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The European Continent went through a reformation and soon after came a series of Christian Wars raging all across Europe.
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The Peace of Augsburg, also known as the Augsburg Settlement, was a treaty between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and the Schmalkaldic League, signed in the Imperial City of Augsburg.
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The French Wars of Religion were a prolonged period of war and popular unrest between the Catholics and the Huguenots in the Kingdom of France.
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The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre was a targeted group of assassins and a wave of Catholic mob violence, directed at the Huguenots during the French Wars of Religion.
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The Edict of Nantes was signed in 1598, and granted Calvinists Protestants of France substantial rights in the nation. In the edict Henry IV aimed to mainly promote civil unity.
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The 30 years war was mainly fought in Central Europe. The estimated number of military and civilian casualties ranged from 4.5 million to 8 million, most of them from disease or starvation. In some areas of Germany it was suggested that roughly 60% of the population died.
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The Treaty of Westphalia is the collective name of two treaties signed in the Westphalian cities. They ended the 30 years war and brought peace to the Holy Roman Empire, closing an awful period in history that killed around 8 million people.