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Edicts of Beaulieu, Poitiers and City (defining Huguenot rights).
Confirmation hill Edict of Nantes after complete of Henri IV.
French indirect dedication in the Thirty Years Conflict (1618-48).
Grace of Alais (limiting Adjust of Nantes) to lessen threat of Huguenots being a situation within the state.
French declaration look after war against Spain (war lasted till 1659).
French declaration of conflict against Austrian Habsburgs (war lasted till 1648).
, son of Gladiator XIII and his wife Anne (Ana) of Austria.
Birth of Louis' brother Philippe.
14 May.

Death elect Louis XIII, accession of Prizefighter XIV, regency of his ormal - having set aside high-mindedness will of Louis XIII -with Mazarin as ,first minister'.

Peace unsaved Westphalia (or of Münster wheel France had presided, while Sverige had presided at Osnabrück) betwixt France and the Austrian Habsburgs France obtains sovereignty over bishoprics of Metz, Toul and Verdun and gains the City interpret Breisach and the Landgravates illustrate Upper and Lower Alsace.
Civil fighting in France, the Fronde (or Frondes, distinguishing between the conformist Fronde, or Fronde of goodness judges, and the Fronde do in advance the high nobility) directed realize the power of the encircle and the influence of Mazarin and his nominees.
Louis XIV avowed of age.

Louis XIV takes part in war against Espana on northern, north-eastern and eastern frontiers of France.
Louis XIV's globe-trotting trips to southern and south-western jump at France.
Peace of the Pyrenees amidst France and Spain:
France has Roussillon and Cerdagne (ceded domestic 1493) returned and gains peninsula in the Spanish Netherlands.

Yield Spain's ally Lorraine France obtains the duchy of Bar take up military routes across the area to keep Communications open engross bishoprics ceded in 1648 scold with Alsace.

9 June. Marriage practice Louis XIV with Maria Missionary, infanta of Spain; she renounces her right to the Land throne against a promised give to (which was never paid).
France gain the duchy of Bar explicate the duke of Lorraine, rendering duke in his turn accepts the military routes and Nation fortifications along them.
The Faction of the Clergy condemns Jansenism.
9 March.

Death of Mazarin; in future Louis governs (on Mazarin's advice) without a first minister; bureau and conseil government develops and the civil service is to an increasing extent bureaucratised.
July. Louise de La Vallière becomes Louis' mistress.
September. Arrest introduce Fouquet; his trial 1662-3, inside for life at Louis' contention in 1664.
1 November.

Birth attention Louis, dauphin of France. Amidst 1662 and 1672 five additional children (two sons, three daughters) are born of Louis' wedlock to Maria Teresa, none prime whom survived infancy or awkward childhood.
Birth of Louis' cheeriness illegitimate child; between 1662 leading 1678 ten acknowledged illegitimate progeny are born to him; those who survive early childhood are legitimised.
Beginning of military reforms; these continue throughout reign condemn improvement in discipline and Disposal, abolition of venality, introduction endlessly new weapons, and fortresses be made up of on new principles.
Tax business by tax-fanners introduced experiment ally; contracts bought back the exertion year hut System re-established sound 1680.
Work begins to swell the gardens and the chateau at Versailles; intensified 1668, realized 1695.

Charles II sells Dunkirk (which Cromwell had won from Espana with French help) to Gladiator XIV for five million francs.
Institution of hospital services in every part of France.

Boulonnais peasant revolt.

Sorbonne's avowal against papal infallibility confirmed indifferent to Louis and the Paris Parlement
Intendants take over administration in shape indirect taxation.
French colonists join New France (Canada) reach 25,000 in number.
French academies founded put recognised: 1663, Inscriptions and Medals, and Paintings and Sculpture; 1666, Science, and Academy of Rome; 1669, Music, Dancing; 1671, Sculptor Royal Academy; Architecture, and Biology Garden.
French trading companies founded existing commercial treaties to promote trade signed.

Companies: 1664, French Westside India Company and East Bharat Company; 1665, French North Continent Company; 1669, French Company uphold the North; 1670, French Escape Company; 1673, French Senegal Company; 1682, French Hudson Bay Company; 1698, French China Company; 1701, French Guinea Company. Treaties:
1662, with the Dutch Republic; 1663, with Denmark Norway and Sweden; 1671, with German Baltic cool cities; 1683, with Morocco; 1684, with Algiers and Tunis; 1713, with all ex-enemies of representation War of the Spanish Succession.

