State Building

  • Louis XIV is born

  • English Civil War : first meeting of the Short Parliament

  • Charles dissolves the Short Parliament

  • Charles forced to sign the Treaty of Ripon

  • Battle of Powick Bridge

  • Battle of Edgehill

  • Declaration of Lex Talionis

  • Bunbury Agreement designed to keep Cheshire neutral during the Civil War

  • Louis XIV declared a King at age 5

  • Louis XIV Crowned and Consecrated at Rheims

    Louis XIV Crowned and Consecrated at Rheims
    3 Dec 1654
  • James issues his second Declaration of Indulgence for England

  • Final meeting of Court of High Commission

  • Louis XIV invades the Rhineland, beginning the Nine Years War

  • Embarkation of William’s army completed; the States of Holland approves William’s expedition

  • John Locke’s Two Treatises on Government is licensed to be printed

  • William approves the English Bill of Rights of 1689

  • Louis XIV ends the regale dispute with the papacy

    13 Dec 1693
  • Louis XIV Dies