Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"The proclamation of His Faith [The Bab's] was made in 1844, the year when the strict exclusion of the Jews from their own land enforced by the Muslims for some twelve centuries was at last relaxed by the Edict of Toleration and 'the times of the Gentiles' were 'fulfilled.'" [George Townsend--see Wikipedia: Edict of Toleration (1844).]