The Bible records that some Jews ( who were exiled by the Babylonians ), returned to their homeland from Babylon, where they had been settled by Nebuchadnezzar, to rebuild the temple following an edict from Cyrus.

In February he and Gratian had published an edict that all their subjects should profess the faith of the bishops of Rome and Alexandria ( i. e., the Nicene faith ), or be handed over for punishment for not doing so.

Knowing of Daniel's devotion to his God, these officials trick the king into issuing an edict forbidding worship of any other god or man for a 30 day period.

Lactantius, a Christian apologist of the early 4th century ( deeply hating Decius for the persecution of Christians resulted from his edict on sacrifices ) described the emperor's demise as following:

Mather for not being able to reference an inoculation edict directly from the Bible.

The edict ordered the destruction of Christian scriptures and places of worship across the Empire, and prohibited Christians from assembling for worship.

This edict introduced a general five-year census for the whole Empire, replacing prior censuses that had operated at different speeds throughout the Empire.

In the edict, Diocletian declared that the current pricing crisis resulted from the unchecked greed of merchants, and had resulted in turmoil for the mass of common citizens.

In 1212, King Přemysl Otakar I ( bearing the title " king " since 1198 ) extracted a Golden Bull of Sicily ( a formal edict ) from the emperor Frederick II., confirming the royal title for Otakar and his descendants and the Duchy of Bohemia was raised to a kingdom.

Similarly, in an edict of the Emperor Diocletian from AD 303, which set maximum prices of goods and services, the price of saddles, halters, and bridles are enumerated, as well as the price of a veterinarian for " cutting the hair and hoof of each animal.

In March 1940 the British High Commissioner for Palestine issued an edict banning Jews from purchasing land in 95 % of Palestine.

He is perhaps best known on Usenet for his famous ( or infamous ) " Happynet Proclamation " ( 1992 ), circulated to many newsgroups, some absurdly unrelated, which satirised the endless flamewars on the network, with Parry posing as a godlike being issuing an edict full of in-jokes and humor targets that claimed to unify all news into one glorious totality, " happynet ".

* 413 – Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, who are plundered by the Visigoths.

This he gave to them, gifting to them a papal ring, the Standard of St. Peter, and a papal edict to present to the English clergy saying that William was given the papal blessing for his bid to the throne.

Some time after, Cardinal Altieri declared that he had not intended to comprise the ambassadors among those for whom the edict was intended, and that the pope had never contemplated subjecting them to it.

In 393 A. D., the pankration, along with gladiatorial combat and all pagan festivals, was abolished by edict of the Christian Byzantine Emperor Theodosius I. Pankration itself was an event in the Olympic Games for some 1, 000 years.

To overcome such problems, Empress Dowager Cixi issued an imperial edict in 1901 calling for reform proposals from the governors-general and governors and initiated the era of the dynasty's " New Policy ", also known as the " Late Qing Reform ".

The edict paved the way for the most far-reaching reforms in terms of their social consequences, including the creation of a national education system and the abolition of the imperial examinations in 1905.

The second Sigal responsum called for a takkanah, or rabbinical edict, " that would serve as a halakhic ERA ," overruling all non-egalitarian provisions in law or, in the alternative, a new approach to halakhic interpretation independent of legal precedents.

The edict therefore became the basis for extensive legal commentaries by later classical jurists like Paulus and Domitius Ulpianus.

The consumption of beef and veal is prohibited, and Pope Paul V issues an edict prohibiting the slaughter of draught oxen that were suitable for plowing.

* May 8 – Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, who are plundered by the Visigoths.

The proconsul on circuit, and five commissioners for each town, administered the edict ; but, when the proconsul reached Carthage, Cyprian had fled.

In Africa Cyprian courageously prepared his people for the expected edict of persecution by his " De exhortatione martyrii ," and himself set an example when he was brought before the Roman proconsul Aspasius Paternus ( August 30, 257 ).

He made an appeal to Leo the Great, but not until after the death of Theodosius II in 450 was his appeal for a revocation of the judgments against him granted by imperial edict.

Imperial edict regarding the protection of the Temple of Yan Hui in Qufu.

Before his death, however, Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople had drawn up the Ecthesis in response to the orthodox synodical letter of Sophronius, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, and on learning of the death of Pope Honorius had convinced the Emperor to issue this document as an imperial edict in December 638, thus valid across the entire empire.

Even after a Papal edict instructing Tripoli to fall under the jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, it did not.

Beginning in the year of an edict by Artaxerxes to rebuild Jerusalem ( 457 B. C.

* 1736 ( Genbun 1 ): The shogunate published an edict declaring that henceforth, the sole, authorized coinage in the empire would be those copper coins which were marked n the obverse with the character 文, pronounced bun in Japanese, the same character the era name Genbun.

The edict marked the end of the religious wars in France that tore apart the population during the second half of the 16th century.

* 1736 ( Genbun 1 ): The shogunate published an edict declaring that henceforth, the sole, authorized coinage in the empire would be those copper coins which were marked on the obverse with the character 文 ( pronounced bun in Japanese or pronounced wen in Chinese — which is to say, the same character which is found in this era name of Genbun ).

Because of the political situation of the time, nothing happened until 1457, when Francesco Sforza's edict, underwritten by Cicco Simonetta, marked the start of design work.

The six quarters were officially abolished the edict issued by Violante Beatrice of Bavaria ( known as Notice of Violante of Bavaria ) in 1729, which marked the boundaries of New Division Contrade still valid.

On one occasion, Cyril sent the grammaticus Hierax to secretly discover the content of an edict that Orestes was to promulgate on the mimes shows, which attracted great crowds.

The Babylonians released Jeremiah, and showed him great kindness, allowing Jeremiah to choose the place of his residence, according to a Babylonian edict.

His efforts in this matter had received great encouragement when Albert of Saxony issued an edict dealing with the maltreatment of soldiers in the Saxon contingent, thus cutting the ground from under the feet of the Imperial Government, which had persistently attempted to deny or to explain away the cases put forward by Bebel.

He urged the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and showed great severity to the Huguenots at Dieppe, of which he was temporal and spiritual lord.

A committee of eighty members, formed by the two, pressed their demands with such insistence that the dauphin dismissed the states-general ; but financial straits obliged him to summon them once more on 3 February 1357, with the consequence being, the promulgation of a great edict of reform.

In January he advised a great national assembly that he had obtained an imperial edict from the Sultan ending all direct obligations of Serbian peasants to their former Turkish lords, guaranteeing Ottoman recognition of Serbian autonomy in most matters of internal administration, and offering Serbia the prospect of territorial aggrandizement, as well as the express right to institute schools, courts, and a governmental administration of her own.

For Pharaoh issued his edict against only the males, but Laban sought to uproot all, as it is said, ' An Aramean would have destroyed my father, and he went down to Egypt and he became there a nation, great, mighty and populous.

In July 1198, Philip Augustus, " contrary to the general expectation and despite his own edict, recalled the Jews to Paris and made the churches of God suffer great persecutions " ( Rigord ).