Editing French Wars of Religion (section)

== List of events ==
{{See also|French Wars of Religion#Name and periodisation}}
[[File:Le Dragon missionnaire.jpg|thumb|Protestant engraving representing 'les [[dragonnades]]' in France under Louis&nbsp;XIV]]
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* 17 January 1562: [[Edict of Saint-Germain]], often called the "Edict of January"
* 1 March 1562: [[Massacre of Vassy]] (Wassy){{sfn|Kiser|Drass|Brustein|1994|pp=323–324}}
* March 1562 – March 1563: usually known as the "First War",{{sfn|Kiser|Drass|Brustein|1994|pp=323–324}}{{sfn|Kohn|2013|pp=390–391}}{{sfn|Clodfelter|2017|pp=14–16}} ended by the [[Edict of Amboise]]
** 19 December 1562: [[Battle of Dreux]]
* September 1567 – March 1568: usually known as the "Second War",{{sfn|Kiser|Drass|Brustein|1994|pp=323–324}}{{sfn|Kohn|2013|pp=390–391}}{{sfn|Clodfelter|2017|pp=14–16}} ended by the [[Peace of Longjumeau]]
** 10 November 1567: [[Battle of Saint-Denis (1567)|Battle of Saint Denis]]
** 7 April 1568: Siege of Puylaurens
* 1568–1570: usually known as the "Third War",{{sfn|Kiser|Drass|Brustein|1994|pp=323–324}}{{sfn|Kohn|2013|pp=390–391}}{{sfn|Clodfelter|2017|pp=14–16}} ended by the [[Peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye]]
** March 1569: [[Battle of Jarnac]]
** June 1569: [[Battle of La Roche-l'Abeille]]
** October 1569: [[Battle of Moncontour]]
* 1572: [[St. Bartholomew's Day massacre]]{{sfn|Kiser|Drass|Brustein|1994|pp=323–324}}
** June 1572: Death of [[Jeanne d'Albret]]
* 1572–1573: usually known as the "Fourth War",{{sfn|Kiser|Drass|Brustein|1994|pp=323–324}}{{sfn|Kohn|2013|pp=390–391}}{{sfn|Clodfelter|2017|pp=14–16}} ended by the [[Edict of Boulogne]]
** November 1572 – July 1573: [[Siege of La Rochelle (1572-1573)|Siege of La Rochelle]]
** May 1573: Henry d'Anjou elected King of Poland
* 1574: Death of Charles IX
* 1574–1576: usually known as the "Fifth War",{{sfn|Kiser|Drass|Brustein|1994|pp=323–324}}{{sfn|Kohn|2013|pp=390–391}}{{sfn|Clodfelter|2017|pp=14–16}} ended by the [[Edict of Beaulieu]]
* 1576: Formation of the first [[Catholic League (French)|Catholic League]] in France
* 1576–1577: usually known as the "Sixth War",{{sfn|Kiser|Drass|Brustein|1994|pp=323–324}}{{sfn|Kohn|2013|pp=390–391}}{{sfn|Clodfelter|2017|pp=14–16}} ended by the [[Treaty of Bergerac]] (also known as the "Edict of Poitiers")
* 1579–1580: usually known as the "Seventh War",{{sfn|Kiser|Drass|Brustein|1994|pp=323–324}}{{sfn|Kohn|2013|pp=390–391}}{{sfn|Clodfelter|2017|pp=14–16}} ended by the [[Treaty of Fleix]]. Sometimes also known as the "Lovers' War"{{sfn|Kohn|2013|pp=390–391}}
* June 1584: Death of [[François, Duke of Anjou]], heir presumptive
* December 1584: [[Treaty of Joinville]]
* 7 July 1585: [[Treaty of Nemours]]
* 1585: [[Pope Sixtus V]] excommunicated Henry of Navarre and [[Henri, Prince of Condé (1552–1588)]]
* 1585–1598: sometimes known as the "Eighth War".{{sfn|Jouanna|Boucher|Biloghi|Thiec|1998|p=387}} It can be subdivided in three periods:
** 1585–1589: usually known as the [[War of the Three Henrys]],{{sfn|Kohn|2013|pp=390–391}}{{sfn|Clodfelter|2017|pp=14–16}} sometimes also known as the "Eighth War"{{sfn|Kiser|Drass|Brustein|1994|pp=323–324}}{{sfn|Kohn|2013|pp=390–391}}{{sfn|Clodfelter|2017|pp=14–16}}
*** 1585: [[Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur]] invaded Poitou, was defeated by Condé in the battle of [[Fontenay-le-Comte]]<ref name="Browning">{{Cite book |title=A History of the Huguenots |author=William Shergold Browning |date=1840 |access-date=3 September 2022 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qz4AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA131 |pages=131–133 |publisher=Whittaker and Company|isbn=9780608365909 }}</ref>
*** October 1585: Failed siege of [[Hiers-Brouage|Brouage]] by Condé<ref name="Browning"/>
*** October 1585: Castle of Angers fell in royalist hands, Condé's army scattered<ref name="Browning"/>
*** January 1586: Henry of Navarre issued pacifist proclamations while rebuilding his army<ref