Septennial Act 1716 Septennial Act 1716 The Septennial Act 1716 (1 Geo 1 St 2 c 38), also known as the Septennial Act 1715, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. It was passed in May 1716. It increased the maximum length of a parliament (and hence the maximum period between general elections) from three years to seven. This seven-year ceiling remained in law from 1716 until 1911. The previous limit of three years had been set by the Triennial Act 1694, enacted by the Parliament of England. The act's ostensible aim was to reduce the expense caused by frequent elections.
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,