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1572- (Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre, in Paris) caused a 6 week national slaughter of Huguenots.
It occured when many huguenots nobles were in Paris attending a wedding for Catherine's daughter to a Huguenot prince; Henry of Navarre. -
(1618-1648)
This war was a religous war between Lutherans and Roman Catholics. Calvinism had became a popular religion in a number of states. Calvinism is an alternative form of Catholism The Calvinists began to demand reconigtion of their religious rights. The Thirty Years War began as a result of a conflict in the Haspsburg-ruled Kingdom of Bohemia. -
After the Italian Cardinal Mazarin and then Louis XIV (Looey the 14th) inherited the throne. *Looey inherited the throne in the last 5 years of the Thirty Years War.
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(1672-1678)
Het Rampjaar (Dutch) means the year of disaster
This War was fought by: France, Sweden, the Prince-Bishopric of Münster, the Archbishopric of Cologne and England VS the Dutch Republic, the Austrian Habsburg lands, Brandenburg and Spain joined to leave *(whitched formed a quadruple alliance.) Sadly the war ended with the Treaty of Nijmegen (1678), which gave France control over the Franche-Comté and some cities in Flanders and Hainaut. -
(November 1688- October 1697) ( BTW) this conffuzes me cuz it was 10 years not 9)
