Louis XIV: The Sun King (In Our Time)
1661 · Resource
In 1661 the 23 year-old French king Louis the XIV had been on the throne for 18 years when his chief minister, Cardinal Mazarin, died. Louis is reported to have said to his ministers, “It is now time that I govern my affairs myself. You will assist me with your counsels when I ask for them [but] I order you to seal no orders except by my command… I order you
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Around 1661
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Kingdom of Prussia proclaimed (1701)