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| 1598 | The Edict of Nantes establishes a limited degree of religious toleration for Calvinist Huguenots in France. |
| 1606 | Jacob Arminius, a Dutch Calvinist theologian, rejects predestination and upholds free will in an address to his faculty at the University of Leiden. His ideas are considered heretical but his position, later known as Arminianism, begins to attract disciples. |
| 1610 | King Henri IV of France is murdered by the fanatical Catholic Ravaillac because of his policy of tolerance towards French Protestants. Henri's wife, Marie de' Medici will assume the throne over the coming years as regent. |
| 1611 | James I issues the Authorized Version of the Bible in English for use in the Churches of England and Scotland. The Bible will become known as the "King James Version." |
| 1618 | The Thirty Years' War begins in Central Europe. The conflict will be the bloodiest of all the religious wars of the... |
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