(1598) The edict of Henry IV that granted Huguenots the rights of public worship and religious toleration in France
Baroque
The sensuous and dynamic style of art of the counter reformation
Estates General
The French national assembly summoned in 1789 to remedy the financial crisis and correct abuses of the ancien regime
Ferdinand Magellan
Circumnavigator of the globe, 1519-1522
Defenestration of Prague
The hurling, by Protestants, of Catholic officials from a castle window in prague, setting off the Thirty Years' War
Maria Theresa
(1740-1780) Archduchess of Austria, queen of Hungary, who lost the Hapsburg possession of Silesia to Fredrick the Great but was able to keep her other Austrian territories
Peace of Augsburg
(1555) Document in which Charles V recognized Lutheranism as a legal religion in the HRE The faith of the prince determined the religion of his subjects
Gustavus Adolphus
(1594-1632)Swedish Lutheran who won victories for the German Protestants in the Thirty Years War and lost his life in one of the battles
Directory
(1795-1799) The five-man executive committee that ruled France in its own interests as a republic after Robespierre's execution and prior to Napoleon's coming to power
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
(August 24, 1572) Catholic attack on Calvinists on the marriage day of Margaret of Valois to Henry of Navarre(later Henry IV)
