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BCE 350 – The Politics  by  Aristotle  ( BCE 384-322 ) BCE 338 :  PHILLIP II OF MACEDON CONQUERS GREECE BCE 334-327 :  ALEXANDER THE GREAT CONQUERS PERSIA BCE 265 :  ROME CONSOLIDATES CONTROL OF THE ITALIAN PENNINSULA BCE 264-241 :  FIRST PUNIC WAR  ( Carthage  vs  Rome ) BCE 218-201 :  SECOND PUNIC WAR BCE 214-205 :  FIRST MACEDONIAN WAR ( Rome  vs  Macedonia ) BCE 200-197 :  SECOND MACEDONIAN WAR BCE 192-189 :  SYRIAN WAR BCE 171-168 :  THIRD MACEDONIAN WAR BCE 149-148 :  FOURTH AND FINAL MACEDONIAN WAR BCE 149-146 :  THIRD PUNIC WAR – ROME DESTROYS CARTHAGE BCE 58-51 :  ROMAN CONQUEST OF GAUL BCE 64 :  SELEUCID EMPIRE CONQUERED BY ROME BCE 49-31 :  ROMAN CIVIL WARS BCE 44 :  JULIUS CAESAR ASSASINATED, 15 March BCE 27 :  AUGUSTUS CAESAR MADE EMPEROR OF ROME <<  CURRENT ERA TO 1000  >> 43-57 :  ROMAN CONQUEST OF BRITAIN 66-70 :  JEWISH REVOLT AGAINST ROME 70 :  ROMANS SACK JERUSALEM – DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE 313 :  CONVERSION OF CONSTANTINE TO CHRISTIANITY 330 :  EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE ESTABLISHED AT CONSTANTINOPOLE  ( Byzantium ) 455 :  VANDALS SACK ROME – FALL OF THE WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE 622-630 :  RISE OF ISLAM 622 – The Medina Charter 635-650 :  ISLAMIC CONQUESTS IN SYRIA, EYGPT, PERSIA, and LIBYA 661-750 :  UMAYYAD CALIPHATE 800 :  CHARLEMAGNE CROWNED HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR, 25 December <<  1000  >> 1054 :  THE GREAT SCHISM - Separation of Roman and Byzantine Churches Begins 1066 :  NORMAN CONQUEST OF ENGLAND, Battle of Hastings, 14 October 1095-1099 :  FIRST CRUSADE 1147-1149 :  SECOND CRUSADE 1188-1192 :  THIRD CRUSADE 1201-1227 :  GENGHIS KHAN ( 1162-1227 ) ESTABLISHES THE MONGOL EMPIRE The Great Yassa (law) of Ghengis Khan 1202-1204 :  FOURTH CRUSADE  ( Sack of Costantinople ) 1215 – Magna Carta  ( Great Charter ) 1217-1221 :  FIFTH CRUSADE 1228-1229 :  SIXTH CRUSADE 1248-1250 :  SEVENTH AND LAST CRUSADE c.1255 – Summa Theologica  by  St. Thomas Aquinas  ( 1225?-1274 ) 1259 :  MONGOLS TAKE DAMASCUS 1260 :  MONGOLS TAKE ALLEPO 1337-1453 :  THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR 1419-1434 :  THE HUSSITE WARS 1453 :  TURKS CAPTURE CONSTANTINOPLE – FALL OF THE EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE 1455-1485 :  THE WARS OF THE ROSES 1476 :  UNIFICATION OF SPAIN  ( Permanent 1516 ) 1492 :  FIRST EXPEDITION OF CHRISTOPER COLUMBUS TO AMERICA 1494 – Treaty of Tordesillas <<  1500  >> 1515 – The Prince  by  Nicolo Machiavelli  ( 1469-1527 ) 1517 – The 95 Theses  by  Martin Luther  ( 1483-1546 ) – THE REFORMATION BEGINS 1519-1521 :  SPANISH CONQUEST OF MEXICO 1521-1559 :  FRANCO-HABSBURG WARS 1530-1533 :  SPANISH CONQUEST OF PERU 1531 :  HENRY VIII ESTABLISHES THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND 1534-1535 :  CARTIER EXPLORES THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER 1543 – De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium  by  Nicholas Copernicus  ( 1473-1543 ) 1562-1598 :  FRENCH WARS OF RELIGION 1565 :  SPANISH FLORIDA COLONY, St. Augustine, 28 August 1565-1581 :  THE DUTCH REVOLT 1571 :  BATTLE OF LEPANTO, 7 October 1572 :  ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S DAY MASSACRE, 24 August 1581 – Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos  ( A Defence of Liberty Against Tyrants )  by  "Junius Brutus"  ( ? ) 1588 :  ENGLAND DEFEATS SPANISH ARMADA, August - September 1598 :  EDICT OF NANTES, FRENCH WARS OF RELIGION END <<  1600  >> 1605 :  The Gunpowder Plot, 5 November The Official Reports of James I 1607 :  ENGLISH VIRGINIA COLONY, Jamestown, 14 May First Charter of Virginia  ( 1606 ) Second Charter of Virginia  ( 1609 ) Third Charter of Virginia  ( 1611 ) 1608 :  FRENCH QUEBEC COLONY, 3 July 1618-1648 :  THE THIRTY YEARS WAR 1620 :  ENGLISH MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY, Plymouth, 21 December Charter of New England  ( 1620 ) Charter of New Plymouth  ( 1629 ) Charter of Massachusetts Bay  ( 1629 ) 1624 :  DUTCH NEW NETHERLAND COLONY Charter of the Dutch West India Company  ( 1621 ) 1625 – De Jure Belli ac Pacis  ( On the Law of War and Peace )  by  Grotius  ( Hugo de Groot, 1583-1645 ) 1627 – The Petition of Right 1629 :  NEW AMSTERDAM FOUNDED ON MANHATTEN ISLAND 1640-1651 :  ENGLISH CIVIL WARS 1646-1660 :  ENGLISH COMMONWEALTH 1648 – Treaty of Westphalia ( Münster ) – The Thirty Years War ends 1649 :  CHARLES I EXECUTED FOR TREASON AND WAR CRIMES, 30 January The Charge against the King Geoffrey Robertson, JOHN COOKE - A LIFE IN BRIEF, Counsel ( 2005.09 ). 1651 – Leviathan  by  Thomas Hobbes  ( 1588-1679 ) 1652-1654 :  FIRST ANGLO-DUTCH WAR 1660 :  ENGLISH RESTORATION – Charles II assumes the throne, 29 May 1664 :  NEW NETHERLAND TAKEN BY ENGLAND AND RENAMED NEW YORK 1665-1667 :  SECOND ANGLO-DUTCH WAR 1672-1674 :  THIRD ANGLO-DUTCH WAR 1679 – Habeas Corpus Act of 1679 1682 – De Officio Hominis et Civis  ( On the Duty of Man and Citizen )  by  Samuel von Pufendorf  ( 1632-1694 ) 1683 :  THE SIEGE OF VIENNA 1688 :  THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION 1689 – The English Bill of Rights 1690 – Second Treatise of Civil Government  by  John Locke  ( 1632-1704 ) <<  1700  >> 1701-1714 :  WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION  ( Queen Anne's War ) 1740-1748 :  WAR OF THE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION 1748 – The Principles of Natural and Politic Law  by  Jean Jacques Burlamaqui  ( 1694-1748 ) 1748 – The Spirit of the Laws  by  Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu  ( 1689-1755 ) 1749 – British Royal Navy Articles of War The 1749 Naval Act, 22 Geo. 2, c. 33 1756-1763 :  THE SEVEN YEARS WAR  ( French & Indian War ) 1758 – The Law of Nations  by  Emmerich de Vattel  ( 1714-1767 ) 1760 – The King of Prussia's Military Instruction to his Generals  by  Friedrich II der Grosse (1712-1786) 1762 – Dictionnaire Philosophique  by  Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire  ( 1694-1778 ) 1762 – The Social Contract  by  Jean Jacques Rousseau  ( 1712-1778 ) 1762 – Rules and Articles for the Better Government of His Majesty's Forces 1763 – Of Crimes and Punishments  by  Cesare Beccaria  ( 1738-1794 ) 1765 – Commentaries on the Laws of England  by  William Blackstone  ( 1723-1780 ) <<  1770  >> 1775-1783 :  AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 – US Articles of War Enacted by Continental Congress, 30 June 1776 – US Declaration of Independence, 4 July Jefferson's "original Rough draught" 1776 – An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations  by  Adam Smith  ( 1723-1790 ) 1778 – Treaties of Alliance and Commerce Between the United States and France, 6 February ( Paris ) 1778 – US Articles of Confederation, 9 July ( Philadelphia );  ratified 1 March 1781 1780-1784 :  FOURTH ANGLO-DUTCH WAR 1781 – Critique of Pure Reason  