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1638, Sep 5 1643-1715 1715, Sep 1
a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any monarch of a major country in European history. In this age of absolutism in Europe, Louis XIV 's France was a leader in the growing centralization of power. Louis began his personal rule of France in 1661 after the death of his chief minister, the Italian Cardinal Mazarin. An adherent of the concept of the divine right of kings, which advocates the divine origin of monarchical rule, Louis continued his predecessors' work of creating a centralized state governed from the capital.
Mentions Anne of Austria ...relations with her husband, her closeness to her son Louis XIV Guillaume Bautru ...Louvaines, conseiller d'État under Louis XIII and Louis XIV Jean-Paul Bignon ...ecclesiastic, statesman, writer and preacher and librarian to Louis XIV Nicolas Bricaire de la Dixmerie ...moraux (1765), Les Deux Ages du goût et du génie sous Louis XIV Francois de Callieres ...française, a diplomat and writer, a special envoy of Louis XIV Nicolas Chorier ...lawyer in Grenoble and then as a prosecutor for King Louis XIV Jean-Baptiste Colbert ...of France from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV Charles Cotin ...of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Syriac, an advisor to Louis XIV Guillaume Coustou the Elder ...Nicolas Coustou. Like his brother, he was employed by Louis XIV Antoine Coysevox ...of most of the celebrated men of his age, including Louis XIV Jean II d'Estrees ...Marshal of France, and an important naval commander of Louis XIV Marquise de Crequy ...noble genealogies and court gossip from the reigns of Louis XIV Denis de Sallo ...of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, minister of finance under Louis XIV Michel Richard Delalande ...composer and organist who was in the service of King Louis XIV Jean-Baptiste Denys ...Montpellier and was the personal physician to King Louis XIV Baron Bernard Desjean ...made him immensely rich and very appreciated by King Louis XIV Jean Doublet ...witness of the whole maritime history of the time of Louis XIV Henry Eccles an English composer. He played in the court of King Louis XIV Gerard Edelinck ...generally acknowledged; and having become known to Louis XIV Eugene of Savoy ...Paris, Eugene grew up around the French court of King Louis XIV Bertholet Flemalle ***** no match in text Andre-Hercule de Fleury ...Cardinal Bonzi became almoner to Maria Theresa, queen of Louis XIV Charles de la Fosse ...the great decorative works undertaken in the reign of Louis XIV Nicolas Fouquet ...Finances in France from 1653 until 1661 under King Louis XIV Franz Joseph I ...longest-reigning monarch of any country in European history, after Louis XIV Francois Girardon ...some of his best works, including the marble busts of Louis XIV Christopher Glaser ...Lefebvre, at the Jardin du Roi in Paris, and apothecary to Louis XIV Gabriel de Guilleragues ***** no match in text Jules Hardouin-Mansart ...architecture, representing the power and grandeur of Louis XIV Pantaleon Hebenstreit ...France. It was during this visit that the French king Louis XIV Leonard de Hodemont ...Du Mont de Thier, who became maître de chapelle for Louis XIV Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate ...Cistercian Maubuisson Abbey. With the support of King Louis XIV Romeyn de Hooghe ...medalist. He is best known for political caricatures of Louis XIV Pope Innocent XI ...Hungary". Much of his reign was concerned with tension with Louis XIV HRE Joseph I ...the Spanish Succession, begun by his father, against Louis XIV Godfrey Kneller ...series of ten reigning European monarchs, including King Louis XIV Charles Le Brun a French painter and art theorist. Declared by Louis XIV Andre Le Notre ...landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV Louis Le Vau a French Classical architect who worked for Louis XIV Francois de La Mothe Le Vayer ...Académie française in 1639, and was the tutor of Louis XIV HRE Leopold I ...the Ottoman Empire in the east, and the rivalry with Louis XIV Jean Loret ...society (including, initially, its pinnacle, the court of Louis XIV Louis (Grand Dauphin) the eldest son and heir of Louis XIV King Louis XIV ***** no match in text Louis XV ...until his death. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV Louis de Bourbon [3] ...the reigning House of Bourbon at the French court of Louis XIV Louis Philippe I ...descent from their common ancestors Louis XIII and Louis XIV Jean-Baptiste Lully an Italian-French composer. He was court composer to Louis XIV Hugh Mackay ...accompanied it to France when it was lent by Charles II to Louis XIV Francois Massialot ...including Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, the brother of Louis XIV Cardinal Jules Raymond Mazarin ...diamonds, and he bequeathed the "Mazarin diamonds" to Louis XIV Pierre II Mignard ...members of the Académie royale d'architecture created by Louis XIV Pierre Mignard ***** no match in text Philippe de Mornay ...had a distinguished history until its suppression by Louis XIV Philip V ...in the royal family of France as a grandson of King Louis XIV Francois Pidou de Saint Olon a French diplomat under Louis XIV ...This responded to the Embassy of Mohammad Temim to Louis XIV
