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| | Chronology - Louis XIV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Treaty of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years War: religious freedom; weakening of the Emperor: the kings of France and Sweden guarantee the freedoms of the German princes, and obtain the domains and rights of the Emperor in Alsace, except Strasbourg and Mulhouse (status of free cities within the Empire), but Spain pursues the war. |
 | | Treaty of Oliva (Sweden, Poland, Brandeburg, Denmark), with the mediation of France; preservation of a balance on the Baltic. |
 | | Treaty of Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), which ends the War of Devolution and allows France to keep the fortified towns conquered in 1667 (Lille, Tournai, Douai). |
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