The city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdeburg" id="mweg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Magdeburg">Magdeburg</a> in Germany is seized by forces of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire" id="mwew" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Holy Roman Empire">Holy Roman Empire</a> and most of its inhabitants <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Magdeburg" id="mwfA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sack of Magdeburg">massacred</a>, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years'_War" id="mwfQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Thirty Years' War">Thirty Years' War</a>.