Monarch Timeline

  • Apr 21, 1509

    Henry VII (England)

    Henry VII (England)
    4/21/1509 - 1/28/1547
    Died
    1. Second Marriage
    2. Speration from Rome
    3. Execution of Anne Boleyn4. Birth of a princeConnections: Henry VII of England, Mother:Elizabeth of York
  • Mar 14, 1516

    Charles I (Spain)

    Charles I (Spain)
    3/14/1516 - 1/16/1556
    Gave up the Throne
    1. Beginning Counter Reformation
    2. Conquered Mexico and Peru
    3. Provided Ships to Mongolia
    4. Colonization of Americas.
    Connections: Hapsburg, Valois-Burgundy
  • Dec 12, 1533

    Ivan IV (Russia)

    Ivan IV (Russia)
    12/12/1533 - 1/26/1547
    Died
    1. Domestic policy
    2. Polish-Lithuanian raids
    3. Tatar invasions
    4. Massacre of Novgorod
    Connections: Father: Vasili III
    Mother: Elena Glinskaya
  • Jan 28, 1547

    Edward VI (England)

    Edward VI (England)
    1/28/1547 - 7/6/1553
    Died
    1. Somerset's Protectorate
    2. Council of Regency
    3. Northumberland's regime
    4. Succession crisis
    Connections: Henry VIII of England, Mother: Jane Seymour
  • Jul 19, 1553

    Mary I (England)

    Mary I (England)
    7/19/1553 - 11/17/1558
    Died
    1. Spanish Marriage
    2. Pregnancy
    3. Religious Policy
    4. Foriegn Policy
    Connections: Father: Henry VIII of England, Spouse: Philip II of Spain
  • Jan 16, 1556

    Phillip II (Spain)

    Phillip II (Spain)
    1/16/1556 - 9/13/1598
    Died of Cancer
    1. Conquers Portugal and it's throne.
    2. Sends Spanish Armada to invade England
    3. Puts down protestant uprising Netherlands
    Connections: Hapsburg, Valois-Burgundy
    4. Destroys Turkish
  • Nov 17, 1558

    Elizabeth I (England)

    Elizabeth I (England)
    11/17/1558 - 3/24/1603
    Died
    1. Netherlands Expedition
    2. Spanish Armada
    3. Supporting HenryIV of France
    4. Barbary states, Ottoman Empire
    Connections: Father: Henry VIII
  • Apr 5, 1562

    Ivan III (Russia)

    Ivan III (Russia)
    4/5/1562 - 11/6/1505
    Died
    1. Gathering of Russian lands
    2. Domestic policy
    3. Foreign policy
    4. War with Lithuania started August
    Connections: Father: Vasily II
    Mother: Maria of Borovsk
  • Henry IV (France)

    Henry IV (France)
    8/2/1589 - 5/14/1610
    Died by Assasination
    1. International Affairs
    2. He helped end French Wars of Religion
    3. Spent a lot of time defending himself of assassinations
    4. as monarch, made address to england
    Connections: Jeanne III of Navarre
  • Phillip III (Spain)

    Phillip III (Spain)
    9/16/1598 - 3/31/1621
    Death
    1. Brought Spain in 30 years war
    2. Temporary peace with Dutch
    3. Economic Decline
    Connections: Hapsburg, Valois-Burgundy
    1. Pax Hispanica (12 -years truce)
  • James I (England)

    James I (England)
    3/24/1603 - 3/27/1625
    Died
    1. Marriage
    2. Witch hunts
    3. Theory of monarchy
    4. Literary patronage
    Connections: Mother: Mary, Queen of Scots
  • Louis XIII (France)

    Louis XIII (France)
    5/14/1610 - 5/14/1643
    Death
    1. Lead campaign in Italy to stop Spanish Expansion
    2. Rule of Marie De' Medici
    3. Ascendancy of Charles de Luynes
    4. Tried to make France of leading power with prime minister
    Connection - Father: Henry IV of France. Mother: Marie De Medici
  • Michael I (Russia)

    Michael I (Russia)
    2/21/1613 - 7/12/1645
    Died
    1. Firt Russian Czar of the Romanov
    2. Ended the time of troubles (social and political chaos in Russia)
    3. Peace obtained with Poland ad Sweden
    4. Western industrial and military techniques were inforced by foriegn manufacture and eperts
    Connections: Father: Feodor Nikitich Romanov
    Mother: Kseniya Shestova
  • Ferdinand II (Central Europe)

    Ferdinand II (Central Europe)
    1618 - 2/15/1637
    Died
    1. Onate Treaty
    2. King of Hungary, Then Holy Roman Emperor
    3. Bohemian Revolt
    4. Thirty-Years War
    Connections: Hapsburg
  • Phillip IV (Spain)

    Phillip IV (Spain)
    3/31/1621 - 9/17/1665
    Death
    1.Alliance with Holy Roman Empire
    2. Treaty of Pyrenees
    3. Decline of Spain
    4. Treaty of Munster
    Connections: Son of Philip III, Grandfather Philip II
  • Charles I (England)

    Charles I (England)
    3/27/1625 - 1/30/1649
    Execution
    1. Defeated in first civil war.
    2. Critical loss at battle of Naseby
    3. Bishops war in Scotland
    4. Second Civil War.
    Connections: Hames I was his father.
  • Frederick William (Prussia)