by  Immanuel Kant  ( 1724-1804 ) 1783 – Definitive Treaty of Peace between Great Britain and the United States, 3 September ( Paris ) 1783 :  FIRST HUMAN FLIGHT – The Montgolfier Balloon, Paris, 21 November 1785 – Treaty of Amity and Commerce Between Prussia and US, 10 September ( The Hague ) 1786 – An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species  by  Thomas Clarkson  ( 1760-1846 ) 1787 – US Constitution, 17 September ( Philadelphia );  ratified 21 June 1788;  effective 4 March 1789. The Founders' Constitution  ( debates etc ) 1788 – The Federalist Papers  by "Publius"  ( Alexander Hamilton,  John Jay  &  James Madison ) 1789-1799 :  FRENCH REVOLUTION  &  REVOLUTIONARY WARS 1789 – French Declaration of the Rights of Man, 26 August 1789 – An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation  by  Jeremy Bentham  ( 1748-1832 ) 1791 – The Rights of Man  by  Tom Paine  ( 1737-1809 ) 1792 – Vindication of the Rights of Woman  by  Mary Wollstonecraft  ( 1759-1797 ) 1793 – Enquiry Concerning Political Justice  by  William Godwin  ( 1756-1836 ) 1796 – US Supreme Court :  Ware  v.  Hylton, 3 U.S. 199 1798 – US Supreme Court :  Calder  v.  Bull, 3 U.S. 386 1798-1800 :  NAVAL QUASI-WAR BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND FRANCE  ( XYZ Affair ) <<  1800  >> 1799-1815 :  NAPOLEONIC WARS 1803 – US Supreme Court :  Marbury  v.  Madison, 5 U.S. 137 1804 – US Supreme Court :  Murray  v.  The Schooner Charming Betsy, 6 U.S. 64 1804 – US Supreme Court :  Little  v.  Barreme, 6 U.S. 170 1810-1821 :  MEXICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE 1811-1825 :  LIBERATION OF SOUTH AMERICA FROM SPAIN 1812-1815 :  WAR OF 1812 1815 :  CONGRESS OF VIENNA 1829 – US Supreme Court :  Foster  v.  Neilson, 27 U.S. 253 1830 – US Supreme Court :  Ex Parte Watkins, 28 U.S. 193 1835-1836 :  TEXAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE 1841 – US Supreme Court :  The Amistad, 40 U.S. 518 1846-1848 :  MEXICAN WAR 1849 & 1853 :  FIRST MANNED GLIDER FLIGHTS ( Cayley ) 1854-1856 :  CRIMEAN WAR 1856 – US Supreme Court :  Dred Scott  v.  Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 1859 :  BATTLE OF SOLFERINO, 24 June 1859 :  JOHN BROWN'S RAID ON HARPERS FERRY, 16-18 October <<  1860  >> 1861-1865 :  AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 :  ITALIAN UNIFICATION – Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia & Savoy Made King of Italy 1862 – A Memory of Solferino  by  Henri Dunant  ( 1828-1910 ) Founder of the Red Cross 1863.    First Nobel Laureate for Peace 1901. 1863 – Emancipation Proclamation, 1 January 1863 – Utilitarianism  by  John Stuart Mill  ( 1806-1873 ) 1863 – The Lieber Code :  Instructions for the Government of US Armies in the Field  by  Francis Lieber ( 1798-1870 ) 1863 :  BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG, 1-3 July     1863 – Geneva International Conference – Red Cross founded, 26-29 October 1864 :  DANISH-PRUSSIAN WAR 1864 – Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field 1865 :  LEE SURRENDERS TO GRANT, Appomattox Court House, 9 April 1865 :  PRESIDENT LINCOLN ASSASINATED, Washington, 14 April 1866 :  AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN WAR 1868 – Additional Articles relating to the Condition of the Wounded in War ( Ratified by US, but never in force. ) 1868 – St. Petersburg Declaration Renouncing the Use, in Time of War, of Explosive Projectiles Under 400 Grams 1870-1871 :  FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR 1871 :  GERMAN UNIFICATION – William I of Prussia Made German Emperor 1874 – The Brussels Declaration :  The Laws and Customs of War 1880 – The Oxford Manual :  The Laws of War on Land 1896 – Military Law and Precedents ( 2d Ed. )  by  William Winthrop  ( 1831-1899 ) 1896 – US Supreme Court :  Plessy  v.  Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 1898 :  SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR "Until a more complete code of the laws of war is issued, the High Contracting Parties think it right to declare that in cases not included in the Regulations adopted by them, populations and belligerents remain under the protection and empire of the principles of international law, as they result from the usages established between civilized nations, from the laws of humanity and the requirements of the public conscience." — The Martens Clause, Hague II (1899), preamble. 1899 – Hague II Convention with Respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land 1899-1901 :  PHILIPPINE "INSURRECTION" 1899-1902 :  BOER WAR <<  1900  >> 1900 :  BOXER REBELLION ( China ) 1901-1902 :  27,000 Boer Civilians Die in British Concentration Camps 1903 – US-Cuba Agreement for the Lease of Guantanamo Bay, 23 February 1903 :  FIRST MANNED AIRPLANE – The Wright Flyer, Kitty Hawk, 17 December 1904-1905 :  RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR 1905 – On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies  by  Albert Einstein  ( 1879-1955 ) 1906 – Geneva Red Cross Convention 1907 – Pragmatism  by  William James  ( 1842-1910 ) 1907 – Hague IV Convention & Annex Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land  ( H. IV & HR ) <<  1910  >> 1911 :  CHINESE REPUBLIC – Manchu Dynasty Collapses 1914 :  ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND OF AUSTRIA ASSASSINATED, Sarajevo, 28 June 1914-1918 :  FIRST WORLD WAR 1916-1918 :  THE ARAB REVOLT 1916 – The Sykes-Picot Agreement 1916-1921 :  IRISH REVOLUTION & PARTITION OF IRELAND 1917 – The Balfour Declaration 1917-1921 :  RUSSIAN REVOLUTION & CIVIL WAR 1918 :  GERMANY & AUSTRIA CAPITULATE – Armistice, 11 November, 1111 hours 1919 – Versailles Treaty  &  League of Nations Covenant <<  1920  >> 1920 :  19th AMMENDMENT RATIFIED – US women win the right to vote, 18 August 1921 – Washington Naval Treaty 1922 – Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus  by  Lugwig Wittgenstein  ( 1889-1951 ) 1922 – The Palestine Mandate 1926 – GODDARD TESTS FIRST LIQUID FUELED ROCKET, 16 March 1927 – LINDBERGH FLIES SOLO ACROSS THE ATLANTIC, 20-21 May 1928 – Kellogg-Briand Pact :  Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy  ( Paris ) 1929 – Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War  ( GPW 1929 ) <<  1930  >> 1931 :  JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF MANCHURIA 1934 – US-Cuba Treaty, 29 May  ( revised 1903 Guantanamo Bay lease ) 1934 – Draft International Convention on the Condition and Protection of Civilians  ( Tokyo ) 1936-1939 :  SPANISH CIVIL WAR 1938 – Agreement Concluded Between Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy  ( Munich ) 1939-1945 :  SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 :  GERMANY INVADES POLAND, September 1 <<  1940  >> 1940 :  GERMANY INVADES NORWAY, 9 April 1940 :  GERMANY INVADES HOLLAND, BELGIUM, LUXEMBOURG, AND FRANCE, 10 May 1940 :  FRANCE SURRENDERS, 22 June 1940 :  THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN, 10 July - 31 October 1941 – The St. James Agreement, 12 June 1941 :  GERMANY INVADES THE SOVIET UNION, 22 June 1941 – The Atlantic Charter ( UK-USA ), 14 August 1941 :  JAPAN ATTACKS PEARL HARBOR, 7 December 1941 :  JAPAN INVADES THE PHILLIPINES, 10 December 1942 :  SINGAPORE FALLS TO JAPAN, 15 February 1942 :  CORREGIDOR SURRENDERS, 6 May 1942 :  BATTLE OF MIDWAY, 3-6 June 1942 – US Supreme Court :  Ex parte QUIRIN, 317 U.S. 1 1942 :  BATTLE OF EL ALAMEIN, 23 October - 5 November 1942 :  "TORCH" – ALLIES INVADE FRENCH NORTH AFRICA, 8 November 1943 :  GERMAN 6TH ARMY SURRENDERS AT STALINGRAD, 31 January 1943 – US Supreme Court :  KOREMATSU  v.  