Henry IV of France Assassinated
May 14, 1610
The converted Huguenot king who had pacified France and drafted the Edict of Nantes was stabbed to death by a Catholic fanatic named Francois Ravaillac while his carriage was stuck in Paris traffic on the Rue de la Ferronnerie. His nine-year-old son Louis XIII inherited a fragile kingdom, and the religious peace Henry had constructed began to tremble.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.