Absolute monarchy By soup77 Period: Jan 16, 1547 to Mar 28, 1584 Reign of Ivan the Terrible Period: Jul 25, 1554 to Sep 13, 1598 Reign of Phillip II Period: Jun 9, 1572 to May 14, 1610 Reign of Henry IV Aug 23, 1572 Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre Jan 1, 1598 Signing of edict of Nantes Period: Mar 24, 1603 to Mar 27, 1625 Reign of James I Dec 18, 1606 Cardinal Richelieu Period: May 14, 1610 to May 14, 1643 Reign of Louis XIII Period: Jan 1, 1618 to Jan 1, 1648 Thirty years war Period: Aug 22, 1642 to Sep 3, 1651 English Civil War Period: May 14, 1643 to Sep 1, 1715 Reign of Louis XIV Oct 24, 1648 Peace of Westphalia Period: Dec 25, 1653 to Sep 3, 1658 Oliver Cromwell Period: Jan 1, 1660 to Jan 1, 1688 Restoration of English Crown Period: May 29, 1660 to Feb 6, 1685 Charles II Jan 1, 1661 Louis XIV takes full control of France Period: Jan 1, 1682 to Jan 1, 1789 Palace of Versailles Period: May 7, 1682 to Feb 8, 1725 Reign of Peter the Great Period: Jan 1, 1688 to Jan 1, 1689 Glorious Revolution Dec 16, 1689 Bill of Rights 1689 Period: Jan 1, 1701 to Jan 1, 1714 War of the Spanish Sucession Period: May 31, 1740 to Aug 17, 1786 Reign of Fredrick the Great Period: Sep 13, 1745 to Aug 18, 1765 Reign of Maria Thresa