name="Browning"/>
*** February 1586: Condé captured La Rochelle and [[Oléron]]<ref name="Browning"/>
*** April 1586: Failed royalist attack on La Rochelle<ref name="Browning"/>
*** Late 1586: Royalist siege of Marans<ref name="Browning"/>
*** Late 1586: Henry III called on parties to cease hostilities for peace talks, which broke down<ref name="Browning"/>
*** 19 August 1587: {{ill|Battle of Jarrie|fr|Bataille de Jarrie}}
*** 20 October 1587: [[Battle of Coutras]]{{sfn|Kohn|2013|p=390}}{{sfn|Nolan|2006|p=327}}
*** 26 October 1587: [[Battle of Vimory]]{{sfn|Kohn|2013|p=390}}
*** 1587: Battle of Auneau{{sfn|Kohn|2013|p=390}}
*** 12 May 1588: [[Day of the Barricades]]. Catholic League seized control of Paris from Henry III, who fled to Chartres{{sfn|Nolan|2006|p=327}}
*** 1588: Henry III's submission to Henry of Guise{{sfn|Kohn|2013|p=390}}
*** December 1588: Assassination of the Duke Henry of Guise and his brother Cardinal Louis of Guise on the orders of Henry III{{sfn|Kohn|2013|pp=390–391}}
*** 3 April 1589: Henry III and Henry of Navarre signed a truce and an alliance against the Catholic League, and started besieging Paris{{sfn|Nolan|2006|p=327}}
*** 1 August 1589: Assassination of Henry III;{{sfn|Kohn|2013|p=391}}{{sfn|Nolan|2006|p=328}} by Salic law, Henry of Navarre formally became King Henry IV of France, but most Catholics initially refused to recognise him as such{{sfn|Nolan|2006|p=328}}
** 1589–1594: sometimes known as the [[Succession of Henry IV of France]],{{citation needed|date=September 2022}} sometimes also taken together with the 1594–1598 period as the "Ninth War"{{sfn|Kiser|Drass|Brustein|1994|pp=323–324}}{{sfn|Kohn|2013|pp=390–391}}{{sfn|Clodfelter|2017|pp=14–16}}
*** 21 September 1589: [[Battle of Arques]]{{sfn|Kohn|2013|p=391}}{{sfn|Nolan|2006|p=327}}
*** March 1590: [[Battle of Ivry]]{{sfn|Kohn|2013|p=391}} 
*** 7 April – 30 August 1590: Siege of Paris by Henry IV{{sfn|Nolan|2006|p=327}}
*** 9 May 1590: [[Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon (born 1523)|Charles de Bourbon (cardinal)]], considered the rightful King Charles X of France by the Catholic League, died in Henry IV's custody{{sfn|Nolan|2006|p=327}}
*** 19 September 1590: Spanish general [[Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma]] intervened and relieved Paris; this allowed the [[Dutch Republic]] [[Ten Years (Eighty Years' War)|to go on the offensive in the Habsburg Netherlands]]{{sfn|van der Lem|2019|p=143}}{{sfn|Nolan|2006|p=327}}
*** March 1591: [[Pope Gregory XIV]] excommunicated Henry IV for a second time{{sfn|Nolan|2006|p=327}}
*** November 1591 – April 1592: [[Siege of Rouen (1591–1592)]]{{sfn|Nolan|2006|p=328}}
*** 24 April – 21 May 1592: [[Siege of Caudebec]]
*** 25 July 1593: Henry IV abjured Protestantism and reconverted to Catholicism{{sfn|Nolan|2006|p=328}}
*** 27 February 1594: Henry IV crowned in Chartres{{sfn|Nolan|2006|p=328}}
*** 22 March 1594: Paris surrendered to Henry IV{{sfn|Nolan|2006|p=328}}
** 1595–1598: sometimes known simply as the "Franco-Spanish War of 1595–1598",{{sfn|Nolan|2006|p=328}} sometimes also taken together with the 1589–1594 period as the "Ninth War"{{sfn|Kiser|Drass|Brustein|1994|pp=323–324}}{{sfn|Kohn|2013|pp=390–391}}{{sfn|Clodfelter|2017|pp=14–16}}
*** 17 January 1595: Henry IV of France declared war on Philip II of Spain after discovering another Spanish plot to invade France{{sfn|Nolan|2006|p=328}}
*** June 1595: [[Battle of Fontaine-Française]]
*** April–September 1597: [[Siege of Amiens (1597)|Siege of Amiens]]
*** April 1598: [[Edict of Nantes]] issued by Henry IV{{sfn|Kohn|2013|p=391}}
*** 2 May 1598: [[Peace of Vervins]] between France and Spain{{sfn|Kohn|2013|p=391}}

Epilogue
* 1610: Assassination of Henry IV of France
* 1621–1629: [[Huguenot rebellions]], sometimes also known as the "Ninth War"{{citation needed|date=September 2022}} or the "Ninth and Tenth Wars"{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}
* October 1685: [[Edict of Fontainebleau]] issued by Louis XIV, revoking the Edict of Nantes