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    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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