The last and deadliest of Europe's wars of religion devastates the German lands before exhaustion produces a settlement.
Tagged: Catholic Christian Lutheran Reformed and Presbyterian
The Event
- Date
- 1618–1648 (exact)
- Era
- Reformation; Standard ecumenical periodization
- Location
- Central Europe
- Traditions
- Christianity
- Streams
- Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed and Presbyterian
- Key figures
- Gustavus Adolphus, Wallenstein, Ferdinand II
Primary Sources
- The Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus (1668)
- Treaties of Münster and Osnabrück
Secondary Sources
- MacCulloch, A History of Christianity (Allen Lane, 2009)
Provenance: HIST-0037; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-26.
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