European Wars of Religon

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  • Period: 1562 to

    French Wars of Religon

    Wars that took place in France between the Protestants and the Roman Catholics due to differences in opinion and conflicts between the two groups.
  • Aug 24, 1572

    St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

    King Charles XI of France ordered the killings of all the Huguenot Protestant leaders in Paris and due to this a massacre resulted in the killing of over 10,000 Hugenot Protestant members.

  • Edict of Nantes

    Henry IV of France gave a large amount of religous freedom to his protestant subjects.
  • Period: to

    30 Years War

    A war between the Catholics and the Protestants. The war started out being about religon and whose religon was the best but as the war went on that changed. In the end it ended up being less about religon and more about who was going to have the highest power over all of Europe.

  • Treaty of Westphalia

    The Peace Treaty that ended the 8 year war between Spain and the Dutch