Septennial Act 1716 It did not require parliament to last for a full term, but merely set a maximum length on its life. Most parliaments in the remainder of the eighteenth century did indeed last for six or seven years, with only two lasting for a shorter time. In the nineteenth century, the average length of a term of the Parliament of the United Kingdom was four years. One of the demands of the mid-nineteenth century Chartists—the only one that had not been achieved by the twentieth century—was for annually-elected parliaments. The Septennial Act was amended on 18 August 1911 by of the
The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years (, "And longer than a century lasts a day"), originally published in Russian in the "Novy Mir" literary magazine in 1980, is a novel written by the Kyrgyz author Chinghiz Aitmatov. In an introduction written in 1990, during "perestroika", the author wrote that the original title was "The Hoop" ("Обруч"), which was rejected by censors. The title "The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years", taken from the poem "Unique Days" ("единственные дни") by Boris Pasternak, used for the magazine version ("Novy Mir", #11,