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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  
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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  
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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)  
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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  
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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)  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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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)  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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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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