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Petition of Right
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The Massachusetts General Court
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The new Charter of Rhode Island grants religious freedom.
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John Locke’s Letter Concerning Toleration
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Connecticut passes the first dissenter statute and allows “full liberty of worship” to Anglicans and Baptists.
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New York publisher John Peter Zenger
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The State of Virginia jails 50 Baptist worshipers for preaching the Gospel contrary to the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.
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Eighteen Baptists are jailed in Massachusetts for refusing to pay taxes that support the Congregational church.
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Virginia’s House of Burgesses passes the Virginia Declaration of Rights.
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The Continental Congress adopts the final draft of the Declaration of Independence on July 4.
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Thomas Jefferson completes his first draft of a Virginia state bill for religious freedom
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1st amendment