Toleration Act
May 24, 1689
The new English parliament passed an act granting freedom of worship to Protestant dissenters, though not to Catholics or Unitarians. It was a limited measure, but it effectively ended the persecution of Baptists, Quakers, and Presbyterians. English religious uniformity, enforced since the Reformation, was quietly over, and the principle of toleration had gained its first permanent foothold in English law.
In context
Also in 1689 (4 other events on record)
- William and Mary Crowned · Europe · Politics
- English Bill of Rights · Europe · Politics
- Locke Publishes Two Treatises of Government · Europe · Politics
- Treaty of Nerchinsk · East Asia · Politics
Before and after in Europe
- Before: 1688: Bunyan Dies
- After: July 1, 1690: Battle of the Boyne
Before and after in Religion
Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.