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 ⓘ