Melchior de Polignac ...Cardinal and neo-Latin poet. During the last years of Louis XIV Cesar Vichard de Saint-Real ...minor works written in order to win the protection of Louis XIV Samuel Kapasoulis of Alexandria ...European leaders for the Patriarch, including that of Louis XIV Paul Scarron ...became Madame de Maintenon and secretly married King Louis XIV James Francis Edward Stuart ...king of England, Scotland and Ireland by his cousin Louis XIV Jean-Baptiste Tavernier ...1668. In 1675, Tavernier, at the behest of his patron Louis XIV Jean Testu de Mauroy ...was tutor to the daughters of Monsieur, brother of Louis XIV Francois de Troy ...Madame de Montespan, one of the many mistresses of Louis XIV Robert de Visee ...theorbist and viol player at the court of the French kings Louis XIV
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He was the son of the powerful Sultan Agung. Upon takin... Metacomet 1639 ca 1660 1679 1676 Wampanoag; The second son of Massasoit, Metacomet (or King Philip) led an open rebellion against ... Denzil Holles 1599, Oct 31 1624 1680 1680, Feb 17 an English statesman and writer, best known as one of the Five Members whose attempted unconstitu... Kara Mustafa Pasha 1634/35 1660 1683 1683, Dec 25 an Ottoman military leader and grand vizier who was a central character in the Ottoman Empire's l... Thomas Lynch unknown 1670 1684 1684 Governor of Jamaica. In 1677, Sir Thomas Lynch returned to England having served in Jamaica since... Charles II of England 1630, May 29 1660 1685 1685, Feb 6 the monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and Supreme Governor of the ... Edmund Waller 1606, Mar 3 1624 1686 1687, Oct 21 an English poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and ... Mehmed IV 1642, Jan 2 1648 1687 1693, Jan 6 the Sultan and Caliph of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687. Taking the throne at age six, his ... Emperor Reigen 1654, Jul 9 1663 1687 1732, Sep 24 the 112th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Reigen's reign span... Frederick William 1620, Feb 16 1640 1688 1688, Apr 29 Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia, thus ruler of Brandenburg-Prussia, from 1640 until hi... King James II 1633, Oct 14 1685 1688 1701, Sep 6 King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII, and Supreme Governor o... Adolf Esmit unknown 1680 1689 unknown governor of St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies from 1683 to 1684, and again from 1687 to 1688. ... Samuel Pepys 1633, Feb 23 1655 1691 1703, May 26 an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most well known for the diary ... William Pulteney [1] 1624, Mar 25 1679 1691 1691, Sep 6 an English Member of Parliament. He represented Westminster from February 1679 to March 1681 and ... Suleiman II 1642, Apr 15 1687 1691 1691, Jun 22/23 the Sultan and Caliph (Sunni Islam) of the Ottoman Empire/Caliphate from 1687 to 1691. Immediatel... Queen Mary II 1662, Apr 30 1689 1694 1694, Dec 28 joint Sovereign of England, Scotland, and Ireland and Supreme Governor of the Church of England w... William Phips 1651, Feb 2 1673 1695 1695, Feb 18 a shepherd boy born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, a shipwright, ship's captain, treasure hunte... Ahmed II 1643, Feb 25 1691 1695 1695, Feb 6 the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph (Sunni Islam) of the Ottoman Caliphate from 1691 to 1... Arung Palakka 1634 ca 1660 1696 1696 a 17th-century Bugis prince and warrior. He supported the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the M... Sir James Houblon 1629, Jul 1654 1698 1700, Oct an influential merchant and Member of Parliament for the City of London. He held appointments in ... Thomas Neale 1641 1664 1698 1699 an English project-manager and politician who was also the first person to hold a position equiva... Christian V 1646, Apr 15 1670 1699 1699, Aug 25 king of Denmark and Norway from 1670 until his death in 1699. Well-regarded by the common