The French Wars of Religion is the term which is used in reference to a period of civil war between French Catholics and Protestants, commonly called Huguenots, which lasted from 1562 to 1598.According to estimates, between two and four million people died from violence, famine or diseases which were directly caused by the conflict; additionally, the conflict severely damaged …

Plantations in 16th- and 17th-century Ireland involved the confiscation of Irish-owned land by the English Crown and the colonisation of this land with settlers from Great Britain.The Crown saw the plantations as a means of controlling, anglicising and 'civilising' Gaelic Ireland.The main plantations took place from the 1550s to the 1620s, the biggest of which was the plantation of …

William the Silent (24 April 1533 – 10 July 1584), also known as William the Taciturn (translated from Dutch: Willem de Zwijger), or, more commonly in the Netherlands, William of Orange (Dutch: Willem van Oranje), was the main leader of the Dutch Revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs that set off the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) and resulted in the formal independence of the …

The Huguenots (/ ˈ h juː ɡ ə n ɒ t s / HEW-gə-nots, also UK: /-n oʊ z /-⁠nohz, French: ) were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism.The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, the Genevan burgomaster Bezanson Hugues (1491–1532?), was in common use by the mid-16th …

Formal theory. Formally, a string is a finite, ordered sequence of characters such as letters, digits or spaces. The empty string is the special case where the sequence has length zero, so there are no symbols in the string.

La Rochelle (UK: / ˌ l æ r ɒ ˈ ʃ ɛ l /, US: / ˌ l ɑː r oʊ ˈ ʃ ɛ l /, French: [la ʁɔʃɛl] (); Poitevin-Saintongeais: La Rochéle; Occitan: La Rochèla [la ruˈtʃɛlɔ]) is a city on the west coast of France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean.It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime department.With 75,735 inhabitants in 2017, La Rochelle is the ...

Contexte des guerres de Religion Les oppositions religieuses. L'Église catholique est confrontée depuis les années 1520 au mouvement de la Réforme, d'abord incarné par le moine allemand Martin Luther (à partir de 1517), très puissant dans l'Empire dès les années 1520 (Paix d'Augsbourg, 1555) puis par le Français Jean Calvin, dont la doctrine touche les cantons …

Despite suppressing the Huguenot rebellions, he made alliances with Protestant states like the Kingdom of England and the Dutch Republic to help him achieve his goals. However, although he was a powerful political figure in his own right, events such as the Day of the Dupes , or Journée des Dupes , showed that Richelieu's power was still ...

– Also known as the Huguenot Wars Eighty Years' War: 600,000–700,000 1568–1648 Dutch Republic, England, Scotland, and France vs. Spanish Empire Worldwide – Also known as the Dutch War of Independence Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) 138,285+ 1585–1604 Spanish Empire and allies vs. Kingdom of England and allies Europe / Americas

There was considerable sympathy among the Boer population of South Africa for the German cause. Only twelve years had passed since the end of the Second Boer War, in which Germany had offered the two Boer republics unofficial support in their war with the British Empire.Lieutenant-Colonel Manie Maritz, heading commando forces on the border of German …