Father Louis XIII Mother Anne of Austria Religion Catholicism Signature Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verifie...
•Alderman Alastair King has been elected the 696th Lord Mayor of London.King, who succeeds Lord Mayor Professor Michael Mainelli, takes office on 8th November for a one year term with the annual Lord Mayor’s Show, which takes place the following day, his first public event. “It is a...
King Louis XIV (September 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715) of France known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi-Soleil), was a monarch of the House of Bourbon. He became King of France and Navarre at the age of four in 1643 after the death of his father, ...
FitzGibbon’s role as Lord Chancellor of Ireland during the period of the 1798 rebellion is questionable. According to some, he supports a hardline policy which uses torture, murder and massacre to crush the rebellion, or that as Lord Chancellor, he has considerable influence on military affairs...
He was greatly dismayed when he heard that Eleanor and two more of his sons, Richard the Lionheart and Geoffrey of Brittany, had joined the rebellion. (6) Ralph de Diceto recorded that Henry's sons "took up arms against their father at just the time when everywhere Christians were laying...
The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on January 1, 1863, established that all enslaved people in Confederate states in rebellion against the Union “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” But for many enslaved people, emancipation took longer to take effect. Shown are a group of ensl...
Louis I was a Carolingian ruler of the Franks who succeeded his father, Charlemagne, as emperor in 814 and whose 26-year reign (the longest of any medieval emperor until Henry IV [1056–1106]) was a central and controversial stage in the Carolingian expe
Mackenzie King, as he is usually called, was the son of John King and Isabel Grace Mackenzie, daughter ofWilliam Lyon Mackenzie, a leader of theRebellion of 1837aimed at establishing independent self-government inUpper Canada. Isabel, born while Mackenzie was in exile after the Rebellion, taught...
(later KingLouis XI)—they formed a coalition against the King (the Praguerie). Charles reacted skillfully and energetically, and the rebellion was put down (1440). To counter suchintrigues, to end the destruction caused by the Écorcheurs (bands of mercenary soldiers then ravaging the ...
Congress Kingdom and the Russian Tsar and disbanded the Polish Sejm and army; he also imposed upon the Poles amilitary dictatorship. After a new rebellion in 1863, TsarAlexander IItransformed the Congress Kingdom into a province of theRussian Empireand subjected it to an intense Russification ...