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| 1559 |
| | | John Knox returns to Scotland from Geneva and inspires the Protestants to march on Edinburgh | |
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| 1559 |
| | | A national synod of France's Protestants, the Huguenots, is convened in Paris | |
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| 1561 |
| | | Mary Queen of Scots returns from France to Edinburgh, and to an inevitable clash with John Knox | |
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| 1567 |
| | | The Book of Common Prayer and the New Testament are published in Welsh, to be followed by the complete Bible in 1588 | |
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| 1570 |
| | | Pope Pius V excommunicates the English queen, Elizabeth I, causing a severe crisis of loyalty for her Catholic subjects | |
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| 1572 |
| | | A massacre of French Protestants, known as the Huguenots, begins in Paris on St Bartholomew's Day | |
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| 1579 |
| | | The Union of Arras and the Union of Utrecht split the Netherlands into Catholic and Protestant camps | |
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| c. 1585 |
| | | Catholics are now the martyrs in England, their numbers almost matching the Protestant martyrs of the previous reign | |
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| 1593 |
| | | Henry IV becomes a Catholic so as to secure Paris and the throne of France | |
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| 1598 |
| | | The Edict of Nantes secures the civil rights of France's Protestants, the Huguenots | |
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