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The Cologne War (German: Kölner Krieg, Kölnischer Krieg, Truchsessischer Krieg; 1583–1588) was a conflict between Protestant and Catholic factions that devastated the Electorate of Cologne, a historical ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire, within present-day North Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
- 1583-1588 (5 years)
- Roman Catholic victory
- Electorate of Cologne
German Reformation history. In history of Europe: The crisis in Germany. …1583–88 when the archbishop of Cologne declared himself a Protestant but refused to resign: in the end a coalition of Catholic princes, led by the duke of Bavaria, forced him out.
RELIGION AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Historians of the military conflict of the Revolutionary era have paid scant attention to religion. While political and social historians argue that religious belief and affiliation were critical ingredients in the coming of independence and the forming of the new republic, major works on the Revolutionary ...
The American Revolution: lesson overview. A high-level overview of the American Revolution. After the Seven Years’ War, the British government attempted to increase control over its American colonies. The colonists rebelled against the change in policy, which eventually led to the Revolutionary War.
Altogether, Protestants comprised the majority of the population until 2012 when the Protestant share of U.S. population dropped to 48%, thus ending its status as religion of the majority. [1] [2] The decline is attributed mainly to the dropping membership of the Mainline Protestant churches, [1] [3] while Evangelical Protestant and Black ...
Dec 19, 2016 · a Protestant majority would ever accede to the demands of a “papist” minority for religious freedom.1 Indeed, on the eve of the American Revolution, the Boston Committee of Correspondence’s manifesto, written by Samuel Adams, noted that John Locke excluded from religious toleration
Feb 10, 2021 · The second part draws insights from it to better understand Ireland's long Protestant-Catholic conflict. The comparison is complicated by the fact that Catholic-Protestant conflict in Europe was, in the main, a single-stranded religious conflict within the same nation or ethnic group, 2 whereas in Ireland it was a communal conflict based on ...
