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QUEEN MARIA I OF PORTUGAL (1734-1816) WAS QUEEN OF PORTUGAL FROM 1777 UNTIL HER DEATH. KNO -
Apelles, an ancient Greek painter, was considered by many, including Pliny, to be the grea -
EGYPTIAN ANCIENT ,THE PHARAOH,RAMESSES II, RAMSES II WAS CROWNED THE PHARAOH OF EGYPT IN 1279 BC.HE WAS THE THIRD PHARAOH OF NINETEENTH DYNASTY.RAMSES THE GREAT (1279 -1213 B.C.) LED EGYPT IN THE FAMOUS BATTLE OF KADESH,HE NARROWLY ESCAPED DEATH AND FOUGHT VALIANTLY AT KADESH. -
PHILIP II (1527 – 1598) & PHILIP III ( 1578 – 1621) WAS KING OF SPAIN.PHILIP III WAS ALSO -
EMPRESS ISABELLA OF PORTUGAL (1428 -1496) WAS QUEEN CONSORT OF CASTILE AND LEON. SHE WAS T -
QUEEN NEFERTITI (1370 - 1336 BCE ) WAS THE MOST EGYPTIAN QUEEN AFTER CLEOPATRA.NEFERTITI KNOWN AS " THE RULER OF NILE AND DAUGHTER O GODS".HER NAME MEANS, "THE BEAUTIFUL ONE HAS COME".SHE MARRIED EGYPTIAN PHARAOH AKHENATEN,SHE ADVISED HER HUSBAND IN MATTER RELATING TO RUNNING THE STATE -
THE INDONESIAN MAJAPAHIT EMPIRE (1293 - 1500 AD) WHICH TRANSLATES " BITTER FRUIT" .THE MAJAPAHIT WOULD ENTER ITS GOLDEN AGE DURING THE RULE OF HAYAM WURUK.WHO WAS THE FORTH EMPEROR (1350- 1389 AD) WITH THE SUPERB ASSISTANCE OF GAJAH MADA,THE PRIME MINISTER .MAJAPAHIT WAS A KINGDOM THAT RULED MOST OF THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO -
PERSEPOLIS, PERSIAN ANCIENT,THE AUDIENCE HALL OF KINGS DARIUS THE GREAT AND KING XERXES,PE -
MARIE ANTOINETTE,QUEEN OF FRANCE (1755-1793) WIFE OF KING LOUIS XVI .SHE WAS ONLY 14 YEARS -
GERMAN EMPEROR WILHELM II (1859 – 1941),WAS ENGLAND'S QUEEN VICTORIA'S FIRST GRANDSON,BUT HIS AMBIVALENT ,LOVE HATE ATTITUDE TO BRITAIN STRAINED RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES. -
TITUS AELIUS HADRIANUS ANTONINUS AUGUSTUS PIUS ,(86 – 161 BC) KNOWN AS ANTONINUS,WAS ONE O -
THE FALL OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE ,NAPOLEON EXILED TO ST .HELENA ,1815,AFTER HIS DEFEAT AGAI -
XERXES THE GREAT I (486-465 BCE) WAS THE PERSIAN KING OF ACHAEMENID EMPIRE (MODERN IRAN).THE NAMES XERXES IS ACTUALLY A GREEK TRANSCRIPTION, XERXES ASCENDED THE THRONE AND BECAME EMPEROR O ONE THE LARGEST EMPIRES IN THE WORLD AT THAT TIME -
PERSIAN EMPEROR CYRUS THE GREAT AND HIS EMPRESS CASSANDRA OF THE ACHAEMENID EMPIRE (600/ 576 – 530 BC).THE VICTORY OVER BABYLONIA EXPRESSED ALL THE FACETS OF THE POLICY OF CONCILIATION WHICH CYRUS HAD FOLLOWED UNTIL THEN. -
ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE (1122 – 1204), THE DUCHESS OF AQUITAINE IS ONE OF THE MOST CAPTIVATING WOMAN OF HER DAY.SHE MARRIED KING LOUIS VII OF FRANCE,SHE WAS TWICE QUEEN,FIRST QUEEN OF FRANCE THEN QUEEN OF ENGLAND.SHE WAS ALSO THE MOTHER OF THREE KING OF ENGLAND : HENRY OF YOUNG KING,THE RENOWNED RICHARD THE LIONHEART AND JOHN LACKLAND. -
THE EXECUTION OF LADY JANE GREY,SHE WAS ONLY 18 YEAR- OLD.IN THE VIOLENT AND DRAMATIC OF ENGLISH MONARCHY ,SHE WAS A TEENAGE QUEEN OF ENGLAND WHO RULED FOR ONLY NINE DAYS BEFORE SHE WAS DEPOSED AND ULTIMATELY EXECUTED. -
GENGHIS KHAN (1162 – 1227) WAS THE WORLD'S GREATEST CONQUEROR CIVILIZED AND INNOVATOR.GENGHIS KHAN AND THE MONGOL EMPIRE THAT CAPTURE HIS LARGER THAN LIFE LEGACY FROM HIS HISTORIC WARS.HE WAS THE LARGEST BRUTAL MONSTER IN WORLD HISTORY,HE KILLED TENS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. -
THE BATTLE OF FRIEDLAND (JUNE,14, 1807) WAS A MAJOR CONFRONTATION OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS BETWEEN THE ARMIES OF FRENCH EMPIRE COMMANDED BY NAPOLEON I,AND THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE LED BY GENERAL LEVIN AUGUST VON BENNIGSEN.NAPOLEON WAS VIRTUALLY IN CONTROL OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE. -
ROMAN EMPEROR NERO (37 - 68 AD) WAS THE FIFTH ROMAN,BRUTAL EMPEROR .HE HAD HIS MOTHER AGRIPPINA EXECUTED. NERO HAD THREE WIVES,HIS FIRST WIFE WAS CLAUDIO OCTAVIA,HIS STEPSISTER.THE ROMAN ECONOMY SUFFERED DUE TO NERO'S GRAND RECONSTRUCTION OF ROME. -
TSAR NICHOLAS II (1868-1918), WAS A COUSIN OF GERMAN KAISER WILHELM II,AND KING GEORGE V O -
KING LUDWIG I OF BAVARIA (1786-1868) WAS FRENCH ROYALTY AND GERMAN PRINCE OF THE HOUSE OF WITTELSBACH.HE TRANSFORMED MUNISH FROM A PROVINCIAL BACKWATER INTO ONE OF THE ARTISTIC CAPITAL OF EUROPE. -
ROMAN EMPEROR JULIUS CAESAR, (100 BC – 44 BC) WAS A BRILLIANT MILITARY GENERAL.HE SUCCESSFULLY CONQUERED GAUL ( FRANCE) AND TWICE INVADED BRITAIN IN 55 BC & 54 BC.CAESAR WAS ASSASSINATED IN 44 BC BY A LARGE GROUP OF ROMAN SENATORS.HE WAS APPARENTLY STABBED MORE THAN 20 TIMES. -
GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERICK,KING GEORGE III OF HANOVER (GERMANY ) (1738-1820).GEORGE III WAS THE THIRD HANOVERIAN KING OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.AND DUKE OF BRUNSWICK LÜNEBURG. -
THE SPANISH /FRENCH EMPRESS EUGENIE (1826–1920),THE WIFE OF NAPOLEON III,WHO BY HER CHARM ,CONTRIBUTED LARGELY TO THE BRILLIANCY OF THE IMPERIAL.SHE MANAGED TO POLITICALLY CLOSE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENGLAND AND FRANCE AFTER HER CLOSE FRIENDSHIP WITH QUEEN VICTORIA OF ENGLAND. -
