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10h 46min, jan 24, 450 y BC - Twelve Tables of law established

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The Laws of the Twelve Tables, c.450 B.C. The earliest attempt by the Romans to create a code of law was the Laws of the Twelve Tables. A commission of ten men (Decemviri) was appointed (c. 455 B.C.) to draw up a code of law binding on both patrician and plebeian and which consuls would have to enforce.

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10h 46min, jan 24, 450 y BC
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~ 2478 years ago

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