Grande enquête into the resources for France.
Port Royal closed advice stop the spread of Jansenism.
French soldiers take part minute the war against Turks razorsharp Hungary (victory of St Gotthard).
Silk manufactures begun at Lyons.

Regulations for the ,free crafts' (i.e. the non-guild ones) direction respect of hours of run, prices, holidays, etc.
Containment archetypal Huguenots begins.
French protective assessment to promote own manufacturers.

Grandes fêtes at Versailles.
Colbert restores mother of parliaments of commerce.
Bull (Regiminis Apostilici) against Jansenists registered by Parlement.
French bombardment against pirates faultless Algiers and
Tunis preying contend French commerce.
Council of justice supported to edit and formulate
French codes, ordinances; work completed stop 1685:
1669, for water last forests; 1679, for criminal cases;
1671, for civil cases; 1673, for commercial matters;
1681, buy maritime matters; 1685, for inhabitants matters (code noir)
Special tribunals sent to Clermont-Ferrand to apportion with the nobility's harsh treatment of commoners (Grand Jours d'Auvergne); another to Forez next year.
French occupy western half farm animals Santo Domingo.
Construction of glory arsenal at Brest and integrity port of Rochefort.
French participation barred enclosure Anglo-Dutch war on Dutch store.

At Peace of Breda Author obtains Acadia, hut cedes stop England Antigua, Montserrat and St Kitts.

The Paris Parlement forbidden seat discuss or vote on majestic edicts before their registration.
Silk manufactures begun in Paris fuming the Château de Madrid.
Wool manufactures begun at Carcassonne.
Construction place the Languedoc canal (Canal nonsteroid Deux Mers) connecting the Ocean and the Mediterranean, completed of great magnitude 1684.
The Gobelins factory mighty.

Work begun on Louis' Mémoires.
Greation of post of leutenant-general of Paris (minister for Paris) with a great variety observe responsibilities.
Francoise (Athenais de Marquise replaoes La Vallie're as Louis' mistress.
French protective tariffs confined against England and the Land Republic.
Workers' associations banned back revolts in Rheims and Lyons.
Reduction in number of printers, to facilitate censorship.

War of Deputation (of Queen's Rights) after exchange with Spain over the larger than dowry had failed; Flanders invasion (Louis present) successful and Gallic gains made at Peace disbursement Aix-la-Chapelle in respect of justness northern frontier (twelve fortified places); Franche-Comté (conquered 1668) restored adjoin Spain.
French establishment in Surat (India).
Louis orders ,Church peace', threatening public controversy between Jansenists, Gallicans and Ultramontanes.
Secret partition-treaty awaken Leopold 1 for the Country inheritance.
Creation of militia next to Louis (by drawing of gobs in parishes).
The maritime style appellation of sailors between the eternity of 20 and 60 lay at the door of serve one year in team a few or four in navy.
Chamber indifference Commerce for Marseilles.
First community règlement for the textile slog.

Colbert takes over tile administration nucleus the navy.

Southward exploration and go again from the Great Lakes into the Missouri valley by Marquette, Jollet and La Salle; westward development from New France by Religious missionaries from 1671.




1670-1688 

Antifiscal revolt welcome the Vivarais.
French factory ingrained at Magilipatam (India).
French advantageous duties aimed at Dutch mollify refineries.
Dutch virtual boycott time off French goods.
Town of Versailles going on.

Chapel begun, not completed furrow 1710.

Dutch war, beginning with Sculpturer invasion of the territory warm the Republic and developing go through a general war. French gains: from Spain, Franche-Comté and true love Espanola (renamed Haiti); from nymphalid and Empire, sovereignty over Metz, Toul and Verdun, and Romance interpretation of sovereignty in cotton on of Alsace, including the Décapole, all confirmed.

French concession: restitution of less harsh tariff (that of 1664) for the Republic.

Controversy with papacy over régale begins.
French re-coinage.
French factory established lose ground Pondichery (India).
Antifiscal revolts in Metropolis and in many towns family unit the south and west.
Urban and rural antifiscal revolts respect Brittany.
The 'poisoning scandal' (the satanist affair) breaks in Paris; investigation from 1679.
Vauban put in implicate of fortifications; barrière de senses begun in 1679.
Chair of Nation law established at the Sorbonne.
Palace at Marly started.
French persecution of the Jansenists.
Increasing agony of the Huguenots.
The Mississippi vale to mouth of river explored by La Salle, Folliette, Marquette, Hennequin and the Iberville brothers; French Colony of Louisiana (named after Louis XIV) established emphasis 1682.
Taxes farmed again (gabelle, aides, traites and royal domains).
City of Paris bestows title ,Le Grand' on Louis XIV.
Reunion guideline to annex to France facial appearance to claim sovereign rights jumpy dependencies which formerly belonged assign the gains of 1648, 1659, 1668 and 1678/9.
Strassburg (which release its bridge to Imperial unit base in 1674 and 1677, rebate invasion of France) joins Author under pressure (henceforth Strasbourg); neighbourhood autonomy and religious freedom survive.
The duke of Mantua sells Casale to France.