THE EMPIRE OF BABYLON UNDER KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR II (605 BC – 562 BC ) WAS ALSO KNOWN AS CHALDEAN EMPIRE.THE ISHTAR GATE AS PART OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S PLAN TO BEAUTIFY HIS EMPIRE'S CAPITAL DURING THE FIRST HALF OF 6TH CENTURY BC. (BEFORE CHRIST ERA) -
FRANCIS JOSEPH I OF AUSTRIA (1830 – 1916) AND HIS WIFE EMPRESS ELISABETH OF AUSTRIA (SISSI,1837 – 1898) :THE MOST BELOVED EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF HABSBURG MONARCHY. FRANCIS JOSEPH WAS TROUBLED BY NATIONALISM DURING HIS ENTIRE REIGN.HE CONCLUDED THE ASTRO - HUNGARIAN COMPROMISE OF 1867,WHICH TRANSFORMED THE AUSTRIAN EMPIRE INTO THE ASTRO - HUNGARIAN EMPIRE,UNDER HIS DUAL MONARCHY. -
ALEXANDER THE GREAT OF MACEDON (356-323 B.C.) WAS EDUCATED BY THE PHILOSOPHER ARISTOTLE.AFTER ALEXANDER THE GREAT'S VICTORY OVER KING DARIUS III (ACHAEMENID EMPIRE),ANOTHER EXPLANATION THAT ALEXANDER MARRIED ROXANNE,A BACTRIAN PRINCESS. -
EMPRESS CATHERINE THE II OF RUSSIA (CATHERINE THE GREAT)( 1729 -1796).THIS REMARKABLE WOMAN WAS NEITHER RUSSIAN NOR ORIGINALLY NAMED CATHERINE.SHE WAS A GERMAN PRINCES WHO WAS SENT TO RUSSIA IN A DIPLOMATIC PRUSSIAN INTRIGUE. BORN SOPHIE FRIEDERIKE AUGUSTE VON ANHALT - ZERBST,GERMANY. -
FREDERICK II OF PRUSSIA (1712 – 1786) WAS KNOWN AS FREDERICK THE GREAT.HE WAS THE MOST BRILLIANT MONARCH,A BRILLIANT REFORMER ,STATESMAN AND ADMINISTRATOR IN GERMAN HISTORY.THROUGH DIPLOMACY AND MILITARY CAMPAIGNS ,HE GREATLY EXPANDED PRUSSIA'S TERRITORIES. -
EMPEROR CHARLES I (KARL I)(1887-1922) ,KARL FRANZ JOSEPH LUDWIG HUBERT GEORG OTTO MARIA AND EMPRESS ZITA OF BOURBON - PARMA(1892-1989),THE LAST MONARCH BELONGING TO THE HOUSE OF HABSBURG - LORRAINE BEFORE THE DISSOLUTION OF AUSTRIA - HUNGARY .AFTER HI UNCLE ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND OF ASSASSINATED IN 1914. -
FRIDRICH I ,ELECTOR OF BRANDENBURG (1657-1713) WAS THE FIRST KING OF PRUSSIA (GERMANY).ALTHOUGH HE WAS THE NEWEST AND THE LEAST IMPORTENT OF ALL EUROPEAN KINGS. -
EGYPT'S QUEEN CLEOPATRA VII WAS THE DESCENDANT OF GREECE - MACEDONIA WHO WERE ESTABLISHED AS RULERS OVER EGYPT WHEN ALEXANDER THE GREAT CONQUERED EGYPT IN 323 BCE.HER FATHER PTOLEMY XII AULETES ( 51 BCE ,58 -55 BCE) WAS MACEDONIAN KING OF EGYPT.BEFORE CLEOPATRA MET ROMAN EMPEROR JULIUS CAESAR ,SHE MARRIED HER BROTHER - HUSBAND PTOLEMY XIII. -
QUEEN VICTORIA OF ENGLAND (1837 - 1901) WAS QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND AND EMPRESS OF INDIA ( 1876 - 1901 ).HER ALMOST 64 YEAR REIGN FOR THE EXPERTS. -
