The Tuileries Palace was a royal and imperial residence in Paris, which stood at the western end of the Louvre, on the right bank of the Seine. Catherine de' Medici had it begun in the sixteenth century, under the architect Philibert de l'Orme, on the site of former tile works from which its name derives. Later kings extended it and connected it to the Louvre by long galleries. Louis XVI and his family were taken there by a crowd from Versailles in 1789, and it was stormed during the revolution in 1792. Napoleon and later rulers lived there, but the building was set on fire during the Paris Commune in 1871 and the ruins were demolished in the 1880s. The Tuileries Garden survives.
Before and after
- from 2 April 1562 to 30 April 1598French Wars of Religion
- 25 November 1562Birth of Lope de Vega
- from 1563 to 1570Northern Seven Years' War
- 1563Construction of Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial
- from 1564 to 1883Construction of Tuileries Palace
- 15 February 1564Birth of Galileo Galilei
- 18 February 1564Death of Michelangelo
- 23 February 1564Birth of Christopher Marlowe
- April 1564Birth of William Shakespeare
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The era
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