| May Challenge: Sack of Rome |
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| Series | Monthly Challenge |
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| Status | Finished |
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| Starts | 2017-05-01 00:00 CCT |
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| Closes | 2017-06-30 23:59 CCT |
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| Details | Info |
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| Troups Loyal to Charles V Sack Rome, Marking the End of the High Renaissance: On May 6, 1527 an army of Spanish Catholics and Lutherans beholden to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, and led by Charles III, [Duke of Bourbon] marched into Rome. For eight days these unpaid troops looted and pillaged the city, inflicting especially harsh treatment on priests, monks and nuns, forcing the Pope to flee the Vatican, and destroying art and smashing statuary. During the occupation of the city more than 2000 bodies were disposed of in the Tiber River, and another 10,000 were buried in Rome and its environs. |