LOUIS XVI WAS KING OF FRANCE (1715 - 1774),HE WAS NICKNAMED" THE WELL - BELOVED " BUT HIS FAILURES CONTRIBUTED TO THE CRISIS THAT BROUGHT ON FRENCH REVOLUTION.FRENCH REVOLUTION, BEHEADED OF KING LOUIS XVI AND HIS WIFE MARIE ANTOINETTE.SHE WAS AN AUSTRIAN PRINCES OF THE HABSBURG DINASTY. -
AUSTRIA'S EMPRESS MARIA THERESA (1717 – 1780) AND THE POLITICS OF HABSBURG IMPERIAL,KNOWN AS THE EMPRESS WHO RULED THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE FROM VIENNA FOR 40 YEARS.SHE WAS MOTHER OF 16 CHILDREN , RULER OF MOST EUROPE. -
ZENOBIA (240-275) A QUEEN OF THE PALMYRENE EMPIRE IN SYRIA WHO CHALLENGED THE AUTHORITY OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE 3TH CENTURY.SHE CONQUERED EGYPT,ANATOLIA,LEBANON AN ROMAN JUDEA UNTIL FINALLY BEING DEFEATED BY ROMAN EMPEROR AURELIAN . -
LOUIS ALEXANDRE DE BOURBON(1681-1737) A SON OF KING LOUIS XIV OF FRANCE.HE WAS KNOWN AS THE PRINCE OF LAMBALLE FROM BIRTH .HE PRE-DECEASED HIS FATHER,AND DIED CHILDLESS. -
THE WAR OF THE THREE KINGDOMS : KING CHARLES I (1600-1649) WAS KING OF ENGLAND,SCOTLAND AND IRELAND,WHOSE CONFLICTS WITH PARLIAMENT LEAD TO CIVIL WAR AND HIS EVENTUAL EXECUTION. -
FRANCE'S NAPOLEON AND HIS WIFE JOSEPHINE BONAPARTE.(1794 - 1814).NAPOLEON'S GREATEST LOVE ,"JOSEPHINE" WOULD COME FROM THE CARIBBEAN ISLAND OF MARTINIQUE.BUT NAPOLEON NEVER WENT THERE .JOSEPHINE'S FATHER OWNED A SUGAR PLANTATION,COMPLETE WITH SLAVE ,ON THE ISLAND. -
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE,THE EMPEROR OF FRANCE(1769 - 1821).WHO CONQUERED OF EUROPE IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY.FROM 1802 UNTIL HIS EXILE IN 1815,NAPOLEON EMBARKED ON SEVERAL MASSIVE CAMPAIGN ACROSS VIRTUALLY ALL OF EUROPE. -
FRANCO - RUSSIAN WAR (1812), IN JUNE OF 1812,NAPOLEON BEGAN HIS FATAL RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN,THE REASON FOR NAPOLEON INVADING RUSSIA ,A FIRST SIGNIFICANT MILITARY MISTAKE AND ONE WHICH WAY TO ULTIMATELY COST HIM AN EMPIRE. -
KING ALFRED THE GREAT(871 – 899),WHO DEFENDED ENGLAND AGAINST DANISH INVASION AND FOUNDED THE FIRST ENGLISH NAVY.ALFRED WAS THE FIFTH AND FAVOURITE SON OF ETHELWULF,THE SAXON KING OF WESSEX AND KENT.HE WAS THE ONLY ENGLISH KING TO BE CALLED " GREAT. -
THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION (1848-1849),HUNGARY THE FIGHTING SPREADS BACK ASTRO - CROATIAN INVASION. THE CROATIAN ARMY WAS SENT TO HUNGARY BY HABSBURG DYNASTY TO REMOVE THE REVOLUTIONARY HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT.