Louis XIV of France: Timeline

1638   Born

1643   Louis XIV Louis XIV of France

Louis XIV ruled as King of France [i] and of Navarre [i] from ... 

 (of France) succeeds Louis XIII Louis XIII of France

Louis XIII , called the Just , was King of France [i] from 1610 [i] to 1643 [i] ... 

1654   Louis XIV of France crowned at Rheims

1660   Blaise Pascal Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal was a French [i] mathematician [i], physicist [i], and religious [i] philosopher [i] ... 

's The Provincial Letters, a defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld Antoine Arnauld

Antoine Arnauld, — le grand as contemporaries called him, to distinguish him from his father &... 

, was ordered shredded and burned by King Louis XIV of France.

1666   Louis XIV Louis XIV of France

Louis XIV ruled as King of France [i] and of Navarre [i] from ... 

 founds the French Academy of Sciences French Academy of Sciences

The French Academy of Sciences is a learned society [i], founded in 1666 [i] by Louis XIV [i]... 

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1667   Louis XIV of France abolishes the Livre Parisis (Paris Pound) in favor of the much more widely used Livre Tournois (Tours Pound). He also designates Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie as first chief of "police" of Paris Paris

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1669   Roux de Marsilly publicly tortured to death in Paris accused of plotting the assassination of King Louis XIV of France.

1670   Les Invalides constructed by Louis XIV of France

1670   In Dover, Charles II of England Charles II of England

Charles II was the King of England [i], King of Scots [i], and King of Ireland [i] from 30 January [i] ... 

 and Louis XIV of France secretly sign a treaty ending hostilities between their kingdoms

1672   French France

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 forces under king Louis XIV Louis XIV of France

Louis XIV ruled as King of France [i] and of Navarre [i] from ... 

 cross the Rhine Rhine

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 to Netherlands Netherlands

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1676   In France France

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, Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers is executed for poisoning his father and brothers. Case also scares the king Louis XIV Louis XIV of France

Louis XIV ruled as King of France [i] and of Navarre [i] from ... 

 to start a series of investigations about possible poisonings and witchcraft Witchcraft

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, later called the Poison affair

1682   Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles Versailles

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1688   Hearing that William has landed in England England

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, Louis XIV Louis XIV of France

Louis XIV ruled as King of France [i] and of Navarre [i] from ... 

 declares war on the Netherlands Netherlands

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. Perhaps revealingly, he does not attack the Netherlands Netherlands

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 but instead strikes at the heart of the Holy Roman Empire Holy Roman Empire

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 with about 100,000 soldiers.

1689   Louis XIV of France passed the "''Code Noir''," allowing the full use of slaves in the French colonies.

1715   Died