CHRONOLOGY
1536-1612. Many trials and executions for denying the Trinity; notably Servetus (1553); four East Anglians, 1579-89; Legate and Wightman, 1612.
1568. Francis David founds the Unitarian Church in Hungary.
1578-1604. Faustus Socinus active in Poland.
1595. The Racovian Catechism. Other Socinian works follow.
1640. Canon against Socinian books in England.
1644-62. John Bidle's career.
1646 and onward. Anti-trinitarians among Baptists, Independents, Friends, etc. Books against 'Socinianism.'
1662. Act of Uniformity—ejection of Nonconformists.
1674. Milton d., leaving his Treatise of Christian Doctrine in MS.; discovered 1823 and published.