1562 Riots of Toulouse

When

May 1562

Kind

Riot

Coordinates

47.00° N, 2.00° E

Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.

The 1562 Riots of Toulouse are a series of events that pitted members of the Reformed Church of France against members of the Roman Catholic Church in violent clashes that ended with the deaths of between 3,000 and 5,000 citizens of the French city of Toulouse. These events exhibit the tensions that would soon explode into full civil war during the French Wars of Religion.

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• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “combats de rue entre catholiques et protestants à Toulouse et expulsion de ces derniers de la ville”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page