nov 2, 1555 - Treaty of Augsburg (1555)
Description:
After decades of fighting with some of his own nobility overProtestantism, Emperor Charles V finally grants religious tolerance to
Lutherana (but not Calvinists). This treaty largely resulted because
Emperor Charles suffered a military defeat at the hands of the French
King, Henry II, who was assisted by German Protestant princes who
were angry with Charles’s suppression of Protestants. The religious
freedom established by this treaty maintains relative peace in the Holy
Roman Empire until renewed religious fighting breaks out in 1618.
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Date:
nov 2, 1555
Now
~ 470 years ago