Back
العربية
Early Modern era · 1583 – 1588

Cologne War

The Cologne War (German: Kölner Krieg, Kölnischer Krieg, Truchsessischer Krieg; 1583–1588) was a conflict between Protestant and Catholic factions that devastated the Electorate of Cologne, a historical ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire, within present-day North Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.

Cologne War
Cologne War · Frans Hogenberg, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
1583 – 1588
Where
Electorate of Cologne
Era
Early Modern

Topics

Germany1,250 BCE – today

Before and after

Battle of Shizugatake1583Battle of Komaki and Nagakute1584Show on timeline

Text from the Wikipedia article Cologne War, CC BY-SA 4.0