The Peace of Augsburg between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and the Schmalkaldic League, an alliance of Protestant princes is signed, The treaty officially recognized the division of Christianity and granted each prince in the Holy Roman Empire the right to choose either Lutheranism or Roman Catholicism as the official religion of their state. Calvinism was not allowed until the Peace of Westphalia, which took place in 1648.
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