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Aug 15, 1530
Ivan IV
Ivan IV was born August 15th, 1530. He had a rule of unstable and violent reign. -
Feb 22, 1570
Ivan IV
The massacre of Novgorod is one of the examples of Ivans instability and paranoia. He believed he might be betrayed, or some of those things. He killed many, and was very cruel. This was an example of an absolute monarch because he was able to command an army to massacre people because he was scared. -
Ivan IV
Ivan died on March 28, 1584. Ivan was an absolute monarch because he killed and started wars because he was paranoid. That isnt something normal people do. -
Charles I
Charles I was born March 27th, 1625. He wanted to be a supreme monarch from the begining, He fought with the parliment, and was a believer in divine right. And like the rest of the monarchs, he seems to like war. -
Lousis XIV
Louis XIV was born September 5th, 1638. Louis reigned for 72 years and 110 days, the longest ever. In his lifetime he dismantled fuedalism, and became an absolute monarch. Lousis had previously gained power through the deaths of others, which let him get higher in the ranks. -
Charles I
Charles started many wars, civil wars, foreign wars, whatever. So lets not focus on any in particular. The fact that he started all these wars is an expample of his absolute monarchy, because he can do whatever wants. Until they killed him. -
Charles I
Charles was beheaded after the people found him a traitor. After saying that the council had no right to prosecute him, and that this was illegal, they cut his head off, and paraded it around. He was an absolute monarch because he started lots of wars for giggles. -
Louis XIV
Louis revoked the Edict of Nantes. This had allowed protestants religious freedom. He increased protestant prosecution. This showed the manner of his reign, and this is an example of absolute monarchy because he had ditched a long standing law, and just started doing whatever he wanted. -
Frederick William
Frederick William was born August 14th, 1620. Fredrick promoted education, and even made school compulsary. He believed that having illiterate subjects made his job harder. -
Frederick William
Frederick William died on the above date, He was an absolute monarch because he controlled the whole country, and could do whatever he wanted. -
Louis XIV
Louis died on the first of September, 1715. He was an absolute monarch because he took laws and things and abolished them. He also started wars and things for everything. -
Frederick William
One major thing he did was make a new foreign policy. His foreign policy is to keep allies that you need when you need them, and then through them away when he dosnt want them. -
Peter I
Peter created a new order of predence by appointing the table of ranks. This was basically something that said that instead of having the power go through birth, that it would be through loyalty to the previous king. This was an example of absolute monarcchy because it showed how he was controlling the flow of power. -
Peter I
Peter was born June 9th, 1725 Peter led a cultural revolution similar to the enlightenment. He supported education and learning. -
Charles I