people,... Tamanend 1628 ca 1680 1699 1701 ca a chief of one of the clans that made up the Lenni-Lenape nation in the Delaware Valley at the ti... John Salomonsz unknown 1690 1699 unknown elected chief of Sint Eustatius in the Caribbean Netherlands on May 31, 1696... Roger L'Estrange 1616, Dec 17 1639 1702 1704, Dec 11 an English pamphleteer, author and staunch defender of Royalist claims. L'Estrange was involved i... King William III 1650, Nov 4 1689 1702 1702, Mar 8 sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Gelderland, and ... Amangkurat II unknown 1677 1703 unknown the Susuhunan of Mataram from 1677 to 1703. Prior to taking the throne, he was the crown prince a... Mustafa II 1664, Feb 6 1695 1703 1703, Dec 28/30 the Sultan and Caliph of the Ottoman Empire from 1695 to 1703. In June 1695, Mustafa II left Edir... Willem van Outhoorn 1635, May 4 1659 1704 1720, Nov 27 Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1691 to 1704. He was born and died in the Dutch E... Amangkurat III unknown 1703 1704 unknown a short-lived ruler of Sultan in Java. His father Amangkurat II of Mataram had been killed, and h... Charles Montagu 1661, Apr 16 1683 1706 1715, May 19 an English poet and statesman. In 1685, Montagu's verses on the death of King Charles II made suc... Edward Hyde [2] 1661, Nov 28 1685 1708 1723, Mar 31 Governor of New York and New Jersey between 1701 and 1708, and is reputed to have had a predelict... Emperor Higashiyama 1675, Oct 21 1687 1709 1710, Jan 16 Higashiyama's reign spanned the years from 1687 through 1709 of what are generally considered to ... HRE Joseph I 1678, Jul 26 1705 1711 1711, Apr 17 Holy Roman Emperor from 1705 until his death in 1711. He was the eldest son of Emperor Leopold I... William Penn [2] 1644, Oct 14 1681 1712 1718, Jul 30 the son of Sir William Penn[1], and was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early ... Queen Anne 1665, Feb 6 1702 1714 1714, Aug 1 the Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland and Supreme Governor of the Church of England from 170... Charles XII 1682, Jun 17 1697 1718 1718, Nov 30 the King of Sweden from 1697 to 1718. He belonged to the House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, a bran... Joseph Addison 1672, May 1 1693 1719 1719, Jun 17 an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was the eldest son of The Reverend Lanc... Richard Steele 1672, Mar 1697 1724 1729, Sep 1 an Irish writer and politician, remembered as co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison, of the... Jacob Hop 1654, Jul 31 1678 1725 1725, Oct 27 a Dutch diplomat who played an important role in the War of Succession. From 1699 he served as C... Peter the Great 1672, May 30 1682 1725 1725, Jan 28 ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire from 7 May (O.S. 27 April) 1682 until hi... Moulay Ismail ibn Sharif 1634 1672 1727 1727, Mar 22 the second ruler of the Moroccan Alaouite dynasty. He is also known in his native country as the ... Victor Amadeus II 1666, May 14 1675 1730 1732, Oct 31 Duke of Savoy from 1675 to 1730. Victor Amadeus II undertook sweeping administrative reforms with... Frederick IV 1671, Oct 11 1699 1730 1730, Oct 12 the king of Denmark and Norway from 1699 until his death. Frederick was the son of King Christian... Ahmed III 1673, Dec 30/31 1703 1730 1736, Jul 1 the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph (Sunni Islam) of the Ottoman Caliphate from 1703 to 1... Woodes Rogers 1679 ca 1705 1732 1732, Jul 15 an English sea captain, privateer, and, later, the first Royal Governor of the Bahamas. He is kno... Emperor Nakamikado 1702, Jan 14 1709 1735 1737, May 10 the 114th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Nakamikado's reign... William Cosby 1690 1710 1736 1736 an Irish soldier who served as the British royal governor of New York from 1732 to 1736. During h... HRE Charles VI 1685, Oct 1 1711 1740 1740, Oct 20 he succeeded his elder brother, Joseph I, as Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (as Charles II),... Melchior de Polignac 1661, Oct 11 1683 1742 1742, Nov 20 a French diplomat, Cardinal and neo-Latin poet. During the last years of Louis XIV, Abbé de Poli... Edward Vernon 1684, Nov 12 1700 1746 1757, Oct 30 a British naval officer. He had a long and distinguished career, rising to the rank of admiral af... William IV of Orange 1711, Sep 1 1711 1751 1751, Oct 22 the first hereditary Stadtholder of all the United Provinces. He was born six weeks after the dea... Spencer Phips 1685, Jun 6 1713 1757 1757, Apr 4 a British politician in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Born Spencer Bennett, he was adopted b...
