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Marie de' Medici

Queen of France (1575-1642); second wife of King Henry IV of France

21 dated entries naming Marie de' Medici, drawn from 13 separate years between 1575 CE and 1643 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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16th century

  • 1575April 26 – Marie de' Medici, queen of Henry IV of France (died 1642)source
  • 1600April 4 – a contract for marriage between king Henry IV and Marie de Medici was signed in Florence.source
  • 1600October 6 – The première of Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest known fully surviving work of modern opera, takes place in Florence for the wedding of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici. Emilio de' Cavalieri stages the production.source

17th century

  • 1610May 13 – A formal coronation is held for Marie de' Medici, wife of King Henry IV, as Queen Consort of France. King Henry is preparing to depart to Germany to participate in the War of the Jülich Succession.source
  • 1610May 13 – Marie de' Medici is crowned Queen of France at the Basilica of Saint-Denis.source
  • 1610May 14 – King Henry IV of France is assassinated in Paris by François Ravaillac, a French Catholic activist who resents the Protestant monarch's decision to launch a war against the Catholic Spanish Netherlands. Ravaillac rushes up to a horse-drawn carriage and stabs King Henry in the chest. Henry's 8-year-old son becomes King Louis XIII, with Henry's widow, Marie de' Medici, governing France as queen regent.source
  • 1611January 26 – Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully is forced by Queen regent Marie's Regency Council to resign as chief minister of France. He is replaced by Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy.source
  • 1614May 15 – The Queen Regent of France, Marie de' Medici, convenes the Estates General to suppress a rebellion by Henri II, Prince of Condé.source
  • 1614October 2 – After Louis XIII reaches the age of 13, he is given full power as King of France and the regency of his mother is ended. Queen Regent Marie retains her position as leader of the Conseil du Roi, however, and continues to control the French government.source
  • 1617April 24 – Encouraged by Charles d'Albert, fifteen-year-old Louis XIII, king of France, forces his mother Marie de Medici, who has held de facto power, into retirement and has her favourite, Concino Concini, assassinated.source
  • 1617April 24 – Encouraged by Charles d'Albert, the seventeen-year-old Louis XIII, king of France, forces his mother Marie de Medici, who has held de facto power, into retirement and has her favourite, Concino Concini, assassinated.source
  • 1619April 30 – The Treaty of Angoulême ends the French civil war between Louis XIII and his mother, Marie de' Medici.source
  • 1620August 7 – In a battle at Les Ponts-de-Cé in France, King Louis XIII defeats troops led by his mother, Marie de' Medici.source
  • 1620August 7 - Battle of Les Ponts-de-Cé, Poitou: French king Louis XIII defeats his mother Marie de' Medici.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
  • 163123 February – Marie de' Medici is exiled to Compiègne.source
  • 163118 July – Marie de' Medici leaves for the Low Countries.source
  • 163119 July – Marie de' Medici flees from Compiègne to the Low Countries.source
  • 163225 January – Gaston of Orleans arrives in Brussels to join Marie de Medici in exile.source
  • 1642July 3 – Marie de' Medici, French queen consort and regent (born 1573)source
  • 164314 February – Body of Marie de' Medici arrives in Liège on its journey to Francesource

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