* December – The States-General of Blois declared itself against the Edict of Beaulieu, beginning the sixth War of Religion in France.

It is also quite likely, that the dynastic outcome between Sweden and Poland's house of Vasa was a factor which exacerbated and radicalized the later actions of Europe's Catholic princes in the German states such as the Edict of Restitution, and so worsened European politics to the abandonment or prevention of settling events by diplomacy and compromise during the vast bloodletting that was the Thirty Years ' war.

What little is known about him is culled mainly from the Edict of Telipinu, which states that he overwhelmed his enemies and " made them borders of the sea ", a statement which may refer to conquests as far as the Mediterranean coast in the south, and the Black Sea in the north.

Additionally, since the Edict discriminated against the free practice of the Protestant religion within the affected German states by authorizing attempts to forcibly convert Protestants back to Catholicism in direct contradiction to the Treaty of Augsburg, many Protestants felt threatened.

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.

* 313 – The Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, is posted in Nicomedia.

* March 7 – Edict of Constantine I: The dies Solis Invicti ( Sunday ) is proclaimed as the day of rest, trade is forbidden and agriculture is allowed.

* April 13 – Edict of Nantes: Henry IV of France grants French Huguenots equal rights with Catholics ; this is considered the end of the French Wars of Religion.

An Edict of Silence is issued by the Inquisition, but the king overturns the Edict and 300 accused witches are burned alive.

* May 29 – Thirty Years ' War: Prince Frederick of Denmark, the Lutheran administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Verden, is expelled by the Catholic League as a result of the Edict of Restitution.

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

At the same time, he is also often criticised for other actions, such as his brutal conduct towards the Scots, and issuing the Edict of Expulsion in 1290, by which the Jews were expelled from England.

The first and oldest known Christian basilica is that of St John Lateran, which was given to the Bishop of Rome by Constantine right before or around the Edict of Milan in 313 and was consecrated in the year 324.

This proclamation is sometimes regarded as " the Edict of Milan for the Assyrian Church ".

The exact number of wars and their respective dates are the subject of continued debate by historians ; some assert that the Edict of Nantes in 1598 concluded the wars, although a resurgence of rebellious activity following this leads some to believe the Peace of Alais in 1629 is the actual conclusion.

However, the Massacre of Vassy in 1562 is agreed to begin the Wars of Religion and the Edict of Nantes at least ended this series of conflicts.

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 ".

Though the persecution of Christians officially ended in 313, when Constantine I and his co-emperor, Licinius, issued the Edict of Milan which mandated toleration of Christians in the Roman Empire and freedom of worship, Theodotus martyrdom and persecution only ended in 324 and it is this event that the Church annually commemorates on March 2.

One of l ' Hôpital's first acts after assuming the duties of chancellor on 1 April 1560 was to cause the Parliament of Paris to register the Edict of Romorantin, of which he is sometimes erroneously said to have been the author.

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.

The Edict of 1635 is considered a prime example of the Japanese desire for seclusion.

The Edict was reckoned in terms of denarii, although no such coin had been struck for over 50 years ( it is believed that the bronze follis was valued at 12. 5 denarii ).

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.

Occasionally called The Great Edict of Horemheb, it is a copy of the actual text of the king's decree to re-establish order to the Two Lands and curb abuses of state authority.

After the Roman Empire became officially Christian, see Edict of Thessalonica, the term came by extension to refer to a large and important church that has been given special ceremonial rites by the Pope.

The Constitutio Antoniniana ( Latin: " Constitution Edict of Antoninus ") ( also called Edict of Caracalla ) was an edict issued in 212 by Caracalla which declared that all free men in the Roman Empire were to be given full Roman citizenship and all free women in the Empire were given the same rights as Roman women.

Religious persecution in France became severe when King Louis XIV issued the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685, which revoked the Edict of Nantes, that had given substantial rights to French Protestants.

Following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, a document which had hitherto given rights to Calvinists, in 1685, 2, 000 French Huguenots emigrated to the Electoral Palatinate.

In the Edict of Nantes, Henry IV of France had given the Huguenots extensive rights.

