* Election is conditional: Arminius defined election as " the decree of God by which, of Himself, from eternity, He decreed to justify in Christ, believers, and to accept them unto eternal life.

Also Hippeis ( 316 BC ) ( in which he referred to the decree of Sophocles against the philosophers ), Pyraunos ( 312 BC ), Pharmakopole ( 306 BC ), Hypobolimaios ( 306 BC ), and Ankylion.

But in this Council, and later, in that of Florence, Ambrose, by his efforts and charity toward some poor Greek bishops, greatly helped to bring about a union of the two Churches, the decree for which, 6 July 1439, he was called on to draw up.

Ciampini mentions a decree of the Vice-Chancellor by which absentees were mulcted in the loss of their share of the emoluments of the following chancery session.

He issued a decree by which the Christians were forbidden to seek martyrdom, and he had a Christian synod held to forbid martyrdom.

“ The earliest decree in which the children clerics were declared to be slaves and never to be enfranchised seems to have been a canon of the Synod of Pavia in 1018.

Under the 1587 decree of Pope Sixtus V, which fixed the maximum size of the College of Cardinals, there were 14 cardinal deacons.

The famous decree Haec Sancta Synodus, which gave primacy to the authority of the Council and thus became a source for ecclesial conciliarism, was promulgated in the fifth session, 6 April 1415:

The cardinal then read a decree of Gregory XII which convoked the council and authorized its succeeding acts.

The decree did not stop the work, which went on, but its difficulties increased by the necessity of being clandestine.

" Egypt will be divided into 60 constituencies in accordance to the decree, 30 for the party lists system in which each list must include at least a woman candidate while the other 30 for the individual-candidate system in which the candidate shouldn't be affiliated to any political party.

It was then celebrated in the USSR each year on August 27, the day on which Vladimir Lenin signed a decree to nationalise the country's cinematic and photographic industries.

As most of the Assembly still favoured a constitutional monarchy rather than a republic, the various groups reached a compromise which left Louis XVI as little more than a figurehead: he was forced to swear an oath to the constitution, and a decree declared that retracting the oath, heading an army for the purpose of making war upon the nation, or permitting anyone to do so in his name would amount to abdication.

" Al-Obeikan, however, was subsequently removed from his position as advisor to the royal cabinet in May 2012 after opposing moves to relax gender segregation, and in August of 2012, Obeikan ’ s morning radio show “ Fatwas on Air ,” in which he would issue daily fatwas, was canceled after a royal decree that authorizes only members of the Council of Senior Islamic Scholars to issue fatwas.

This decree effectively outlawed competitive outdoor mourning, which could have had a devastating psychological impact upon the survivors.

With the advice of our brethren and of the entire Curia, as well as with the will and consent of the prefect, we decree the abolition of that evil custom which has hitherto prevailed among the porticani, namely, of disposing, contrary to the wish of the one deceased, of the property of porticani dying without heirs ; with this understanding, however, that in future the porticani remain faithful to the Roman Church, to us and to our successors.

Under Tiberius, the Larinum decree ( 19 CE ) reiterated the laws which Augustus himself had waived.

Tiridates III issued a decree by which he granted Gregory full rights to begin carrying out the conversion of the entire nation to the Christian faith.

This decree, which would remain in force until 1945, repealed important political and human rights of the Weimar constitution.

A special decree abrogated the charters by which the country's main religious communities had operated.

Through his influence, this Council of Toledo promulgated a decree, commanding all bishops to establish seminaries in their cathedral cities along the lines of the cathedral school at Seville, which educated Saint Isidore decades earlier.

The king, however, had a decree issued which permitted the arrest of those in error.

By papal decree, the property of the Templars was transferred to the Order of Hospitallers, which also absorbed many of the Templars ' members.

The construction of such lavish mausolea was banned by decree in 317 BC, following which only small columns or inscribed square marble blocks were permitted as grave stones.

Arnaz and Ball's marriage ( 1940 ) was turbulent, and convinced that Arnaz was being unfaithful to her, and also because Desi came home drunk several times, Ball filed for divorce in September 1944, but returned to him before the interlocutory decree became final.

From 1925 to 1929, Fascism steadily became entrenched in power: opposition deputies were denied access to parliament, censorship was introduced, and a December 1925 decree made Mussolini solely responsible to the King.

In October 1999, the Indonesian parliament ( MPR ) revoked the decree that annexed East Timor, and the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor ( UNTAET ) assumed responsibility for governing East Timor until it officially became an independent state in May 2002.

In July 1808, Napoleon issued a decree that everyone, including Jews, must adopt an inheritable family surname, and so Meier's son, also Moses, took the name of his employers, the Sayn-Wittgensteins, and became Moses Meier Wittgenstein.

He did much for the Christianising of England and enacted the decree by which churches became places of refuge for criminals.

Squatting in the Netherlands became illegal and punishable when a decree was sent out that the law would be enforced from the first of October.

* June 29 – WWII: Hitler, s second-in-command Reichsmarshall Hermann Göring appointed as Hitler, s successor in a written decree. The decree will come into effect should Hitler die in the middle of the war. The decree later became void after Göring tried to assume power while Hitler was very much alive leading to Göring being expelled from the party.

By a presidential decree, the Brouwez House, site of Lumumba's brutal torture on the night of his murder, became a place of pilgrimage in the Congo.

The abbey eventually became the seat of the South Saxon bishopric, where it remained until after the Norman Conquest, when it was moved to Chichester by decree of the Council of London of 1075.

Fata, although it became a feminine noun in the Romance languages, was originally the neuter plural (" the Fates ") of fatum, past participle of the verb fari to speak, hence " thing spoken, decision, decree " or " prophetic declaration, prediction ", hence " destiny, fate ".

Denmark became officially Lutheran on 30 October 1536 by decree of King Christian III, and in 1537 the reconstituted State Council approved the Lutheran Ordinances which was worked out by Danish theologians and Johannes Bugenhagen, based on Luther's Augsburg Confession and Luther's Little Catechism.

The modern peerage system is a vestige of the custom of English kings in the 12th and 13th centuries ; in the late 14th century, this right ( or " title ") began to be granted by decree, and titles also became inherited with the rest of an estate under the system of primogeniture.

By decree of the emperor Francis I of Austria in the year 1816 Monza officially became a city.

In the Second and Third Age, Sindarin became known as the Noble Tongue, and became the Elvish tongue used in daily speech throughout Middle-earth ( helped by the decree of Thingol, who forbade the use of the Noldorin language in his realm ).

Socialist realism became state policy in 1932 when Soviet leader Joseph Stalin promulgated the decree " On the Reconstruction of Literary and Art Organizations ".

There he founded a bank, which in December 1718 became the Banque Royale, national bank of France, while Law himself was granted sweeping powers to control the economy of France, which operated largely by Royal decree.

This occupation decree changed the government of the island and separated it from the municipality's government of Palma, which became the official city name.

A few months later, under Muslim Arab pressure on the Turkish authorities in Jerusalem, Jews became forbidden by official decree to place benches and light candles at the Wall.

During the French Napoleonic occupation, Andijk became an independent municipality on 1 January 1812 by imperial decree of 21 October 1811.

At the same time, the " Reich Citizenship Law " was passed and was reinforced in November by a decree, stating that all Jews, even quarter-and half-Jews, were no longer citizens of their own country ( their official title became " subjects of the state ").

Their decree became the basis of the Hasmonean kingdom.