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Henry III of France is assassinated by a Jacobin friar who questions his commitment to defending the Roman Catholic faith. Huguenot leader Henry of Navarre becomes the king of the Bourbon dynasty. Reigning until 1610, he converts to Catholicism to re-unify the country (1593) and grants religious freedoms to Protestants while recognizing Catholicism as the state church, thus ending the wars of religion in 1598.
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