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| son of the founder of Tudor |
Brought England into Reformation ad Renaissance, Erasmus, Holbein the younger, Thomas More |
Head of Church 1533 to divorce Catherine of Aragon |
Henry VIII |
| Mother was Anne Boleyn, Succeeded by James VI |
Declared England a Protestant state, named Governor of the Church |
The Tudor "Virgin" Queen, Put down Phillip's Armada, and executed Mary of Scots |
Elizabeth I |
| House of Stuart, succeeded Mary of Scots, believed in absolutism |
the target of Guy Fawkes' Gun Powder Plot, dissolved parliament 1611-1621 |
great-great grandchild of Henry VII,claimed English throne after Elizabeth I, Expanded into north america |
James I (aka James VI) |
| House of Hanover, Suffered from Porphyria causing madness |
Expanded British economy, ministers Pitts, Lord Bute, Lord North |
Lost American Colonies in Revolutionary War |
George III |
| House of Hanover, longest reigning monarch in British History |
Passed the Reform Act of 1867 that doubled the amount of Britons that could vote |
Known as the Empress of India, favored ministers Melbourne,Peel, and Disraeli, went into seclusion after husband Albert's death |
Victoria (Alexandrina) |
| house of Normandy, promised the throne by Edward the Confessor |
Surveyed his kingdom in the Domesday Book 1086 |
Defeated the Anglo Saxons in 1066, killing king Harold II, replaced Anglo Saxon Clergy with Normans |
William I the Conquerer |
| house of Stuart, the last absolute English monarch |
Signed the petition of Right to get Parliament's $, frequently dissolved parliament(short and long parliaments) attempted to reform Scottish church |
parliament defeated him in the English Civil War, executed for treason |
Charles I |
| House of York, duke of Gloucester 1461 |
his brother (Edward IV) put down Henry IV of Lancaster, he served as Regent to nephew Edward V(probably had him killed) |
killed by Henry Tudor's Lancastrian forces in Bosworth Field ending the War of the Roses, Henry VII becomes King |
Richard III |
| House of Windsor, representative of modern ceremonial monarchy |
husband is Prince Phillip Mountbatten |
marital failures by her sons, Charles of Wales and Andrew were constant |
Elizabeth II |
| House of Plantangenet, tried to seize the crown from his brother Richard,but he forgave him, and made him the successor |
Excommunicated by the Pope for 4 years for not accepting Langton as Archbishop of canterberry, |
Weak fighter, was route by Phillip II and Bouvines 1214, Signed Magna Carta in Runnymede beginning british constitution |
John Lackland |
| house of Stuart, The "Merry Monarch" king of Scotland during Commonwealth under Cromwell |
Used the Declaration of Breda to restore himself as King of England, Fought against Dutch and Louis XIV under Treaty of Dover |
he had 14 illegitimate heirs not by his wife Catherine of Braganza, tolerated catholics, dissolved parliament in 1681 |
Charles II |
| House of Stuart, Favored Catholics, accused of a Popish plot against Charles II by Titus Oates |
Protestants invited William of Orange to depose him as the King of England |
overthrown in the Bloodless Revolution, exiled to Louis XIV's court, attempted to regain the crown but routed at Battle of the Boyne |
James II |
| house of Plantagenet, son of Geoffrey of Anjou, married Eleanor of Aquitaine |
Invaded England in 1153,developed common law, fought with Thomas Beckett over submission to the pope |
Executed Thomas Beckett in 1170 and performed penance at Canterbury, Eleanor and the Four sons conspired with Philip II of France against him |
Henry II |
| House of Plantagenet, Third son of Henry II, 5 months of his rule were in England |
Fought in the Third Crusade, was caught by HRE Henry IV |
Fought Phillip II in Normandy, and died defending Aquitaine |
Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) |
| Saxon House, King of Wessex in Southwest England |
Expelled the Danes from Mercian London 886, Conquered Danelaw territory |
Fostered literacy, translated Boethius, Augustine, and Bede's work, into Anglo Saxon, saving England from the worst of the Dark Ages |
Alfred The Great |
| He took office on May 17, 2007, appointed by Michaell Jean |
current leader of the Conservative party, appointed after Paul Martin |
He is the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada |
Stephen Harper |
| A hydroelectric Engineer graduate in 1965, he joined the Chinese Communist party in 1964 and worked for the ministry of water conservancy until 1974 |
was party leader in Guizhou (1985–88) and Tibet (1988–92), where he imposed martial law in order to suppress Tibetan nationalists |
Is the Current President of China, succeeding Jiang Zemin |
Hu Jintao |
| The son of an aristocratic Hungarian immigrant father and a mother of French Catholic and Jewish descent |
Marie-Dominique Culioli,Cécilia Ciganer-Albéniz, and Carla Bruni were his wives |
Preceded by Jacques Chirac, this incumbent of French Presidency was the leader of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) centre-right party |
Nicolas Sarkozy |
| born in Heidenstein, Poland under German occupation,his Political party is the Christian Democratic Union, his spouse is Eva Bohnet |
had a distinguished career in politics and the civil service, and had most recently been head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). |
is a German politician (CDU) and economist who serves as the current President of Germany. |
Horst Koehler |
| obtained a law degree from the Government Law College, Mumbaithe 24th, and the first woman Governor of Rajasthan (2004-2007) |
a member of the Indian National Congress (INC)the 12th person and first woman to hold the office |
This current President of India was sworn in as President of India on July 25, 2007, succeeding Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. |
Pratibha Patil |
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