United States, 319 U.S. 432 1943 :  "HUSKY" – ALLIES INVADE SICILY, 10 July 1943 :  "AVALANCHE" – ALLIES INVADE ITALY, 9 September 1943 – The Moscow Declaration, 30 October 1944 :  D-DAY ( "OVERLORD" ) – ALLIES INVADE NORMANDY, 6 June 1944 :  "OPERATION BAGRATION" – SOVIETS LAUNCH MASSIVE GENERAL OFFENSIVE, 22 June 1944 :  "ANVIL" – ALLIES INVADE SOUTHERN FRANCE, 15 August 1944 :  LIBERATION OF PARIS, 25 August 1944-1945 :  GERMAN ARDENNES COUNTER-OFFENSIVE ( Battle of the Bulge ) 16 Dec - 28 Jan <<  1945  >> 1945 :  DRESDEN DESTROYED BY ALLIED AIR RAIDS, 13-15 February 1945 :  ALLIES CROSS THE RHINE, 7-23 March 1945 :  SOVIETS ENTER BERLIN, 23 April 1945 :  VE  DAY – GERMANY SURRENDERS, 8 May 1945 – UNITED NATIONS CHARTER – San Francisco, 26 June       1945 :  "TRINITY" – FIRST ATOM BOMB TEST, Alamogordo Test Range, New Mexico, 5:29:45 AM, 16 July 1945 :  HIROSHIMA DESTROYED BY ATOM BOMB ATTACK, 6 August 1945 – CHARTER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL, 8 August  ( London ) Cf. Report on the International Conference on Military Trials, London;  Preface  by  Robert H. Jackson  ( 1892-1954 ) 1945 :  NAGASAKI DESTROYED BY ATOM BOMB ATTACK, 9 August 1945 :  VJ  DAY – JAPAN SURRENDERS, 2 September       IMT Trial Starts, 18 October Justice Robert Jackson's Opening Statement 1945-48 – Nuremberg War Crimes Trials The Mazal Library 1945-49 :  CHINESE CIVIL WAR 1946-54 :  FIRST INDOCHINA WAR 1946 – US Supreme Court :  Application of YAMASHITA, 327 U.S. 1 1946 – IMT Charter Adopted by UN General Assembly Resolution 95(I) – 11 December 1946-1948 – Tokyo War Crimes Trials 1947 – US Supreme Court :  HAUPT  v.  United States, 330 U.S. 631 1947 – Nuremberg :  The Justice Trial ( US  v.  Alstötter ), 5 March - 4 December NMT Vol. 3, Case No. 3 ( Mazal Library ) 1947 :  THE X-1 BREAKS THE SOUND BARRIER, 14 October 1948 – US Supreme Court :  Ahrens  v.  Clark, 335 U.S. 188 1948 – US Supreme Court :  Hirota  v.  MacArthur, 335 U.S. 876 1948 :  ISRAELI WAR OF INDEPENDENCE 1948 – UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS – New York, 10 December 1949 – GENEVA CONVENTIONS, 12 August 1949 :  FIRST SOVIET ATOM BOMB TEST, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, 29 August <<  1950  >> 1950-1953 :  KOREAN WAR 1950 – Uniform Code of Military Justice ( UCMJ ) Enacted by US Congress, 5 May The UCMJ was originally promulgated in 1950 as Pub. L. No. 81-506, 64 Stat. 107-49, and came into force May 31, 1951. It is codified at 10 USC §§ 801-946. A comprehensive legislative history of the UCMJ was recently published by W. S. Hein, Index and Legislative History: Uniform Code of Military Justice (2000). [ US Military Commissions: A Quick Guide, by Stephen Young. ] 1950 – US Supreme Court :  Johnson  v.  EISENTRAGER, 339 U.S. 763 1951 – Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 1952 – US Supreme Court :  Rochin  v.  California, 342 U.S. 165 (1952) 1952 :  "MIKE" – FIRST HYDROGEN BOMB TEST, Eniwetok Atoll, 31 October 1953 – US Supreme Court :  Shaughnessy  v.  United States ex rel. MEZEI, 345 U.S. 206 1954 :  FALL OF DIEN BIEN PHU, 8 May 1954 – US Supreme Court :  Brown  v.  Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 1955 :  US Ratifies the 1949 Geneva Conventions, 2 August Cf. Pres. Eisenhower to E.R. Harriman, American Red Cross  ( 1955.08.01 ) 1956 :  SUEZ CRISIS 1956 – US Army Field Manual 27-10 – The Law of Land Warfare 1957 :  USSR LAUNCHES SPUTNIK INTO ORBIT, 4 October <<  1960  >> 1961 :  YURI GAGARIN ORBITS THE EARTH IN VOSTOK I, 12 April 1961 :  BAY OF PIGS – CUBA DEFEATS CIA INVASION, 16-19 April 1962 – US Supreme Court :  Baker  v.  Carr, 369 U.S. 186 1962 :  CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, 18-29 October 1963 :  PRESIDENT KENNEDY ASSASINATED, 22 November 1964 :  TONKIN RESOLUTION, 7 August – VIETNAM WAR BEGINS 1965 – The Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross and Red Crescent "The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, born of a desire to bring assistance without discrimination to the wounded on the battlefield, endeavours, in its international and national capacity, to prevent and alleviate human suffering wherever it may be found. "Its purpose is to protect life and health and to ensure respect for the human being, It promotes mutual understanding, friendship, cooperation and lasting peace amongst all peoples." 1966 – International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights  ( ICESCR ) 1966 – International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights  ( ICCPR ) 1967 :  SIX DAY WAR 1967-1970 :  BIAFRAN WAR  ( Nigeria ) 1968 – Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity 1969 :  APOLLO 11 MOON LANDING, 20 July, 2118 GMT <<  1970  >> 1970 :  US INVADES CAMBODIA 1971 :  US INVADES LAOS 1971 – US Supreme Court :  Bivens  v.  Six Unknown Named Agents, 403 U.S. 388 1973 – US Supreme Court :  Braden  v.  30th Judicial Circuit Court of Kentucky, 410 U.S. 484 1973 :  YOM KIPPUR WAR 1974 :  NIXON RESIGNS THE PRESIDENCY, 8 August 1975 :  FALL OF SAIGON, 29 April – VIETNAM WAR ENDS 1977 – Geneva Protocols I & II 1979-1989 :  SOVIET-AFGHAN WAR 1979.07.03 – CIA begins secret aid to Afghan rebels 1979 :  SOVIET INVASION OF AFGHANISTAN, 24 December 1979-1981 :  US - IRAN HOSTAGE CRISIS <<  1980  >> 1983 :  US INVADES GRENADA, 25 October 1984 – International Convention Against Torture  ( ICAT ) 1986 :  SPACE SHUTTLE CHALLENGER EXPLODES ON ASCENT, 28 January 1986.02.05 – OLC :  Using Signing Statement [ to Expand President's Role ] ( Alito ) 1986 – Goldwater-Nichols Act 1988 – US Supreme Court :  Morrison  v.  Olson, 487 U.S. 654 1988 :  PAN AM FLIGHT 103 DESTROYED BY BOMB, Lockerbie Scotland, 21 December 1989 :  SOVIETS WITHDRAW FROM AFGHANISTAN, February 1989 :  US INVADES PANAMA, 20 December <<  1990  >> 1991 :  CROATIA AND SLOVENIA PROCLAIM INDEPENDENCE FROM YUGOSLAVIA 1991 :  SOVIET UNION COLLAPSES AND BREAKS UP 1991-1992 :  PERSIAN GULF WAR 1992 – USDC Southern Florida :  United States  v.  