Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 14 May 1643

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Judge Justice Wills described the sentence, the maximum allowed, as "totally inadequate for a case such as this" and that the case was "the worst case I have ever tried". Wilde's response was "And I? May I say nothing, my Lord?"
(25 May 1895)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Thursday 14th of May 1643 382 years ago
5-year-old King of France and Navarre Louis XIV, originally Louis Dieudonné aka Le Roi du Soleil becomes King upon the death of his father Louis XIII in Paris, Île-de-France, France. Louis' reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest recorded of any monarch of a sovereign country in European history.