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Aug 18, 1572
Henri and Margot's wedding
Henri and Margot get married to try and bring religious peace to France. -
Aug 19, 1572
Assassination attempt on Coligny
Coligny is almost killed by Cathriene de Medici -
Aug 24, 1572
St. Bartholomew day massacre
Thousands of protestants are taken out of their beds and killed by La League led by duc de Guise. -
Aug 24, 1572
Henri escapes!
Henri escapes by a feigned abjuration -
Feb 2, 1576
Henri escapes!......again
On the 2nd of February 1576, after several vain attempts, he escaped from the court, joined the combined forces of Protestants and of opponents of the king, and obtained by the treaty of Beaulieu (1576) the government of Guienne. -
Apr 5, 1577
Treaty of Bergerac
In 1577 he secured the treaty of Bergerac, which foreshadowed the edict of Nantes. -
Apr 15, 1580
War of Lovers
As a result of quarrels with his unworthy wife, and the unwelcome intervention of Henri III, he undertook the seventh war of religion, known as the "war of the lovers" (des amoureux) seizedCahors on the 5th of May 1580, and signed the treaty of Fleix on the 26th of November 1580 -
Henri VI becomes next in line
On the 10th of June 1584 the death of Monsieur, the duke of Anjou, brother of King Henri III, made Henry of Navarre heir presumptive to the throne of France -
Treaty of Nemours
Excluded from it by the treaty of Nemours (1585) he began the "war of the three Henrys" by a campaign in Guienne (1586) and defeated Anne, duc de Joyeuse, at Coutras on the 20th of October 1587 -
Henri defeating Duc de Joyeuse
he defeatedanneduc de Joyeuse, at Coutras on the 20th of October 1587. Then Henri III, driven from Paris by the League on account of his murder of the duke of Guise at Blois (1588), sought the aid of the king of Navarre to win back his capital, recognizing him as his heir -
Henri becomes kiing
The assassination of Henri III on the 1st of August 1589 left Henri king of France; but he had to struggle for ten more years against the League and against Spain before he won his kingdom -
Victory!!!!!
The main events in that long struggle were the victory of Arques over Charles, Duke of Mayenne, on the 28th of September 1589 -
Seige of Paris
the siege of Paris (1590); -
Henri goes back to catholicism
conversion of Henri IV to Catholicism in July 1593 -- an act of political wisdom, since it brought about the collapse of all opposition -
Henri finally is King for good
Paris gave in to him on the 22nd of March 1594 and province by province yielded to arms or negotiations; while the victory of Fontaine-Française (1595) and the capture of Amiens forced Philip II of Spain to sign the peace of Vervins on the 2nd of May 1598. On the 13th of April of that year Henri IV had promulgated the Edict of Nantes.