I caught a glimpse of an article about democratization efforts in Bahrain

in todays Wall Street Journal. Looks like they're having a conservative (in the most literal sense - the tyranny is striking back) backlash. Their liberals need to consider this timeline and have patience; their conservatives need to consider this, this (my favorite), this and this.*

And how about these moderates?

And we should all remember how things went for the Weimar Republic.

AMERICAN
CHRONOLOGY
Timeline for the Period of the Revolution

1765. Stamp
Act. Colonial Congress in New York.
1770. "Boston Massacre."
1773.
Destruction of tea in Boston Harbor.
1774. September 5. Continental Congress
meets in Philadelphia. Boston Port Bill.
1775. April 19. Fight at Lexington
and Concord.
May 10. Capture of Ticonderoga. Meeting of Second Continental
Congress at Philadelphia.
1775. June 17. Battle of Bunker Hill.
December. Daniel Boone settles in Kentucky.
1776. July 4. Declaration of
Independence.
August 27. Battle of Long Island.
December 26. Washington
captures Hessians at Trenton.
1777. June 14. Flag of stars and stripes
adopted by Congress.
September 11. Battle of Brandywine.
October 17.
Surrender of Burgoyne.
Washington encamps at Valley Forge and Howe occupies
Philadelphia.
1778. French-American alliance.
June 28. Battle of
Monmouth.
December 29. British take Savannah.
1779. September 23. Naval
victory of John Paul Jones.
1780. May 12. Charleston taken by British.
August 16. Battle of Camden.
October 7. Battle of King's Mountain.
1781. Adoption of the Articles of Confederation.
October 19. Surrender
of Cornwallis at Yorktown.
1782. November 30. Preliminary treaty of peace.
1783. September 3. Final treaty of peace signed.
November 25. British
army evacuates New York.
December 4. Washington's farewell to his officers.
1786. Shays's rebellion in Massachusetts.

Other links on that page:

Timeline for American Colonization (1000-1764)
Timeline for the Making of the Constitution (1787-1860)
Timeline for the Civil War and Modern Times (1861-1904)
See also: World War II Timeline (1939-1945)


*The Puritan Revolution (The English Civil War), The Glorious Revolution 0f 1688, The French Revolution and The Russian Revolution.