As the German princes were experiencing the tumult of the Reformation, the German Peasants ' War, and the wars against the Ottoman Turks, they did not enforce the ban on the duke, and agitation against him soon died away.

Europe had been plagued by sectarian conflicts and religious wars since the beginning of the Reformation.

But the Reformation spread rapidly, helped by the Emperor Charles V's wars with France and the Turks.

During the next centuries, France experienced the Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation, as well as recurring religious conflicts and wars with other powers.

* During the Protestant Reformation and the European wars of religion, known as the Beeldenstorm in the Netherlands, Protestants destroyed traditional ( by then considered Catholic ) imagery in churches, including paintings, sculptures and other representations.

In 1573, in the act of the Warsaw Confederation, the nobles of the Sejm officially sanctioned, and guaranteed to each other, religious tolerance in Commonwealth territory, ensuring a refuge for those fleeing the ongoing Reformation and Counter-Reformation wars in Europe.

The most common dating of the Protestant Reformation begins in 1517, when Luther published The Ninety-Five Theses, and concludes in 1648 with the Treaty of Westphalia that ended years of European religious wars.

The main period of witch hunting in Osnabrück was between 1561 and 1639, a time of social unrest and tensions because of the Protestant Reformation and the European wars of religion.

The Abbey relatively quickly fell into disuse and eventual disrepair after its dissolution at the Reformation, the lead from the roof rumoured to have been used in the 16th century civil wars and the stonework plundered for housebuilding throughout the town.

The key events during his reign were the contest with the Ottoman Empire, whose great advance into Central Europe began in the 1520s, and the Protestant Reformation, which resulted in several wars of religion.

The following two centuries counted several grievous moments: in 1489, Albert, Duke of Saxe ravaged Etterbeek in his pursuit of the rebels who fought against Maximilian of Austria ; in 1580, the village is destroyed once more, this time by the iconoclasts during the Protestant Reformation wars.

1523 marked the start of the religious wars between Catholics and Protestants, with the majority of the town's residents converting to the new break-away faith — Bunzlau became an important center of the Protestant Reformation.

The conflict in Bohemia was complicated further by the Reformation and the subsequent wars of religion in Central Europe.

Under Philip's intolerant hand, the Netherlands revolted in the first of the religious wars of the Protestant Reformation.

There were many such sessions, but the three meetings during the Reformation and the ensuing religious wars between the Roman Catholic emperor Charles V and the Protestant Schmalkaldic League in the early 16th century are especially noteworthy.

As a result of their service throughout the troubles of the Reformation and during the wars against the Ottoman Empire, the elder line of Eltz were awarded the title of Reichsgrafen ( Counts of the Empire ) by the Habsburg Emperor Charles VI in 1733 in Vienna.

Following the onset of the Protestant Reformation, a series of wars were waged in Europe starting circa 1524 and continuing intermittently until 1648.

The monastery was the victim of the religious wars following the Reformation, and in 1578 it was once again destroyed by Calvinists.

During the Protestant Reformation, endemic religious upheavals and wars occurred across the region.

The cathedral suffered much from iconoclasm during the Reformation and the civil wars.

While this had helped avoid major religious wars during and following the Reformation, feuds between leading clans ( e. g. between the von Planta and the von Salis ) were common.

This era in Western Europe is referred to as the early modern European period and includes the Protestant Reformation, the European wars of religion, the Age of Discovery and the beginning of European colonialism, the rise of strong centralized governments, the beginnings of recognizable nation-states that are the direct antecedents of today's states, the Age of Enlightenment and from the associated scientific advances the first phase of the Industrial Revolution.

His principal field of study is the religious wars of the Reformation.

During the religious wars of the Reformation, Issoire suffered very severely.

The release of version 2. x in 2005 changed the game significantly, new tweaked rules favoured large cities with full trade routes as well as wars with more advanced technologies, necessitating a distinct phase of rapturing which required relatively peaceful conditions ; so games were almost always played in teams and typically took longer to finish compared to 1. x games.

It changed a third time with the end of the various wars that turned the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Kingdom of Prussia into the Italian and German nation-states, significantly changing the balance of power in Europe.

At the height of the Turkish-Persian wars, Yerevan changed hands fourteen times between 1513 and 1737.

During the Napoleonic wars, Berchtesgaden changed hands a few times, such as in 1805 under the Treaty of Pressburg, when the area was ceded to Austria.

The four centuries of Ottoman rule also had a drastic impact on Bosnia's population make-up, which changed several times as a result of the empire's conquests, frequent wars with European powers, migrations, and epidemics.

In 1825, after the decisive victory of the republicans at Ayacucho over the Spanish army in the course of the Spanish American wars of independence, the city's full name was changed to La Paz de Ayacucho ( meaning The Peace of Ayacucho ).

The French Revolution of 1789 and the wars that followed radically changed the mahogany trade, primarily due to the progressive collapse of the French and Spanish colonial empires, which allowed British traders into areas previously closed to them.

As the nature of war has changed in the last few decades, with more and more internal conflicts replacing interstate wars, the number of IDPs has increased significantly to an estimated 5 million people worldwide.

The situation changed in the early 16th century, during the wars between Charles V and Francis I of France.

There was just a brief period when the city changed hands ( in 1509 ) during the wars of the League of Cambray.

Map of Italy in 1796, showing the Papal States before the Napoleonic wars changed the face of Italy

Following the wars of 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973, the functions of the observers changed in the light of changing circumstances, but they remained in the area, acting as go-betweens for the hostile parties and as the means by which isolated incidents could be contained and prevented from escalating into major conflicts.

History shows that the rail companies leaked information and frequently changed planned routes to create bidding wars and to finance the rails.

During the Napoleonic wars the meaning of the order of battle changed yet again to reflect the changes in the composition of opposing forces during the battle owing to use of larger formations than in the previous century.

It was later rearranged in territory and administration and renamed as " Department of Boyaca " after a series of civil wars like the Colombian Civil War ( 1860-1862 ) and the Thousand Days War that struggled over a centralist or federalist system and political instability that changed to many constitutions ( such as the Constitution of 1886 ), Boyaca finally acquired its current definition as territory.

The nobility attached itself to one side or the other ( and often changed sides ), but eventually in 1461 Henry was defeated by Richard's son, who became King Edward IV ; Henry was incarcerated in the Tower of London for nine years, but the wars continued and in October 1470 Edward was forced to flee to the continent and Henry was restored to the throne.

The borders of the county changed frequently in the following four centuries, due to frequent wars with Aquileia and other counties, but also to the subdivision of the territory in two main nuclei: one around the upper Drava near Lienz, the other centered on Gorizia itself.

The Centre Party belongs to the political spectrum of " Political Catholicism " that, emerging in the early 19th century after the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars, had changed the political face of Germany.

After the collapse of Communism and subsequent wars, the situation changed.

The name more generally describes parts of the Iberian Peninsula and Septimania governed by Muslims ( given the generic name of Moors ), at various times between 711 and 1492, though the boundaries changed constantly in wars with Christian kingdoms.

While their history is wracked with many vicious civil wars and tensions along the Liao border – much of the League ’ s territory there originally having belonged to the Capellan Confederation – the dawn of the Clan invasion changed their role in the galaxy considerably as one of the two untouched nations and – until Operation Serpent – neutral faction in the war.

The early modern period in pontoon use was dominated by the wars of the 18th and 19th centuries during which the art and science of pontoon bridging barely changed.

Ballara, in Taua, says the musket wars were fought for essentially the same reasons as pre-musket wars — mainly to do with mana, tapu and utu, only the weapons changed.