| Timeline |
| 1632 |
Born in Florence, on 28 November |
| 1646 |
Taken from Florence to Paris by Roger de Lorraine, Chevalier de Guise, who placed him in the service of his niece, Mlle de Montpensier |
| 1653 |
Appointed Louis XIV's compositeur de la musique instrumentale (responsible for all instrumental ensembles)
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| 1661 |
Appointed Surintendent de la musique et compositeur de la musique de la chambre (responsible for all court chamber ensembles and personally entertaining Louis)
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| 1662 |
Appointed Master of Music to the Royal Family |
| 1662 |
Marries Madeleine, daughter of the composer Michel Lambert, 24 July.
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| 1670 |
Collaborates with Molière on a series of comédies-ballets which culminated in Le bourgeois gentilhomme |
| 1672 |
Official royal patent gives Lully sole right to establish the Académie Royale de Musique
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| 1673 |
Gains rights to the theatre in the Palais Royale |
| 1681 |
Received as secrétaire du Roi.
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| 1687 |
8 January injures foot with his conducting staff; 22 March dies of complications of gangrene from infected foot, leaving his tragédie lyrique, Achille et Polyxène, unfinished |