Noriega, 808 F.Supp. 791 1992-1995 :  CIVIL WAR IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA 1993 :  TERRORIST BOMBING AT NYC WORLD TRADE CENTER, 26 February 1993.11.03 – OLC :  Presidential Signing Statements ( Dellinger ) 1994 :  GENOCIDE BEGINS IN RAWANDA, 6 April 1994 :  US OCCUPIES HAITI, 19 September 1994.11.02 – OLC :  Presidential Authority to Decline to Execute Unconstitutional Statutes ( Dellinger ) 1996 – 18 USC § 2441  ( WAR CRIMES )  ENACTED BY US CONGRESS, 21 August Cf. House Report 104-698 – WAR CRIMES ACT OF 1996  ( 1996.07.24 ) 1997 – US Army Regulation 190-8 – EPW, Retained Personnel, Civilian Internees and Other Detainees 1997 – 18 USC § 2441 AMENDED AND EXPANDED BY US CONGRESS, 26 November Cf. House Report 105-204 – EXPANDED WAR CRIMES ACT OF 1997  ( 1997.07.25 ) 1998 – Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1999 :  NATO AIR WAR TO RESCUE KOSOVO FROM SERBIA <<  2000  >> 2000 :  BOMB ATTACK ON USS COLE ( DDG 67 ) IN ADEN HARBOR, 12 October 2000.12.12 – US Supreme Court :  BUSH  v.  GORE <<  2001  >> 2001.09.11 :  AL QAEDA ATTACKS WTC  &  PENTAGON – " WAR ON TERRORISM " BEGINS 2001.09.13 – US Congress:  Authorization for Use of Military Force 2001.09.17 :  BUSH ISSUES SECRET AUTHORIZATION FOR CIA DETENTIONS 2001.09.25 – OLC Memo ( Yoo ) on Authority to Conduct Military Operations against Terrorists 2001.10.09 :  US INVASION OF AFGHANISTAN 2001.10.25 – US Congress:  USA PATRIOT ACT 2001.11.06 – OLC Memo ( Philbin ) Legality of Military Commissions to Try Terrorists 2001.11.13 – White House Issues Presidential Military Order on Detentions etc. ( "PMO" ) 2001.11.25-29 :  PRISON REVOLT AT QALA-I-JANGI ( Mazar-i-Sharif ) 2001.12.28 – OLC Memo ( Philbin & Yoo > Haynes ) on Habeas and Guantanamo Bay <<  2002  >> 2002.01.04 :  RUMSFELD APPROVES US PRISON CAMP AT GUANTANAMO BAY 2002.01.09 – OLC Memo ( Yoo ) on Application of Treaties and Laws to Detainees 2002.01.10 :  US PRISON CAMP OPERATION STARTS AT GUANTANAMO BAY 2002.01.11 – State Dept Reply ( Taft ) to OLC on Geneva Conventions POWs at Camp X-Ray, January 2002.  Photo: Dept. of Defense. "You know the -- under the Geneva Convention, it's illegal to do things with prisoners of war that are humiliating to those individuals. And the United States, of course, avoids showing photographs of prisoners of war. We have thousands of Iraqi prisoners that are in POW camps that we brought along and have erected in country. But we do not -- we avoid showing photographs of them." – US Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, "Meet the Press", 23 March 2003. 2002.01.18 :  BUSH & GONZALES DECIDE TO VIOLATE GENEVA ??? 2002.01.19 – DoD Memo ( Rumsfeld > Myers ) on Status of Detainees 2002.01.21 – JCS Memo ( Myers > commands ) on Status of Detainees 2002.01.22 – OLC Memo ( Bybee > Gonzales ) on Status of Detainees under 18 USC § 2441 2002.01.25 – Alberto Gonzales Memo to Bush on 18 USC 2441 2002.01.26 – Colin Powell Reply to Gonzales on 18 USC 2441 2002.01.30 :  RUMSFELD AUTHORIZES JTF-170 ( Interrogations ) AT GUANTANAMO BAY 2002.02.01 – Ashcroft Memo to Bush 2002.02.02 – State Department ( Taft ) Memo to Gonzales on Geneva Conventions 2002.02.07 – OLC Memo ( Bybee ) Status of Taliban under Geneva III 2002.02.07 – Bush Memo to VP on Treatment of Detainees 2002.02.07 – White House Issues "Fact Sheet:  Status of Detainees at Guantanamo" 2002.03.06 – DoD Working Group Report on Detainee Interrogetions ( DRAFT ) 2002.03.21 – DoD Issues Military Commission Order No. 1 Cf. DoD  Military Commission Instructions  Nos. 1-8  ( 2003.05.02 ) 2002.04.04 – DoD Working Group Report on Detainee Interrogetions ( FINAL ) 2002.04.05 – Yaser Hamdi Transferred from Guantanamo Bay to US Navy Brig, Norfolk 2002.07.12 – USCA 4th Circuit :  HAMDI  v.  Rumsfeld  ( "Hamdi II" ) 2002.07.27 – Omar Khadr captured in Afghanistan (witness report 2003.03.17) 2002.08.01 – OLC Memo (Bybee) to Gonzales on Interrogations under 18 USC §§ 2340-2340A ( Torture ) 2002.08.01 – OLC Memo (Bybee) to CIA on Interrogations under 18 USC §§ 2340-2340A ( Torture ) 2002.09.25 – Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, and John Yoo visit JTF-GTMO 2002.10.07 – US Congress:  Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq 2002.10.11 – JTF-170 Memo ( Dunleavy > SOUTHCOM ) on "Counter-Resistence Strategies" 2002.10.12 – AL QAEDA BOMBINGS KILL 202 AT KUTA BEACH, BALI 2002.10.23 – OLC Memo ( Bybee ) President's Authority for Use of Military Force in Iraq 2002.10.25 – SOUTHCOM Endorses JTF-170 Request 2002.10.26 – DoD RELEASES FOUR POWs FROM GUANTANAMO BAY 2002.11.06 – Court of Appeal ( UK ) :  Application of ABBASI and Another 2002.11.08 – OLC Memo ( Yoo ) Effect of UNSC Resolution on Use of Military Force in Iraq 2002.11.08 – UN Security Council Resolution 1441:  Iraq and Kuwait 2002.12.02 – Rumsfeld Approves Counter-Resistance Techniques 2002.12.07 – OLC Memo ( Yoo ) Whether False Statements Would be a Material Breach of UNSC Res. 1441 <<  2003  >> 2003.01.08 – USCA 4th Circuit :  HAMDI  v.  Rumsfeld  ( "Hamdi III" ) 2003.01.15 – Rumsfeld Memo to SOUTHCOM on Counter Resistance Techniques 2003.01.15 – Rumsfeld Memo to Haynes on Detainee Interrogations 2003.01.17 – Haynes Memo Authorizing Working Group on Detainee Interrogations 2003.02.01 :  SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA DISINTEGRATES ON RE-ENTRY 2003.02.28 – DoD ISSUES Military Commission Draft Crimes and Elements Instruction 2003.03.06 – DoD "Working Group" Report :  Detainee Interrogation in the Global War on Terrorism 2003.03.11 – USCA DC Circuit :  AL-ODAH  v.  United States 2003.03.14 – Yoo Memo to Haynes on Interogation and Torture of Detainees Pages 1-19 Pages 20-39 Pages 40-59 Pages 60-81 2003.03.19 :  US INVASION OF IRAQ 2003.04.04 – DoD Working Group Report on Detainee Operations Comments by the Military Judge Advocates ( 2003.02.05 - 2008.03.13 ) 2003.04.14 :  US OCCUPATION OF IRAQ 2003.04.16 – Rumsfeld Memo to SOUTHCOM on Counter Resistance Techniques 2003.05.02 – DoD Issues Military Commission Instructions  Nos.   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8    Index  Cf. DoD Military Commission Order No. 1  ( 2002.03.21 ) 2003.05.19 – US Supreme Court :  Cert. Denied COALITION OF CLERGY  v.  Bush 2003.05.22 – UN Security Council Resolution 1483 :  Iraq 2003.05.22 – DoD Appoints Office of "Military Commissions" Officials  ( Biographies ) 2003.06.02 – USCA DC Circuit :  Reconsideration of Al-Odah  v.  United States en banc Denied  ( no vote ) 2003.06.21 – DoD Issues Military Commission Order No. 2 2003.07.03 – DoD ACTIVATES ILLEGAL Military Commission PROCESS FOR 6 POWs Cf. 18 USC § 2441 – War crimes Cf. House Report 104-698 – WAR CRIMES ACT OF 1996  ( 1996.07.24 ) Cf. House Report 105-204 – EXPANDED WAR CRIMES ACT OF 1997  ( 1997.07.25 ) 2003.07.04 :  POWs ABBASI, BEGG, AND HICKS IDENTIFIED AS 3 OF Military Commission 6 2003.07.09 – USCA 4th Circuit :  Reconsideration of HAMDI  v.  Rumsfeld en banc Denied  ( 8-4 vote, "Hamdi IV" ) 2003.07.17 – Bush Proclaims his Prejudice

QUESTION:  "Do you have concerns they're not getting justice, the people detained (at Guantanamo)?" BUSH:  "No, the only thing I know for certain is that these are bad people..."

2003.07.18 :  "Military Commission" PROCEEDINGS  v.  ABBASI, BEGG, AND HICKS SUSPENDED FOR TALKS 2003.07.22 – United Kingdom AG Statement on Military Commission Talks 2003.07.23 :  USAF SrA AHMAD AL-HALABI ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF AIDING POWS AT JTF-GTMO 2003.07.23 – DoD Statements on Detainee Meetings     1. UK     2. Australia  2003.07.30 :  YASER HAMDI TRANSFERRED FROM NORFOLK TO CHARLESTON NAVAL WEAPONS STATION 2003.07.24 – Australia AG Statement on Military Commission Talks 2003.08.23 :  CO JTF-GTMO RECOMMENDS RELEASING THREE JUVENILE POWs 2003.08.24 – Miami Herald reports new POW camp and possible US war crimes at JTF-GTMO 2003.09.09 :  MG MILLER ( JTF-GTMO ) REPORT ON DOD COUNTER-TERRORISM OPS IN IRAQ ??? 2003.09.10 :  US ARMY CPT JAMES YEE ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF AIDING POWS AT JTF-GTMO 2003.09.20 – Washington Times reports the arrest of Captain Yee 2003.09.23 – AP reports the arrest of Senior Airman Al-Halabi 2003.09.30 :  TRANSLATOR AHMED MEHALBA ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF AIDING POWS AT JTF-GTMO 2003.09.30 :  SOUTHCOM ANNOUNCES SECURITY REVIEW AT JTF-GTMO 2003.10.10 :  CAPTAIN YEE CHARGED WITH DISOBEYING ORDERS 2003.10.15 :  CHINA LAUNCHES SHENZHOU V MANNED SPACE FLIGHT, Jiuquan, 0100 GMT 2003.10.17 :  AHMED MEHALBA CHARGED WITH MAKING FALSE STATEMENTS TO FBI 2003.10.18 – Venice Commission ( COE ) Condemns Guantanamo Bay 2003.10.24 – Washington Post Reports New Details in Yee Case 2003.10.30 :  OMC CHIEF PROSECUTOR STATES "Military Commissions" ARE IMMINENT 2003.11.05 – Canadian Maher Arar Exposes US "Renditions" to Syria

"So this is who I am. I am a father and a husband. I am a telecommunications engineer and entrepreneur. I have never had trouble with the police, and have always been a good citizen. So I still cannot believe what has happened to me, and how my life and career have been destroyed."  –  Maher Arar

2003.11.10 – Ahmed Mehalba Indicted for Possession of Classified Info 2003.11.10 – USSC Grants Certiorari in AL-ODAH and RASUL 2003.11.25 – US and Australia Announce Agreements on Guantanamo POWs 2003.11.29 :  ABDULRAHMAN KHADR ARRIVES IN TORONTO FROM JTF-GTMO VIA SARAJEVO 2003.11.29 :  COL JACKIE DUANE FARR CHARGED WITH SECURITY VIOLATIONS AT JTF-GTMO 2003.12.02 – DoD Announces POW Yaser Hamdi Allowed Access to Lawyer 2003.12.03 – DoD Assigns Legal Counsel for POW David Hicks 2003.12.18 – DoD Assigns Legal Counsel for POW Salim Ahmed Hamdan 2003.12.18 – USCA 2nd Circuit :  PADILLA  v.  Rumsfeld    1. Opinion     2. Dissent  2003.12.18 – USCA 9th Circuit :  GHEREBI  v.  Bush 2003.12.30 – DoD Military Commission Briefing DoD Military Commission Instruction No. 9  ( Review of Proceedings ) Appointing Authority for Military Commissions Legal Advisor to the Appointing Authority Military Commission Review Panel Members 2003.12.30 – DOJ Appoints US Atty as Special Counsel in CIA Leak Probe Cf. DOJ Office of Special Counsel Regulations  ( 1999.07.01 ) <<  2004  >> 2004.01.09 – USSC Grants Certiorari in HAMDI  v.  Rumsfeld 2004.01.21 :  GRAND JURY HEARINGS CONVENE IN CIA LEAK PROBE 2004.01.22 :  AHMED MEHABLA DENIED BAIL PENDING TRIAL IN BOSTON 2004.01.23 – USSC Grants Expedited Consideration in Rumsfeld  v.  Padilla 2004.01.29 – JTF-GTMO Releases 3 Juvenile POWs from Camp Iguana 2004.02.06 – DoD Issues New Military Commission Orders DoD Military Commission Order No. 3  ( Communications Subject to Monitoring ) DoD Military Commission Order No. 4  ( Deputy Appointing Authority ) Amended Annex B to Military Commission Instruction No. 5 Legal Counsel assigned to POW al Bahlul and POW al Qos 2004.02.11 – Jose Padilla Allowed Access to Lawyer 2004.01.13 – DoD Briefing on Guantanamo Bay See also :  Rumsfeld Remarks to Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce 2004.02.23 – PEGC ( CBG ) Files Amicus Brief in Hamdi  v.  Rumsfeld 2004.02.24 – DoD Accuses Two Guantanamo Bay POWs of Conspiracy to Commit War Crimes See also :  Gonzales Remarks to ABA on Detainees 2004.02.25 – Danish POW Slimane Abderrahmane Repatriated From Guantanamo Bay 2004.03.01 – Seven Russian POWs Repatriated From JTF-GTMO 2004.03.03 – DoD Announces Draft Detainee Review Policy Administrative Review Procedures for "Enemy Combatants" 2004.03.09 – Five British POWs Repatriated From JTF-GTMO 2004.03.11 :  MADRID RAILROAD BOMBINGS 2004.03.14 – OLC Memo ( Goldsmith ) Protected Persons under Geneva IV in Iraq 2004.03.15 – 23 Afghan and 3 Pakistani POWs Repatriated From JTF-GTMO 2004.03.17 – DoD Issues Military Commission Order No. 5 DoD Military Commission Order No. 5 2004.03.18 – RESCUED :  Don Rehkopf joins PEGC Hamdi Amicus as Counsel-of-Record 2004.03.19 – Goldsmith draft on Permissibility of Relocating Certain "Protected Persons" from Occupied Iraq 2004.03.22 :  CAPTAIN YEE REPRIMANDED ON ADULTERY AND PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES 2004.03.31 :  FOUR AMERICAN "SECURITY CONTRACTORS" KILLED AND MUTILATED IN FALLUJAH 2004.04.02 – JTF-GTMO Repatriates 15 POWs of Various Nationalities 2004.04.04 :  WIDE-SPREAD INSURGENCY ERUPTS IN IRAQ 2004.04.05 :  PEGC AMICUS BRIEF IN HAMDI DOCKETED 2004.04.06 – LCDR Charles Swift Files for Mandamus Against Rumsfeld, et al 2004.04.14 – Reprimand of Captain Yee Dropped on Appeal 2004.04.20 – USSC :  Oral Argument in Rasul  v.  Bush  &  Al Odah  v.  United States 2004.04.27 – 60 Minutes II Reports on Torture at Abu Ghraib Prison 2004.04.28 – USSC :  Oral Arguments in Hamdi  v.  Rumsfeld  &  Rumsfeld  v.  Padilla 2004.04.30 – The New Yorker Reports on the Taguba Investigation 2004.05.05 – The Taguba Report :  800th MP Brigade Investigation 2004.05.07 – ICRC Report on Iraq Reported by Wall Street Journal 2004.05.12 :  SrA AHMAD AL HALABI RELEASED PENDING TRIAL 2004.05.15 – The New Yorker Reports Secret DoD Operations 2004.05.17 – NEWSWEEK Reports War Crimes Memos 2004.05.21 – VINDICATION – NEWSWEEK Reports OLC Memos ( Yoo ) 2004.06.01 – DOJ Press Conference to Demonize Jose Padilla 2004.06.07 – Wall Street Journal Reports DoD "Working Group" Memo on Torture 2004.06.08 – UN Security Council Resolution 1546:  Iraq and Kuwait 2004.06.08 – Washington Post Reports OLC Memo ( Bybee ) on Torture 2004.06.09 – Ashcroft Stonewalls the Senate Judiciary Committee 2004.06.10 – DoD Charges David Hicks with Conspiracy to Commit War Crimes 2004.06.22 – WHITE HOUSE DAMAGE CONTROL BLITZ DoD Briefing on "Interrogation Process"  ( Torture Scandal ) 2004.06.23 – Navy Secretary Appointed to Oversee Detainee Reviews DoD Briefing with Navy Secretary Gordon England 2004.06.24 – DoD Briefing :  ICRC Interaction with DoD on Detainees 2004.06.28 – US Transfers Sovereignty to Interim Iraqi Government 2004.06.28 – SUPREME COURT DECIDES DETAINEE CASES Rumsfeld  v.  Padilla,  No. 03-1027 Rasul  v.  Bush,  No. 03-334  &  Al Odah  v.  United States,  No. 03-343 Hamdi  v.  Rumsfeld,  No. 03-6696 2004.06.29 – DoD Initiates First "Military Commission" Charge Sheet for POW al Bahlul Charge Sheet for POW al Qosi 2004.06.30 – Supreme Court Issues Summary Remand in Bush  v.  