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The siege of Louisbourg took place in 1745 when a New England colonial force aided by a British fleet captured Louisbourg, the capital of the French province of Île-Royale (present-day Cape Breton Island) during the War of the Austrian Succession, known as King George's War in the British colonies.
The King continued his grand construction projects, including the opera theater of the Palace of Versailles, completed for the celebration of the wedding of the Dauphin and Marie Antoinette, and the new Place Louis XV (now Place de la Concorde) in Paris, whose centerpiece was an equestrian statue of the King, modeled after that of Louis XIV on ...
King George's War (1744–1748) is the name given to the military operations in North America that formed part of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748). It was the third of the four French and Indian Wars .
February 23 – The royal wedding of the Crown Prince of France takes place at Versailles; the Dauphin Louis Ferdiand, eldest son of King Louis XV, is united in marriage to Princess Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain, daughter of King Felipe V. [4] The Dauphin never takes the throne, dying in 1765, eight years before the death of his father.
Louis XV King of France and Navarre: 15 February 1710 : 1 September 1715 : 13 November 1762 : French and Indian War (Treaty of Fontainebleau) 10 May 1774 : Charles IV King of Spain: 11 November 1748 : 14 December 1788 : 30 November 1803 : Returned to France (Third Treaty of San Ildefonso) 20 January 1819 : Missouri: Louis XV King of France and ...
Prince Louis needed a break. Following much speculation regarding whether the 5-year-old royal would attend the coronation of his grandfather, King Charles III, on Saturday, Louis looked to be on ...
Kate Middleton, now known as the Princess of Wales, has shared the "sweet" reaction Prince Louis had to hearing that Queen Elizabeth II had died earlier this week.. A video has captured the moment ...
Louis X of France (died 1316), called Louis the Quarreller; Louis XI of France (died 1483), called Louis the Prudent; Louis XII of France (died 1515) Louis XIII of France (died 1643), called Louis the Just; Louis XIV of France, the 'Sun King' Louis XV of France (died 1774), called the Louis the Beloved; Louis XVI of France (died 1793) executed ...