Darty EUH 2000
Chapter Fourteen "European Wars" Exam Terms


Peace of Augsburg (1555)
France: Huguenots, Guise family, Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572), politiques, Edict of Nantes (1598)
Spain, Netherlands, HRE incl. Bohemia: Spanish Armada, Burgundian Inheritance, Council of Blood, Twelve Years' Truce, Defenestration of Prague, Battle of White Mountain (1620)
England: English Civil War, Interregnum
Poland-Lithuania: Polish Diet, Warsaw Confederation
Sweden: Danish War, Occupation of Riga
Muscovy/Russia: Time of Troubles, Michael Romanov
Male Leaders: Henry of Navarre (also called Henry IV of F rance), Henry VIII (EN), Oliver Cromwell, Phillip II (SP), Duke of Alba, William of Orange (NE, EN), Sigismund III (P-L), Gustav I Vasa (SWE), Charles IX (SWE), Gustavus Adolphus (SWE), Christian IV (DEN), Phillip III (SP), James I (EN, SCOT), Ferdinand II (HRE), Frederick V "Winter King" (BOH)
Female Leaders: Catherine de Medicis, Mary I (Tudor), Elizabeth I (EN), Mary Stuart (Queen of Scots), Marguerite of Navarre and Jeanne d'Albret (Queens of Navarre), Margaret of Parma (regent of NETH/Low Countries), Mary (Queen of Hungary)
Wars/Conflicts/Revolts: Fronde, Revolt of the Netherlands, Thirty Years War--Battle of Breitenfield, English Civil War (1642), Castilian Revolt, Cossack Rebellion
Art/Literature: Nicolas Poussin, The Massacre of the Innocents; Michel de Montaigne, Essays--"On Cannibals"; John Knox, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women; Hans Von Grimmelshausen, The Adventurous Simplicissimus;
"Un roi, une foi, une loi"
The sack of Magdeburg (1631)
Peace of Westphalia (1648)


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