How many years did the Thirty Years’ War last?

History easy Data from 1648

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The answer

30 years

Roughly 30.

The Thirty Years’ War really did last thirty years, from 1618 to 1648 — unlike the Hundred Years’ War, which ran 116. It killed perhaps a third of the population of the German states, a proportion comparable to the Black Death.

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Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
Figure refers to 1648
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