King Charles II assents the Habeas Corpus Act passed by the Parliament of England. The Act, significantly strengthening a person's right to challenge unlawful arrest and imprisonment.
This landmark legislation ensured that individuals detained could be brought before a judge to determine the legality of their detention. It's considered one of the four pillars of English liberty, alongside Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, and the Bill of Rights. The act is often wrongly described as the origin of the writ of habeas corpus in England although the writ of habeas corpus had existed before in various forms for at least five centuries before and has been amended several times since then, it remains on the statute book to this day.
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