Monarchs' nicknames
Edward I (reigned 1272 to 1307)
“Edward Longshanks”
“the Hammer of the Scots”
The Reformation
Henry VIII, 16th century
The Battle of Britain
10 July – 31 October
The Battle of Britain was fought in the skies above southern England during the Summer of 1940.
This monarch lost not only his throne but also his head.
(Name + date)
Charles I
January 30, 1649
Queen Elizabeth I (reigned 1558 to 1603)
“Good Queen Bess”
“the Virgin Queen”
The Wars of the Roses
Henry VI, 1455–1485
Edward IV
The Battle of Agincourt
Henry V
25 October 1415
Despite being outnumbered, Henry V’s army triumphed against the flower of the French nobility, marking the end of an era where the knight dominated the battlefield.
This monarch who ruled England, Scotland, and Ireland was a catholic. Tories supported him and Churchill helped him put down a riot.
James II, 1688 The Glorious Revolution
Queen Anne
Brandy Nan
Jamestown was founded in Virginia
James I, 1616
The Battle of the Boyne
11 July 1690
The Battle of the Boyne was fought in Ireland between a recently-deposed King James II and his Jacobites (James’ Catholic supporters) and King William III and his Williamites (William’s Protestant supporters).
This monarch was bored by government responsibility and addicted to pleasure and extravagance. He was deposed and then murdered under the order of his cousin, the first Lancastrian king
Richard II, 1399 Henry Bolingbroke
George III (reigned 1760 to 1820)
“Farmer George”
The Bill of Rights
William and Mary (1689-1694)
1689
The Battle of Trafalgar
21 October 1805
Admiral Horatio Nelson’s British fleet crushed a Franco-Spanish force at Trafalgar in one of the most famous naval battles in history.
A religious obsessive dominated by his queen, Margaret of Anjou, his reign led to one of the biggest conflicts in English history.
Henry VI, 1461 (1471)
James I
“the wisest fool in Christendom”
The American Revolution
George III (1760-1820)
1775–1783
The Battle of Waterloo
18 June 1815
Ten years after the Battle of Trafalgar, Britain gained another of its most iconic victories at Waterloo in Belgium when Arthur Wellesley (better known as the Duke of Wellington) and his British army decisively defeated Napoleon Bonaparte, with aid from Blücher’s Prussians.
The dying king wrote his will, nominating her as successor to the Crown and she was proclaimed queen but never crowned. She was executed several months later at the age of 17.
Lady Jane Grey, 1554, Edward VI, Mary I