Gherebi,  No. 03-1245 2004.07.01 :  CASSINI PROBE ORBITS SATURN 2004.07.07 – Navy GC Alberto J. Mora - Memo for Inspector General, Dept. of the Navy 2004.07.07 – DoD Designates Nine More POWs for "Military Commissions" 2004.07.07 – DoD Announces "Combatant Status Review Tribunals" Order Establishing Combatant Status Review Tribunals ( Wolfowitz ) "Fact Sheet" - Combatant Status Review Tribunals 2004.07.08 – 9th Circuit Transfers Gherebi  v.  Bush to USDC D.C. 2004.07.08 – DoD Repatriates POW Medhi-Muhammed Ghezali to Sweeden 2004.07.08 – DoD Prepares to Brief Congress on ICRC Reports on Iraq 2004.07.09 – DoD Briefing on Combatant Status Review Tribunals ( CSRT ) 2004.07.12-14 – DoD Notifies Detainees of CSRTs and Habeas Rights 2004.07.13 – US News & World Report Discloses Classified Details of Taguba Report 2004.07.14 – DoD Charges & Refers POW Salim Hamdan for "Military Commission" Charge Sheet for POW Hamdan Referral Order 2004.07.16 – DoD Creates "Office of Detainee Affairs" to Cordinate with ICRC Briefing on JTF-GTMO Detainee Review Tribunals 2004.07.27 – DoD Repatriates Four French POWs 2004.07.30 – DoD Holds First CSRT Hearing Combatant Status Tribunal Implementation Guidance 2004.08.02 – DoD Repatriates Five Moroccan POWs 2004.08.09 – Order Transferring Swift  v.  Rumsfeld to USDC D.C.  ( Lasnik, W.D. Wash. ) 2004.08.11 – Negotiations Start for the Release of Yaser Hamdi 2004.08.19 – Sr. Judge Joyce Green Assigned to Coordinate D.C. Guantanamo Detainee Cases 2004.08.24 – DoD "Independent" Panel ( Schlesinger ) Report DoD "Independent" Panel Briefing 2004.08.24 – OMC Hearing US  v.  Hamdan ( LCDR Swift USN ) 2004.08.25 – DoD Report on MI Detainee Operations ( Fay / Jones ) DoD Briefing on Fay / Jones Report OMC begins illegal "commissions" at Gitmo. 2004.08.25 – OMC Hearing US  v.  Hicks ( MAJ Mori USMC ) 2004.08.26 – OMC Hearing US  v.  Al-Baluhl ( LCDR Sundel USN ) OMC Briefing on Preliminary "Commission" Hearings 2004.08.27 – OMC Hearing US  v.  Al Qosi ( LTC Shaffer USAF ) 2004.09.15 – USDC D.C. Resolution of the Executive Session in Guantanamo Detainee Cases 2004.09.22 :  SrA AL HALABI PLEADS GUILTY TO MINOR CHARGES IN PLEA BARGAIN 2004.09.24 – Release Agreement Filed in Hamdi  v.  Rumsfeld 2004.10.04 :  SCALED COMPOSITES' SpaceShipOne WINS THE X PRIZE 2004.10.12 :  YASER HAMDI IS RELEASED AND RETURNED TO SAUDI ARABIA 2004.10.12 – PEGC ( CBG ) Files Amicus Brief in D.C. Guantanamo Detainee Cases 2004.10.17 – Al Odah  v.  United States :  Protective Order for Access to Counsel ( CKK ) 2004.10.24-25 – NY Times In-Depth Report on The Bush PMO and Detainee Policy Since 9/11 2004.11.02 :  BUSH & CHENEY ARE RE-ELECTED 2004.11.08 – In re Guantanamo Detainees :  Protective Order for Counsel Access to Detainees ( JHG ) 2004.11.08 – Hamdan  v.  Rumsfeld :  Memorandum Opinion & Order ( JR ) 2004.11.09 :  ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN ASHCROFT RESIGNS 2004.11.10 :  BUSH NOMINATES ALBERTO GONZALES AS ATTORNEY GENERAL 2004.11.17 :  BUSH APPOINTS HARRIET MIERS AS WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL 2004.11.22 – Swift & Katyal file USSC Petition for Certiorari in Hamdan  v.  Rumsfeld 2004.12.08 – In re Guantanamo Detainees :  CBG Granted Leave to Appear as Amicus Curiae ( JHG ) 2004.12.09 – In re Guantanamo Detainees :  PEGC Amicus Brief Docketed as Cross-Motion for Summary Judgement 2004.12.16 – Govt Opposition to CBG Cross-Motion for Summary Judgement 2004.12.23 – CBG Reply to Govt Opposition 2004.12.30 – OLC Memo ( Levin ) on Legal Standards Applicable Under 18 USC §§ 2340–2340A ( Torture ) <<  2005  >> 2005.01.19 – Khalid  v.  Bush :  Memorandum Opinion & Order ( RJL ) 2005.01.31 – In re Guantanamo Detainees :  Memorandum Opinion ( JHG ) 355 F. Supp. 2d 443 ( D.D.C. 2005 ) 2005.01.31 – CCR / Scott Horton :  Report to German Prosecutor 2005.02.05 :  CLASSIFIED OLC OPINION ON TORTURE ( III - Bradbury ) 2005.02.28 – Padilla  v.  Hanft :  Memorandum Opinion & Order ( HFF ) 2005.04.20 – Oral Arguments in Hamdan  v.  Rumsfeld  ( D.C. Cir. ) Q:  Mr. President, recently Amnesty International said you have established "a new gulag" of prisons around the world, beyond the reach of the law and decency.  I'd like your reaction to that, and also your assessment of how it came to this, that that is a view not just held by extremists and anti-Americans, but by groups that have allied themselves with the United States government in the past – and what the strategic impact is that in many places of the world, the United States these days, under your leadership, is no longer seen as the good guy. BUSH:  [ Ya.  I- I- I'm ] aware of the Amnesty International report, and it's absurd.  It's an absurd allegation.  The United States is a country that is [ uh . . . ] promotes freedom around the world.  When there's accusations made about . . .   certain actions by our people, they're fully investigated in a transparent way.  It's just an absurd allegation. In terms of [ umm . . . ] the detainees, we've had thousands of people detained.  We've investigated every single complaint against the detainees.  It seemed like to me they based some of their decisions on the word of [ uh . . . ] and the allegations – by people who were held in detention[ . ]  People who hate America, people that had been trained in some instances to disassemble [ sic ] – that means not tell the truth. And so it was an absurd report.  It just is.  And [ uh . . . ]   –   Presidential press conference, W.H. Rose Garden, May 31, 2005. 2005.??.?? (Summer) :  CLASSIFIED OLC OPINION ON TORTURE ( IV - Bradbury ) 2005.06.15 – Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Detainees 2005.07.01 – Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Resigns 2005.07.07 :  LONDON TRANSIT BOMBINGS 2005.07.08 – Al Marri  v.  Hanft :  Memorandum Opinion & Order ( HFF ) 2005.07.15 – D.C. Cir. Reverses Hamdan  v.  Rumsfeld 2005.07.19 :  BUSH NOMINATES JOHN ROBERTS ( D.C. Cir. ) TO SUPREME COURT 2005.08.12 – OLC Memo ( Marshall > Haynes ) on Military Commission Changes 2005.09.01 – PEGC Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee & Hamdan Commentary 2005.09.03 – Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist Dies 2005.09.05 :  BUSH RE-NOMINATES ROBERTS AS CHIEF JUSTICE 2005.09.09 – 4th Cir. Reverses Padilla  v.  Hanft 2005.09.23 – HRW Releases Report on Detainee Abuse in the 82nd Airborne Division 2005.10.03 :  BUSH NOMINATES WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL HARRIET MIERS TO SUPREME COURT 2005.10.05 – U.S. Senate Passes McCain Amendment on Interrogations 90-9 2005.10.11 – DoD Revises Military Commission Instruction No. 9  ( issued 2003.12.26 ) 2005.10.27 :  HARRIET MIERS WITHDRAWS FROM SUPREME COURT NOMINATION 2005.10.28 – "Scooter" Libby Indicted for Obstruction of Justice & Perjury 2005.10.31 :  BUSH NOMINATES JOSEPH ALITO ( 3d Cir. ) TO SUPREME COURT 2005.10.31 :  CHENEY NAMES DAVID ADDINGTON TO REPLACE LIBBY 2005.11.07 :  SUPREME COURT GRANTS CERT IN HAMDAN v. RUMSFELD 2005.11.17 – Jose Padilla Indicted for Conspiracy  ( S.D. Fla. ) 2005.11.19 :  US MARINES KILL 15 CIVILIANS IN HADITHA, IRAQ 2005.11.30 – 4th Circuit Orders Briefs on Vacatur in Padilla  v.  