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The Palace of Versailles ( / vɛərˈsaɪ, vɜːrˈsaɪ / vair-SY, vur-SY; [1] French: château de Versailles [ʃɑto d (ə) vɛʁsɑj] ⓘ) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about 19 kilometers (12 mi) west of Paris, France . The palace is owned by the government of France and since 1995 has been ...
Oct 9, 2018 · Beaumont Palace (HM2C1X). Location:, England OX1 2HD Oxfordshire Country: United Kingdom Buy United Kingdom flags at Flagstore.com! N 51° 45.301', W 1° 15.767'
Herleva of Falaise. William the Conqueror [a] ( c. 1028 [1] – 9 September 1087), sometimes called William the Bastard, [2] [b] was the first Norman king of England (as William I ), reigning from 1066 until his death. A descendant of Rollo, he was Duke of Normandy (as William II) [3] from 1035 onward. By 1060, following a long struggle to ...
May 22, 2021 · The palace was built in 1917 by the 12th Nguyen King Khai Dinh (1916-1925), and was the birthplace of his son who later became the last emperor of Vietnam, Nguyen Phuc Vinh Thuy or Bao Dai (1926-1945). It was r ecognized by UNESCO as a world cultural heritage.
Thibaw Min. King Thibaw, also Thebaw or Theebaw ( Burmese: သီပေါမင်း, pronounced [θìbɔ́ mɪ́ɰ̃]; 1 January 1859 – 19 December 1916), was the last king of the Konbaung dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) and also the last Burmese monarch in the country's history. His reign ended when the armed forces of the Burmese Empire ...
The future Louis XIV first came to Versailles in October 1641, when his father Louis XIII sent him and his brother here to escape a smallpox epidemic that had reached the Palace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. He was just three years old and it is doubtful that he remembered this first visit; his next known visit was in 1651, when, now Louis XIV, he ...
Sep 5, 2022 · Louis XVI (l. 1754-1793) was the last king of France (r. 1774-1792) before the monarchy was abolished during the French Revolution (1789-99). An indecisive king, his attempts to navigate France through the crises of the 1780s failed, leading to the Revolution, the destruction of the monarchy, and his death by guillotine on 21 January 1793.
