Secret Treaty of Dover
June 1, 1670
Charles II secretly agreed with Louis XIV to support a French war against the Dutch, declare himself Catholic when politically feasible, and accept a French subsidy in return. If the treaty had been revealed, Charles might have lost his throne. It was not revealed, and he kept it for eighteen more years.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.