Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Louis XIV bans Protestantism and the Huguenots flee
In October 1685 Louis XIV's Edict of Fontainebleau revoked the Edict of Nantes of 1598 and outlawed the Protestant faith. Pastors were expelled and children ordered to be baptised Catholic, and despite a ban on emigration about 200,000 Huguenots fled to the Netherlands, England, Prussia and Switzerland.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1667 Truce of Andrusovo — 18 years earlier
- 1682 Accession of Peter the Great — 3 years earlier
- 1696 Capture of Azov — 11 years later
- 1700–1721 Great Northern War — 15 years later
- 1703 Founding of Saint Petersburg — 18 years later
Africa
- 1662 Last sighting of the dodo — 23 years earlier
Asia
- 1673–1681 Revolt of the Three Feudatories — 12 years earlier
- 1707 Death of Aurangzeb — 22 years later
Alive at the time
- Louis XIV (aged 47)
- Isaac Newton (aged 42)
- Kangxi Emperor (aged 31)
- Peter the Great (aged 13)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (aged 0)
- Aurangzeb (aged 67)
- Charles II (aged 55)
- John Locke (aged 53)
- Leopold I (aged 45)
- Matsuo Bashō (aged 41)