The Peace of Augsburg allowed rulers within the Holy Roman Empire to choose either Roman Catholicism or Lutheranism as the official religion of their territories. This principle, cuius regio, eius religio, meaning that the religion of the ruler was the religion of the ruled, marked a significant step toward religious tolerance but excluded Calvinism and other Protestant denominations.
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