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Group: Palus, or Palouse (Amerind tribe)
People: Wei Changhui
Topic: Religion, Fourth War of
Location: Ankara Ankara Turkey

Religion, Fourth War of

Years: 1572 - 1573

The massacres associated with St. Batholomew’s Day set off the Fourth War of Religion, which includes Catholic sieges of the cities of Sommières (by troops led by Henri I de Montmorency), Sancerre and the La Rochelle (by troops led by the Duke d'Anjou).

The end of hostilities is brought on by the election (11 - 15 May 1573) of the Duke of Anjou to the throne of Poland and by the Edict of Boulogne (signed in July 1573) which severely curtails many of the rights previously granted to French Protestants.

"{Readers} take infinitely more pleasure in knowing the variety of incidents that are contained in them, without ever thinking of imitating them, believing the imitation not only difficult, but impossible: as if heaven, the sun, the elements, and men should have changed the order of their motions and power, from what they were anciently"

― Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1517)