method what this day is remembered for in history we will tell right now hello november 16, 1700 king louis xiv - declared his eighteen-year-old grandson philippe duke of jui his heir, that is, the heir to the french throne and this caused the war a month before the young philip had already become the king of spain, the throne, which was bequeathed to him by the childless karl the second habsburg. his cousin grandfather. the prospect of a merger of two states as powerful and so on as spain and france frightened many european powers and the war began, which went down in history as the war of the spanish succession. she walked for 14 years. everything. at that time, spain was under french influence, where louis xiv continued to rule; as a result, philip remained the king of spain, retained many possessions of the habsburgs in europe and refused the claim to the french throne, which went to the great-grandson of louis the fourteenth, louis 15. and philip was fifth despite the presence of a mental illness , which was then called the melancholy of the rule of spain for more than 20 years on november