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Period: Feb 16, 1550 to
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Feb 15, 1555
Peace of Augsburg divides Christianity in Germany.
Peace of Augsburg divides Christianity in Germany. The Augsburg Settlement, was a treaty between Charles V and the forces of the Schmalkaldic League, an alliance of Lutheran princes, on September 25, 1555, at the imperial city of Augsburg, now in present-day Bavaria, Germany. -
England defeats the Spanish Armada
The great fleet sent by Philip II of Spain against England in 1588. Defeated in the Channel by the English fleets and almost completely destroyed by storms off the Armada. -
Henry IV issues the Edict of Nantes
Henry IV issues the Edict of Nantes; ends Wars of Religion. The Edict of Nantes issued probably on 30 April 1598, granted the Calvinist Protestants of France substantial rights in a nation still considered essentially Catholic. -
Start of the thirty years war
Start of the thirty years war, A war waged in the early seventeenth century that involved France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, and numerous states of Germany. The causes of the war were rooted in national rivalries and in conflict between Roman Catholics and Protestants. -
Louis XIV beings absolutist rule in Frace.
Louis began his personal rule of France in 1661 after the death of his chief minister, the Italian Cardinal Mazarin. An adherent of the concept of the divine right of kings, which advocates the divine origin of monarchical rule, Louis continued his predecessors' work of creating a centralized state governed from the capital. -
Two Treatises of Government
The First Treatise is a criticism of Robert Filmer’s Patriarcha, which argues in support of the divine right of kings. According to Locke, Filmer cannot be correct because his theory holds that every man is born a slave to the natural born kings. Locke refuses to accept such a theory because of his belief in reason and in the ability of every man to virtuously govern himself according to God’s law. -
Peter the Great Visits the West
He led a cultural revolution that replaced some of the traditionalist and medieval social and political systems with ones that were modern, scientific, westernized, and based on The Enlightenment. Peter's reforms made a lasting impact on Russia and many institutions of Russian government traced their origins to his reign. -
Louis XIV dies
Louis XIV, known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France from 1643 until his death. He died on September 1, 1715.
