History A-Level
Compromise of 1566
What Compromise of 1566 means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Presented by the Confederacy of Noblemen to suspend the Inquisition, after lesser nobles formed the Confederacy in 1565-66.
Topics that use Compromise of 1566
- Origins of the Dutch Revolt, c1563–67 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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- 'Beggars'
- Centralisation versus local privilege
- Dutch grandees
- Hedge preaching
- Huguenot migration
- Iconoclastic Fury
- Local autonomy
- Restoration of order
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