EVENTS
1592: Clement VIII elected pope
Clement
was the last pope to serve during the Counter-Reformation.
He recognized Henry IV as the rightful king of France, incorporated
the duchy of Ferrara into the Papal states, and was responsible for
the printing of the Vulgate
Bible and other significant liturgical works.
1648: Treaty of Westphalia is signed
The Peace
of Westphalia brought an end to the Eighty Years' War between the
Spanish and the Dutch as well as an end to the German Thirty
Years' War.
WHO DIED
1649: King Charles I of England
The journey that began seven years earlier and set off the
English
Civil War ended when Charles
was tried and convicted of treason by a Parliament whose power over
him he did not recognize. Charles was beheaded more than a year after
his trial began.
