jessie Street, Australian civil rights activist, dies 1968 Event President Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act 1967 Event 7 men are convicted of civil rights violations in Meridan Miss 1966 Event Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights 1966 Event 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights 1966 Event National Welfare Rights Organization organizes 1966 Event Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act 1965 Event CBS purchases NFL TV rights for 1966-68 at $18.8 million per year 1965 Event Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights 1965 Event Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing voting rights for blacks 1965 Event Dutch Voting Rights Bill passes 1965 Death Viola Gregg Liuzzo, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered 1965 Death James Reeb, U.S. vicar/civil rights activist, murdered 1965 Death Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, dies of injuries 1964 Event Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam 1964 Event President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law 1964 Event Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate 1964 Death Andrew Goodman, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered at 20 1964 Death James Chaney, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered at 21 1964 Death Michael Schwerner, U.S. civil rights activist, murder at 21 1964 Event Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27 1964 Event Southern Democrats filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked 1964 Event U.S. House of Representatives accept Law on the civil rights 1964 Event Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act 1964 Event NBC purchases AFL 5 year (1965-69) TV rights for $36 million 1964 Event CBS purchases 1964 and 1965 NFL TV rights for $28.2 million 1964 Event 24th Amendment to U.S. Constitution goes into effect and states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes 1963 Event 200,000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, D.C. 1963 Event NBC purchases 1963 AFL championship game TV rights for $926,000 1961 Event 75,000 Flemings demand equal rights and Flemish language in Belgium 1961 Event Spain accept equal rights for men and women 1961 Death Willem J M van Eysinga, people rights scholar, dies at 82 1960 Event Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill 1960 Event President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960 1960 Event Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill 1960 Event 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro North Carolina Woolworth 1959 Event U.N. adopts Universal Declaration of Children's Rights 1959 Event Swiss males vote against voting rights for women 1957 Event President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction 1957 Event U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights 1957 Event Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957 1957 Event Strom Thurmond, Senator-D-South Carolina, ends 24 hour filibuster against civil rights 1957 Event Senator Strom Thurmond begins 24-hour filibuster against civil rights bill 1957 Event Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC) 1957 Birthday Amy Goodman, born in Bay Shore, New York, journalist, author, host of 'Democracy Now!' public radio news program, focusing on peace, human rights movements 1955 Event RCA Victor's best investment paying $25,000 to Sun Records and Sam Philips for rights to Elvis Presley, a truck driver from Tupelo Miss 1955 Death Earnest Rabel, Austrian/US civil rights activist, dies at 81 1955 Death Mary McLeod Bethune, educator and civil rights leader, dies at 79 1954 Birthday Al Sharpton, born in Brooklyn, New York, African American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, 2004 candidate for President, host of 'Keepin' It Real' radio show 1954 Death Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90 1954 Event European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect 1951 Event Baseball signs 6 year All-Star pact for TV-radio rights for $6 million 1950 Event Gillette and Mutual buy All Star and World Series rights ($6M for 6 yrs) 1950 Birthday Anthony Lloyd, born in England, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Manchester Central, gay rights supporter, voted against the Iraq War and against renewal of the Trident Nuclear Missile System 1950 Event 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington D.C. 1949 Birthday Bertha Knox Gilkey, welfare and tenament rights for urban women 1948 Event U.N. General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 Event American Library Association adopts Library Bill of Rights 1948 Event U.N. Commission on Human Rights adopts International Declaration of Human Rights 1948 Event President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program 1948 Birthday Anatoly Shcharansky, Soviet human rights activist 1947 Event Taiwan passes Human Rights laws (Day of Earth Law) 1947 Event Radio rights for the World Series sell for $475,000 for 3 years 1946 Event President Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Executive Order 9808 1946 Event British North Borneo Co transfers rights to British crown 1945 Event Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette, Ford