meetings & treaties

Peace Treaty of Augsburg

Catholics vs Lutherans.

Edict of Nantes

Granted religious freedom to poor French Protestants aka huegenots

Treaty of Westphalia

Ended the Thirty Years' War and established the principle of state sovereignty.

Thirty Years' War

Holy Roman Empire (Habsburg Dynasty), (Catholic) sought to maintain power and suppress Protestantism, against multiple German states that were Lutheran and Calvinist, and sought greater autonomy.

English Bill of Rights

Established that Parliament is more powerful than the monarch.

Seven Years' War

Fought between Great Britain, Prussia, and Hanover against France, Austria, and Russia.

Treaty of Paris

Ended the Seven Years' War.

Congress of Vienna

Aimed to restore stability and order to Europe after the upheavals of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.

Berlin Conference

meeting of colonial powers that ended with signing the General Act of Berlin, an agreement regulating European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period, aka the scramble for Africa.

Treaty of Versailles

Ended World War I.