Ferdinand VI of Spain Ascends
July 9, 1746
Philip V, the Bourbon grandson of Louis XIV, died in Madrid after forty-six years of neurotic, sometimes comatose rule. His son Ferdinand VI, gentler and more pacific, turned Spain toward neutrality and reform. The talented minister Ensenada began the Bourbon reforms that would modernize, belatedly, the empire of Charles V.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.