Louis XV

Louis XIV died on 1 September 1715, ending his 72-year reign as King of France.

Louis XV succeeded his great-grandfather to the French throne.

Maurice de Saxe captured Maastricht in 1748, marking the last major success of the war for France.

A congress assembled in Aachen on 24 April 1748 to conclude the war.

France, Britain, and the Dutch Republic signed a preliminary treaty on 30 April 1748.

The final Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle was signed on 18 October 1748 by Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic.

Damiens stabbed Louis XV with a penknife as the king entered his carriage at the Palace of Versailles.

Damiens was tortured with red-hot pincers and sulphur, then executed by dismemberment on March 28, 1757.

Sculptures, joinery, metalwork, and painting were completed during the 1765 to 1768 campaigns, including Guibert's Medusa bas-relief.

The château was finished in 1768, four years after Madame de Pompadour's death, and inaugurated by Madame du Barry.

On 22 March 1768 Louis XV commissioned Jacques-Philippe Caresme to paint two door-top pictures inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Paintings for the dining room were executed in 1769, and Louis XV first dined there in September 1769 on a crimson damask armchair.

In 1769, after the process was exhibited at the Louvre in May, work for Trianon was entrusted to the locksmith Gamain and the mechanic Richer.

The aged duke suffered fatal burns at Lunéville in February 1766, dying on the 23rd.

On Stanisław's death, Lorraine and Bar reverted to France under the 1736 arrangement, passing to Louis XV.

A legacy discovery hint records that the King's Council advising Louis XV repealed anti-Jewish regulations dating from 12 October 1661, but no supplied passage corroborates the repeal or its provisions.

By the 1768 Treaty of Versailles, an exhausted Genoa ceded all rights over Corsica to France after selling the island.

France's first offensive failed in October 1768 when its small expeditionary force suffered a significant setback at the Battle of Borgo.

In 1769 the Comte de Vaux decisively defeated the Corsican army at the Battle of Ponte Novu, effectively ending organized Corsican resistance.

Lacking the willpower and manpower to resist, the Corsican forces surrendered the island, which France annexed and consolidated over about a year.

King Louis XV dismissed Choiseul from his ministerial post in 1770 amid the Falkland Islands dispute, ordering him to retire to Chanteloup.

Marie Antoinette married Louis-Auguste by proxy in Vienna on 19 April 1770, with her brother standing in for the Dauphin.

The formal wedding ceremony occurred at the Palace of Versailles on 16 May 1770, ending with the ritual bedding.

The Royal Opera of Versailles was inaugurated on 16 May 1770 as part of the royal wedding celebrations.

Louis XV died at 3:15 AM on 10 May 1774, ending his nearly 59-year reign as King of France.

Louis XVI became King of France and Navarre on 10 May 1774, succeeding his paternal grandfather Louis XV.