1830 Congress, urged on by President Andrew Jackson, passed theIndian Removal Act which gave the federal government the power to relocate any Native Americans in the east to territory that was west of the Mississippi River.
El Greco slipped his own portait into one of his paintings.
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.
