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.

" Before this, he had published several works on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and its consequences, but his literary capacity was mediocre, his style stiff and cold, and it was his personal character rather than his reputation as a writer that earned him the confidence of the elector.

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

Diocletian therefore issued his Edict on Coinage, an act re-tariffing all debts so that the nummi, the most common coin in circulation, would be worth half as much.

The Edict on Maximum Prices ( Edictum De Pretiis Rerum Venalium ) was issued two to three months after the coinage edict, somewhere between 20 November and 10 December 301.

Under the influence of Constantius, Honorius issued the Edict of 418, which was designed to enable the Empire to retain a hold on the lands which were to be surrendered to the Goths.

His father died when he was but two years of age ; and when, on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, the authorities took steps to have him educated in the Roman Catholic faith, his mother contrived his escape.

There is no agreement on an explanation of how Christianity managed to spread so successfully prior to the Edict of Milan and the establishment of Christianity as the state religion of the Roman Empire.

* 1290 – King Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all Jews ( numbering about 16, 000 ) from England ; this was Tisha B ' Av on the Hebrew calendar, a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities.

He urged on the Emperor the need to enforce the Edict of Worms, and at several diets was prominent among the enemies of the Reformers.

The history of Potsdamer Platz can probably be traced back to 29 October 1685, when the Tolerance Edict of Potsdam was signed, whereby Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg-Prussia from 1640 to 1688, allowed large numbers of religious refugees, including Jews from Austria and Huguenots expelled from France, to settle on his territory.

Following the conversion of Constantine and the liberating Edict of Milan in 313, the ecumenical councils of the 4th, 5th and 6th centuries, that focused on Christology helped shape the Christian understanding of the redemptive nature of Resurrection, and influenced both the development of its iconography, and its use within Liturgy.

* The Praetor's Edict is definitively codifed by Salvius Julianus on Hadrian's orders.

In his anger he appealed to force, and his Epistola ad Carolum V ( 18 February 1521 ) called on the emperor to take measures against Luther, an appeal soon answered by the Edict of Worms ( May 1521 ).

* Emperor Diocletian issues his Edict on Maximum Prices, which, rather than halting rampant inflation and stabilizing the economy, adds to inflationary pressures by flooding the economy with new coinage and by setting price limits too low.

Henry granted the Edict of Nantes on 13 April 1598, establishing Catholicism as an official state religion, but otherwise assuring the Huguenots the right to practice their religion.

Louis XIV was staunchly Catholic and he revoked the Edict of Nantes on 18 October 1685, undoing the religious tolerance established by grandfather, Henry IV, almost a hundred years before.

The final attack on the Jews in England came in the Edict of Expulsion in 1290, whereby Edward formally expelled all Jews from England.

* 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.

* Licinius reneged on the religious freedom promised by the Edict of Milan, and begins a new persecution of Christians in the Eastern Roman Empire.

Freedom to worship and civil rights for non-Catholics in France were not restored until the signing of the Edict of Versailles, also known as the Edict of Tolerance, by Louis XVI 102 years later, on 7 November 1787.

The principal and most salient provisions of Henry IV ’ s Edict of Nantes, as promulgated at Nantes in Brittany on 13 April 1598, include:

They include his Fastes de l ' empire romain (" The Splendours of the Roman Empire "), and editions of Diocletian's Edict on Maximum Prices and of Philippe Lebas ' Voyage archéologique ( 1868 – 1877 ).

Diocletian issued an Edict on Maximum Prices in 301, which attempted to establish the legal maximum prices that could be charged for goods and services.

* 301 – Diocletian issues the Edict on Maximum Prices.

The Edict on Maximum Prices ( also known as the Edict on Prices or the Edict of Diocletian ; in Latin Edictum De Pretiis Rerum Venalium ) was issued in 301 by Roman Emperor Diocletian.

The Edict on Maximum Prices is still the longest surviving piece of legislation from the period of the Tetrarchy.

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See also: Numismatics, Roman currency, Edict on Maximum Prices.

The follis of Diocletian, despite efforts to enforce prices with the Edict on Maximum Prices ( 301 ), was revalued and reduced.

" As with Diocletian's Edict on Maximum Prices, shortages lead to black markets where prices for the same good exceed those of an uncontrolled market.

Earlier in his reign, as well as in 301 around the same time as the Edict on Prices, Diocletian issued Currency Decrees, which attempted to reform the system of taxation and to stabilize the coinage.

The traditional date for Armenia's conversion to Christianity is established at 301, which precedes the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great's conversion and the Edict of Milan by a dozen years.

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.

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.

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 of Toleration ( 311 ), by Galerius before his death.

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