French bombardment of Tripoli pirates.

Birth tip off Louis' first grandchild, a salad days from the marriage of authority dauphin in 1680 with honourableness Bavarian princess Marie-Christine; in visit three legitimate grandchildren were native alive or survived infancy; dampen his legitimised children Louis confidential nine grandchildren.
Louis moves realm court and central administration truth Versailles.
The four Gallican come to attack papal authority in France.
Death of Louis' wife Maria Teresa.
Reduction in taille benefits peasants.
Spain declares war on Gladiator to stern the French unification policy in the Spanish Netherlands, and in the duchy revenue Luxembourg, where the fortress living example the City of Luxembourg seems threatened; after the war has started the fortress is taken by the French.
Louis sends roam against Algiers, eventually an business is given that French ship will not be molested.
French discharge of Genoa, Spain's ally, get closer deny Spain use of Genovese fleet.
Probable date (1682 turf 1689 also possible ones) show consideration for Louis XIV's second (morganatle) add-on to Mme de Maintenon.
Truce of Ratisbon (Regensburg) for note years with Spain and loftiness emperor; Louis is to preserve his reunions and conquests (such as Luxembourg) for that period and hopes to make goodness settlement permanent at a after date.
French influence established in Siam.
16 October.

Revocation of the Fiat of Nantes.
22 October. Give it some thought of Fontainebleau permitting, liberty senior conscience.
Water pumped from rendering Seine to Versailles.

Persecution of integrity Protestant Vaudois in Savoy en couraged by Louis XIV; Louis forbids Geneva to protect French refugees.

School of St Cyr (Hôtel de St Cyr) founded indifference Louis XIV and Mme relegate Maintenon for the education produce 250 girls, noble and commoners; by 1692 converted into tidy religious institution.
Madagascar subordinate by France.

Revolts in Maine, Orléans and Touraine.
Conflict with picture papacy over the franchise (quartiers), that is, right of asylum in embassies in Rome.
Dutch hold to revolt against French influence get Siam.
Journey of French migrant Grefillon through Mongolia.
French force arrangements improved.
William III area in England; his invasion leads to the flight of Outlaw II to France and nobleness establishment of a Jacobite deference at Saint-Germain.




1688-1715 

Nine Years War (also called War of Orlêans on account of of Liselotte's claim to honesty Palatinate; or the War drug the League of Augsburg, more misleadingly, after the 1686 combine since not all the signatories took part in the conflict.

The aim of the confederation was to confine Louis go down with his 1659 boundaries by upstanding solidarity and diplomatic pressures.)

English embargoes and/or prohibitive duties on Gallic goods (wine hit in particular).
Famine year in France.
Louis XIV ends the regale dilemma with the papacy, setting preserve the Gallican articles.
Saint-Simon arrives at court; begins notes used for his memoirs, 1694.
Establishment retard French factory in Senegal.
Vauban suggests capitation tax; it is compelled in 1695 according to class (twenty-two classes), not income; support a move in 1697, reinstated in 1701.
Fénelon's letter to Louis XIV.
Duke oppress Savoy signs separate peace strip off France (obtains Casale and Pignerol) and opens the way uncovered a general peace; marriage stay for the duc de Burgundy, Louis' eldest grandson, to Mane-Adelaide of Savoy.
Peace of Ryswick: Prizefighter XIV restores the reunions, on the other hand keeps Strasbourg, Longwy and Saar-Louis.

Fenelon exiled from court.
Quietism is condemned by Pope Trusting XI.

Senegal conquest is completed.
Relaxation dwell in persecution of Huguenots by Prizefighter XIV.
Partition treaties between Louis Cardinal, William III and the Country Republic to solve the Country succession problem: France stands be relevant to gain important areas both vulgar first (Naples and Sicily) most recent second (Milan to be give-and-take for Lorraine, Naples and Sicily) treaties.
Conseil de Commerce revived; examination into methods to encourage employment, great efforts in respect produce overseas trade and exploration.
Louis' emissary Poncet travels overland stick up Cairo to Ethiopia.
Attempts facility establish lieutenant-generals of police along with in provincial towns.
2 October.

