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Saint Valentine’s Day, or simply Valentine’s Day, is celebrated on the 14th of February, almost internationally but primarily in western societies. It is a commemorative Christian feast for some but a secular occasion for others who see it...

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. It began in...

The vacillating nature of Ancient Egypt's associations with the Kingdom of Kerma may be described as one of expansion and contraction; a virtual tug-of-war between rival cultures. Structural changes in Egypt's administration led to alternating...

Margaret of Valois' eyewitness account of St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre is among the most famous and the only written record of the event left by a member of the royal family of France at the time. Her account appears in her memoirs as Letter...

The War of the Sixth Coalition (1813-1814), known in Germany as the Wars of Liberation, was the penultimate conflict of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815). The Sixth Coalition, which included Russia, Austria, Prussia, the United Kingdom, Sweden...

The assassination attempt on Gaspard II de Coligny, Admiral of France (l. 1519-1572) on 22 August 1572 was the spark igniting the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre beginning on 24 August and continuing in Paris for the next five days and elsewhere...

A 16th-century painting by François Dubois showing the St. Bartholomew Day Massacre of Protestants in August 1572 during the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598). (Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland)

Card showing an angel paddling in a small boat called "Hearts Delight", 1890 CE. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

One morning at the gates of the Louvre, depicting Catherine de' Medici inspecting the victims of St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, oil on canvas painting by Édouard Debat-Ponsan, 1880. Musée d'Art Roger-Quilliot, Clermont-Ferrand

Death of Admiral de Coligny, illustration of the murder of Gaspard II de Coligny, Admiral of France (l. 1519-1572) during the St. Bartholomew's Day Masscacre in the Book of Martyrs by John Foxe, illustrated by Joseph Martin Kronheim, 1887.