Hanft 2005 – Geneva Protocol III, Red Crystal adopted as additional emblem, 8 December 2005.12.05 – The Rice Statement :  Administration Denies Illegal Detentions and Torture 2005.12.08 – UK Lords of Appeal :  A and others  v.  Home Secretary, [2005] UKHL 71 2005.12.16 – NY Times Reports on Illegal Bush Domestic Spying Program 2005.12.18 – Bush Admits Illegal Domestic Wiretaps by NSA 2005.12.18 – Congress Enacts "Detainee Treatment Act of 2005" ( McCain-Graham ) 2005.12.21 – 4th Circuit Denies Tranfer of Jose Padilla to DOJ Custody 2005.12.21 :  JUDGE ROBERTSON RESIGNS FROM FISA COURT 2005.12.22 – Judge Robertson issues Memorandum & Order in Qassim  v.  Bush Motion Hearing  ( 2005.08.25 ) Status Conference  ( 2005.12.12 ) 2005.12.30 – Bush Signs H.R. 2863 ( including McCain-Graham ) <<  2006  >> 2006.01.04 – Supreme Court Authorizes Transfer of Jose Padilla to DOJ Custody 2006.01.10 :  MG MILLER ASSERTS ART. 31 RIGHT ON SELF-INCRIMINATION IN IRAQ ABUSE CASES 2006.01.19 – DOJ Issues White Paper on Presidential Authority for Illegal NSA Wiretaps 2006.02.08 – Seton Hall Report I :  Profile of 517 Detainees from DoD Data 2006.02.15 – UN OHCHR Report on Situation of Detainees at Guantanamo Bay 2006.02.16 – USDC E.D.N.Y. ( DGT ) Dismisses Arar  v.  Ashcroft 2006.02.17 – The New Yorker Reports on the 2004.07.07 Mora Memo 2006.02.22 – Human Rights First Reports on Detainee Deaths in US Custody 2006.03.03 – DoD Releases Names of JTF-GTMO Detainees [ AP  v.  DoD FOIA ] 2006.03.19 – TIME Reports on the Haditha Massacre of 2005.11.19 2006.03.20 – Seton Hall Report II :  USG Disagreements About Who is Our Enemy 2006.03.22 – USCA D.C. Cir. :  Oral Arguments in Boumedienne  v.  Bush  &  Al-Odah  v.  U.S. 2006.03.24 – DoD Issues Military Commission Instruction No. 10 2006.03.28 – USSC :  Oral Argument in Hamdan  v.  Bush 2006.03.30 – ASIL Adopts Resolution on the Laws of War and Occupation Text as Proposed by Prof. Ben Davis et al.  ( 2006.01.30 ) Development of the ASIL Resolution  ( 2005.12.12 - 2006.03.30 ) ASIL Roundtable with Condoleeza Rice  ( 2006.03.29 ) ASIL Insight :  Basic Legal Authorities for the ASIL Resolution  ( 2006.05.19 ) 2006.04.03 – USSC :  Certiorari Denied in Padilla  v.  Hanft, No. 05-533, Kennedy concurring Ginsburg dissenting 2006.04.19 – DoD Releases Full List of Guantanamo Detainees [ AP  v.  DoD FOIA ] 2006.04.14 – Salon Reports on Army IG Investigation of Abuse at JTF-GTMO IG Interview with LG Randall Schmidt USAF  ( 2005.08.24 ) IG Interview with GEN James Hill USA  ( 2005.10.07 ) 2006.04.28 – UN Security Council Res. 1674  ( Protection of civilians in armed conflict ) 2006.05.05 :  UIGHUR DETAINEES RELEASED FROM GITMO TO ALBANIA 2006.05.19 – UN Committee against Torture Report on USA US Department of State Response  ( 2006.05.19 ) 2006.06.10 :  THREE GAUNTANAMO BAY PRISONERS COMMIT SUICIDE 2006.06.29 – SUPREME COURT RULES THAT BUSH "MILITARY COMMISSIONS" ARE ILLEGAL HAMDAN  v.  Rumsfeld,  No. 05-184, Stevens per curiam, Kennedy concurring in part Cf. Application of YAMASHITA, 327 U.S. 1 (1946), Murphy & Rutledge dissenting at 26-81 See also "Mr. Justice Rutledge" by John Paul Stevens (1956) 2006.07 – HRW Reports Soldiers' Accounts of Detainee Abuse in Iraq See also John H. Richardson,  "Acts of Conscience",  Esquire ( 2006.08 ) 2006.07.07 – DoD ( England ) Orders Compliance with Geneva Common Article 3 2006.07.11 – Seton Hall Report III :  Gitmo Detainees During Detention 2006.08.01 :  MG MILLER RETIRES FROM ARMY – AWARDED DSM 2006.08.08 – USDC D.S.C. ( HFF ) Upholds Unlawful Detention of Ali Al-Marri 2006.08.17 – USDC E.D. Mich. ( ADT ) Rules Secret NSA Wiretap Program is Illegal 2006.08.20 – HICKS ( Rasul )  v.  BUSH ( In re Gitmo ) :  Memo Order for Filter Team ( JR )( amend. 2006.09.20 ) Cf. Boumediene  v.  Bush,  Memo Opinion ( RJL )( 2006.08.28 ) 2006.08.21 – Seton Hall Report IV :  June 10th Suicides at Guantanamo 2006.08.25 – DoD Inspector General Review of DoD-Directed Investigations of Detainee Abuse 2006.09.06 – BUSH ADMITS SECRET CIA PRISONS & TRANSFERS CIA DETAINEES TO GITMO ODNI High Value Terrorist Detainee Program Biographies of High Value Detainees Proposed Bush "Military Commissions Act of 2006" 2006.09.06 – DoD Announces Detainee Program and New US Army Interogation Field Manual DoD Directive 2310.01E – DoD Detainee Program US Army Field Manual FM 2.22-3 – Human Intelligence Collector Operations 2006.09.15 – Bush Demands that Congress "Clarify" Common Article 3 to Allow Torture 2006.09.18 – Canadian Commission of Inquiry Concerning Maher Arar Reports Findings Analysis and Recommendations Factual Background, Volume I Factual Background, Volume II 2006.09.21 :  McCAIN & WARNER AGREE TO "COMPROMISE" MILITARY COMMISSION ACT 2006.09.22 – USCA D.C. Cir. Remands HAMDAN  v.  Rumsfeld to USDC D.D.C. 2006.09.25 – Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Limiting Habeas 2006.09.29 – Congress Approves "Military Commissions Act of 2006" 2006.09.29 :  US REP. MARK FOLEY ( R–FL 16TH ) RESIGNS OVER CAPITOL PAGE SCANDAL 2006.10.09 :  NORTH KOREA TESTS NUCLEAR WEAPON 2006.10.14 – UN Security Council Resolution 1718 on North Korea 2006.10.17 – Bush Signs "Military Commission Act of 2006" White House Press Briefing by Tony Snow DOJ Letter to the USCA D.C. Cir. re the Detainee Cases and the MCA Hamdan Moves for New Briefs in USDC D.D.C. Detainees Move for New Briefs in USCA D.C. Cir. 2006.10.18 – USCA D.C. Cir. Orders Supplemental Briefs re MCA in Al Odah & Boumediene 2006.10.24 – Cheney Calls Water Torture a "No-Brainer" in Radio Interview White House claims Cheney didn't really say what he said, or mean what he meant, or something . . . 2006.11.05 :  IRAQI TRIBUNAL ANNOUNCES GUILTY VERDICT IN SADDAM HUSSEIN TRIAL 2006.11.07 :  DEMOCRATS WIN CONTROL OF CONGRESS IN MID-TERM ELECTIONS 2006.11.08 – Rumsfeld resigns ;  Bush names Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense 2006.11.17 – Seton Hall Report V :  Analysis of CSRT Proceedings at Guantanamo 2006.11.22 – Iraqi Tribunal Issues Written Judgement in Saddam Hussein Trial 2006.11.29 – Humanitarian Law Project  v.  U.S. Dep't of Treasury (C.D. Cal., ABC ) 2006.11.29 – Al-Razak  v.  Bush :  "Next Friend" Status Granted to Gitmo Detainee ( GK ) 2006.12.06 – The Iraq Study Group Issues Report 2006.12.13 – Hamdan  v.  Rumsfeld is Dissmissed :  Memorandum Opinion & Order ( JR ) 2006.12.15 – D.C. Cir. stays Bismullah v. Rumsfeld (DTA) pending a decision in Al Odah & Boumediene 2006.12.29 – D.C. Cir. Denies Former Judges Leave to File Amicus in Al Odah & Boumediene 2006.12.30 :  SADDAM HUSSEIN EXECUTED BY HANGING <<  2007  >> 2007.01.02 – FBI Releases 2004 Internal Report on JTF-GTMO Interrogations 2007.01.04 :  110th CONGRESS CONVENES 2007.01.18 – DoD Issues Manual for Military Commissions 2007.01.26 – Canada Apologizes to Maher Arar and Agrees to Pay Compensation 2007.02.09 – D.C. Cir. Affirms Habeas Jurisdiction in Omar  v.  Harvey 2007.02.14 – Bush Re-Authorizes Military Commissions Under MCA 2007.02.20 – D.C. Cir. Dismisses Boumediene  &  Al Odah for Lack of Jurisdiction Rogers Dissenting 2007.03.06 :  SCOOTER LIBBY CONVICTED OF PERJURY & OBSTRUCTION 2007.03.26 – David Hicks agrees to Plea Bargin 2007.03.07 – U.S.  v.  