Edict of St. Germain; it grants toleration to the Huguenots; massacre of Huguenots at Vassy and other cities; defeat of the Huguenot army under Condé and Coligny.
Attempted settlement of the Huguenots on the coast of South Carolina.
1563.
Assassination of the Duc de Guise at the siege of Orléans.
Publication of the Thirty-nine Articles in England.[1] ]
Publication by the Calvinists of the Heidelberg Catechism.
Beginning of the construction of the Escurial, Spain, by Philip II.
1564.
Death of Ferdinand I; Maximilian II succeeds in the German empire, the archduchy of Austria, Hungary, and Bohemia.
Settlement of a Huguenot colony on the St. John's River, Florida. See "Founding of St. Augustine," x, 70.