The Treaty of Westphalia.(Octobers Past)(October 24, 1648; Westphalia, Germany)(Brief Article)

From: History Today | Date: October 1, 1998| Author: Cavendish, Richard | Copyright information

The Westphalia area of north-western Germany gave its name to the treaty that ended the Thirty Years War, one of the most destructive conflicts in the history, of Europe.

The war or series of connected wars began in 1618, when the Austrian Habsburgs tried to impose Roman Catholicism on their Protestant subjects in Bohemia. It pitted Protestant against Catholic, the Holy Roman Empire against France, the German princes and princelings against the emperor and each other, ...

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