Code of Hammurabi (1755–1750 BCE) Babylonian King Hammurabi issued a set of laws to his people which is called “Hammurabi Code”, established fair wages, offered protection of property and required changes to be proven at trial criminal law, family law, property law, and commercial law based on lex talionis (“eye for an eye”)

Cyrus Cylinder (539 BCE) Cyrus the Great, made and buried after the Persian conquest of Babylon

Magna Carta (1215 CE)

The United States Constitution was written in 1787

French Revolution

UDHR was accepted - 10 December 1948