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  2. European wars of religion - Wikipedia

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    In 1656, tensions between Protestants and Catholics re-emerged and led to the outbreak of the First War of Villmergen. The Catholics were victorious and able to maintain their political dominance. The Toggenburg War in 1712 was a conflict between Catholic and Protestant cantons. According to the Peace of Aarau of 11 August 1712 and the Peace of ...

  3. Catholic–Protestant relations - Wikipedia

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    Much of this war is considered to be on religious grounds. [16] The 17th century saw Protestant-Catholic tensions rise particularly in Germany leading to the Thirty Years War from 1618 to 1648. This war saw the destruction of much of Central Europe and divided much of the continent along Catholic-Protestant lines. Swedes, Danes, and French were ...

  4. Peace of Augsburg - Wikipedia

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    The Peace of Augsburg has been described as "the first step on the road toward a European system of sovereign states." [2] The system, created on the basis of the Augsburg Peace, collapsed at the beginning of the 17th century, which was one of the reasons for the Thirty Years' War.

  5. Diet of Regensburg (1541) - Wikipedia

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    The Colloquy of Regensburg, historically called the Colloquy of Ratisbon, was a conference held at Regensburg (Ratisbon) in Bavaria in 1541, during the Protestant Reformation, which marks the culmination of attempts to restore religious unity in the Holy Roman Empire by means of theological debate between the Protestants and the Catholics.

  6. St. Bartholomew's Day massacre - Wikipedia

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    Staunch Catholics were shocked by the return of Protestants to the court, but the queen mother, Catherine de' Medici, and her son, Charles IX, were practical in their support of peace and Coligny, as they were conscious of the kingdom's financial difficulties and the Huguenots' strong defensive position: they controlled the fortified towns of ...

  7. Persecution of Huguenots under Louis XV - Wikipedia

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    Finally, of all fines and confiscations, half shall be employed in providing subsistence for the new converts. [3] The law equalled, and even surpassed in some measures, the most severe proclamations of Louis XIV. However, times had changed. Louis XIV's decrees against the Protestants had been greeted by the majority of the country with enthusiasm.

  8. Reformation Europe, 1517–1559 - Wikipedia

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    The book is an analysis of the religious, economic, cultural and political history of Europe during the period of the Reformation.He examines the history of the period through the interrelationships between different forces in Europe at the time, such as the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, the Papacy, reformers such as Martin Luther, John Calvin, Martin Bucer and Zwingli, and explores the ...

  9. Second War of Kappel - Wikipedia

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    The Tagsatzung of 1531 in Baden failed to mediate between the parties (1790s drawing). The peace concluded after the First War of Kappel two years earlier had prevented an armed confrontation, but the tensions between the two parties had not been resolved, and provocations from both sides continued, fuelled in particular by the Augsburg Confession of 1530.

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