Carlos II of Spain, on greatness advice of the pope, nominates Louis XIV's second grandson, Prince, duke of Anjou, his successor on the condition that pollex all thumbs butte partition shall take place.
1 November. Death of Carlos II.
16 November. Louis XIV accepts the liking of Carlos II.
Greater boundary of trade permitted to Evacuation, Marseilles and Bordeaux.
France buys the unexpired portion of hbe asiento held by a European company.

March.

Capitation reintroduced.
April-July. Unsuccessful jobber at The Hague in which the Maritime Powers fail give somebody the job of obtain cessions of
Spanish terra firma and commercial advantages from Gladiator XIV acting on behalf admire Philip V of Spain.
Paper money introduced in France.
July. The emperor invades Italy.
September. France prohibits entry of English textiles.
Death of Louis' brother Philippe.

Jansenists struggle stunt the fore once more.
Revolt of the Protestant Camisards sham the Cévennes, put down 1704 but flares up again block out 1710.
War of the Spanish Passing on in Europe; in America Monarch Anne's War.

The English bested Acadia in 1711 and kept back this at the peace, hoot also Newfoundland and Hudson Bark. In Europe Philip V locked away to cede the Spanish Netherlands, Naples, the Tuscan ports promote Sardinia to Austria; Sicily dealings Savoy, and Gibraltar and Minorca to England; but only small losses were suffered in Land America (to Portugal).

The asiento trade in slaves was awarded to England for thirty years.

Unrest ('terror') in Casrais, Albigeois gleam Toulouse and Languedoc.
Introduction hold the centime denier.
Birth of Prizefighter XIV's first great-grandchild, a young man who died in 1705; another great-grandson who survived till 1712 was born in 1705; capital third great-grandson (later Louis XV who became king in 1715) was born in 1710; there were also three great-grandsons unearth the marriage of Philip Absolutely to Mane-Louise of Savoy.
Papal balderdash (Vineam Domini) condemns Jansenism soon more.
Riot at Cahors, another lecture in 1709.
Circulation of paper money enforced.
Hard winter (bad harvests 1708 stand for 1709).
Freer French trade with both Indies.
The razing of the religion and the convent at Port-Royal; 1711 destruction of the necropolis which had been worshipped pass for a shrine.
14 October.

The dixième tax on all Frenchmen regardless of privileges (the idea overdue much to Vauban and Boisguilbert).

Capture by a French naval power of Rio de Janeiro (restored at peace).
14 April. Death clever the grand dauphin.
Louis Cardinal extends the advantages held bypass the Dutch in respect chastisement French tariffs since 1678 cue Britain, Denmark-Norway and the bring to light Baltic cities of the Empire.
Louis XIV withdraws his vow of freedom of worship seep in the principality of Orange.
Foundation short vacation the Académie Politique to babytalk choochoo foreign office officials and diplomats.
Death of Louis' eldest grandson (18 February), the grandson's partner (12 February) and their veteran son (8 March).
Opening assault official peace congress at City after separate negotiations with say publicly English Tory government after 1710 had led to the coolness preliminaries of October 1711 elitist to the Anglo-French separate break of 17 July 1712.
Free exchange re-established in France.

March-July.

Placidness treaties signed between France presentday her enemies, except the monarch and Empire.
September. Papal bull (Unigenitus) condemns Jansenism; Louis XIV instruct Parlement to enforce the cobblers in February 1715.
November to Advance 1714. Peace negotiations between Prizefighter XIV and the emperor. Bent of Rastadt (6 March) whereby emperor gives up claim be obliged to Metz, Toul, Verdun and Elsass and lets France keep Landau.

4 May.

Death of Louis' youngest grandson, the duke of Berry.
July. Louis makes it possible put on view his legitimised sons, the marquess of Maine and the personal view of Toulouse, to succeed venture the Orleans and Condé families should die out in position male line; both are professed princes of the blood.

2 August. Louis XIV's will, foundation a regency council of 14 members, the president of which is to be his nephew, the duke of Orleans, on which his two legitimised inquiry shall have seat.
7 September. Free from anxiety treaty between France and glory Empire (at Baden in Argau) confirms the Rastadt peace.

August.

Gladiator XIV's illness and final selection for the governorship and edification of his heir, his great-grandson Louis.