Chronology of France under Louis XIII

1600

December 17th: Henri IV wife Marie de Médicis
Olivier de Serres creates the industry of the Soie

1601

September 27th birth of Louis XIII

1603

August 9th: Treated Hampton Court with England
September 3rd: Recall of the Jesuits

1605

: The Parliament condemns for crime of Lèse-majesté the count d' Auvergne and the Count d' Entragues, with the capital punishment, and the marchioness of Verneuil to the internment in an abbey.
February 2nd: The pardoned King condemned.
June: Beginning of the construction of the Channel of Briare.

1606

Taking possession of the Canada
March: forwarding of Henri IV against the Duke of Bubble which revolted

1610

January 16th: Peace of Lyon
May 13rd: Crowning and sacring of Marie de Médicis
May 14th: Assassination of Henri IV by Ravaillac, in Paris, street of the Ironwork, Louis XIII becomes king
May 16th: Proclamation of the regency of Marie de Médicis
October 17th: Crown of Louis XIII with the cathedral of Rheims

1615

November 25th: Louis XIII marries Anne from Austria in Bordeaux

1622

Seat of the rebellious city of Montpellier, which capitulates at the end of two months an intense ramming.

1625

January: protesting rising carried out by the Rohan
February: Soubise takes the island of Oléron

1626

February 5th: Peace of the La Rochelle with the Protestants

1627

Beginning of the war against the Huguenots

1629

Fine of the war against the huguenots

1630

Between February and March: Insurrection of the Lanturlus in Burgundy.

1631

January 23rd: Treaty of Bärwald between the France (Charnacé) and the Sweden. France finances the army of king de Suède at a rate of an annual million books tournaments during five years.
January 30th: Gaston of Orleans, known as Mister , breaks with Richelieu and leaves the court.
January 30th: Riots with Paris against the tax on the wine combined with those born from the rise in the price of the bread.
March 18th: Moderate repression of the insurrection of the '' Cascaveou '' with Aix-en-Provence by Cop.
March 31st: Treaty of alliance with the duke of Savoy, Victor-Amédée Ier of Savoy.
March 31st - April 6th - May 30th; Peace of Cherasco: Concession of Pignerol to the France and of the duchies of Mantoue and Montferrat to Charles III of Nevers which succeeds the Gonzague mantouans like Charles Ier de Mantoue.
the Holy See annexes the duchy of Urbin.
May 30th: Treaty of Munich, gathering the anxious catholic princes of the rise of the imperial capacity, under the influence of the French diplomacy (Father Joseph).
June 14th: The partisans of Mister are judged by a room of justice for lese-majesty.
July 4th: 400 Piémontais come to raise the garrison of the castle from Nice, almost completely destroyed.
July 19th: Marie de Médicis share for the Netherlands. She dies in exile with Cologne in 1642.
August 16th: Achille de Harlay de Sancy is named bishop of Saint-Malo. It will remain it until its resignation in 1646.
September: Edict of Vandœuvre: Louis XIII promises to join together the states every year, the elected officials, replaced by the royal police chiefs, will distribute the sizes.
September 1st - October 10th: Meeting of the national synod of the reformed Churches.

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the Prince of Condé becomes governor of Burgundy.

1632

January 6th: Treaty of Vic with the Lorraine imposing its neutrality to him. Marsal is abandoned to the king.
January 19th: Gaston of Orleans, after having secretly married Marguerite of Lorraine to Nancy (January 3rd) arrives at the Luxembourg.
April 8th: Louis XIII buys the Seigniory of Versailles to Jean-François de Gondi, archbishop of Paris.
June 13rd: Of return in France, Gaston of Orleans invites the French to revolt against Richelieu. But the Burgundy does not support it and it gains the Languedoc (Richelieu has just substituted the provincial States of the officers for it, the elected officials, for the lifting of the sizes). The Protestants of the vintage and the Parliament of Toulouse do not move.
July: The governor of Languedoc Henri II of Montmorency, in favor of Gaston of Orleans, revolts. He is overcome and made captive in Castelnaudary (September 1st) by the marshal Schomberg.
September 29th: The king forgives with Béziers with Mister and his servants. Gaston of Orleans is subjected, then flees with Brussels (November 6th).
October 30th: Montmorency is condemned to died to Toulouse by sentence of the Parliament of the city. The States of Languedoc find their tax attributions. The elected officials are removed.
Dispersion of the community Marrane of Rouen. Some find refuge in England.
Claude Bouthillier becomes superintendent of Finances (fine in 1643).

1634

Investigation into the usurpations of nobility.

October 8th: Gaston of Orleans returns to Paris and comes to swear with the king “to love the cardinal as much as it had it haï”.
the Parliament declares nonvalid the second marriage of Gaston of Orleans. He condemns Charles IV of Lorraine for félonie and abduction (of Gaston) and joins together the Barrois with the kingdom.
November: Mazarin is named ordinary apostolic nuncio in Paris.
the Père Joseph becomes member of the Council of the king.
Grotius becomes ambassador of France in Sweden.

1635

Foundation of the French Academy
April 28th: Treaty of Compiegne with the Swedish chancellor Oxenstierna
July 11th: Treaty of St-Germain with Bernard of Saxony-Weimar

1636

May: rising of the peasants of the surroundings of Angouleme (Crunching Them). Extension in Périgord
autumn: end of rising in Saintonge after tax reductions

1637

spring: resumption of the rising of Crunching in Périgord
be: the royal troops overcome Crunching them. Terrible repression

1638

February 10th: Wish of Louis XIII devoting France to God under the protection of the Virgin
March 15th: Treaty of Hamburg with Sweden against Austria
September 5th: birth, awaited since 22 years, of the dolphin Louis-Dieudonné Louis XIV

1639

July: Rising of the peasants in the area of Avranches (Normandy): The Revolt of the tramps
August: anti-tax urban risings in Caen and Rouen (Normandy).
November: the royal army takes again Caen and destroys the army of the Flip-flops

1640

January 2nd: the chancellor Séguier takes again Rouen rebelled.
August 10th: Capitulation of Arras in front of the royal troops
September: Catch of Turin and tender of the Piedmont
September 21st: birth of Philippe de France, second child of Louis XIII

1641

January 1641: the Catalogne is voluntarily subjected to the government of king de France and the General information proclaims Count de Barcelone and sovereign of Catalonia the king Louis XIII of France, as a Louis I of Barcelona.
January 26th, 1641: (Battle of Montjuic) an army free-Catalan woman defends successfully Barcelona against the army of Philippe IV, which is withdrawn and will return only ten years later.

1642

Plot against Richelieu to put an end to the Franco-Spanish war
December 4th: died of Richelieu
December 5th: Mazarin enters to the council of the king

1643

May 14th, 1643: died of Louis XIII

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