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[[File: 759px-Carlos V en Mühlberg, by Titian, from Prado in Google Earth.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Emperor Charles V at the Battle of Mulhberg]]
The Peace of Augsburg (1555) was a peace treaty that sought to end the religious struggle in the German lands and the Holy Roman Empire in the mid-sixteenth century. The Peace of Augsburg was signed by Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, who was a Catholic and the Protestant Schmalkaldic League. The treaty was an attempt to end the series of religious wars that had destabilized the Holy Roman Empire, which was the largest political entity in Europe at the time. The treat, also known a the Settlement of Augsburg sought to prevent Catholics and Protestants from going to war again and to end religious tensions and violence in the Imperial lands.
The treaty , also known a the Settlement of Augsburg sought to prevent Catholics and Protestants from going to war again and to end religious tensions and violence in the Imperial lands. The treaty briefly did maintain peace in the Holy Roman Empire, but the treaty ultimately failed. Why did the Peace of Augsburg fail and how did it lead to the Thirty Years Wars?
The settlement ultimately failed because it did not, admit Calvinist to the terms of the treaty and it was unable to define the religious status of the Episcopal states. Most importantly, it created a mutually hostile Protestant and a Catholic bloc in Central Europe. This hostility eventually led to the Thirty Years War, the most brutal conflict according to some, in European history.
