After the 2011 state election, there is a coalition of the Social Democratic Party with the Christian Democratic Union, and for the first time ever, the Pirate Party won seats in a state parliament in Germany.

The end of 1845 and the first months of 1846 were dominated by a battle in parliament between the free traders and the protectionists over the repeal of the Corn Laws, with the latter rallying around Disraeli and Lord George Bentinck.

These benefits had been legislated for the previous year by Churchill ’ s Family Allowances Act 1945, and was the first measure pushed through parliament by Attlee ’ s government.

In March 2006, the parliament overturned a veto by President Václav Klaus, and the Czech Republic became the first former communist country in Europe to grant legal recognition to same-sex partnerships.

The 2010 general election resulted in a hung parliament ( Britain's first for 36 years ), following which the Conservatives ( led by David Cameron ), which had won the largest number of seats, formed a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in order to gain a parliamentary majority, ending 13 years of Labour government.

The first elected parliament was De Montfort's Parliament in England in 1265.

The first local elections were held in 1959, and the first Equatoguinean representatives were seated in the Cortes Generales ( Spanish parliament ).

During the Era of Silence political parties were banned and the parliament was not in session between 1934 and 1938 as the country was ruled by decree by Konstantin Päts, who was elected as the first President of Estonia in 1938.

The elections for Ethiopia's first popularly-chosen national parliament and regional legislatures were held in May and June 1995.

Mass public support for the captured ' rebels ' in the colony's capital of Melbourne when they were placed on trial resulted in the introduction of the Electoral Act 1856, which mandated full white male suffrage for elections for the lower house in the Victorian parliament, the first instituted political democracy in Australia.

Finns enjoy individual and political freedoms, and suffrage is universal at 18 ; Finnish women became the first in the world to have unrestricted rights both to vote and to stand for parliament.

They were the first in Europe to gain the franchise, and by the 1980s they routinely constituted about one-third of the membership of the Eduskunta ( parliament ) and held several ministerial posts.

* 1949 – The Knesset ( Israeli parliament ) convenes for the first time.

The following year, during the course of the uneventful first parliament session, Bacon married Alice Barnham.

In 1610 the fourth session of James ' first parliament met.

Guinea-Bissau's first multi-party elections for president and parliament were held in 1994.

He took an active part in parliament in 1685 and 1686, but remained a non-juror during the whole of William's reign, being frequently fined for his non-attendance, and took the oaths for the first time after Anne's accession, on 11 May 1703.

He spent much of his reign fighting the barons over the Magna Carta and the royal rights, and was eventually forced to call the first " parliament " in 1264.

The October Manifesto granting civil liberties and establishing first State Duma | parliament.

This election saw a major turnover in the new parliament, with 452 out of 630 deputies and 213 out of 315 senators elected for the first time.

The County of Roscommon was separated from Connacht before 1292, and the first session of the Irish parliament in 1297 created the new shires of County Kildare, Meath and Ulster.

The party continued to struggle until the general election of 1989 when the again renamed party won its first seat in parliament, the Dáil, when Roger Garland was elected in Dublin South.

On April 15, 2009, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper became the first Canadian head of government to address the Jamaican parliament.

In 1958, Rau was elected for the first time as member of the Landtag ( state parliament ) of North Rhine-Westphalia ( NRW ).

In November 1267, parliament met at Marlborough.

They met in their own parliament, which they called the Dáil.

However, when Western Region parliament met to approve this change, Akintola supporters in the parliament started a riot in the chambers of the parliament.

German unification had been one of the major objectives during the widespread revolutions of 1848 – 49, when representatives of the German states met in Frankfurt and drafted a constitution creating a federal union with a national parliament to be elected by universal male suffrage.

Shortly after the rise of Yuan, the parliament's authority became nominal ; violations of the Constitution by Yuan were met with half-hearted motions of censure, and Kuomintang members of the parliament that gave up their membership to the KMT were offered 1, 000 pounds.

" The EU delegation met with officials from the Justice Ministry, the Attorney General's office, and Uzbek parliament members in a " rather good " atmosphere.

When parliament met, however, he made no secret of his feelings.

At the parliament that met at Stamford in July, Edward had to agree to a series of political concessions.

When parliament met on 16 August, the king was presented with a set of proposed reforms of the royal household, as well as specific attacks on individuals, including a demand for the renewed exile of Piers Gaveston.

The original method was based on the regnal year ( s ) in which the relevant parliament session met.

The scene was now set for a volatile atmosphere in parliament as the two sides who had fought each other in the civil war now met face to face.

Over the years parliament and law courts met at the castle before moving to new purpose-built venues.

On 15 January 1800 the Irish parliament met for its last session ; on the same day Grattan secured by purchase a seat for Wicklow Borough ; and at a late hour, while the debate was proceeding, he appeared to take his seat, and was cheered from the galleries.

Ireland's parliament over the centuries had met in a number of locations, most notably in the Irish Houses of Parliament at College Green, next to Trinity College, Dublin.

Without a House of Lords to attend, increasing numbers of aristocrats stopped coming to Dublin, selling off their Dublin residences, in many case to buy residences in London, where the new united parliament met.

This was the context when the parliament of the Bohemian Confederacy met on 25 March 1620.

Over the centuries, the Irish parliament met in a number of locations both inside and outside Dublin.

After this the Diet met regularly until 1905, when it passed an act forming a new unicameral parliament.

The cost of building the exchange was met by the Irish parliament, and this is reflected by the initials " SPQH ", standing for " Senatus PopulusQue Hibernicus ", meaning " The senate and people of Ireland " ( an Irish version of SPQR ).

He served as member of the English parliament for Boroughbridge during the six parliaments which met between 1614 and 1629 and also during the Short Parliament of 1640.

On the day the new parliament first met, two RIC policemen, Constables Patrick MacDonnell and James O ' Connell, were killed at Soloheadbeg, County Tipperary, by an IRA raiding party, while on duty guarding dynamite in transit to the local mines.