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Religion-based civil wars

  • French Wars of ReligionIn 1521, a group of reformers including Jacques Lefèvre and Guillaume Briçonnet formed the Circle of Meaux to improve preaching quality.
  • The TroublesIn 1609, Scottish and English settlers known as planters received land taken from native Irish people during the Plantation of Ulster.
  • Taiping RebellionIn 1837, a Hakka farmer named Hong Huoxiu failed his imperial examination for the third time. This failure triggered a nervous breakdown that would…
  • Syrian civil warIn March 2011, the city of Daraa erupted with protests that would ignite a fourteen-year war. Young students painted anti-government slogans on school walls…
  • Afghan conflictIn July 1973, a cousin named Mohammad Daoud Khan walked into the palace of Kabul and ended forty years of peace. The monarch, King Zahir Shah, did not fight…
  • War in the VendéeThe rural Vendée region of western France stood apart from the rest of the country in 1789. An Intendants' survey revealed that local nobility lived among…