St. Bartholomew's Day massacre

When

2 Sep 1572 – 15 Oct 1572

Kind

Genocide

Deaths

10,000

Coordinates

48.86° N, 2.35° E

Description

massacre of the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants) by the French government, 1572

1572 killing of Huguenots in France

The Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence directed against the Huguenots during the French Wars of Religion. Traditionally believed to have been instigated by Queen Catherine de' Medici, the mother of King Charles IX, the massacre started a few days after the marriage on 18 August of the king's sister Margaret to the Protestant King Henry I…

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• Wikidata: massacres and genocidesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “St. Bartholomew's Day massacre: Catholics in Paris murder thousands of Protestants, including Gaspard de Coligny and Petrus Ramus”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bartholomäusnacht: Katholiken führen ein Pogrom gegen die Calvinisten (Hugenotten) in Frankreich durch, bei dem Tausende ermordet werden”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy à Paris”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Ночь на 24 августа (23 августа) — Варфоломеевская ночь в Париже”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Masacre del Día de San Bartolomé en Francia”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “24 أغسطس وقوع مذبحة سان بارتيليمي والتي قتل بها ما يقارب 4000 من البروتستانت الفرنسيين، وقد دبر هذه المذبحة ملك إسبانيا فيليب الثاني والبابا وبعض الكاثوليك”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “法國胡格諾派代表人物加斯帕爾·德科利尼在王太后凱瑟琳·德·美第奇策畫的圣巴多罗买大屠杀遇害。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “サン・バルテルミの虐殺。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page