{"slug": "huguenots", "label": "Huguenots", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huguenots", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101935", "qid": "Q101935", "description": "ethnoreligious group of French Calvinists", "entries": 10, "years": 10, "span": [1534, 1740], "span_label": ["1534 CE", "1740 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "france", "label": "France", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-france", "label": "Kingdom of France", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "charles-ii-of-england", "label": "Charles II of England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "louis-xiv", "label": "Louis XIV", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jew", "label": "Jew", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "parliament-of-great-britain", "label": "Parliament of Great Britain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "louis-xiii", "label": "Louis XIII", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "henry-iii-of-france", "label": "Henry III of France", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1534, "year_label": "1534 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 18", "text": "October 18 – Huguenots post placards all over France attacking the Catholic Mass, provoking a violent sectarian reaction (Affair of the Placards).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369558671#October–December", "title": "1534", "revid": 1369558671, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1561, "year_label": "1561 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "January 31", "text": "January 31 – The Ordinance of Orléans suspends the persecution of the Protestant Huguenots in Kingdom of France.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358043209#January–March", "title": "1561", "revid": 1358043209, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1572, "year_label": "1572 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 19", "text": "September 19 – The Siege of Mons, which started on June 23, ends with the recapture of Valenciennes by the Spanish Army from the Dutch Huguenots in what is now Belgium. Louis of Nassau, the Dutch rebel commander, surrenders to the Duke of Alba.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370792520#July–September", "title": "1572", "revid": 1370792520, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1573, "year_label": "1573 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 11", "text": "February 11 – Fourth War of Religion: France's Marshal Henri de Montmorency, begins the Siege of Sommières in southern France. The Huguenots, French Protestants, hold out for almost two months against Montmorency's Catholic troops.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366656331#January–March", "title": "1573", "revid": 1366656331, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1577, "year_label": "1577 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 17", "text": "September 17 – The Treaty of Bergerac is signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361323001#July–September", "title": "1577", "revid": 1361323001, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1625, "year_label": "1625 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 17", "text": "January 17 – Led by the Duke of Soubise, the Huguenots launch a second rebellion against King Louis XIII, with a surprise naval assault on a French fleet being prepared in Blavet.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363597525#January–March", "title": "1625", "revid": 1363597525, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1680, "year_label": "1680 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April 30", "text": "April 30 – The first French Huguenots in the New World arrive at Charleston, South Carolina, as 45 of the religious exiles arrive at Oyster Point on the ship Richmond, after being sent there by King Charles II of England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365997201#April–June", "title": "1680", "revid": 1365997201, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1686, "year_label": "1686 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 17", "text": "January 17 – King Louis XIV of France reports the success of the Edict of Fontainebleau, issued on October 22 against the Protestant Huguenots, and reports that after less than three months, the vast majority of the Huguenot population had left the country.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368502958#January–March", "title": "1686", "revid": 1368502958, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1703, "year_label": "1703 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 30", "text": "October 30 – More than 47 Huguenots in the village of Branoux-les-Taillades are massacred by Roman Catholic vigilantes in reprisal for the October 11 attack on nearby Sainte-Cécile, slightly more than two miles away.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369923832#October–December", "title": "1703", "revid": 1369923832, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1740, "year_label": "1740 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 1", "text": "June 1 – Plantation Act 1740 or Naturalization Act 1740 of the Parliament of Great Britain comes into effect providing for Protestant alien immigrants (including Huguenots, and also Jews) residing in the American colonies for 7 years to receive British nationality.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362733434#April–June", "title": "1740", "revid": 1362733434, "section": "Events › April–June"}}]}