    Frederick William (Prussia)
    12/1/1640 - 4/29/1688 Death
    1. 30 years war
    2. 2nd Northern war
    3. Defend against Swedish Invasion
    4. Advocated merchantism and internal improvement Connection: Hohenzollern
  • Louis XIV (France)

    Louis XIV (France)
    5/14/1643 - 9/1/1715
    Death
    1. War of Devolution
    2. Treaty of Westminister
    3. War of Spanish Succession
    4. Sought to eliminate the remains of Feudalism Connections - Father: Louis XIII of France. Mother: Anne of Austria
  • Oliver Cromwell (England)

    Oliver Cromwell (England)
    12/16/1653 - 9/3/1658
    Executed/Died
    1. English Civil War begins
    2. Battle of Naseby
    3. Second Civil War
    4. King tried and executed
    Connections: Robert Cromwell (father)
  • Charles II (England)

    Charles II (England)
    5/29/1660 - 2/6/1685
    Died
    1. Popish Plot
    2. Secret treaty of Dover
    3. Great Plaugue of London kills many
    4. Great Fire of London
    Connections: Henrietta Maria of France - Mother
  • Charles II

    Charles II
    9/17/1665 - 11/1/1700
    Became a feeble man and passed
    1. Spanish Inquistition
    2. Last Hapsburg
    3. Greek Counsle
    Connections: Son of Philip IV of Spain - Hapsburg
  • Peter I (Russia)

    Peter I (Russia)
    5/7/1682 - 2/8/1725
    Died
    1. Great Northern War
    2. Created a strong navy
    3. Extensive reforms to attempt to establish Russia as a great nation
    4. Gained control of the orthodox church
    Connections: Father: Alexis, Mother: Natalya Naryshkina
  • James II (England)

    James II (England)
    2/6/1685 - 12/11/1688
    Exiled
    1. Declaration of Indulgence
    2. Converted to Catholicism
    3. Persecution of the Presbyterian Covenanters.
    4. Exclusion Crisis
    Connnections: Henrietta Maria of France - Mother
  • Frederick I (Prussia)

    Frederick I (Prussia)
    4/29/1688 - 2/25/1713
    Death
    1. Established monarchy in Prussia
    2. War of spanish succession
    3. Established schools
    4. United Hohenzollern lands
    Connection - Hohenzollern
  • Mary II (England)

    Mary II (England)
    2/13/1689 - 12/28/1694
    Death from Smallpox
    1. Bill of Rights
    2. Desposition
    3. N/A
    4. N/A
    Connections: James II & VII - Father
  • William III (England)

    William III (England)
    12/28/1694 - 3/8/1702
    Died
    Died
    1. Becoming stadtholder
    2. Marriage
    3. Peace with France, intrigue with England
    4. Invasion of England
    Connections: Father: William II, Prince of OrangeMother: Mary, Princess Royal
  • Phillip V (Spain)

    Phillip V (Spain)
    11/16/1700 - 11/16/1700
    Off the throne due to death.
    1. Married to his second wife was Elisabeth of Parma.
    2. Philip abdicated the throne to his eldest son, the seventeen-year old Louis
    3. War of the Polish Succession
    4. Fell victim to a deep melancholia.
    Connections: Louis, Dauphin of France
  • Charles VI (Central Europe)

    Charles VI (Central Europe)
    10/12/1711 - 110/20/1740
    Died
    1. King of Spain
    2. Had children Maria Theresa and Maria Anna
    3. Failure of Pragmatic Sanction of 1713
    4. War of the Austrian Succession
    Connections: Hapsburg, Charles II of Spain
  • Frederick William I

    Frederick William I
    2/25/1713 - 5/31/1740
    Death
    1. Great Nothern War
    2. Created a surplus in the national treasury
    3. Encouraged agriculture and conservation of grain/resources
    4. Resettlement of East Prussia
    Connection - Hohenzollern
  • Louis XVI (france)

    Louis XVI (france)
    5/10/1715 - 9/21/1792
    Deposition and Execution
    1. Foreign Policy
    2. Expelled Jesuits from France
    3. Edict of Versallies
    4. Absolute Monarchy
    Connection: Louis Dauphin of France.
  • Louis XV (France)

    Louis XV (France)
    9/1/1715 - 5/10/1774
    Death
    1. Treaty of Vienna
    2. Treaty of Alx-la-chapelle
    3. 7 years war
    4. damanged the power of france
    Connection: Louis Dauphin of France
  • Frederick II (Prussia)

    5/31/1740 - 8/17/1786
    Died
    1. War King during Seven Years War
    2. Invaded Salisia
    3. First Partition of Poland
    4. War of Barvarian Succession.
    Connections: Charles VI
  • Frederick II (Prussia)

    Frederick II (Prussia)
    5/31/1740 - 8/17/1786
    Death
    1. Capture of Silesia
    2. War of Austrian Succession
    3. 7 years war
    4. Connected all parts of his territory into one great power
    Connection - Hohenzollern
  • Maria Theresa (Central Europe)

    Maria Theresa (Central Europe)
    10/20/1740 - 11/29/1780
    Died of Smallpox Edna
    1. Supressed Jews and Protestants.
    2. War of the Austrian Succession
    3. 7-Year's War
    4. Reforms in Education, Civil Rights, Church, and Medicine.
    Connections: Hapsburg, Charles VI (father)
  • Catherine II (Russia)

    Catherine II (Russia)
    7/9/1762 - 11/6/1796
    Died
    1. Succession to the Throne
    2.
    3.
    4.
    Connections: Spouse: Peter I of Russia