-
Apr 21, 1509
Henry viii (England) Grade: C+
He was believed to have type 2 diabetis and he also had festering soars that probably caused his death he sustained bad injuries from a jousting incedent ,He executed his wife Anne Boleyn jan. 8 1536,On 12 October 1537, Jane gave birth to a son, Prince Edward, the future Edward VI. The birth was difficult and the queen died on 24 October 1537 from an infection and was buried in Windsor, Henry granted his assent to the Laws in Wales Act 1535, which legally annexed Wales, uniting England and Wales -
Mar 14, 1516
Charles I (Spain). Grade: B
Italian Wars V France, Fought Protestantism Colonization of Americas 5 Ships to Megellan "Habsburg
Valois-Burgundy" -
Dec 12, 1533
Ivan IV Gtrade: B-
known in English as Ivan the Terrible Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547 and Tsar of All the Russias from 1547 until his death. turned Russia into a multiethnic and multiconfessional state spanning almost one billion acres Ivan managed countless changes in the progression from a medieval state to an empire and emerging regional power, and became the first ruler to be crowned as Tsar of All the Russias. -
Jan 28, 1547
Edward VI Grade: D
The son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, Edward was the third monarch of the Tudor dynasty and England's first monarch raised as a Protestant. , the realm was governed by a Regency Council, because he never reached his majority.Edward's reign was marked by economic problems and social unrest that, in 1549, erupted into riot and rebellion. An expensive war with Scotland, at first successful, ended with military withdrawal from Scotland as well as Boulogne-sur-Mer in exchange for peace. -
Jul 19, 1553
Mary I Grade: C
Death by Influenza and Uterine Cancer She was the only chiled that survived the marriage of Henry VIII and Cathrine of Aregon Mary's first Parliament, which assembled in early October 1553, declared the marriage of her parents valid, and abolished Edward's religious laws, By the end of 1554, the pope had approved the deal, and the Heresy Acts were revived., Financially, Mary's regime tried to reconcile a modern form of government—with correspondingly higher spending. -
Jan 16, 1556
Philip II begins to rule Spain Grade: C+
Colonize Philippines Dutch Republic Spanish Armada/Invade England Defended Catholic Church -
Nov 17, 1558
Elizabeth I Grade: C+
King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until her death., crowned at the age of nine, Devise for the Succession, the realm was governed by a Regency Council, because she never reached her majority. -
Apr 5, 1562
ivan iii Grade: A
known as Ivan the Great, was a Grand Prince of Moscow and "Grand Prince of all Rus" he tripled the territory of his state ended the dominance of the Golden Horde over the Rus renovated the Moscow Kremlin, and laid the foundations of the Russian state. He was one of the longest-reigning Russian rulers in history. -
Henry iv Grade: B-
baptized catholic but converted to protestantism., inherited throne of navarre escaped the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, led Protestant forces against the French Royal Army. -
Philip III rules Spain Grade: B+
dominated by minister favorites married his cousin Margaret spanish king weakening dynasty lost power, taken over by lerma who abused power. member of the house of Habsburg -
James I Grade: B-
wrote The True Law of Free Monarchies and Basilikon Doron (Royal Gift), in which he argued a theological basis for monarchy, promote the literature of the country of his birth. He also made statutory provision to reform and promote the teaching of music, seeing the two in connection -
Louis xiii Grade: C
intestinal teburculosis, Exiled his mother and executed her followers, Took power when he was 16 he put an end to the revolt of the great feudal lords, they won the battle of Rocroi his father was King Henry IV -
Michael i Grade: B
His reign marked the end of the Time of Troubles. fell off of a horse at a young age so he wasnt able to walk later on, near his death first Russian Tsar of the house of Romanov. Posolsky Prikaz ("Foreign Office") and Razryadny Prikaz (a Duma chancellery and a personnel department for both central and provincial administration including military command). -
Ferdinand II Grade: B
a member of the House of Habsburg, was Holy Roman Emperor, revitalized Catholic demands. He was elected King of Bohemia by the Bohemian diet, in 1618, King of Hungary by the Hungarian estates, and in 1619, Holy Roman Emperor. -
Philip iv takes the throne of Spain Grade: C+
Unspecified death Reigned in Spain and Portugal At age 10 he was married to Elizabeth of France His only son died at age 17 He entered the thirty years war Father was Phillip III and he was an enthusiest of Diego Valezquez's art -
Charles i (England) Grade: D-
executed, King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649 he fought the forces of the English and Scottish parliaments, which challenged his attempts to overrule and negate parliamentary authority, defeated in the First Civil War, captured, tried and executed for high treason. -
Louis xiv Grade: A
