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23 de may. de 2024 · Louis declared war on Great Britain on 9 June 1756, confident of success. A French fleet in the Mediterranean defeated the British at the Battle of Minorca of 1756 , and captured that island. The French army greatly outnumbered its British and Prussian counterparts on the continent.
Hace 3 días · He also promoted friendship with Great Britain and sponsored colonial expansion, notably the French conquest of Algeria. His popularity faded as economic conditions in France deteriorated in 1847, and he was forced to abdicate after the outbreak of the French Revolution of 1848 .
Hace 3 días · From 1776, Louis XVI actively supported the North American colonists, who were seeking their independence from Great Britain, which was realised in the Treaty of Paris (1783). The ensuing debt and financial crisis contributed to the unpopularity of the Ancien Régime .
9 de may. de 2024 · Louis XV, king of France from 1715 to 1774, whose ineffectual rule contributed to the decline of royal authority that led to the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. He became king at the age of five on the death of his great-grandfather Louis XIV in 1715. Learn more about Louis XV in this article.
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20 de may. de 2024 · Louis XIV. king of France. Also known as: Le Roi Soleil, Louis le Grand, Louis le Grand Monarque, Louis the Grand Monarch, Louis the Great, The Sun King. Written by. Philippe Erlanger. Head, Artistic Exchange Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paris, 1946–68. Author of Louis XIV and others. Philippe Erlanger. Fact-checked by.
- Louis XIV, king of France (1643–1715), ruled his country, principally from his great palace at Versailles, during one of the country’s most brillia...
- Louis XIV succeeded his father as king of France on May 14, 1643, at the age of four years eight months. According to the laws of the kingdom, he b...
- Louis XIV died in 1715, four days shy of his 77th birthday, from gangrene associated with an infection in his leg.
9 de may. de 2024 · Anne, the Princess Royal (born August 15, 1950, London, England) is a British royal, the second child and only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, duke of Edinburgh.
20 de may. de 2024 · He was the last surviving grandchild of George II of Great Britain, dying one month before Queen Victoria (granddaughter of his first cousin King George III) ascended to the throne. Youth His father, the then hereditary prince (who reigned from 1760 and died in 1785) had in 1747 left the family and soon converted Catholicism , and in 1755 formally ended his marriage.
