Absolutism Leaders

  • Apr 28, 1442

    Henry VIII (Tudor)

    Henry VIII finally after many tries has his first boy (Edward IV)
  • Period: Jun 28, 1491 to Jan 28, 1547

    Henry VIII (Tudor)

    Henry VIII birth and death
  • Period: Apr 21, 1509 to Jan 28, 1547

    Henry VIII (Tudor)

    Henry VIII time of reign
  • Period: Feb 18, 1516 to Nov 17, 1558

    Mary I (Tudor)

    Birth and Death of Mary I
  • Period: May 21, 1527 to

    King Philip II (Hapsburg)

    Birth and Death
  • Jan 1, 1533

    Henry VIII (Tudor)

    Henry VIII divorces his wife Catherine. It was the first divorce ever.
  • Period: Sep 7, 1533 to

    Elizabeth I (Tudor)

    Elizabeth I birth and death
  • Jan 1, 1534

    Henry VIII (Tudor)

    Henry VIII (Tudor)
    In 1534 Henry VIII creates the Anglican Church
  • Period: Oct 12, 1537 to Jul 6, 1553

    Edward VI (Tudor)

    Edward VI birth and death
  • Period: Jan 1, 1547 to Dec 31, 1553

    Edward VI (Tudor)

    Edward VI time of heir
  • Period: Jan 1, 1553 to Dec 31, 1558

    Mary I (Tudor)

    Time of reign. She ruled Ireland and England.
  • Nov 30, 1553

    Mary I (Tudor)

    Mary I (Tudor)
    Starts the mass amount of executions of Protestants that gives her the nickname Bloody Mary.
  • Jul 25, 1554

    King Philip II (Hapsburg)

    King Philip II (Hapsburg)
    King Philip II marries the daughter of King Henry VIII, Mary Tudor I
  • Period: Jan 16, 1556 to

    King Philip II (Hapsburg)

    Time which during he ruled
  • May 1, 1558

    King Phillip II (Hapsburg)

    Phillip II tries to invade England with his Spanish Armada and fails after Elizabeth I will not marry him.
  • Nov 17, 1558

    King Philip II (Hapsburg)

    King Philip II wife (Mary Tudor I) dies.
  • Period: Nov 17, 1558 to

    Elizabeth I (Tudor)

    Elizabeth I time of heir
  • Charles I (Stuart)

    Charles I (Stuart)
    Charles I is born.
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    Louis XIV (Bourbon)

    Louis XIV finally finishes the Palace of Versailles and completes both expansions.
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    Louis XIV (Bourbon)

    Cardinal Richelieu takes over France as a chief minister because Louis XIV is too young to rule. He also was chief minister for Louis XIII.
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    Charles I (Stuart)

    Charles I time of reign.
  • Charles I (Stuart)

    Charles I ends parliament and rules without causing him to have to raise money without them
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    Charles II (Stuart)

    Charles II birth and death.
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    Louis XIV (Bourbon)

    Louis XIV birth and death.
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    Louis XIV (Bourbon)

    Louis XIV time as the King of France
  • Charles I (Stuart)

    Oliver Cromwell defeats the final and small army Charles I still has
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    Louis XIV (Bourbon)

    The French Civil War happens because of policies the people did not like.
  • Charles I (Stuart)

    Charles I is found guilty of treason and is killed by the guillotine in London, England.
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    Charles II (Stuart)

    Charles II lives in exile after being defeated at the Battle of Worcester.
  • Louis XIV

    Louis XIV
    Louis XIV becomes his own chief minister
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    Charles II (Stuart)

    Charles II time of reign
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    Peter the Great (Romanov)

    Peter the Great' Birth and Death
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    Peter the Great (Romanov)

    Peter the Great join rules with his brother Ivan V until Ivan dies in 1696
  • William and Mary (Orange)

    William and Mary (Orange)
    William and Mary become joint reign in place of James II without an bloodshed or so called the Glorious Revolution.
  • William and Mary (Orange)

    William and Mary (Orange)
  • William and Mary (Orange)

    Mary dies and William rules now alone
  • Peter the Great (Romanov)

    Peter the Great (Romanov)
    Peter the Great defeats the Swedish Army by pulling them into a Russian city within an extremely cold winter
  • Peter the Great (Romanov)

    Peter the Great changes the capital of Moscow to St. Petersburg to allow better access and trade with Europe.
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    Frederick the Great (Hohenzollern)

    Frederick the Great's birth and death.
  • Peter the Great (Romanov)

    Peter the Great proclaims Russia an empire and is given the title of "Emperor of all Russia"
  • Frederick the Great (Hohenzollern)

    Frederick the Great (Hohenzollern)
    Frederick the Great inherits the throne
  • Frederick the Great (Hohenzollern)

    Frederick the Great takes over almost all of Silesia
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    Frederick the Great (Hohenzollern)

    Frederick the Great battles with Austria over Silesia and other territory with his ally Great Britian
  • Charles II (Stuart)

    Charles II (Stuart)
    Charles II signs a treaty with Louis XIV in which converts them to Catholicism and support the french war against the Dutch.