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See articleMonday January 31stLegislators in Myanmar's first parliament for decades will be sworn in.

Pomp and pageantry gave way to harp music and calls for humility as Wales yesterday celebrated the official opening of its first parliament for nearly 600 years.

They booted out most of the hereditary peers from the House of Lords; passed the Human Rights and Freedom of Information Acts; and devolved power to Wales and Scotland, which got its first parliament for 300 years.

They were stonemasons who worked on the first parliament buildings for York.

On May 6th Scotland's voters will elect the first parliament to sit in Edinburgh for almost 300 years.

On 6 May 1999, Scotland voted for its first parliament in nearly 300 years.

That same year, at the request of the new Prime Minister Camillo Cavour, Verdi entered the country's very first parliament, in which he served for four years.

Accompanied by Donald Dewar and David Steel, on 1 July 1999 the Queen was in Edinburgh to open the first Scottish Parliament for almost 300 years.

Julia Gillard has won a very narrow victory to remain as Australia's prime minister after the country's 14 million voters delivered the first hung parliament for 70 years.

President, can I first thank Parliament for the discussion.

In its third attempt of the year to unseat Mr Chen, the Kuomintang opposition failed to secure the backing of two-thirds of parliament for a recall referendum.