Organised worship in England for those whose beliefs anticipated those of Christadelphians only truly became possible in 1779 when the Act of Toleration 1689 was amended to permit denial of the Trinity, and only fully when property penalties were removed in the Doctrine of the Trinity Act 1813.

The Whigs, opposing the court religious policies, argued that the Dissenters should be allowed to worship separately from the established Church, and this position ultimately prevailed when the Toleration Act was passed in the wake of the Glorious Revolution ( 1689 ).

Once laity and clergy relaxed their vehement opposition to the Doctrine of the Trinity Act 1813 ( sometimes called the Trinitarian Act 1812 and also variously known as the Trinity Act, Unitarian Relief Act and Unitarian Toleration Bill ) that amended the Blasphemy Act 1697 in respect of its Trinitarian provisions, the British and Foreign Unitarian Association was founded in 1825.

The Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, was a law mandating religious tolerance for trinitarian Christians.

Cecilius Calvert, proprietor of the Maryland colony when the Maryland Toleration Act was passed

The Maryland Toleration Act was an act of tolerance, allowing specific religious groups to practice their religion without being punished, but retaining the ability to revoke that right at any time.

" It was not until the passage of the First Amendment to the Constitution over a century later that religious freedom was enshrined as a fundamental guarantee, but even that document echoes the Toleration Act in its use of the phrase, " free exercise thereof ".

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.

In 1649, Lord Baltimore, with the Maryland General Assembly, passed the Maryland Toleration Act, which provided religious freedom for any ( Christian ) sect, and which was the first law of its kind in the New World.

The English ' Call for Toleration ' was the turning point in the Christian debate on persecution and toleration, and early modern England stands out to the historians as a time in which literally " hundreds of books and tracts were published either for or against religious toleration.

It was Locke, who, in his Letter Concerning Toleration, defined the state in purely secular terms: " The commonwealth seems to me to be a society of men constituted only for the procuring, preserving, and advancing their own civil interests.

* The Toleration Party, also known as the American Party, was established in Connecticut to oppose the Federalist Party

" In A Letter Concerning Toleration, he wrote that the magistrate's power was limited to preserving a person's " civil interest ," which he described as " life, liberty, health, and indolency of body ; and the possession of outward things.

* 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.

* 21 April 1649 – Maryland Toleration Act in the early American colony Province of Maryland, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, was passed by Maryland's colonial assembly mandating religious tolerance for Catholicism.

The Maryland Toleration Act influenced related laws in other colonies and was an important predecessor to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which enshrined religious freedom in American law over a century later.

" The " business " of the first settlers, a Puritan minister recalled in 1681, " was not Toleration, but were professed enemies of it.

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.

The rebellion and its religious overtones was one of the factors that led to passage of the landmark Maryland Toleration Act of 1649, which declared religious tolerance for Catholics and Protestants in Maryland.

The Occasional Conformity Act ( also known as the Toleration Act 1711 ) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain ( statute number 10 Anne c. 6 ), the long title of which is " An Act for preserving the Protestant Religion " which passed on 20 December 1711.

A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke was originally published in 1689.

In 1689, The Toleration Act was passed, which enabled religious freedom and plurality to co-exist alongside the established churches in England and Scotland.

The pamphlet was titled " Truth and Toleration " ( later republished in an expanded edition as the book The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand ).

* 1781 – Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in Habsburg Monarchy.

Toleration of political dissent was at best limited.

On January 28, 1790, three weeks before his death, the emperor issued a decree canceling all of his reforms except the Patent of Toleration, peasant reforms, and abolition of the religious orders.

The Nuttall Encyclopædia notes that Dissenters were largely forgiven by the Act of Toleration under William III, while Catholics " were not entirely emancipated till 1829 ".

The Act of Toleration 1689 also gave rights to Protestant dissenters that were hitherto unknown, while the elimination of a large number of bishops who refused to swear allegiance to the new monarchs allowed the government to pack the episcopate with bishops with decidedly Whiggish leanings.

By 1676 there were at least three Socinian meeting houses in London, even if the Act of Toleration of 1689 saw Socinians and Catholics excluded from official recognition.

In A Letter Concerning Toleration, Locke wrote that " there is absolutely no such thing, under the Gospel, as a Christian Commonwealth ".

They quickly rescinded the Toleration Act and banned public practice of Catholicism, and it would never be reinstated under colonial rule.

Between 1772 and 1774, Rev Dr Edward Pickard gathered together dissenting ministers in order that the terms of the Toleration Act for dissenting clergy could be modified.

Section 6 of the Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860 provided that nothing contained thereinbefore in that Act was to be taken to repeal or alter section 18 of the Toleration Act 1688.

Even although, in his Treatise on Toleration ( 1763 ), the famous French liberal philosopher Voltaire expressed a distaste for religious fanaticism, he was at the same time convinced that religion could be a useful tool to keep the masses under control.

Heavy fines made it impossible for preachers in poor circumstances to continue without claiming the protection of the Toleration Act, and the meeting-houses had to be registered as dissenting chapels.

Toleration may signify “ no more than forbearance and the permission given by the adherents of a dominant religion for other religions to exist, even though the latter are looked on with disapproval as inferior, mistaken or harmful ”.

# John Locke – Letter Concerning Toleration ; Of Civil Government ; Essay Concerning Human Understanding ; Thoughts Concerning Education

# John Locke – A Letter Concerning Toleration ; Of Civil Government ; An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ; Some Thoughts Concerning Education

* The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand: Truth and Toleration in Objectivism ( 2e full text ; ISBN 0-7658-0060-8 and ISBN 1-57724-010-3 ) ( 1990, exp 2e 2000 )

There was great rejoicing ; those opposed to Toleration had gained their victory.

# The Religion of Julian – Universal Toleration – He Attempts to Restore and Reform the Pagan Worship ; To Rebuild the Temple of Jerusalem – His Artful Persecution of the Christians – Mutual Zeal and Injustice

They did not accept the discipline of the Church of England, so the plea of conformity was a feeble defence ; nor had they taken out licenses, so as to claim the protection of the Toleration Act.