Adoption of the Edict of Torda

Date: January 28, 1568 • Location: Berlin, Germany

Delegates of the Three Nations of Transylvania adopted the Edict of Torda, allowing local communities to elect their preachers freely, in an unprecedented act of religious tolerance.

Unio Trium Nationum was a pact of mutual aid codified in 1437 by three Estates of Transylvania: the nobility, the Saxon (German) patrician class, and the free military Székelys. The union was directed against the whole of the peasantry, regardless of ethnicity, in response to the Transylvanian peasant revolt.