* 1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founding father of Pakistan, gives a speech to the Constituent Assembly, the contents and meaning of which remain contentious today.

* 1954 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan.

* 1789 – In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.

The assembly renamed itself the National Constituent Assembly on 9 July, and began to function as a legislature and to draft a constitution.

The M-19 and several smaller guerrilla groups were successfully incorporated into a peace process as the 1980s ended and the 1990s began, which culminated in the elections for a Constituent Assembly of Colombia that would write a new constitution, which took effect in 1991.

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France, 26 August 1789.

The last article of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was adopted on 26 August 1789, by the National Constituent Assembly ( Assemblée nationale constituante ), during the period of the French Revolution, as the first step toward writing a constitution for France.

* 1946 – The British Government invites four Indian leaders, Nehru, Baldev Singh, Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan to obtain the participation of all parties in the Constituent Assembly.

* 1946 – The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.

* 1947 – The Constituent Assembly of Italy approves the Constitution of Italy.

The picture was meant to be massive in scale ; the figures in the foreground were meant to be life-sized portraits of the counterparts, including Jean-Sylvain Bailly, the President of the Constituent Assembly.

In 15 January 2007, the social-democrat Rafael Correa succeeded Palacio as President of Ecuador, with the promise of summoning a Constituent Assembly, and bringing focus on poverty.

The 2007-8 Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly drafted the 2008 Constitution of Ecuador, approved via the Ecuadorian constitutional referendum, 2008.

A parliamentary republic was formed by the Estonian Constituent Assembly and the first Constitution of Estonia was adopted on June 15, 1920.

After a revision, the Supreme Court of Pakistan declared that the Pakistan Constituent Assembly must be called.

Governor-General Ghulam Mohammad was unable to circumvent the order, and the new Constituent Assembly, elected by the provincial assemblies, met for the first time in July 1955.

* 1921 – Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.

They were also afraid that arriving soldiers – mostly foreign mercenaries – had been summoned to shut down the National Constituent Assembly.

On 4 August 1789, the National Constituent Assembly abolished feudalism ( although at that point there had been sufficient peasant revolts to almost end feudalism already ), in what is known as the August Decrees, sweeping away both the seigneurial rights of the Second Estate and the tithes gathered by the First Estate.

The National Constituent Assembly functioned not only as a legislature, but also as a body to draft a new constitution.

With this capstone, the National Constituent Assembly adjourned in a final session on 30 September 1791.

When the French Constituent Assembly abolished the " feudal regime " in August 1789 this is what was meant.

General Mejía allowed a managed return to democracy in Guatemala, starting with a July 1, 1984 election for a Constituent Assembly to draft a democratic constitution.

On May 30, 1985, after nine months of debate, the Constituent Assembly finished drafting a new constitution, which took effect immediately.

Thus, on 2 December 1851, shortly before the end of his single three-year term in office was to expire, Louis Bonaparte staged a coup against the Second Republic in France, disbanded the elected Constituent Assembly, arrested some of the Republican leaders and declared himself Emperor Napoleon III of France.

However, the Constituent Assembly saw the unilateral intervention by Bonaparte in Italy as a violation of Section V of the Constitution and on 11 June 1849, Alexandre Ledru-Rollin introduced a bill of impeachment against President Bonaparte and his ministers.

: April 12 A Constituent Assembly, summoned by the provisional committee of pro-Italian notables which has taken over the administration, meets in Tirana and approves a personal union with Italy: Italy's King Victor Emmanuel III is to become the King of Albania.

After 25 April 1945 ( the end of the war in Italy ) he was elected to the first Parliament of the new Italian Republic ( the parliament which created the modern Italian Constitution ), the Constituent Assembly or La Costituente.

After the end of World War II, the PRI participated to the elections for the Constituent Assembly of Italy ( 1946 ).

He remained Prime Minister until 1945, by which time World War II in Europe had ended, and stayed active in the Italian government after that moment, serving on the Constituent Assembly's committee on treaties, and also representing Italy in councils of foreign ministers until 1946.

* Constituent Assembly of Italy

An agreement was worked out that provided for an interim presidency headed by General Vicente Tosta, who agreed to appoint a cabinet representing all political factions and to convene a Constituent Assembly within ninety days to restore constitutional order.

A Constituent Assembly was elected which was seated in Paris.

The new National Constituent Assembly was heavily composed of royalist symphathizers of both the Legitimist ( Bourbon ) wing and the Orleanist ( Citizen King Louis Phiippe ) wing.

On 29 November 1945, King Peter II was formally deposed by the Yugoslav Constituent Assembly.

On that date, the constitution was altered by the Constituent Assembly to make the country a republic.

A federal republic was established in May 2008, with only four members of the 601-seat Constituent Assembly voting against the change, which ended 240 years of royal rule in Nepal.

Following the 1945 elections to the Constituent Assembly in France, which were held with a very limited franchise, the French authorities gradually extended the franchise until in November 1955 the principle of universal sufferage was passed into law and implemented the following year.

On 29 November 1945, while still in exile, King Peter II was deposed by Yugoslavia's Constituent Assembly.

* January 19 – Russian Constituent Assembly proclaims Russian Democratic Federative Republic, but was dissolved by Bolshevik government on same day.

After World War II, he was elected by a narrow margin to the first Constituent Assembly.

Marie Antoinette, whose life was the most in danger, stayed behind in order to help the king promote stability, even as his power was gradually being taken away by the National Constituent Assembly, which was now ruling Paris and conscripting men to serve in the Garde Nationale.

" Jana Gana Mana " was officially adopted by the Constituent Assembly as the Indian national anthem on 24 January 1950.

Jana Gana Mana was officially adopted by the Constituent Assembly as the Indian national anthem on 24 January 1950.

At the revolution of 1848 he returned to France and was elected deputy for Corsica to the Constituent Assembly.