* March 23 – Edict of Toleration, allowing Jews to settle in the Holy Land.

* March 22 – The Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty issues the Edict of Toleration recognizing all the Roman Catholic Church, not just the Jesuits, and legalizing missions and their conversion of Chinese people.

* May 5 – Emperor Galerius declares on his deathbed religious freedom and issues his Edict of Toleration, ending persecution of Christians in the Eastern part of the Roman Empire.

* Edict of Toleration

Only an Edict of Toleration issued by Emperor Joseph II as late as 1781 put an end to religious repression.

Due to his alliances with England and the Dutch Republic during the Nine Years War, he was forced to cease this practice from 1688, and in 1694 granted an Edict of Toleration.

Maximinus has a bad name in Christian annals, as having renewed persecution after the publication of the toleration edict of Galerius ( see Edict of Toleration by Galerius ), acting outwardly as responding to the demands of various urban authorities asking for the expelling of Christians.

* Edict of Toleration ( 1839 ), by King Kamehameha III of Hawaii.

However, they are quoted at length in Lactantius ' On the Deaths of the Persecutors ( De mortibus persecutorum ), which gives the Latin text of both Galerius's Edict of Toleration as posted at Nicomedia on 30 April 311, and of Licinius's letter of toleration and restitution addressed to the governor of Bithynia, posted at Nicomedia on 13 June 313.

* 311 – The Edict of Toleration by Galerius was issued in 311 by the Roman Tetrarchy of Galerius, Constantine and Licinius, officially ending the Diocletian persecution of Christianity.

* 1568 – The Edict of Torda ( or Turda ), also known as the Patent of Toleration ( Act of Religious Tolerance and Freedom of Conscience ), was an attempt by King John II Sigismund of Hungary to guarantee religious freedom in his realm.

* 16 September 1664 – Edict of Toleration in the Electorate of Brandenburg ( Germany ), tolerance of the Protestant denominations with each other.

* 1692 – The Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty issued the Chinese Edict of Toleration on March 22, recognizing the Roman Catholic Church, barring attacks on their churches and missions, and legalizing the practice of Christianity by Chinese people.

* 1782 – An Edict of Toleration, also known as the Patent of Toleration, issued by the Holy Roman Emperor, Joseph II, extended religious freedom to non-Catholic Christians living in Habsburg lands, including: Lutherans, Calvinists, and the Greek Orthodox.

* 1839 – Edict of Toleration ( Hawaii ), which is issued by Kamehameha III to allow Catholic missionaries in addition to Protestants.

* 23 March 1844 — Edict of Toleration, allowing Jews to settle in the Holy Land.

The LDS Church was established in the islands in 1850 following the Edict of Toleration promulgated by Kamehameha III, giving the underground Hawai ‘ i Catholic Church the right to worship while at the same time allowing other faith traditions to begin establishing themselves.

Kitzingen's revival is credited to the wisdom of Bishop Johann Philip von Schoenborn of Würzburg, whose Edict of Toleration in 1650 encouraged the return of the expelled Protestants.

In 1850 the quarter was renamed " Josefstadt " ( Joseph's City ) after Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor who emancipated Jews with the Toleration Edict in 1781.

In 1781-82 Joseph issued a Patent of Toleration, followed by an Edict of Tolerance which granted Protestants and Orthodox Christians full civil rights and Jews freedom of worship.

Religious persecution eventually ended with the Edict of Toleration proclaimed by Kamehameha III, which led to the establishment of the Hawaii Catholic Church.

Murphy ultimately became instrumental in the securing of religious freedom for Roman Catholics in Hawaii through the Edict of Toleration and the establishment of the Hawaii Catholic Church.

An Edict of Toleration was issued by King Kamehameha III of Hawaii on June 17, 1839, which allowed for the establishment of the Hawaii Catholic Church.

