The Fronde was a series of civil wars in France during the minority of Louis XIV. The name comes from frondeurs, meaning slingers, after a game played by Parisian street boys. The first phase, the Fronde parlementaire, was a revolt by the Parlement of Paris against the financial demands of the regent Anne of Austria and her chief minister, Cardinal Mazarin. The second, the Fronde of the princes, was led by nobles such as the Prince of Condé, and Mazarin went into temporary exile. Royal forces eventually prevailed, and the outcome strengthened royal absolutism. Louis XIV, who as a boy had been forced to flee Paris, distrusted the capital and the high nobility, and later built Versailles to keep the nobility under his eye.
Before and after
- from September 1644 to July 1645Sieges of Taunton
- from 23 June 1645 to 1 January 1669Cretan War of 1645-1669
- 21 June 1646Birth of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- from 1648 to 1657Khmelnytsky Uprising
- from 1648 to 1653Fronde
- 6 April 1648Construction of Red Fort
- from 29 April 1648 to 16 May 1648Battle of Zhovti Vody
- from 1 May 1648 to 27 September 1669Siege of Candia
- 26 May 1648Battle of Korsuń
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