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St. Bartholomew's Day massacre

Took place on August 23, 1572

454

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The 455th anniversary falls on August 23, 2027, in 302 days.

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.

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