Edict of toleration

An edict of toleration is assuring the toleration of a government official decree ( decree ) of the religious minorities. Often edicts of toleration were in the history of short duration and were correlated with the time officially or insidious overridden. The term has its roots in the Latin word tolerare for " endure " or " bear " (see also tolerance).

Edicts of toleration in history

  • 538 BC - Edict of Cyrus - allowed the Israelites return from the Babylonian exile.
  • April 30 311 - Edict of Galerius - Christianity is tolerated religion.
  • June 13 313 - Milanese agreement ( often incorrectly called Edict of Milan ) - Freedom of choice of faith for all religions.
  • 1573 - The Edict of the Warsaw Confederation guarantees in addition to the religious freedom for minority faiths also have full civil rights and political equality with the Catholics.
  • 1593 - The Costituzione Livornina guaranteed religious freedom in the Tuscan city of Livorno.
  • April 13, 1598 - Edict of Nantes - toleration of the Huguenots ( revoked on 18 October 1685).
  • 1649 - Maryland Tolerance Act, United States.
  • September 16, 1664, the Edict of Tolerance in the Electorate of Brandenburg, tolerance of the Protestant denominations with each other.
  • October 29, 1685 - Edict of Potsdam - recording the ( reformed ) Huguenots in the Lutheran Prussia.
  • 1689 - Tolerance Act ( toleration act), the English king allowed the dissenter 's own services
  • 1692 - The Chinese emperor Kangxi allows the Jesuit mission in China.
  • March 29, 1712 - Edict of Count Ernst Casimir in Büdingen. It guaranteed " perfect freedom of conscience " and demanded in return, is " in Bürgerlichem change against authority and subjects both as honorable in their homes, modest and Christian perform itself." The real aim was to counteract the plague caused by the war and population decline.
  • June 17, 1773 Edict of Catherine II in response to the domestic political confrontations with the Muslim Tatars. In the Edict she promised toleration for all religious denominations in the Russian Empire, except for the large number of Jews who were their subjects since the First Partition of Poland.
  • October 13, 1781 - Patent of Toleration Josef II - toleration before in Austria persecuted minorities.
  • 1784 - Edict of Elector Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony - toleration of Protestants in the Electorate Electorate of Trier.
  • November 29, 1787: Louis XVI. issues the Edict of Versailles in favor of the Huguenots.
  • March 11, 1812 - Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia extended by the Prussian edict Jews the rights of eingebürgeten already in the Old Prussian parts of the country Jews.
  • March 30, 1847 - Edict King Frederick William IV of Prussia - Among other things, the church exit is allowed.
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