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 | |||
| 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 |