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Son of Felipe IV and Mariana de Austria
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He becomes kng at four yearts okd after his father's death
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Louis XIV offers Roussillon and Cerdanya, in exchange for the Low P., who interested him for his private war with Holland, but Spain, refuses, and the second war begins.
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Louis XIV seized the most important cities in Flanders and Franche-Comté, as the court of Charles II was full of rivalries for government positions.
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Luis invades Holland, which is allied with Spain, and the French king crushes them with an army of 35,000 soldiers.
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Otto von Guericke created the pneumatic pump
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He gets married with Maria Luisa de Orleans -
Maria Luisa de Orleans, his first wife, dies She was reportedly fond of sweetened lemon and cinnamon drinks which required around thirty-two pounds of sugar per day. After horseback riding on 11 February 1689, she felt a severe pain in the abdomen which forced her to lie down the rest of the evening. She died the following night
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Gets married with Mariana de Neoburgo -
Peace treaty between France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain.
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The mutiny of the cats was a riot that broke out, following the classic guidelines of the subsistence riots of the Old Regime, in response to the shortage of food, especially bread.
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He dies in Madrid due to a genetic desease known as Klinefelter syndrome
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The fight means more than the Spanish Crown. The possibility that a Bourbon could inherit the Crown of Castile and the Crown of Aragon and endangered European stability.According to the will of Carlos II, the heir would be Felipe de Anjoullevo to "Alianza de la Haya" -
When Charles II was unable to have children, the European Cortes began preparations for the fight for control of the future government of Spain and its still enormous possessions. As a result of many failed intrigues and succession plans, Charles II decided to offer the Spanish crown to his French nephew Felipe de Anjou (who is also the grandson of the powerful French King Louis XIV) on one condition: The new monarch cannot join France or any of the Spanish possessions.
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Development of the war
Between 1702 and 1704 the development of the War was located outside the borders of Spain, but from that year, after the union of Portugal with the allies, the confrontation extended to the Iberian Peninsula.In 1704 the British took Gibraltar and In 1708 they took Menorca. In 1705 Archduke Carlos landed in Valencia and conquered the kingdoms of Aragon, and even entered Madrid.