His version of the letter of Licinius must derive from a copy as posted up in Palestine ( probably at Caesarea ) in the late summer or early autumn of 313, but the origin of his copy of Galerius's Edict of 311 is unknown, since that does not seem to have been promulgated in Palestine.

The Edict of Milan went a step further than the earlier Edict of Toleration by Galerius in 311, returning confiscated Church property.

His father, David Ancillon ( 1617 – 1692 ), was obliged to leave France on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and became pastor of the French Protestant community in Berlin.

Not all of Diocletian's plans were successful: the Edict on Maximum Prices ( 301 ), his attempt to curb inflation via price controls, was counterproductive and quickly ignored.

A fragment of the Edict on Maximum Prices ( 301 ), on display in Berlin

The main provisions of the Edict of Nantes were as follows: a ) Huguenots were allowed to hold religious services in certain towns in each province, b ) They were allowed to control and fortify eight cities ( including La Rochelle and Montauban ), c ) Special courts were established to try Huguenot offenders, d ) Huguenots were to have equal civil rights with the Catholics.

Losses in population were partly compensated by migration of Protestant settlers or refugees from Scotland, Salzburg ( expulsion of Protestants 1731 ), France ( Huguenot refugees after the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685 ), and especially from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, including Polish brethren expelled from Poland in 1657.

As emperor, he issued the Edict of Milan ( 313 ), which granted religious freedom to Christians in all parts of the Roman Empire.

The Unitarian Church in Transylvania was first recognized by the Edict of Torda, issued by the Transylvanian Diet under Prince John II Sigismund Zápolya ( January 1568 ), and was first led by Ferenc Dávid ( a former Calvinist bishop, who had begun preaching the new doctrine in 1566 ).

Caracalla's reign was also notable for the Constitutio Antoniniana ( also called the Edict of Caracalla ), granting Roman citizenship to all freemen throughout the Roman Empire for the purpose of increasing tax revenue, according to historian Cassius Dio.

Even before the Edict of Alès ( 1629 ), Protestant rule was dead and the ville de sûreté was no more.

The end of hostilities was brought on by the election ( 11 – 15 May 1573 ) of the Duke of Anjou to the throne of Poland and by the Edict of Boulogne ( signed in July 1573 ), which severely curtailed many of the rights previously granted to French Protestants.

After much posturing and negotiations, Henry III rescinded most of the concessions that had been made to the Protestants in the Edict of Beaulieu with the Treaty of Bergerac ( September 1577 ), confirmed in the Edict of Poitiers passed six days later.

His work on the Huguenots appeared in three parts, entitled respectively History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France ( 2 vols, 1879 ), The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre ( 2 vols, 1886 ), and The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes ( 2 vols, 1895 ), is described by the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica as being " characterized by painstaking thoroughness, by a judicial temper, and by scholarship of a high order ".

The first list of the kind was not published in Rome, but in Catholic Netherlands ( 1529 ), Venice ( 1543 ) and Paris ( 1551, under the terms of the Edict of Châteaubriant ) followed this example.

The Diet of Worms 1521 (, ) was a diet ( a formal deliberative assembly, specifically an Imperial Diet ) that took place in Worms, Germany, and is most memorable for the Edict of Worms ( Wormser Edikt ), which addressed Martin Luther and the effects of the Protestant Reformation.

His father, another George, married ( 1793 ) Selina, daughter of Henry Peckwell ( 1747 – 1787 ), minister of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon's chapel in Westminster, and his wife Bella Blosset ( descended from a Huguenot officer Salomon Blosset de Loche who left the Dauphiné on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes ), and had one daughter and ten sons, of whom George was the eldest.

* Edictum perpetuum ( 129 ), an Imperial revision of the long-standing Praetor's Edict, a periodic document which first began under the late Roman Republic ( c. 509-44 BC ).

* Edict on Maximum Prices ( 301 ), by Roman Emperor Diocletian.

* Edict of Milan ( 313 ), by Constantine the Great, and Licinius, the Eastern tetrarch.