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  Nicolaus Copnicus who was a Polish clergyman began the revolution of astronomy.
 He wrote the "On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres".
 He argued that the earth and planets go around the sun and not that the sun goes around all the planets.
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  Settlement of the Thirty Years' War.
 Diivided the three different religions into three different regions:
 -Ltheranism dominates north
 -Cathlicism dominates south
 - Calvinism dominates Rhinve River area
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  -Accidently killed in Jousting Tournament
 - Soon after Francis died (15 years old son)
 -Resulted in 10 year old Charles IX to become king
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  Catherine vs. Bourbon
 Both of them commited cruel acts
 Priests were murdered
 Pasters were murdered.
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  Calvinsm spread in France.
 The Huguenots and the Catholics began fighting many wars.
 One-third of the nobles had joined the Hugenots.
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  Calvinists of the Netherlands attack the churches
 they smashed the stained glass windows.
 They also smashed statues.
 Phillip sent his army for them to punish the poeple who did that.
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  Mary had to give up her thrown of Scotland by the Scottish Calvinists in order to get her one year old son.
 After her son was raised Protestant.
 Giving up the thrown led Mary into almost 20 years under house arrest in England.
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  Catholics vs. Protestants.
 3,000 Huguenots were murdered in only three days.
 In Paris
 Massacure didn't achieve/settle anything
 happened after Catherine arranged marriage for Marguerite de Valois and Henry of Navarre
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  After death of Pourtuguese King, Phillip was able to take over the rich empires in Africa, India, and the Americas. He took over because the King of Portiugal had no heir to the thrown. Before that he was able to restore Catholics unity and lead his people agains the Muslims.
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  Phillip sent 13o ships to the English Channel.
 The ships fsent fire ships and that forced the spanish toescape to Scottland.
 At the end of the Armada a least half of the ships were lost snd thousands of saliors were either in hunger or dead.
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  He becomes Henry III after Henry II gets stabbed to dwath
 Stabbed by fanatical monk
 Henry II did a fatal trick that leader him to death.
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  Jews were allowed to worship and pray in synagogues.
 By doing this the Duth Republic were considered on the Europe's chief intellectual and scientific centers in that time.
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  After he pembraced Catholicism
 Made peace with Spain
 This Edict grrants Huguenots to be religiously tolerated
 Protestants were also able to pray and worship in specific towns and specific places.
 This Edict ended the French Wars (of religion)
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  1612-1632
 Almost 5% of France's population died from the plague
 The deaths were because pf malnutrition, smallpox, incluenza, and many more reasons
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  Catholics vs. Protestants
 Civil War of religions
 Conflict inside the Holy Roman Empire
 In the end the balanced power moves away from the Hapaburg power to Frace, England, and also the Duth Republic.