aug 24, 1572 - St. Bartholomews Day Massacre
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The Massacre was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence, toward the Huguenots during the French Wars of Religion. Catherine Medici planned the Massacre to kill French Huguenots that were there for the wedding between Henry III of Navarre, who was Protestant and Margaret the King's sister
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