As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.

Centering around this historic old structure, a group of public-spirited Barbour County citizens have organized and planned a week-long series of events, beginning on May 28th and continuing through June 3rd, to observe most appropriately the centennial of the first land engagement of the Civil War at Philippi.

In the Mozambican Civil War beginning in 1977 and in Congo-Brazzaville ( today Republic of the Congo ) Cubans acted as advisors.

Now with an established national government in Nanjing, and supported by conservative allies including Hu Hanmin, Chiang's expulsion of the Communists and their Soviet advisers led to the beginning of the Chinese Civil War.

At the same time, the English Civil War pitting King against Parliament was just beginning.

During the secession crisis in Missouri at the beginning of the American Civil War, Atchison sided with Missouri's pro-Confederate governor, Claiborne Jackson.

At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War the colony remained loyal to the Republican government.

By the beginning of the Civil War, Austria-Hungary, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland had recognized Finnish independence.

Initial frontlines and offensives of the Civil War at the beginning of February ( area controlled by the Reds in red, and by the Whites in blue )

Mao Zedong summarized basic guerrilla tactics at the beginning of the Chinese " Second Revolutionary Civil War " as: " The enemy advances, we retreat ; the enemy camps, we harass ; the enemy tires, we attack ; the enemy retreats, we pursue.

* 1967 – Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning the war.

The Agar Gun, otherwise known as a " coffee-mill gun " because of its resemblance to a coffee mill, was invented by Wilson Agar at the beginning of the US Civil War.

Abidjan was is in the process of regaining Niger's port trade, following the disruption of the Ivorian Civil War, beginning in 1999.

" Although the 1930s and 1940s and the ensuing neo-orthodox theological consensus mitigated much of the polemics during the mid-20th century, disputes erupted again beginning in the mid-1960s, over the extent of involvement in the Civil Rights Movement and the issue of ordination of women, and, especially since the 1990s, over the issue of ordination of gays and lesbians.

In the spring of 1861, shortly before the beginning of the American Civil War, the government of San Marino wrote a letter ( in " perfect Italian on one side, and imperfect but clear English on the other ") to United States President Abraham Lincoln, proposing an " alliance " between the two democratic nations and offering the President honorary San Marino citizenship.

By 1860 the total number of slaves reached almost four million, and the American Civil War, beginning in 1861, led to the end of slavery in the United States.

During the American Civil War, U. S. Army General Philip Sheridan's stripping of the Shenandoah Valley, beginning on September 21, 1864 and continuing for two weeks, was considered " total war ".

In the often-quoted words of Thomas Starr King, pastor of the San Francisco Unitarian Church at the beginning of the Civil War: " The Universalists believe that God is too good to damn them, and the Unitarians believe they are too good to be damned!

) – ( traditional beginning date of the Bolshevik Revolution & Russian Civil War ).

* April 5 – 1947-1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine: Haganah launches Operation Nahshon ; beginning of the 1948 Palestinian exodus.

* June 7 – Former Brigadier-General Ansumane Mané seizes control over military barracks in Bissau, marking the beginning of the Guinea-Bissau Civil War ( 1998 – 99 ).

* July 17 – The Army of Africa launches a coup d ' état against the Second Spanish Republic, beginning the Spanish Civil War.

** Spanish dictator Francisco Franco dies in Madrid, effectively marking the end of the dictatorship established following the Spanish Civil War and the beginning of Spain's transition to democracy.

* January: Caliph al-Amin appoints Ali ibn Isa ibn Mahan as governor of Khurasan, and sends him with an army against his brother al-Ma ' mun, thereby beginning the Abbasid Civil War or Fourth Fitna.

" Pitchfork Ben " Tillman lived up to his nickname with an incendiary address which began with a reference to his home state's role in beginning the Civil War.

Similarly, the Charter of Fundamental Rights, codified into law applicable to European Union countries by the passage civil lawsuit, is said to have accrued when the event beginning its time limitation occurs.

By the end of August, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen ( La Déclaration des Droits de l ' Homme et du Citoyen ) was adopted, which officially created the beginning of a constitutional monarchy in France.

Davis set the beginning of the national and international women's rights movement at Worcester, Massachusetts in 1850, at the National Women's Rights Convention when women from many states were invited, the influence of which was felt across the continent and in Great Britain.

In the volume, Stanton did not mention the Liberty Party's plank on woman suffrage pre-dating the Seneca Falls Convention by a month, and she did not describe the Worcester National Women's Rights Convention, organized by Stone and Davis in 1850, as the beginning of the women's rights movement.

There are examples among United States historical documents: the end ( but not the beginning ) of the Declaration of Independence ( 1776 ) and all of the Constitution ( 1787 ) show nearly all nouns capitalized ; the Bill of Rights ( 1789 ) capitalizes a few common nouns but not most of them ; and the Thirteenth Constitutional Amendment ( 1865 ) only capitalizes proper nouns.

The practice of referring to married women by their husband's first and last names has also been criticized, beginning in the nineteenth century: when the Reverend Samuel May " moved that Mrs Stephen Smith be placed on a Committee " of the National Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, Lucretia Mott " quickly replied: Woman's Rights ' women do not like to be called by their husbands ' names, but by their own ".

Women's Rights activists also turned against Asquith when he adopted the ' Business as Usual ' policy at the beginning of the war, while the introduction of conscription was unpopular with mainstream Liberals.

While actively involved in the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, Abernathy completed his Master ’ s Degree in Sociology at Atlanta University.

John Rutledge of South Carolina, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, is said to have read lengthy tracts of Iroquoian law to the other framers, beginning with the words " We, the people, to form a union, to establish peace, equity, and order ..." In October 1988, the US Congress passed Concurrent Resolution 331 to recognize the influence of the Iroquois Constitution upon the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.

However, beginning in the early 20th century, the Supreme Court has used the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to apply most of the Bill of Rights to the states through the process and doctrine of selective incorporation.

The first sentence, beginning " God who gave ...", is from " A Summary View of the Rights of British America ".

A main difference between the two declarations is that the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen emphasizes the protection of the written “ law ” while the Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen emphasizes protection of the “ law ” and “ Natural Laws .” Gouges emphasizes that these rights of women always have existed, that they were created at the beginning of time by God, that they are natural and true, and they cannot be oppressed.

The project contains online electronic copies of documents dating back to the beginning of history, making it possible to study the original text of not only very famous documents such as the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, and the United States Bill of Rights, but also the text of less well known but significant documents which mark turning points in the history of law and rights.

The 1960s were a time of turmoil in the United States, beginning with the Civil Rights Movement which set the standards for practices by the anti-war movement.

The mass trespass marked the beginning of a media campaign by The Ramblers Association, culminating in the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, which legislates rights to walk on mapped access land.

Suncoast was the target of an investigation beginning on June 2, 1987 by the U. S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.

From the beginning, El Centro de la Raza was a community project that stressed commitment to struggle for Civil Rights for all persons.

However, beginning in the 1920s, a series of United States Supreme Court decisions interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment to " incorporate " most portions of the Bill of Rights, making these portions, for the first time, enforceable against the state governments.

Conceptually, this raised few difficulties: the Due Process Clause protects those rights in the Bill of Rights “ implicit in the concept of ordered liberty ,” and free exercise of religion is a quintessential individual right ( and had been recognized as such at the state level from the beginning ).

The period beginning in the mid-1960s, with the passing of Civil Rights legislation and its repercussions, came the rise of an " agenda " theatre comparable to that of the 1930s.