1077    The first Parliament of Friuli is created.

1581    The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.

1606    Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.

1679    King Charles II of England disbands Parliament.

1689    The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded.

1825    The British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.

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

1991    The German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.

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

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

1999    Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.

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.