The Edict of Caracalla ( officially the Constitutio Antoniniana ( Latin: " Constitution Edict of Antoninus ") was an edict issued in 212, by the Roman Emperor Caracalla which law declared that all free men in the Roman Empire were to be given full Roman citizenship and all free women in Empire were given the same rights as Roman women were.

: This article describes the Edict of Expulsion, given by Edward I of England in 1290, that expelled all Jews from England.

The serfs of Russia were not given their personal freedom until Alexander II ’ s Edict of Emancipation of 1861.

The Constitutio Antoniniana ( Latin: " Constitution Edict of Antoninus ") ( also called the Edict of Caracalla ) was an edict issued in 212 AD, by the Roman Emperor Caracalla declaring that all free men in the Roman Empire were to be given full Roman citizenship and all free women in Empire were given the same rights as Roman women.

Historically speaking, " Protestant " was the name given to those theologians, magnates, and delegations present at the Holy Roman Imperial Diet of Speyer in 1529 who protested the revocation of the suspension, granted at a prior Diet of Speyer in 1526, of Edict of Worms of 1521, which had outlawed Martin Luther and his followers.

At the request of the Huguenots at Metz, he pleaded its cause at the court of King Louis XIV, urging that it should be excepted in the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, but his efforts were unsuccessful, and he joined his father in Berlin.

Early Christendom would close at the end of imperial persecution of Christians after the ascension of Constantine the Great and the Edict of Milan in AD 313 and the First Council of Nicaea in 325.

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.

Chosen to represent the provincial synod of Anjou, Touraine and Maine at the national synod held in 1631 at Charenton, he was appointed as orator to present to the king The Copy of their Complaints and Grievances for the Infractions and Violations of the Edict of Nantes.

* December 31 – In response to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, a group of Huguenots set sail from France and settle in the recently established Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope where, using their native skills, they establish the first South African vineyards.

* February 3 – Edict of Milan: Constantine the Great and co-emperor Licinius met at a conference in Mediolanum ( modern Milan ).

* Emperor Zeno promulgates an Edict of Union ( Henotikon ) in an unsuccessful effort to soften the decision made at the Council of Chalcedon ( 451 ) and resolve differences between the eastern and western Churches.

After several initial reverses, he became accommodating but as the Catholics turned things around and began to enjoy a long string of successes at arms he set forth the Edict of Restitution in 1629 vastly complicating the politics of settlement negotiations and prolonging the rest of the war ; encouraged by the mid-war successes, he became even more forceful leading to infamies by his armies such as the Sack of Magdeburg.

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

In 1534, the year the Duchy of Brittany was formally united with France in the Edict of Union, Cartier was introduced to King Francis I by Jean le Veneur, bishop of Saint-Malo and abbot of Mont-Saint-Michel, at the Manoir de Brion.

After the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, several Huguenot families of Norman and Carolingian nobility and descent including Edmund Bohun of Suffolk England from the Humphrey de Bohun line of French royalty descended from Charlemange, Jean Postell of Dieppe France, Alexander Pepin, Antoine Poitevin of Orsement France, and Jacques de Bordeaux of Grenoble, immigrated to the Charleston Orange district and were very successful at marriage and property speculation.

In early 1562, the regency government attempted to quell escalating disorder in the provinces, which had been encouraged by factional feuds at court, by instituting the Edict of Saint-Germain, also known as the Edict of January.

The Edict can be said to mark the end of the Wars of Religion, though its apparent success was not assured at the time of its publication.

It became the seat of a celebrated university in the middle of the 15th century ; but the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 struck a fatal blow at its industry, commerce and population.

The 1557 Edict of Compiègne applied the death penalty to heretics and resulted in the burning of a noblewoman at the stake.

The family returned to France after the Edict of Saint-Germain in 1562, and settled at Crest in Dauphiné, where Arnaud Casaubon, Isaac's father, became minister of a Huguenot congregation.

He contributed to the development of the Edict of Tolerance signed at Versailles by Louis XVI in 1787.

Wallenstein had, in fact, started preparing to desert the Emperor: he expressed anger at Ferdinand's refusal to revoke the Edict of Restitution.

These banks have a long tradition in Switzerland, dating back to at least the revocation of the Edict of Nantes ( 1685 ).