The Monmouth rebellion refers to the Duke of Monmouth in 1685 trying to overthrow King James II of England, who was a Catholic. The Duke of Monmouth and his "army" of nonconformists, artisans, and farmers was a protestant.
there was more catholics and protestants.
The Battle of Sedgemoor or The Monmouth Rebellion or The Pitchfork Rebellion (pitchforks weren't used) started in 1685 as a rebellion The Duke of Monmouth agasint King James the 2nd
It began as a conflict between Protestants and Catholics in Central Europe.
Catholics didn't start Protestantism. Protestants started Protestantism and this began with Martin Luther in 1517.
Protestants are called protestants because they PROTESTED against the catholic church because Henry viii was catholic but he wanted a divorce but the catholics would not let him, so he started his own church( church of England) and they were called the protestants, also you can not be protestant and catholic.
It was a very bad thing to happen as the protestants and the catholics started to fight, and the catholics in Derry went to 1 side of the River Foyle and the protestants went to the other
Martin Luther and the 95 Thesis or watever they were
A royal charter to found a colony was granted to the English Catholic nobleman, Cecil Calvert, 2nd Lord Baltimore in 1632. The earliest settlers of the Maryland colony included both Catholics and Protestants, but Catholics held the key positions in colony government.
The Battle of Monmouth started on June 28th 1778. The Battle of Monmouth ended on June 28th 1778.
In those days the Catholic church had spread right across Europe. Virtually all Europeans were Catholics. After Henry VIII's time the Reformation started and Protestants started to appear.
The "name change" was only made by protestants in England who thought they could be Catholics without acknowledging the Pope in Rome, they are the ones who first started referring to Catholics as Roman Catholics so as to allow themselves to be "Anglo" Catholics. There was never any official name change.
In the United States there were more Protestants than Catholics at the start of the Civil War. The great immigration of Roman Catholics to the United States came after the First Vatican Council. The Bishop of Arkansas voted No when the issue of Papal infallibility was raised. He was one of 2 Bishops to vote against the measure. For some reason a number of Catholics wanted to come to a country that had freedom of religion and where the Pope had no political power. I have no idea why.