Absolutism and Constitutionalism Timeline By roblingoblin285 Period: 1568 to 1648 80 Years War Period: 1588 to 1672 Netherlands: Dutch Golden Age Period: 1589 to 1610 France: Henry IV reign Period: 1603 to 1625 England: James I reign Period: 1610 to 1643 France: Louis XIII reign Period: 1618 to 1648 The Thirty Years War Period: 1619 to 1637 Austria: Ferdinand II reign Period: 1624 to 1642 France: (CM) Cardinal Richelieu reign Period: 1625 to 1649 England: Charles I reign Period: 1637 to 1657 Austria: Ferdinand III reign Period: 1640 to 1688 Prussia: Frederick William "Great Elector" reign Period: 1642 to 1661 France: (CM) Cardinal Mazarin reign Period: 1642 to 1651 The English Civil War Period: 1643 to 1715 France: Louis XIV reign Period: 1648 to 1653 France: The Fronde Period: 1653 to 1658 England: Oliver Cromwell Period: 1660 to 1685 England: Charles II reign Period: 1660 to 1685 England: The Restoration Period: 1667 to 1668 War of Devolution Period: 1672 to 1678 The Dutch War 1682 France: Louis XIV moves to Versailles Period: 1682 to 1725 Russia: Peter the Great reign 1685 France: Edict of Fontainebleau Period: 1685 to 1688 England: James II reign Period: 1688 to 1697 War of the League of Augsberg Period: 1688 to 1689 England: The Glorious Revolution Period: 1688 to 1697 Nine Years War 1689 England: The English Bill of Rights Period: 1689 to 1702 England: William III reign Period: 1689 to 1694 England: Mary II reign Period: 1689 to 1702 Netherlands: William III of Orange reign Period: 1700 to 1721 The Great Northern War Period: 1701 to 1714 War of Spanish Succession Period: 1701 to 1713 Prussia: Frederick I reign 1703 Russia: Building of Saint Petersburg Period: 1711 to 1740 Austria: Charles IV reign 1713 Austria: The Pragmatic Sanction Period: 1713 to 1740 Prussia: Frederick William I reign Period: 1740 to 1786 Prussia: Frederick II "The Great" reign Period: 1740 to 1780 Austria: Maria Theresa reign