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 verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any monarch in...
His pro-Catholic sympathies and arbitrary rule caused the Whigs and Tories to unite in inviting his eldest surviving daughter, Mary, and her husband, William of Orange, to take the throne as joint monarchs. James was defeated at the Boyne (1690) when he attempted to regain the throne ...
French and Indian Wars,1689–1763, the name given by American historians to the North American colonial wars between Great Britain and France in the late 17th and the 18th cent. They were really campaigns in the worldwide struggle for empire and were roughly linked to wars of the European co...
but also to secure the power of the main Irish ally in the region, Hugh O’Neill,Baron of Dungannon. The fort is composed of a square earthworkbawn“twelve score yards in circuit” reinforced by twobulwarksand punctuated withgun loopsin its ramparts. In one corner stands a wooden tower,...
The two main candidates were the Austrian Habsburg Archduke Charles, and 16-year-old Philip of Anjou, grandson of Charles' half-sister Maria Theresa and Louis XIV of France. Shortly before his death in November 1700, Charles named Philip his heir, but the acquisition of an undivided Spanish ...
Pedro III, King of Portugal(1717 – 1786), married his nieceMaria I, Queen of Portugal, and was her co-ruler, had six children Infante Alexandre of Portugal(1723 – 1728), died in childhood from smallpox João V reigned as an absolute monarch, modeled afterKing Louis XIV of France. ...
Discusses the role of the astronomic discoveries made by Giovanni Cassini, an astronomer to France's Louis XIV, to 20th century astronomers. Description of the impact of a comet into Jupiter in 1690; Showing ...
King James II of England; Credit – Wikipedia Born on October 14, 1633, atSt. James’ Palacein London, England, King James II of England, was the third, but the second surviving son ofKing Charles I of EnglandandHenrietta Maria of France, daughter ofKing Henri IV of France. He was de...
born in 1969, married and father of three children, usually residing with his family in France, is an artisan. daccess-ods.un.org Al Karoui 先生生于1969 年,已婚,有3 名子女,与家人常 住在法国,是一名技工。 daccess-ods.un.org [...] along vai mother, well, ...
On their side, New England had the Iroquois Confederacy, while New France had made an ally in the Wabanaki Confederacy. War between the two began in earnest when the Iroquois, who were in control of the lucrative fur trade in the Great Lakes area, at the behest of New England, forcibly ...