reign of 72 years and 110 days is one of the longest in French and European history, theory of the divine right of kings, the War of the League of Augsburg and War of the Reunions. -
Oliver Cromwell Grade:B+
English military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. became an independent puritan, taking a generally but not completely tolerant view towards the many Protestant sects of his period. -
Charles II england Grade:B
Charles's English parliament enacted laws known as the Clarendon Code re-established the church of england -
Charles ii Grade: F
retired, then death, which led to spanish succession, economy was stagnant, power of monarchy over spanish provinces were weak hunger in the land, became hypersensative and strange, asked to have parents bodies pulled out of ground to see corpses. last Habsburg to reign in spain -
Peter I (r) Grade: B+
He died of a brain hemorage "He was the last Roman Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Like his brother, James sought refuge in France, serving in the French army under Turenne against the Fronde, and later against their Spanish allies. In 1683, a plot was uncovered to assassinate Charles and James and spark a republican revolution to re-establish a government of the Cromwellian style. In April 1688, James re-issued the Declaration of Indulgence -
James II england
ascended the throne upon the death of his brother, Charles II.best known for his belief in the Divine Right of Kings and his attempts to create religious liberty for English Roman Catholics and Protestant nonconformists against the wishes of the English Parliament. -
Frederick I
Frederick I, of the Hohenzollern dynasty, was Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia in personal union. The latter function he upgraded to royalty, becoming the first King in Prussia. argued that Prussia had never been part of the Holy Roman Empire, and he ruled over it with full sovereignty. Therefore, he said, there was no legal or political barrier to letting him rule it as a kingdom. -
mary ii Grade: B-
acted alone when William was engaged in military campaigns abroad, proving herself to be a powerful, firm, and effective ruler. Mary endowed the College of William and Mary and depicted by Jacobites as an unfaithful daughter who destroyed her father for her own and her husband's gain -
william iii Grade: C
he took his army to Maastricht to threaten the French supply lines,Believing that the English people would not react well to a foreign invader, he demanded in a letter to Rear-Admiral Arthur Herbert that the most eminent English Protestants first invite him to invade -
Philip V takes charge of Spain Grade: C
He was manically depressed and fell victim to fits of Melencholia leading to his death The throne was willed to him when King Charles II died He got married to 13-year old Maria Luisa of Savoy she was his distant cousin he begain the war of the spanish succesion he was offered a resignation and marrige to the heir to france but he declined -
charles vi Grade: B
King Charles signed the Treaty of Troyes, which recognized Henry of England as his successor, disinherited his son, the Dauphin Charles, claiming he was illegitimate, and betrothed his daughter Catherine of Valois to Henry -
william i Grade: B-
Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia – and thus ruler of Brandenburg-Prussia. During the Thirty Years' War, George William strove to maintain, with a minimal army, a delicate balance between the Protestant and Catholic forces fighting throughout the Holy Roman Empire. -
Louis xv Grade: C
Died of small pox, Succeded his grandfather at age 5, his decisions damaged the power of france's treasury and discreadetid the abosolute monarchy, he had a mistres Madame de Pompadour, he was belivied to be responsible for the french revolution 15 years after his death -
Frederick ii Grade: A-
Frederick II was King in Prussia from the Hohenzollern dynasty. He is best known for his brilliance in military campaigning and organization of Prussian armies. He became known as Frederick the Great and was nicknamed Der Alte Fritz. Frederick was a proponent of enlightened absolutism. For years he was a correspondent of Voltaire, with whom the king had an intimate, if turbulent, friendship. He modernized the Prussian bureaucracy and civil service and promoted religious tolerance throughout. -
Maria Theresa Grade: C+
was the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions and the last of the House of Habsburg. She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Mantua, Milan, Lodomeria and Galicia, the Austrian Netherlands and Parma.She dismissed the possibility that other countries might try to seize her territories and immediately started ensuring the imperial dignity for herself -
catherine ii
took the throne after having her husband killed, Catherine often relied on her noble favourites, most notably Grigory Orlov and Grigory Potemkin.Catherine reformed the administration of Russian guberniyas, and many new cities and towns were founded on her orders. -
Louis xvi (France) Grade: C
executed during french revolution, succeeded grandfather in 1774, wanted to reform france with enlightenment ideas, wanted to remove taille/abolish serfdom
