Age of Religious Wars

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The Age of Religious Wars was a turbulent period in early modern European history marked by intense confessional conflicts, civil wars, and shifting alliances between Catholic and Protestant powers.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf early modern period
historical period
hasConsequence consolidation of Protestantism in Northern Europe
decline of papal political authority in Europe
development of principles of religious toleration
economic disruption in Europe
emergence of state sovereignty
legal recognition of Protestantism in parts of Europe
population decline in Central Europe
rise of Dutch Republic
shift in balance of power from Habsburgs to France
strengthening of territorial states
hasEndTime Peace of Westphalia
circa 1648
hasLocation Bohemia
England
Europe
France
Holy Roman Empire
Italian states
Poland-Lithuania
Scandinavia
Scotland
Spanish Netherlands
hasMainCause Catholic Counter-Reformation
linked to: Counter-Reformation

Protestant Reformation
linked to: Reformation

confessional conflict
dynastic rivalry
religious intolerance
hasMainConflictType civil war
dynastic war
religious war
hasMainIdeology Anglicanism
Calvinism
Catholicism
linked to: Roman Catholicism

Lutheranism
Reformed Protestantism
linked to: Reformed theology
hasPart Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)
Bohemian Revolt
Dutch Revolt
linked to: Eighty Years' War

Eighty Years' War
French Catholic League conflicts
French Wars of Religion
French civil wars
French intervention in the Thirty Years' War
French–Habsburg wars
Habsburg–Ottoman conflicts
Huguenot rebellions
Kalmar War
Northern Seven Years' War
Polish-Swedish wars
Schmalkaldic War
Spanish suppression of Protestantism
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
Thirty Years' War
Wars of Kappel
linked to: First War of Kappel

Wars of the Holy League
Wars of the League of Schmalkalden
linked to: Schmalkaldic War

Wars of the Three Kingdoms
hasSignificantEvent Act of Supremacy (1559)
Battle of Lepanto
Battle of White Mountain
Bohemian Revolt
Council of Trent
Defenestration of Prague (1618)
Edict of Nantes
English Civil War
French Wars of Religion
Gunpowder Plot
linked to: The Gunpowder Plot

Massacre of Vassy
Pacification of Ghent
Peace of Augsburg
Peace of Westphalia
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Sack of Magdeburg
Scottish Reformation
Spanish Armada (1588)
linked to: Spanish Armada

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
Thirty Years' War
Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis
Union of Utrecht
hasSignificantFigure Albrecht von Wallenstein
Cardinal Richelieu
Catherine de' Medici
Duke of Alba
Elizabeth I of England
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor
Gaspard II de Coligny
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
Henry IV of France
Ignatius of Loyola
James VI and I
John Calvin
Martin Luther
Mary, Queen of Scots
Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria
Oliver Cromwell
Philip II of Spain
Pope Paul III
Pope Pius V
William the Silent
hasStartTime circa 1520

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Frederick III the Pious chronologicalContext Age of Religious Wars