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Peace of Augsburg

25 Sep 1555 · 48.37° N, 10.90° E

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25 Sep 1555
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Treaty
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48.37° N, 10.90° E
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1555 peace treaty

Peace of Augsburg

1555 treaty between the Holy Roman Emperor and the Schmalkaldic League

The Peace of Augsburg, also called the Augsburg Settlement, was a treaty between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and the Schmalkaldic League, signed on 25 September 1555 in the German city of Augsburg. It officially ended the religious struggle between the two groups and made the legal division of Christianity permanent within the Holy Roman Empire, allowing rulers to choose either Lutheranism or Roman Catholicism as t…

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