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539 BCE
The Cyrus Cylinder (539 B.C.)
In 539 B.C., the armies of Cyrus the Great, the first king of ancient Persia, conquered the city of Babylon. But his actions marked a major advance for Man. He freed the slaves, declared that all people had the right to choose their own religion, and established racial equality. -
539 BCE
Akkadian tablet
These and other texts were recorded on a baked-clay cylinder in the Akkadian language. Known today as the Cyrus Cylinder, this ancient record has now been recognized as the world’s first charter of human rights -
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The Spread of Human Rights
From Babylon, the idea of human rights spread quickly to India, Greece and eventually Rome. There the concept of “natural law” arose, this as people tended to follow certain unwritten laws in the course of life, and Roman law was based on rational ideas derived from the nature of things. -
1215
Magna Carta
The king said that no one can overdue the rights of another person -
The Petition of Right
Where rights were finally recognized -
The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
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UN CREATION
Nations finally came together and founded the United Nations and finally established Human rights which came from natural rights