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Period: Sep 8, 1560 to
Age of Absolutism
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Henry IV becomes king
Henry IV, a Bourbon prince and Huguenot leade, takes n the thrown. He was a protestant but he changed to catholic knowing he'd get problems as a protestants but he still protected the protestants. He protected the protestant with Edict of Nantes in 1598. Henry IV was murdered in 1610. -
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Henry IV reign
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Edict of Nantes
It protects protestants with religious toleration and let them fortify their own towns and cities. -
James I
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Defenestration at Prague
Defenestration literally means to THROW someone out the window and the protestants threw out 2 catholic officials out the window which caused the 30 years war. -
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Thirty years war
A religious war in which protestants were in a war against the catholics. It all started when the protestants threw out 2 catholics out of a window and which triggered the thirty years of war in which left the German states totally devastated. -
Cardinal Richelieu
He took power when Henry IV was assasinated and passed his power to his 9 year old son Louis XIII who appointed him Cardinal Richelieu. His goal was to destroy the nobles and the huguenots by destroying their private armies and castles and forbidding them to rebuild one but passed on the throne to Cardinal Jules Mazarin who took power while Louis XIV waited to take power. -
Versailles
Louis XIV has built Versailles palaca out of a hunting lodge and forced at least 10,000 nobles and officials to move there so he could keep an eye on everything but luckily for them Versailles was only 13 miles from Paris -
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Reign of Louis XIV
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Charles I
Charles imprisoned foes without trial and squeezed the nation for money. He was part of the civil war in which he was captured and executed. -
Charles I signs petition of right
Charles signed a petition which prohibited the king from raising taxes without the consent of parliament or imprisoning anyone without just cause -
Long parliment
Charles led troops to artrest its most radical leaders but they escaped and raised their own army. -
Louis XIV
As soon as Louis XIV became king, disorder happened all over France. He decided to take over the government himself and declared "I am the state". Louis XIV never called a meeting with the Estates general during his reign. Under Louis XIV has the strongest army in Europe with 300,000 soldiers. He was always short on cash but couldnt produce enough income due to high cost of courts and wars. Louis XIV died in 1715 -
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver created a new model army which had defeated the kings army and taken the king as a hostage. -
Treaty of Westphalia
This agreement reaffirmed the Peace of Augsburg.Which ended the war but left Hapsburg, Spain, and Austria in decline but helped France and Sweden. -
execution of a king
King Charles I had been executed -
creation of commonwealth
Parliament created the commonwealth during the kingless days -
Creation of the commonwealth
Oliver Cromwell created the commonwealth in which it was mostly puritan power and he took the fun and joy out of daily life as it was all about god. When Oliver died so did the commonwealth. -
Charles the 2nd...is back?
Charles the 2nd who inherited the throne but quckly restored the official church of England but tolerated protestants. -
Peter becomes tzar(part1)
Peter took the throne when he was only 10 years but he had a half brother so they were co tzar but Peters brother Ivan had an older sister named Sophia who told Peter to give up the throne to Ivan and so Peter did and he left and returned 6 years later when Ivan had died of natural causes. Peter returned and left to toue Europe instead of staying in Moscow and he had gained muched knowledge from England and the Dutchs but Peter was forced to return because there were rumors that his half sister -
Peter the great(part 2)
His half sister had planned a revolt against him so Peter came back ,now hes almost seven feet tall, and Peter had stopped his sister and put her in jail as a nun. Peter had brought ideas of Westernization and he had created taxes to cut everyones beard and changed ideas to competer with Europe like banning traditional dresses and creating the navy and technical schools and replaced the church and introduced potatoes and started a newspaper and simplified the alphabet and declared him as emperor -
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Peter the great
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Revocation of Edict of Nantes
King Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes when he targeted the huguenots as a threat to religious and political unity. More than 100,000 Huguenots had fled France but in that 100,000 had been the most hard working and prosperous of Louis's subjects which affected the economy like what had happened to Spain. -
James II
He inherited the throne in 1685 from his brother but he angered people by suspending laws and many feared he'd restore the Roman catholic church so in 1688 parliament invited James protestant daughter and her dutch protestant husband to come rule and so James II fled -
Glorious revolution
William and Mary were invited to take the throne from James II as he had fled but they had to accept the English Bill of rights and their power was limited and England had become a limited monarchy which changed everything -
St. Petersburg
Peter the great had created St. Petersburg out of nothing after he got in a war to win a sea port. He forced mostly soldiers and peasants to build him the city which had killed 50,000 of them and made it the capital and made all oficials travel to St.Petersburg. He had built a statue of himself at the city. -
Louis XIV death
Louis had died in 1715 after ruling for 72 years , longer than other monarch. -
Peter dies
