1215 The Magna Carta was signed

Magna Carta was the first document imposed upon a King of England by a group of his subjects, the feudal barons, in an attempt to limit his powers by law and protect their rights. It was sealed under oath by King John at Runnymede, on the bank of the River Thames near Windsor, England. Magna Carta, also called Magna Carta Libertatum or The Great Charter of the Liberties of England, latin for Great Charter, is an Angevin charter originally issued in Latin. The House of Anjou, usually referred to simply as the Angevins, was a noble family of Frankish origin that emerged as the rulers of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Kingdom of England in the 12th century.