had been World Series sponsor since 1934, pay $100,000 annually 1945 Birthday Laura Lee, Rundless, singer, Dirty Man, Women's Love Rights 1944 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt signs "GI Bill of Rights", Servicemen's Readjustment Act 1943 Birthday Andrew Goodman, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964 1943 Birthday Michael Schwerner, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964 1943 Birthday James Earl Chaney, U.S. civil rights activist 1943 Event U.S. and Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China 1941 Birthday Joan Baez, Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate 1940 Birthday Julian Bond, born in Nashville, Tennessee, D-Ga, civil rights leader 1939 Event Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late) 1939 Event Massachusetts Legislature vote to ratify the Bill of Rights - 147 years late 1938 Event Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews 1938 Birthday Marian Ackerman, women's rights advocacy administrator 1938 Birthday Mary Frances Berry, educator/head, US Commission on Civil Rights 1935 Birthday Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr., civil rights activist, National Urban League 1935 Event World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul 1934 Event Judge Landis sells World Series broadcast rights to Ford for $100,000 1930 Birthday Clarence M Pendleton, Jr., chairman of U.S. comm on Civil Rights, 1981-88 1930 Event White woman win voting rights in South Africa 1929 Birthday Lupe Anguiano, Mexican-American civil rights activist 1928 Event Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy 1927 Birthday Coretta Scott King, born in Marion, Alabama, civil rights leader 1926 Birthday Johnnie Tillmon, civil rights activist, National Welfare Rights Association 1926 Birthday Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader, Southern Christian Leadership 1925 Birthday Johan "Poncke" Princen, KNIL-defector/civil rights in Djakarta 1925 Event Stalin supports rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians 1925 Birthday Benjamin Hooks, civil rights leader 1924 Birthday Althea T L Simmons, human rights activist/chief lobbyist, NAACP 1922 Birthday Charles Evers, civil rights leader, Amazing Grace 1921 Birthday Whitney M. Young, Jr., civil rights leader, head of Urban League 1921 Event New rules of language assumed, equal rights Flemings/Walen Belgium 1921 Birthday Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker, Nobel '75 1920 Event 19th amendment acknowledges women's rights 1920 Birthday James Farmer, Marshall, Tex, civil rights leader 1918 Birthday Coleman A Young, civil rights leader, Mayor-D-Detroit 1918 Birthday Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, Uruguayan politician/human rights worker 1915 Birthday Aziz Nesin, born in Heybeliada, Istanbul, writer, humorist, author of over 100 books, political activist, championed free speech and human rights in Turkey 1914 Event Clayton Anti-trust Act passed (union and strike rights) 1914 Event U.S., Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to U.S. 1914 Birthday Kenneth B Clark, Canal Zone, civil rights activist, Dark Ghetto 1914 Event Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa 1913 Event Belgium begins general strike for voting rights 1913 Birthday Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights activist, bus protestor 1912 Event China votes for universal human rights 1912 Birthday Lucius E Burch, Jr., U.S. lawyer/civil rights leader 1911 Event Red Tuesday-20,000 protest for universal rights 1910 Event Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting rights 1910 Birthday Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader 1910 Birthday Tancredo Neves, Civil rights activist 1909 Birthday Claude Bourdet, human rights activist/journalist 1908 Event World congress for Woman's rights opens in Amsterdam 1908 Birthday Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate 1908 Birthday Josh White, born in Greenville, South Carolina, born Joshua Daniel White, guitarist, singer, civil rights activist, unique stylings and techniques inspired Nat King Cole, Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan 1907 Event Norway restricts woman's voting rights 1906 Event French/British/Italian treaty concerning rights on Abyssinia 1903 Event Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives U.S. exclusive canal rights in Panama 1901 Event Belgium's Louise of den Plas begins activities towards women rights 1901 Birthday Roy Wilkins, civil rights director, NAACP 1898 Birthday Audley Moore, civil rights activist, humanitarian [Queen Mother] 1898 Birthday Septima Poinsette Clark, civil rights activist/educator 1896 Death Jane Wilde, writer, poet, activist, nationalist movement supporter, advocate of women's rights, dies 1896 Birthday Jane Wilde, born in Dublin, Ireland, writer, poet, activist, nationalist movement supporter, advocate of women's rights 1893 Event U.S. no longer allowed exclusive rights in Bering Sea 1891 Birthday John Gobau, Flemish/Dutch actor, Electricity, Hostage Rights 1889 Event Queen Victoria grants Cecil Rhodes rights to Zambezia 1889 Birthday Jessie Street, Austrialian pro womans/aborigine rights fighter 1888 Event East Africa Company political and commercial rights 1887 