Palace of Versailles built
1661–1715 · Work
Louis XIV's expanded hunting lodge becomes the seat of French royal power and Baroque taste.
On these timelines: Master, Arts and Thoughts, France
Around 1661
- English Civil War (1642)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Peter the Great (1672)