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European Monarchs! Test

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Frances I
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Tony Blair
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Windsor Family
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Alexander II
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Alexander III
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Ferdinand and Isabella
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Louis XVI
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James I of England/ James VI of Scotland
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Henry IV of the House of Lancaster
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Queen Beatrice
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King James II
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Henry VII (Tudor)
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Catherine II (The Great)
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Alexander I
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Charles II
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Queen Anne
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Edward VIII
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Charles V
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King George III
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Tombs lie in the Royal Chapel of Granada's cathedral; gained possession of Grenada in 1492; commisioned Colombus to find a route to India
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Queen of the Netherlands who succeded to the throne in 1980 after the abdication of her mother Queen Juliana
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King of Spain who in 1525 defeats Francis I in the Battle of Pavia;
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Russian tsar from 1855-1881;
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Said "From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step" on his return from Moscow after his defeat in 1812; nicknamed the "Little Corporal"
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Deposed in the Glorious Revolution in 1688-89
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First king of the House of Tudor from 1485 to 1509; attained the throne by killing Richard III at Bosworth Field; married Elizabeth I, daughter of Edward IV, uniting York and Lancaster
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English Prime Minister; recieved the Congressional Gold Medal in 2003
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Kind of France defeated at the Battle of Pavia in 1525; said "Of all I had, only honor remains, and my life which has been spared" ;
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British King; asked to exclude his Roman Catholic brother from the line of succession; his supporters were nicknamed Tories, who favored hereditary succession; succeeded by James II of England
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The family that has ruled Great Britain since 1917
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a lock of this French king's hair was sold for $5,536; beheaded on January 21, 1793; first to use the three colors of the tricolor to represent France in 1789
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First king of the House of Lancaster; English; 1399-1413; often known as Henry of Bolingbroke; won the throne by defeating Richard II in 1399
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Russian tsar from 1881- 1894;
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German Princess; Married Peter III; became empress of Russia from 1762-1796; changed her name from Sophie; called "The Modern Messalina"
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English King; held the throne less than a year; a constitutional crisis occurred after his decision about Wallis Simpson; his brother Prince Albert assumed the throne upon his abdication
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British king who reigned during the Revolutionary War, losing the thirteen American colonies; a British play is based of off him called The Madness of George III;
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Russian Tsar from 1801-1825;
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First monarch of Great Britain, 1707-1714;
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English King; in 1615, urged John Donne to become an Anglican Priest;became King of Scotland in 1567 then became first Stuart King of England in 1603; died in 1625; First permanent settlement in America is named after him; mother was Mary, Queen of Scots
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Spanish King; invaded the British Isles in the late 16th century due to Elizabeth I being Protestant; marked the defeat of the Spanish Armada
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His mistress was Madame de Pompadour; defeated by Frederick the Great at the Battle of Rossbach in 1757; said "After us, the deluge" ;
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English King; Had Sir Thomas More beheaded for refusing to accept him as head of the English Church in 1535; 6 wives
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awarded medal to Josiah Henson for cabinets in Crystal Palace exhibit in 1842;
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English King who came to power in 1189; any time previous is referenced as "since time immemorial" ;
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Defeated at Bosworth Field in the War of the Roses;
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French King; his Chief Prime Minister was Richelieu;
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Succeeded Charles II on the English throne in 1685
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French King; "The Sun King"; Invaded the Netherlands in 1672, opposed by William III; renounced the Edict of Nantes in 1685
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Queen of England 1553-1558; said "When I am dead and opened, you shall find Calais lying in my heart. ;

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