Lewellyn, 481 F.3d 695 (CA9 2007)(assault p. 18 USC 113) 2007.03.27 – In re Iraq and Afghanistan Detainees Litig., 479 F. Supp.2d 85 (D.D.C. 2007) 2007.04.02 – SC Denies Cert in Boumedienne & Al Odah Statement by Stevens & Kennedy Breyer, Souter & Ginsburg Dissenting 2007.04.30 :  SC DENIES CERT IN HAMDAN 2007.05.15 – James Comey Testifies re Gonzalez Hospital Visit 2007.05.15 :  JOSE PADILLA TRIAL BEGINS 2007.05.15 – D.C. Cir. Hears Oral Argument in Bismullah v. Gates (DTA) 2007.05.17 :  LCDR MATTHEW DIAZ CONVICTED 2007.05.20 :  DAVID HICKS REPATRIATED TO AUSTRALIA 2007.06.01 – Bismullah v. Gates, Declaration of James M. McGarrah Petitioners' Response to the McGarrah Declaration ( 2007.06.07 ) 2007.06.11 – 4th Cir. Reverses Al-Marri  v.  Wright, 487 F.3d 160 (CA4 2007) 2007.06.14 – 2d Cir. Remands Iqbal  v.  Hasty 2007.06.29 – SUPREME COURT GRANTS REHEARING AND CERTIORARI IN BOUMEDIENE & AL ODAH, 551 U.S. ___ 2007.07.02 :  BUSH COMMUTES LIBBY'S SENTENCE Grant of Executive Clemency to Scooter Libby Statement by Bush 2007.07.20 – D.C. Cir. ruling in Bismullah v. Gates (DTA) 2007.07.20 – BUSH ISSUES EXECUTIVE ORDER ON GENEVA CA3 2007.07.24 – US v. Hicks, Final Report of Lex Lasry QC, Law Council of Australia 2007.08.16 :  JOSE PADILLA CONVICTED ON ALL COUNTS 2007.08.22 :  4th CIR. GRANTS REHEARING EN BANC IN AL MARRI v. WRIGHT 2007.08.26 :  AG ALBERTO GONZALES RESIGNS EFFECTIVE 2007.09.17 2007.10.05 – Hamad v. Bush ( D.C. Cir. ), Declaration of William J. Teesdale, Esq. 2007.10.17-18 :  MUKASEY CONFIRMATION HEARINGS Day 1 Transcript Day 2 Transcript 2007.10.31 :  AL MARRI v. WRIGHT REARGUED BEFORE 4th CIR. EN BANC 2007.11.08 – Seton Hall Report VI :  Reply to DoD's Response 2007.11.09 :  SENATE VOTES 53-40 TO CONFIRM MICHAEL MUKASEY AS AG 2007.12.03 – Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in Boumediene v. Bush 2007.12.05 – NIE Reports Iran Stopped Atomic Weapons Program in 2003 2007.12.06 – New York Times Reports CIA Destroyed Tapes of Interrogations Statement by CIA Director Michael Hayden 2007.12.10 – Seton Hall Report VII :  The Meaning of "Battlefield" 2007.12.10 – ABC News Interviews John Kiriakou re Waterboarding ABC News interview with John Kiriakou Today Show interview with John Kiriakou 2007.12.27 :  BENAZIR BHUTTO ASSASINATED 2007.12.29 :  DAVID HICKS RELEASED FROM YATALA PRISON <<  2008  >> 2008.01.02 – AG Mukasey Appoints John Durham to Investigate CIA Tapes 2008.01.11 – D.C. Cir. Dismisses Rasul  v.  Myers 2008.01.22 :  JOSE PADILLA SENTENCED TO 17 YEARS IN PRISON 2008.01.29 – AG Mukasey Claims Waterboarding is Legal in Some Circumstances 2008.02.01 – D.C. Cir. Denies Rehearing En Banc in Bismullah  v.  Gates ( 5-5 vote ) 2008.02.05 – CIA ADMITS WATERBOARDING 2008.02.07 – AG Mukasey Claims Waterboarding Cannot be Prosecuted 2008.02.07 – Seton Hall Report VIII :  Captured on Tape 2008.02.11 – DoD Files "Military Commission" Charges  v.  KSM and Five Others 2008.02.17 :  KOSOVO DECLARES INDEPENDENCE FROM SERBIA 2008.02.21 :  US NAVY MISSILE HITS DEFECTIVE SATELLITE IN ORBIT 2008.02.22 – S. Ct. Orders Expedited Briefs in Gov't DTA Appeal (Gates v. Bismullah) 2008.02.22 – DOJ OPR Discloses Investigation of Torture Memos 2008.02.25 – William Haynes Resigns as DoD General Counsel 2008.02.27 :  AG MUKASEY VISITS GUANTANAMO BAY 2008.02.28 – ECHR Upholds Absolute Ban on Torture in Saadi  v.  Italy 2008.03.08 – Bush Vetoes Intelligence Authoriztion Act 2008.03.11 – CENTCOM CIC Admiral William Fallon Forced to Retire 2008.03.12 :  NEW YORK GOVERNOR ELIOT SPITZER RESIGNS IN SEX SCANDAL 2008.03.20 – D.C. Court of Appeals Disbars Scooter Libby 2008.03.25 – Supreme Court Affirms Texas Decision in Medellin v. Texas, 552 U.S. ____ (2008) 2008.03.25 – Oral Arguments in Munaf  v.  Geren  ( S. Ct. ) 2008.04.01 – DOJ Releases the 2003.03.14 Yoo Memo on Interogation and Torture of Detainees 2008.05.13 – Military Commission Ruling Bans BG Hartmann from Hamdan Case 2008.05.13 – Military Commission Charges Filed Against Khalid Shiek Mohammad and Four Others 2008.05.14 – Solicitor General Paul Clement Resigns (effective 2 June) 2008.05.20 – DOJ Releases Inspector General Report on FBI Involment with Detainee Abuse 2008.05.23 – Supreme Court of Canada Orders Release of Records to Omar Khadr 2008.05.28 :  NEPAL ABOLISHES MONARCHY AND DECLARES A REPUBLIC 2008.05.29 – Judge Brownback Removed from Khadr Military Commission 2008.05.30 – DUBLIN CONVENTION ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS SIGNED BY 111 NATIONS 2008.06.03 :  BARACK OBAMA WINS THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT 2008.06.05 :  ACCUSED 911 CONSPIRATORS ARRAIGNED BEFORE GITMO MILITARY COMMISSION 2008.06.05 – DHS Releases IG Report on the Rendition of Meher Arar to Syria DHS Inspector General Report (2008.03) Prepared Testimony of Scott Horton to the House Judiciary Committee 2008.06.12 – SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS HABEAS IN THE DETAINEE CASES Boumediene  v.  Bush,  No. 06-1195  &  Al Odah  v.  United States,  No. 06-1196 Munaf  v.  Geren,  No. 06-1666  &  Geren  v.  Omar,  No. 07-394 2008.06.23 – S. Ct. Remands Bismullah and Dimisses Ali and Al-Ghizzawi Without Predjudice 2008.06.23 – D.C. CIRCUIT RULES CSRT INVALID IN PARHAT  v.  GATES 2008.06.26 :  ADDINGTON & YOO TESTIFY TO HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE RE TORTURE 2008.06.30 – D.C. Circuit Releases Redacted Opinion in Parhat  v.  Gates 2008.07.02 – USDC D.D.C. Order to Coordinate Guantanamo Bay Detainee Litigation (TFH) 2008.07.15 – D.C. Circuit en banc remands Al-Marri  v.  Pucciarelli 2008.07.21 :  HAMDAN MILITARY COMMISSION BEGINS AT GUANTANAMO BAY 2008.08.01 :  FIGHTING BEGINS IN SOUTH OSSETIA BETWEEN GEORGIAN GOV'T AND SEPARATISTS 2008.08.06 :  HAMDAN CONVICTED BY MILITARY COMMISSION ON "MATERIAL SUPPORT" CHARGES 2008.08.06 :  DOJ Discloses Documents in Anthrax Investigation 2008.08.08 :  RUSSIA INVADES GEORGIA 2008.08.21 – England and Wales High Court :  Application of Mohamed, [2008] EWHC 2048 (Admin) 2008.11.03 :  JTF-GITMO "MILITARY COMMISSION" SENTENCES ALI HAMZA AL-BAHLUL TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT 2008.11.04 – D.C. Circuit Casts Doubts on Viability of DTA Process ( Basardh v. Gates ) 2008.11.04 :  BARACK OBAMA ELECTED 44TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES Obama's victory speech at Grant Park in Chicago 2008.11.05 :  OBAMA APPOINTS RAHM EMANUEL AS CHIEF OF STAFF 2008.12.15 – Supreme Court Reverses D.C. Cir. in the Detainee Cases in RASUL v. MYERS, No. 08-235 <<  2009  >> 2009.01.20 :  BARACK OBAMA TAKES OFFICE AS PRESIDENT Obama's Inaugual Address 2009.08.24 :  OBAMA ESTABLISHES HIGH-VALUE INTERROGTION UNIT 2009.10.20 :  Supreme Court Grants Certiorari in KIYEMBA v. OBAMA, No. 08-1234 Case Documents 2009.11.07 :  US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PASSES HEALTH CARE REFORM BILL 2009.11.24 :  PHIL CARTER QUITS AS DASD FOR DETAINEE AFFAIRS 2009.12.11 – PEGC Files an Amicus Brief in Kiyemba v. Obama 2009.12.22 – President Obama Signs "Human Rights Enforcement Act of 2009" 2009.12.24 :  US SENATE PASSES HEALTH CARE REFORM BILL <<  2010  >> <<  PRESENT  >>

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