Enlightenment · Europe · Religion

1673

Test Act Bars English Catholics

1673

The English Parliament, alarmed by rumors of Catholic influence at court, passed a law requiring all officeholders to take Anglican communion and renounce transubstantiation. The king's brother James, Duke of York, resigned from the Admiralty rather than comply, revealing himself as Catholic and setting the stage for a succession crisis.

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Before: 1672: Cassini Measures Mars Parallax
After: 1674: Third Anglo-Dutch War Ends

Before and after in Religion

Before: 1669: Aurangzeb Bans Hindu Practices
After: 1674: Father Marquette Founds Mission at Chicago

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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.