Event U.S. receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii 1887 Death Johann J Bachofen, Swiss historic rights, dies at 71 1886 Event 1st Civil Rights Act passes 1885 Birthday Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement 1884 Event Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for President and Vice President 1883 Death Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/women's rights advocate, dies at 96 1883 Event Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional 1882 Birthday Georgine M "May" Basting, actress, Hostage Rights of Aemstel 1880 Death Lucretia Mott, U.S. quaker (1st Woman's Rights Convention), dies 1879 Event NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their players 1879 Event Trial of Standing Bear-Crook on indians citizen rights begins 1875 Event Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Court, 1883 1874 Death Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, dies at 63 1872 Event Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500) 1870 Event Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks) 1868 Birthday W. E. B. Du Bois, born in Massachusetts, civil rights writer, Souls of Black Folk 1867 Birthday Philip Kleintjes, people's rights leader 1866 Event 1st Civil Rights Bill passes 1866 Event Tennessee is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment, guaranteeing civil rights 1866 Event House passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights for blacks) 1866 Event American Equal Rights Association forms 1866 Event Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto 1866 Event President Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amendment 1863 Birthday Mary Church Terrell, civil rights activist 1862 Birthday Ida Bell Wells-Barnett [Iola], U.S. civil rights activist 1859 Birthday Carrie Chapman Catt, women's rights leader 1858 Event Hudson's Bay Co rights to Vancouver Island revoked 1857 Birthday Clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate/communist 1853 Birthday Alva Vanderbilt Beaumont, women's rights advocate and activist 1851 Event Sojourner Truth attends Women's Rights Convention 1851 Event Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron) 1850 Event 1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass 1849 Event Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (New York City); sold rights for $100 1848 Event 1st Woman's Rights Convention, Senecca Falls, New York 1848 Event 1st U.S. women's rights convention (Seneca Falls New York) 1848 Event Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott open 1st women's rights convention 1843 Death William Wallace, Scottish mathematician (rights of Wallace), dies 1839 Event Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed 1832 Birthday Mary Edwards Walker, U.S., doctor/women's rights leader 1824 Birthday Carlos Calvo, Argentina diplomat/people rights scholar, Calvo Clause 1817 Death Paul Cuffe, civil rights activist (Sierre Leone), dies at 58 1808 Event Political rights of Jews suspended in Duchy of Warsaw 1796 Event General Salicetti orders equal rights for Jews of Bologna Italy 1792 Birthday Sarah Moore Grimke, American abolitionist/women's rights advocate 1791 Event Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval 1789 Event New Jersey is 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights 1789 Event Congress proposes Bill of Rights (10 of 12 will ratify) 1789 Event French National Assembly issues "Decl of Rights of Man and Citizen" 1783 Event King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski grants rights to Jews of Kovno 1776 Event Virginia adopts Declaration of Rights 1774 Event 1st Continental Congress is 1st to declare colonial rights, Philadelphia 1774 Event 1st American colonial decl of rights with sinking of Peggy Stewart 1768 Birthday William Wallace, Scottish mathematician, Rights of Wallace 1765 Event Stamp Act Congress met in New York, wrote declaration of rights and liberties 1689 Event English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution 1689 Event British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights 1673 Death Isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51 1665 Event NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights 1653 Death Gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49 1644 Event Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists 1638 Event Dutch Premier Van Joost speaks of "Hostage rights of Aemstel" 1632 Event Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area 1629 Event Peace of Ales: Rights of French huguenots limited 1628 Event English king Charles I accepts Petition of Rights 1624 Event Jacob Willekens and Piet Heyn conquer Salvador, Civil rights activist 1622 Birthday Isaac Sweers, Dutch Admiral/general/Civil rights activist 1598 Event Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots 1577 Event Peace of Bergerac: Political rights for Huguenots 1566 Event Land guardian Margaretha van Parma grants Calvinists rights 1563 Event Peace of Amboise: Rights for Huguenots 1540 Event Emperor Karel deprives city Gent definitive rights/privileges 1535 Event English Catholic Cardinal John Fischer state rights 1220 Event German king Frederick II grants bishops sovereign rights 953 Event Otto I the Great gives Utrecht fishing rights
