St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre(1572)

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre(1572)

 

 

 

1. The massacre began two days after the attempted assassination of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, the military and political leader of the Huguenots. Starting on 23 August 1572

 

2. The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations, followed by a wave of Roman Catholic mob violence, both directed against the Huguenots, during the French Wars of Religion.

 

3. Conspiracy to subdue and eliminate Huguenot leaders

 

4. Gaspard de Coligny is assassinated sparks religious war

 

5. Henry of Navarre is forced to abjure his Protestant faith, he escapes and abjures his abjuration

 

6. The massacre also marked a turning point in the French Wars of Religion.