Bartholomew's Day (The Diary of Samuel Pepys)

First Reading

St. Bartholmew by Rembrandt:

St. Bartholomew's day was a bad one for protestants not
quite a hundred years before this.
http://www.reformation.org/bart.h…

Here's a slightly less inflammatory version of the massacre.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._…'s_Day_Massacre

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Chart showing the number of references in each month of the diary’s entries.