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| c. 1450 |
| | | The Swedish Riksdag includes peasants as a fourth estate, alongside clergy, nobles and burghers | |
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| 1463 |
| | | The assembly brought together in Bruges in 1463 is later seen as the first full gathering of the Netherlands States-General | |
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| 1493 |
| | | John I Albert summons the first recorded sejm, a parliament representing the whole of Poland | |
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| 1621 |
| | | William Bradford, one of the Pilgrims from the Mayflower, is elected governor of the new Plymouth Colony | |
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| 1679 |
| | | The rival political parties in Britain find abusive names for each other - Whigs and Tories | |
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| 1776 |
| | | The revolutionary convention of Virginia votes for independence from Britain, and instructs its delegates in Philadelphia to propose this motion | |
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| 1776 |
| | | Virginia's motion for independence from Britain is passed at the Continental Congress of the colonies with no opposing vote | |
|  | Liberty Bell, Philadelphia
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| 1776 |
| | | Thomas Jefferson's text for the Declaration of Independence is accepted by the Congress in Philadelphia | |
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| 1776 |
| | | John Hancock is the first delegate to sign the Declaration of Independence, formally written out on a large sheet of parchment | |
|  | The American Declaration of Independence in 1776
National Archives, Kew
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| 1777 |
| | | The US Congress agrees the final version of the Articles of Confederation, defining the terms on which states join the Union | |
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