TIMELINE OF THE... FRENCH WARS OF RELIGION
Feb 21, 2019
1 minute
23 - 24 August 1572
SAINT BARTHOLOMEW’S DAY MASSACRE
fter several religious wars across ten years, Catherine de Medici persuades her son Charles IX to order the assassination of around 200 Huguenot leaders. Parisian Catholic mobs use these killings as a pretext
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