1572 St. Bartholomew's Night
445 years ago, on the night of August 24, 1572, on the eve of St. Bartholomew, in Paris there was a massacre of the Huguenots by Catholics. The Huguenots gathered in the capital for the wedding of their leader Henry of Navarre with Margarita of Valois, the sister of King Charles IX, who was to become a sign of reconciliation between Protestants and Catholics. However, Charles and his mother Catherine de Medici organized the extermination of the Huguenots.