The Edict remained unaltered in effect, registered by the parliaments as " fundamental and irrevocable law ," with the exception of the brevets, which had been granted for a period of eight years, and were renewed by Henry in 1606 and in 1611 by Marie de Médecis, who confirmed the Edict within a week of the assassination of Henry, stilling Protestant fears of another St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.

During the reign of Louis XIV, much of the Huguenot population fled France, particularly following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, but the community in the Cévennes largely remained in place, protected from attack by the hilly terrain.

When Ebonyi state was carved out from Enugu state on 1 October 1996, the Abakaliki Campus of the then ESUT was upgraded to Ebonyi State University College by the Ebonyi State Edict No of 1998 ; though remained affiliated to its parent University, ESUT.

In the East, it remained applicable until the issue of the Edict of Milan by Constantine and Licinius in 313.

The Edict was in effect promulgated against Maximinus Daia, Caesar in the East who was currently styling himself Augustus.

The Edict resulted in a great transfer of power and property away from the Protestants to the Catholics, and in effect broadened a divisive religious struggle into that plus a dynastic struggle for power, as seen from the viewpoint of many smaller German princes, who might otherwise have stayed neutral.

* 313: The Edict of Milan declares the Roman Empire neutral towards religious views, in effect ending the persecution of Christians.

The efficient organization of the Roman Empire became the template for the organisation of the church in the 4th century, particularly after Constantine's Edict of Milan.

As Christianity grew and became more accepted by governments, notably with the Edict of Milan, rooms and, eventually, entire buildings were set aside for the explicit purpose of Christian worship, such as the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

Following the Edict of Coucy, which gave a limited six-month period for heretics to reconcile with the Catholic faith, Calvin decided that there was no future for him in France.

After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, Lausanne became ( along with Geneva ) a place of refuge for French Huguenots.

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.

Mahmud II started the modernization of Turkey by paving the way for the Edict of Tanzimat in 1839.

By the Edict of Villers-Cotterets ( 1539 ) it was decreed that the langue d ' oïl ( Northern French ) should be used for all French administration.

The revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 compelled him to take refuge in London where, under the sanction of King James II, he opened a church for the French exiles.

* Pope Felix III excommunicates Acacius of Constantinople and Peter III of Alexandria, for their role in having Zeno issue his Edict of Union ( Henotikon ) 2 years ago.

With the Edict of Milan of 313, Emperor Constantine I guaranteed freedom of religion for Christians.

While Tyndale would have to learn Hebrew in Germany due to England's active Edict of Expulsion against the Jews, he works promininently into an age where Greek was available to the European scholarly community for the first time in centuries.

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.

Charles led various expeditions against the invaders and, by the Edict of Pistres of 864, made the army more mobile by providing for a cavalry element, the predecessor of the French chivalry so famous during the next 600 years.

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.

This act, commonly called the revocation of the Edict of Nantes ,' had very damaging results for France.

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.

This edict effectively nullified the Edict of Fontainebleau that had been law for 102 years.

In the 4th century, once the Imperial authorities had decriminalised Christianity with the 313 Edict of Milan, and with the activities of Constantine the Great and his mother Helena, Christians were prepared to build larger and more handsome edifices for worship than the furtive meeting-places ( such as the Cenacle, Cave-churches, House churches such as that of the roman consuls John and Paul ) they had been using.

He was also the chief magistrate for the administration of justice and promulgated the Praetor's Edict.

* 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.

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.

After the Edict of Worms had condemned Lutheranism, problems of enforcement emerged during the 1520s, as Charles V's wars against France and commitments in the rest of his empire prevented him from focusing on German religious problems.

According to some of these ( Rock Edict XIII and Minor Rock Edict I ), the Kalinga War prompted Ashoka, already a non-engaged Buddhist, to devote the rest of his life to Ahimsa ( non-violence ) and to Dhamma-Vijaya ( victory through Dhamma ).

But the 17th century in the Suisse Romande pales before the glories of the 18th century, which forms its golden age, and was, in a large degree due to the influence of French refugees who, with their families, flocked thither after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes ( 1685 ) and settled down there for the rest of their lives.

Befulci is a term, cognate with the word fulcfree found in the Edict of Rothari, signifying " entrusted guard ", from the Old German root felhan, falh, fulgum and Middle German bevelhen.

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.

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.

France was embroiled in its own religious battles that would only be settled in 1598 with the Edict of Nantes.

Many Jews who had been exiled from Spain following the Edict of Expulsion believed they were in the time of trial that would precede the appearance of the Messiah in Galilee.

Frederick was Pope Leo X's candidate for Holy Roman Emperor in 1519 — the pope had awarded him the Golden Rose of virtue on 3 September 1518 — but he helped secure the election of Charles V. Frederick ensured Luther would be heard before the Diet of Worms in 1521 and subsequently secured an exemption from the Edict of Worms for Saxony.

Following Constantine the Great's victory on Milvian Bridge, which he attributed to a Christian omen he saw in the sky, the Edict of Milan declared that the empire would no longer sanction persecution of Christians.

The Edict of Nantes, however, would be revoked in 1685 by Henry IV's grandson, Louis XIV, who once again proclaimed Protestantism to be illegal in France through the Edict of Fontainebleau.

This treaty ( to which initially only Hainault, Artois and Lilloise Flanders acceded ) reconfirmed the Pacification and the Perpetual Edict, and offered Spain the neutrality of these provinces if it would accept and guarantee these stipulations.

France was embroiled in its own religious battles that would only be settled in 1598 with the Edict of Nantes.

However, that Edict seemed to provide for a return to the status quo ante in which the States General would not be permanently in session.

When the expulsion from England took place ( 1290 ), Jews living in the Pale of English Settlement may have had to leave English jurisdiction, but there is no evidence for this ; and it would certainly have not been difficult for Jews to remain in Ireland in defiance of the 1290 Edict, simply by moving beyond the area of English settlement ( the Pale ) into the native Gaelic areas that England did not control.

Such a community would however not have survived the Edict of Expulsion of 1290.