This seat was abolished in the 1983 general election and replaced with the present constituency of Hyndburn ( UK Parliament constituency ).

The Treaty of Lisbon abolished the pillar system and gave further powers to Parliament.

The Scottish Reformation took place only days later when the Scottish Parliament abolished the Roman Catholic religion and outlawed the Mass.

It abolished both the Parliaments of England and Scotland, and established the Parliament of Great Britain.

Mary's first Parliament, which assembled in early October 1553, declared the marriage of her parents valid, and abolished Edward's religious laws.

Names of many institutions ( including the army ) were stripped of the " royal " adjective and the Raj Parishad ( a council of the King's advisers ) was abolished, with his duties assigned to the Parliament itself.

Slavery was abolished by an Act of Parliament that became law on 1 August 1834.

In 1641, the Long Parliament, led by John Pym and inflamed by the severe treatment of John Lilburne, as well as that of other religious dissenters such as William Prynne, Alexander Leighton, John Bastwick and Henry Burton, abolished the Star Chamber with an Act of Parliament, the Habeas Corpus Act 1640.

Under the terms of the merger, the separate Parliaments of Great Britain and Ireland were abolished, and replaced by a united Parliament of the United Kingdom.

In 1832 Parliament abolished slavery in the Empire with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

This seat in Parliament was first filled in 1876, but was abolished in 1880 one year after its second Member, Edmund Barton, was elected to the Legislative Assembly.

* some, such as the Parliament of New Zealand, Parliament of Queensland, and the parliaments of Canadian provinces have abolished their upper houses.

A week later, the Parliament passed three acts in one day: the first abolished the jurisdiction of the Pope in Scotland, the second condemned all doctrine and practice contrary to the reformed faith, and the third forbade the celebration of Mass in Scotland.

However, the new Lord Protector, with no power base in either Parliament or the New Model Army, was forced to abdicate in 1659 and the Protectorate was abolished.

In 1807, the UK Parliament passed the Bill that abolished the trading of slaves.

* Southampton ( UK Parliament constituency ), abolished in 1950

Parliament was reduced to a rubber-stamp, before being abolished altogether though it was later revived.

* Newport ( Isle of Wight ) ( UK Parliament constituency ), abolished in 1885

* Newport ( Shropshire ) ( UK Parliament constituency ), abolished in 1918

It was represented by one Member of Parliament until 1918, when the constituency was abolished and the Kirkwall component was merged into the county constituency of Orkney and Shetland.

With the significant problems considered as solved, the Board of Longitude was abolished by Act of Parliament in 1828.

By the Acts of Union the Parliament of Ireland was abolished, and the Kingdom of Ireland absorbed into the new United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with effect from 1 January 1801.

In 1800 the Irish Parliament abolished itself when, after widespread bribery of members, it adopted the Act of Union, which came into effect from 1 January 1801.

Cromwell " well knew that while the Long Parliament, that noble company, who had fought the great battle of liberty from the beginning, remained in session, and such men as Vane were enabled to mingle in its deliberations, it would be utterly useless for him to think of executing his purposes ( to set up a Protectorate or Dictatorship ).

* 1322 – Mladen II Šubić of Bribir, defeated in the battle of Bliska, is arrested by the Parliament.

* August 22 – King Charles I raises the royal battle standard over Nottingham Castle, so declaring war on his own Parliament.

* October 8 – Mladen II Šubić of Bribir, defeated in the battle of Bliska, is arrested by the Parliament.

After 1660 when King Charles II of England ( 1630-1685 ) was restored and then again after 1685 when King James II of England came to power there was an on-going battle between king and the English Parliament.

This army soon turned the war in favor of Parliament, decisively beating the Royalist forces at the battle of Naseby on 14 June 1645.

Sir George commonly used such reports from Protestant missionaries to battle his two enemies, anti-Government Māori and the Parliament, and in turn he supplied the Protestant missionaries with information on the movements of Catholic missionaries.

In 1774, as part of the legislative response to the Boston Tea Party, Parliament considered a bill which would have abolished appeals of murder and trials by battle in the American colonies.

Parliament captured Gainsborough in the battle on 20 July but was immediately besieged by a large Royalist army and forced to surrender after three days.

Although the other Hamilton-area Members of Parliament shifted to the eastward half of their ridings, in Valeri's case this would have meant shifting from a suburban Hamilton riding to the rural Niagara West — Glanbrook riding, where he would have faced a difficult battle with a candidate of the Conservative Party of Canada.

News of the battle of Lexington and Concord reached New York on April 23, which stunned the city since there was a widely believed rumor was that Parliament was to grant the colonies self-taxation.

The Conservatives have been unable to get this change approved by Parliament because they had only a minority of the seats until the May 2011 federal election and all of the opposition parties support the monopsony, while they lost a court battle to unilaterally dismantle the CWB without an act of Parliament.

** Francis Somerset, often said to have died at the battle of Pinkie in 1547, but fought at the siege of Leith in 1560, and was Member of Parliament for Monmouthshire, 1557 & 1558.

When news of the battle reached Britain, the Opposition in Parliament questioned the sending of such a small force against the convoy, and forced an official inquiry into the administration of the Royal Navy.

Feeling inadequate to take up the issue of the slave trade in Parliament himself, and knowing that it would be a long, hard battle, Sir Charles Middleton suggested the young Member of Parliament William Wilberforce as the one who might be persuaded to take up the cause.

The common battle in Parliament against electoral reform favored a reconciliation between the MRE and the PRI.

In 1642 King Charles I was staying in Wellington ( in a building that stood in what is now Crown Street, next to the former Crown Inn, which is now the premises of Wellington News ), shortly before the first pitched battle of the English Civil War, when he said in his Wellington Declaration that he would uphold the Protestant Religion, the Laws of England, and the Liberty of Parliament.

With the army of the Confederation led by Lord Muskerry, again the army of the Parliament won the battle.

In the following year it was deemed inadvisable to make the annual appeal to Parliament, as the battle for religious liberty was going on in another part of the field ; but by the passing of the Sheriffs ' Declaration Bill on August 21, 1835, Jews were allowed to hold the ancient and important office of sheriff.

Parliament, alarmed for its own safety, sent repeated orders to Essex to find the King and bring him to battle.

Martel stood down as a Member of Provincial Parliament ( MPP ) in 1987, and was succeeded in Sudbury East by his daughter Shelley Martel after a bitter battle for the riding's NDP nomination between her and Rev.

Although the numbers of casualties were relatively small ( 1, 300 Royalists and 1, 200 Parliamentarians ), historians who have studied the battle consider it to be one of the most crucial of the First English Civil War, marking the high point of the Royalist advance and leading to the signing of the Solemn League and Covenant, which brought the Scottish Covenanters into the war on the side of Parliament and led to the eventual victory of the Parliamentarian cause.