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A parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modeled after that of the United Kingdom. The name is derived from the French , the action of parler : a parlement is a discussion. The term came to mean a meeting at which such a discussion took place...

Timeline of Events

1077

4.3.1077

The first Parliament of Friuli is created.

1581

1.16.1581

The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.

1606

1.31.1606

Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.

1679

1.24.1679

King Charles II of England disbands Parliament.

1689

5.24.1689

The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded.

1825

6.22.1825

The British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.

1856

2.7.1856

The colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the second piece of legislation (the Electoral Act of 1856) anywhere in the world providing for elections by way of a secret ballot.

1991

6.17.1991

Apartheid: the South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.

6.20.1991

The German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.

1993

9.21.1993

Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.

10.4.1993

Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside.

1995

3.1.1995

Prime Minister of Poland Waldemar Pawlak resigns from parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Józef Oleksy.

1999

10.26.1999

Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.

2005

2.26.2005

Hosni Mubarak, the president of Egypt, orders the constitution changed to allow multi-candidate presidential elections before September 2005 by asking Egyptian parliament to amend Article 76.