The Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre (French: Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy) in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants) during the French Wars of Religion.

2024年12月3日 · Massacre of Saint Bartholomew’s Day, massacre of French Huguenots (Protestants) in Paris on August 24/25, 1572, plotted by Catherine de’ Medici and carried out by Roman Catholic nobles and other citizens.

2022年6月24日 · The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre was a widespread slaughter of French Protestants (Huguenots) by Catholics beginning on 24 August 1572 and lasting over two months, resulting in the deaths of between 5,000 and 25,000 people.

2010年3月3日 · An estimated 3,000 French Protestants were killed in Paris, and as many as 70,000 in all of France. The massacre of Saint Bartholomew’s Day marked the resumption of religious civil war in...

2020年1月14日 · The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre was a wave of mob violence directed against the French Protestant (Huguenot) minority by the Catholic majority. The massacre killed more than 10,000 people over a period of two months in the fall of 1572.

Beginning on August 24, 1572, the Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Day in Paris resulted in the deaths of thousands. What did the king of France’s mother have to do with it?

Saint Bartholomew’s Day. —This massacre of which Protestants were the victims occurred in Paris on August 24, 1572 (the feast of St. Bartholomew), and in the provinces of France during the ensuing weeks, and it has been the subject of knotty historical disputes.

bartholomew's day massacre. Early on the morning of 24 August 1572 (St. Bartholomew's Day by the Catholic Church calendar), French Catholic troops began to slaughter unarmed Protestants who had gathered in Paris for a royal wedding.

The massacre of St. Bartholomew was the most tragic event in the wars of religion and can be remembered as sparking off the fourth of the wars between the Catholics and Protestants.

The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day was a slaughter of Huguenots begun in Paris on Aug. 24, 1572. Although there had been others in 1562 — at Vassy (March 1), at Sens (April 12), and at Orl é ans (April 21) — this is the most widely known massacre of the Huguenots in France.