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date of when louis XIV was born
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Louis XIV takes part in war against Spain on northern, north-eastern and eastern frontiers of France
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Birth of Louis' first illegitimate child. Tax gathering by tax-fanners introduced experiment ally
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Charles II sells Dunkirk (which Cromwell had won from Spain with French help) to Louis XIV for five million francs.
Institution of hospital services throughout France. boulonnais peasant revolt. -
French factory established at Magilipatam (India).
French preferential duties aimed at Dutch sugar refineries.
Dutch virtual boycott of French goods -
Dutch war, beginning with French invasion of the territory of the Republic and developing into a general war
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Louis XIV's illness and final arrangements for the governorship and education of his heir, his great-grandson Louis
