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Events on Tuesday 6 March 1629 1
1629Edict of Restitution issuedFerdinand II orders return of Catholic Church landsHoly Roman Emperor Ferdinand II decreed that all properties secularized by Protestants since the 1555 Peace of Augsburg be returned to the Catholic Church. The edict hardened Protestant opposition and deepened the Thirty Years' War rather than settling it.