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British Royals

British/English Monarchs 1066 - present

MonarchRoyal HouseDates ReignedSignificant Event 1
William 1 Normandy 1066 - 1087 Battle of Hastings 1066
William II Norman 1087 - 1100 Killed by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest
Henry I Norman 1100-1135 Hnery's son was killed in The White Ship wreck, hence Stephen's accession.
Stephen I Norman 1135-1154 Stephen's sister Matilda tried to usurp the throne while Stephen was fighting in France 1141
Henry II Platagenet 1154 - 1189 Murder of Becket, Canterbury Cathedral, 1170
Richard I Plantagenet 1189 - 1199 Fought in the 3rd Crusade, captured, imprisoned & ransomed
John Plantagenet 1199 - 1216 Magna Charta, signed at Runnymede in 1215
Henry III (blank) 1216 - 1272 (blank)
Edward I Plantagenet 1272 - 1307 (blank)
Edward II Plantagenet 1307 - 1327 Defeated by Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland at Bannockburn 1314
Edward III Plantagenet 1327 - 1377 The Black Death 1347
Richard II Plantagenet 1377 - 1399 (blank)
Henry IV Lancaster 1399 - 1413 (blank)
Henry V Lancaster 1413 - 1422 Battle of Agincourt 1415, when a heavily outnumbered English army defeated the French
Henry VI Lancaster 1422 - 1461, 1470 - 1471 (blank)
Edward IV York 1461 - 1470, 1471 - 1483 (blank)
Edward V York 1483 (blank)
Richard III York 1483 - 1485 Killed at the Battle of Bosworth 1485 (Wars of the Roses)
Henry VII Tudor 1485 - 1509 (blank)
Henry VIII Tudor 1509 - 1547 Battle of Flodden 1513
Edward VI Tudor 1547 - 1553 (blank)
Lady Jane Grey Tudor 1553 (blank)
Mary I Tudor 1553 - 1558 Loss of Calais
Elizabeth I Tudor 1558 - 1603 Spanish Armada 1588
James I Stuart 1603 - 1625 (blank)
Charles I Stuart 1625 - 1649 English Civil War, Parliamentarians v Royalists
Oliver Cromwell Commonwealth or Protectorate 1649 - 1658 (blank)
Richard Cromwell Commonwealth or Protectorate 1658 - 1659 (blank)
Charles II Stuart 1660 - 1685 Restoration of the Monarchy 1660
James II Stuart 1685 - 1688 Tried to foster Catholicism, deposed 1688
William III and Mary II Orange (Mary was a Stuart) 1688 - 1702 Battle of the Boyne 1690
Anne Stuart 1702 - 1714 Union of the English and Scottish Parliaments 1707
George I Hanover 1714 - 1727 1715 1st Jacobite Rebellion
George II Hanover 1727 - 1760 2nd Jacobite Rebellion 1745, culminaing in the Battle of Culloden 1746
George III Hanover 1760 - 1820 American War of Independence 1775-83 - loss of the colonies.
George IV Hanover 1820 - 1830 (blank)
William IV Hanover 1830 - 1837 (blank)
Victoria Hanover 1837 - 1901 (blank)
Edward VII Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 1901 - 1910 (blank)
George V Windsor 1910 - 1936 WW1
Edward VIII Windsor 1936 Abdicated to marry American, Wallis Simpson
George VI Windsor 1936 - 1952 World War II, 1939 - 1945
Elizabeth II Windsor 1952 - present (blank)
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