Timeline

1085, County Palatine of the Rhine established
1156, Emperor Frederick I  (Barbarossa) confers the title Count Palatine of the Rhine on his brother Conrad of Hohenstaufen
1356, Golden Bull recognises the Electoral Palatinate
1559, The Palatinate adopts Calvinism as it's religion under Frederick III, the Elector Palatine
1618 - 1648, The Thirty Years War
1648: The Peace of Westphalia, the Elector Palatine, Charles Louis (Karl Ludwig) begins to rebuild the Palatinate
June 1677, William Penn visits the Palatinate


1685, Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes
1688 - 1697, War of the Palatine Succession also known as The Nine Years War

September 1688, Louis XIV army crosses into the Rhineland

27th September 1688, Siege of Philippsburg
22nd October 1688, German princes agree in Magdeburg to combine their forces

30th October 1688, French forces take Philippsburg

11th November 1688, French forces take Mannheim
20th December 1688, Louis XIV decides on a 'scorched earth' retreat from the Palatinate

2nd March 1689, French forces destroy Heidelberg

8th March 1689, French forces destroy Mannheim

31st May 1689, French forces destroy Worms and Oppenheim

1st June 1689, French forces destroy Speyer

4th June 1689, French forces destroy Bingen
22nd July 1689, German forces lay seige to Mainz
8th September 1689, German forces take Mainz
20th September 1697, Treaty of Ryswick ends the Nine Years War 

1701 - 1714, War of the Spanish Succession