Louis XIV of France
- Also Known As: Sun King
Kingdom of France
Louis XIV (1638 - 1715), also known as the Sun King, was a king of the House of Bourbon, he ruled France from 1643 to 1715. - AsNotedIn
Lineage
- Father Louis XIII
- Mother Anne of Austria
Louis XIV (1638 - 1715), also known as the Sun King, was a king of the House of Bourbon, he ruled France from 1643 to 1715. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1640/00/00 | Anne of Austria with Her Son Louis XIV - created | Subject | Anne of Austria with Her Son Louis XIV | ||||
| 1649/12/25 | Louis XIV makes his first holy communion | Faith | Saint-Eustache Church | Paris | |||
| 1661/10/00 | After Nicolas Fouquet is arrested for embezzlement, Louis XIV assumes the ownership of Belle-Ile. | Owner | Belle-Ile-en-Mer | Brittany | |||
| 1668/00/00 | Equestrian Portrait of Louis XIV - created | Subject | Equestrian Portrait of Louis XIV | ||||
| 1670/11/24 | The Hotel des Invalides is commissioned by Louis XIV to provide accommodations and hospital care for wounded soldiers. Design by Liberal Bruant, construction will begin in 1671. | Sponsor | Les Invalides | Paris | |||
| 1682/00/00 | Louis XIV moves with his Court to the Chateau de Versailles. | Home | Palace and Park of Versailles | Versailles, FR | |||
| 1685/10/00 | French King Louis XIV signs the Edict of Fontainebleau revoking the Edict of Nantes. It forbade religious practice of the Protestant Reformed Church, demands that all their church buildings are to be razed and Pastors have to recant or go into exile. | King of France | Edict of Nantes | Chateau de Fontainebleau | Palace and Park of Fontainebleau | ||
| 1689/00/00 | Conceived as one of the elements of the lock intended to protect Bordeaux, earthwork construction is begun on Fort Medoc by order of Louis XIV. | Sovereign | Le Fort Medoc | Cussac-Fort-Medoc, FR | |||
| 1690/00/00 | Louis XIV authorizes the construction of a fortress on Ile de Saint Simon in the estuary of the Gironde. The island, an unstabilized sandbank which had formed a few decades earlier, requires the placement of a wooden base below the fort's foundation. | Sovereign | Fort Pate, Bayle | Bayle, Fr | |||
| 1709/00/00 | Doctor Antoine Daquin forbids Louis XIV from eating strawberries which give him serious indigestion. The monarch will carry on eating des fraises with wine for at least another year. | Health | Chateau de Versailles | Palace and Park of Versailles | Alpine Strawberry |
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