Henry III Crowned in France
1574
Henry, Duke of Anjou, briefly elected king of Poland, fled that kingdom to succeed his dead brother Charles IX as Henry III of France. He found a France exhausted by religious war and a treasury empty. His eccentricities and favoritism would earn him few allies in the decades before his assassination.
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.