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A treaty signed by Charles V to attempt at an end of religious conflict around Germany between Catholics and Protestants and settle land areas. This treaty failed because of its lack in admitting Calvinists into the treaty and created spaces of land where Protestants and Catholics lived near each other.
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Conflicts between French protestants and catholics. An attack on a Huguenot group, for seemingly too much tolerance of their existence, sparked skirmishes for years. Briefly, they made peace about three times, until Huguenot leader Gaspard II de Coligny was assassinated, when the civil war started again.
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This was an event in the French Wars of Religion that killed 3,000 people in just Paris alone. Many Huguenot leaders were killed, the homes of French Protestants were robbed and those in them were killed. The Catholics celebrated afterwards and falsely blamed their actions on the Protestants "plotting against the crown".
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King Henry IV of France allotted rights and tolerance for Huguenots to create peace and unity. This would soon be revoked, however, later in 1685 by Louis XIV of France by the Edict of Fontainebleau.
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A thirty year conflict in Europe over religious tension that resulted in 8 million casualties, making it one of the bloodiest conflicts in history. Caused by Ferdinand II's forcing the Holy Roman empire to conform to Roman Catholicism, despite the Peace of Augsburg.
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Westphalia is a place in North-western Germany. This treaty ended the Thirty Years War which was largely fought on German Soil. The peace conference opened in 1644, so it really took them four years to work this thing out.