Wars (1-5) Flashcards

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Elizabethan Settlement

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Makes England protestant, but looks Catholic.

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St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

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Henry of Guisse tries to kill Caligney because he blames Caligney for his father’s death. First time - fails, so Guisse gets permission from Catherine to kill all Calvinists. 3,000 in one day and 70,000 at the end.

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Edict of Nantes

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Catholic Spanish going to attack England, they fail after England is ready for Spain’s attack, loop around the island and weather wrecks the fleet. Beginning of the downfall of Spain.

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The Defenestration of Prague

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Starts the 30 years war, when 3 agents of the Hapsburgs try to turn the Bohemians back to catholicism, Bohemians want to be Calvinist, they throw them out the window into a pile of dung/manure/feces.

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Battle of White Mountain

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First battle of the thirty years War.

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