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Cardinal Richelieu

French clergyman, cardinal, noble and statesman (1585-1642)

12 dated entries naming Cardinal Richelieu, drawn from 10 separate years between 1616 CE and 1639 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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17th century

  • 1616November 30 – Cardinal Richelieu, Armand-Jean du Plessis, is named French Secretary of State by young king Louis XIII. Richelieu will change France into a unified centralised state, able to resist both England and the Habsburg Empire.source
  • 1622September 5 – Armand Jean du Plessis becomes Cardinal Richelieu.source
  • 1624April 29 – Louis XIII of France appoints Cardinal Richelieu to the Conseil du Roi (Royal Council).source
  • 1624August 13 – Cardinal Richelieu is appointed by Louis XIII of France to be his chief minister, having intrigued against Charles de La Vieuville, Superintendent of Finances, arrested for corruption the previous day.source
  • 1629August 21 – Huguenot rebellions: Montauban, one of the last Huguenot strongholds, surrenders without a fight to Richelieu's troops.source
  • 1630November 10 – Day of the Dupes: Marie de' Medici attempts to oust Cardinal Richelieu from the French Court, but fails after two days.source
  • 1633March 1 – Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France, on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.source
  • 1634Cardinal Richelieu gathers members for the Académie Française which will be formally established in 1635).source
  • 1636July 30 – In France, Cardinal Richelieu persuades King Louis XIII to issue an ordonnance excusing the French nobility from military service if they pay a tax which allows the hiring of paid cavalry.source
  • 1638December 18 – Cardinal Mazarin becomes the first adviser to French potentate Richelieu, on the death of Leclerc du Tremblay.source
  • 1639April – Italian-born Cardinal Mazarin, apostolic nuncio to Paris and adviser to Cardinal Richelieu, is naturalized French by letters patent; in December, he leaves the service of Rome to enter that of King Louis XIII of France.source
  • 1639November 30 – In Normandy, the revolt of the va-nu-pieds is crushed by the troops of French Army Colonel Jean de Gassion under orders of Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, with 300 of the rebels killed.source

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