Peace of Westphaliain a sentence
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Even after the two treaties that comprised the Peace of Westphalia, fighting continued between France and Spain continued until the Treaty of the Pyrenees eleven years later.
Peace of Westphalia = 1648 peace treaties that ended the Thirty and Eighty Years' Wars in Europe
- Before the peace of Westphalia (1648), thirty years of war desolated Germany.† (source)
- At least one among them hip enough to foresee the end of the Thirty Years' War, the Peace of Westphalia, the breakup of the Empire, the coming descent into particularism.† (source)
- And, indeed, upon this account, we have perceived, in all Christian countries, what mortal feuds have been about religion; what wars and bloodshed have molested Europe, till the general pacification of the German troubles at the treaty of Westphalia: and since those times, what persecution in the same country among the churches of the Lutherans; and should I take a prospect at home, what unhappy divisions are between Christians in this kingdom, about Episcopacy and Presbytery; the…† (source)
- The treaty of Westphalia, in 1648, by which their independence was formerly and finally recognized, was concluded without the consent of Zealand.† (source)
- Previous to the peace of Westphalia, Germany was desolated by a war of thirty years, in which the emperor, with one half of the empire, was on one side, and Sweden, with the other half, on the opposite side.† (source)