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unusual facts about dissenters


The Other Russia

The Other Russia (coalition) - a 2006—2010 wide coalition of Russian political and human rights organizations, known as organizer of Dissenters' March


1534

February 27 – A group of Anabaptists, led by Jan Matthys, seize Münster in Westphalia and declare it "The New Jerusalem", begin to exile dissenters and forcibly baptize all others.

Act of Settlement 1662

The 1652 Act ordered that all confiscated lands east of the Shannon (Ulster, Leinster and Munster) be cleared and the inhabitants transplant themselves to the west (to Connacht and County Clare), to be replaced by English Puritans (who were later to be known as Dissenters).

Agustín Gainza

However, due to his easily identifiable Anglo-Saxon name, the authorities had him turned away at once, in their discrimination of political dissenters.

Baptist Chapel, Great Warford

In 1712 a group of dissenters, who had been meeting in local farmhouses, acquired this building.

Bethlehem Chapel, Richmond

Hansard records a petition to the House of Lords on 14 May 1846 by "Thomas William Dawson, on behalf of the Church and Congregation of Protestant Dissenters of Bethlehem Chapel, Richmond, in favour of the Charitable Trusts Bill".

Bunhill Fields

So many historically important Protestant Nonconformists chose this as their place of interment that the 19th-century poet and writer Robert Southey characterized Bunhill Fields as the "the Campo Santo of the Dissenters."

David Dawes

While Dawes explained this as an attempt to make sure the XFree86 developers get their due credit (apparently in response to the Xouvert fork), the decision was contested in the XFree86 community, notably by Jim Gettys and Keith Packard, and the dissenters subsequently forked the project into the X.Org Server.

Eight Witnesses

In 1838, the Whitmer family became estranged from Joseph Smith Jr. during a leadership struggle in Far West, Missouri, and all were excommunicated along with other dissenters and fled Caldwell County after receiving an ultimatum from the Danites.

Essay on the First Principles of Government

In order to defend Dissenters, the text rearticulates John Locke's arguments from the Two Treatises on Government (1689), but it also makes a useful distinction between political and civil rights and argues for protection of extensive civil rights.

Great Rites Controversy

Instead, his own father Zhu Youyuan, the late Prince Xian of Xing, was posthumously elevated to the status of emperor; Yang Tinghe was forced into retirement; and other enemies and dissenters at court were beaten, imprisoned, or banished.

History of the Jews in Charleston, South Carolina

The charter of the Carolina Colony, drawn up by John Locke in 1669, granted liberty of conscience to all settlers, expressly mentioning "Jews, heathens, and dissenters."

Joseph Priestley and Dissent

Between 1660 and 1665, Parliament passed a series of laws that restricted the rights of dissenters: they could not hold political office, teach school, serve in the military or attend Oxford and Cambridge unless they ascribed to the thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England.

Michael Wood's Story of England

We track Kibworth's 17th century dissenters, travel on the Grand Union Canal and meet an 18th-century feminist writer from Kibworth who was a pioneer of children's books.

Nonconformist register

It had already resulted in an earlier system of limited registration for dissenters being established at Dr Williams's Library in London.

Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

To evade the injunction she was compelled to take shelter under the Toleration Act placing her among the dissenters, and severed from the Connexion several eminent and useful members, among them William Romaine and Henry Venn.

Sir Thomas Burnett, 3rd Baronet

He opposed the proposal of making an addition to the standing army, which parliament adopted; and in the same parliament, during the discussions regarding the colony of New Caledonia in Darién Province, when the question was raised whether the Company's right should be made the subject of an address to the King or of an Act of Parliament, and the former alternative was carried by a majority of 108 to 84, Sir Thomas Burnett was one of the dissenters and protestors.

Tewkesbury Academy

It was run by Samuel Jones, and its students included both Dissenters such as Samuel Chandler and those who became significant Establishment figures such as Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Secker and Joseph Butler.

The Brethren Church

Some of these dissenters found refuge in the town of Schwarzenau, Germany.

Thomas B. Marsh

Although disfellowshipped, David and John Whitmer, Oliver Cowdery, W.W. Phelps and other former leaders (who were known as the "dissenters") continued to live in the county.

Thomas Slingsby Duncombe

He also took up the cause of religious Dissenters, Catholics and Jews, including the claim of Baron Rothschild to take his seat in Parliament, and was a particular advocate of Jewish emancipation, spending the last years of his life helping edit a book on The Jews of England: Their History and Wrongs.

Weeping Angel

In "The End of Time" The President of the Time Lords refers to the two dissenters on the return of Gallifrey as being forced to stand like the weeping angels, and the two Time Lords are posed with their hands over their eyes.


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