Barcelona ardite 1653 

• 1653 
• KM# 21 
• Barcelona 
• ardite 

5873059

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Barcelona ardite 1653

1653

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16

BARINO CIVI 1653

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KM# 21

Louis XIV (5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715) ruled as King of France and of Navarre. He ascended the throne a few months before his fifth birthday, but did not assume actual personal control of the government until the death of his prime minister (Jules Cardinal Mazarin) in 1661. Louis remained on the throne until his death in September 1715, four days before his seventy-seventh birthday. His reign lasted 72 years, 3 months, and 18 days, the longest documented for any European monarch to date. For much of Louis' reign, France stood as the leading power in Europe, engaging in three major wars—the Franco-Dutch War, the War of the League of Augsburg, and the War of the Spanish Succession—and two minor conflicts—the War of Devolution, and the War of the Reunions. A member of the House of France was placed on the throne of Spain by Louis XIV, effectively ending the centuries-old threat and menace that had arisen from that quarter of Europe since the days of Charles V. The House of Bourbon retained the crown of Spain for the remainder of the eighteenth century, but experienced overthrow and restoration several times after 1808. Nonetheless, to this day, the Spanish monarch is descended from Louis XIV.