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1598 | Treaty of Ponts de Cé ends civil war in France |
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1598 | Peace of Vervins: Philip II resigns claim to Fr. crown; country united under Henry IV as single sovereign |
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1599 | Duke of Sully, Fr. superintendent of finances, reforms taxation, economic policy, overseas trade and agriculture |
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1600 | Henry IV marries Maria de'Medici |
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1604 | England and France sign commercial treaty |
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1608 | Founding of Quebec |
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1610 | Henry IV of France assassinated; succeeded by his son Louis XIII (age 9), with Maria de'Medici as Regent |
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1613 | Eng. colonists in Virginia destroy Fr. settlement at Port Royal, Nova Scotia; prevent Fr. colonisation of Maryland |
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1614 | Maria, Queen Regent of France, summons the States General of France to counteract power of nobility |
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1614 | Virginian colonists prevent Fr. settlements in Maine and Nova Scotia |
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1617 | Louis XIII crowned at the age of 17 |
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1618 | Defenestration in Prague, when the Regents Jaroslav von Martinitz and William Slawata are thrown down from windows in Hradcany Palace by the rebels; beginning of Thirty Years' War |
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1619 | Maria de'Medici challenges power of her son Louis XIII of France; Treaty of Angoulém ends conflict |
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1620 | Revolt of Fr. nobles against Louis XIII; Richelieu makes peace |
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1621 | Huguenot rebellion against Louis XIII |
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1622 | Treaty of Montpellier ends rebellion of the Huguenots |
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1624 | Cardinal Richelieu made first minister of France |
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1626 | Peace of La Rochelle between Huguenots and Fr. crown |
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1626 | Treaty of Monzon between France and Spain confirms independence of the Grisons |
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1627 | Huguenots rise again |
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1627 | Richelieu signs treaty with Spain |
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1629 | Peace of Susa ends war between England and France |
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1629 | Peace of Alais ends Huguenot revolt |
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1629 | Commercial treaty signed between Russia and France |
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1630 | Treaty of Madrid ends Anglo-Fr. war |
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1630 | "Day of Dupes" in France; Richelieu overthrow conspiracy of Maria de'Medici, the Queen Mother |
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1631 | Maria de'Medici exile to Brussels |
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1635 | Franco-Swed. treaty of alliance signed by Richelieu and Oxtenstierna |
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1635 | Peace of Prague signed between the Emperor Ferdinand II and the Elector John George of Saxony; Thirty Years' War is now a conflict between France and Sweden against the House of Hapsburg |
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1635 | Treaty of St. Germain-en-Layes agrees on regular Fr. subsidies to the army of Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar |
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1636 | The Emperor Ferdinand II has his son, Archduke Ferdinand, elected Ferdinand III, King of the Romans |
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1638 | Franco-Swed. alliance renewed for three years |
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1643 | Louis XIII of France dies; succeeded by his five-year-old son Louis XIV with Mazarin as principal minister |
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1643 | Anne of Austria, the Queen Mother, invested with supreme power |
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1645 | Peace talks open between Holy Roman Empire and France at Münster and Osnabrück |
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1647 | Treaty of Ulm |
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1648 | Outbreak of the Fronde in France |
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1648 | Peace of Westphalia ends Thirty Years' War; is condemned by Pope Innocent X (bull Zelo Domus Dei) |
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1649 | War of the Fronde begins in France; ended by Treaty of Ruel; followed shortly by outbreak of second Fronde |
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1651 | Parliament votes for release of Condé, Fronde leader |
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1651 | King Louis XIV attains majority |
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1652 | Provisional Fronde government set up in Paris |
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1652 | Louis XIV re-establishes lawful government, recalling Mazarin |
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1653 | End of Fronde |
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1654 | Coronation of Louis XIV at Rheims |
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1658 | Formation of Rhenish League under Fr. protectorate |
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1659 | Peace of the Pyrenees between France and Spain |
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1661 | Cardinal Mazarin dies; Louis XIV begins his personal rule |
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1664 | Alliance between France and Brandenburg |
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1666 | France and Dutch declare war on England |
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1667 | Secret treaty between Louis XIV and Charles II against Spain |
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1667 | War of Devolution begins as Fr. troops invade Netherlands |
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1667 | Peace of Breda between the Dutch, France and England |
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1668 | Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle ends War of Devolution between France and Spain |
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1668 | Treaty between Louis XIV and Leopold I concerning future partition of Span. realms |
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1670 | Defensive alliance between France and Bavaria |
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1670 | Treaty of Dover between England and France |
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1672 | France declares war on the Dutch |
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1673 | Emperor Leopold I declares war on France |
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1673 | Fr. expedition against Ceylon |
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1675 | Alliance between France and Poland |
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1675 | Charles II of England receives 500,000 crowns from Louis XIV and is able to prorogue Eng. Parliament for 15 months |
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1678 | Peace of Nijmegen between France and the Dutch and France and Spain |
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1679 | Peace of Nijmegen between Louis XIV and Leopold I |
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1681 | Defensive alliances between Brandenburg and France and between Brandenburg and Sweden |
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1682 | Royal court moves to Versailles |
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1683 | Spain declares war on France |
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1683 | League of The Hague: the Emperor Leopold I and Charles II of Spain join Dutch-Swed. alliance against France |
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1684 | The "Great Elector" offers Fr. Huguenots refuge in Brandenburg |
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1684 | Siamese embassy arrives at court of Louis XIV at Versailles |
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1685 | Louis revokes the Edict of Nantes |
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1685 | Charles, the Elector Palatinates, dies; electorate claimed by Louis XIV for his sister-in-law Liselotte |
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1688 | War between France and the Empire |
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1689 | Louis XIV declares war on Great Britain |
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1689 | Ger. diet declares war on France |
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1690 | Spain joins Great Alliance against France |
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1693 | Louis XIV begins his peace policy, reconciliation with the Vatican |
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1697 | In Treaty of Ryswick: France recognises William III as King of England |
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1702 | Rebellion of Protestant peasants, "Camisards", in Cévennes |
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1702 | 4 November - Queen Anne's War begins when the French and their Indian allies attack some New England settlements in the frontier GO ! |
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1709 | Peace negotiations at The Hague |
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1712 | Peace congress opens at Utrecht |
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1713 | 11 April - The Treaty of Utrecht ends Queen Anne's War |
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1714 | Peace of Rastatt between France and the Holy Roman Empire |
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1714 | Peace of Baden: France keeps Strasbourg and Alsace |
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1715 | Louis XIV of France dies; succeeded by his great-grandson Louis XV (age 5) |
