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Timeline

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Timeline
- 5399BC,
Cyrus the Great issues a
declaration of religious freedom.
- 311AD,
The Roman Emperor
Galerius issues a general edict of toleration in his own
name and in those of Licinius and Constantine.
- 3133AD,
The
Edict of Milan issued by the Emperors
Constantine I
Licinius proclaiming religious toleration in the Roman
Empire.
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1554,
Castellio writes the pamphlet "De haereticis, an sint
persequendi" (Whether heretics should be persecuted), the
first modern appeal for toleration..
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1571
January 11 - religious toleration was granted to Austrian
nobles;
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1573
January 28 -
Warsaw Confederation granting religious toleration;
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1598
April 13 - King
Henry IV of France issued the
Edict of Nantes, allowing religious toleration of the
Huguenots;
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1609
July 6 -
Bohemia was granted religious toleration;
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1657
April 20 -
New Amsterdam granted religious toleration to
Jews;
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1829
April 13 -
British Parliament granted
Catholic Emancipation in the spirit of religious toleration;
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1900
Robert G. Ingersoll publishes his plea for religious
liberty.[1]
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1948
December 10 The United Nations General Assembly issues the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 18 declares
that everyone has the right to change his religion or belief,
and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in
public or private, and to manifest his religion or belief in
teaching, practice, worship and observance.
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1965
December 7 The Roman Catholic Church
Vatican II Council issues the decree
Dignitatis Humanae (Religious Freedom) that states that all
people must have the right to religious freedom.
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1986
October 7 The first
World Day of Prayer for Peace is held in
Assisi when representatives of one hundred and twenty
different religions came together for prayer to their God or
Gods.
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1988
April 29 - in the spirit of
Glasnost,
Soviet Union leader
Mikhail Gorbachev promised increased religious toleration
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