Alfred the Great

Family Edward the Elder 4 Wessex Normandy Anjou Lancaster Tudor Commonwealth Hanover
Dynasty Ælfweard
Æthelstan Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Edmund I 7 Denmark Blois Plantagenet York Stuart Stuart Later changed to Windsor in 1917 due
Eadred to anti-German sentiment
Eadwig
Edgar the Peaceful u/Ocelot1138
Edward the Martyr 7
Sweyn Forkbeard 1 5
Æthelred the Unready
Angkor Wat constructed
c.1130
Rough guide to the Kings and Queens* of
Sung Dynasty Founded
960
Edmund Ironside 4
Cnut the Great
Harold I Kamakura shogunate begins
England/Great Britain/United Kingdom**
Harthacnut 1192
Years with three Monarchs
Edward the Confessor * and Lord Protectors. 924: Edward the Elder, Ælfweard and Æthelstan
Harold II (Godwinson) 4 **It’s a rough guide, lets not get all nationalist and political about this. 1016: Ælthelred, Edmund Ironside and Cnut the Great
Charles, 2 Edmund, 2Elizabeth, 2 1066: Edward the Confessor, Harold II and William I
William I (the Conqueror) 1 4 5 William Wallace 1483: Edward IV, Edward V and Richard III
William II (Rufus) 5 1305 1553: Edward VI, Jane and Mary I
Henry I (Beauclerc) 5 1936: George V, Edward VIII and George VI
Harold, 2
Stephen 15 William Shakespeare Bonus Fact
James, 2 Windsor Castle
Empress Matilda 1 6 Born 1564 Between 9 November 1683 and 6 February 1685 there were seven current and future monarchs
built 1070 alive at the same time. Charles II, James VII/II, Mary II, William III, Anne, George I and George II.
Other, 16 Mary, 2 Henry II (Curtmantle) 5 Black Death
Richard I (the Lionheart) 4 1346-49 Scottish Throne
Oxford University
John (Lackland) James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne after the death of Elizabeth I. James VI became
Richard, 3 1096 King of Scotland after his mother, Mary Queen of Scots, abdicated the throne in 1567. The throne
Henry III (of Winchester) Columbus “Discovers”
of England and Scotland were held by James and his descendants jointly until the creation of the
William, 4 Notre-Dame de Paris Edward I (Longshanks) America 1492
Isaac Newton Kingdom of Great Britain, under Anne in 1707. Mary Queen of Scots was forced to abdicate the
construction begins 1163 Edward II (of Caernarfon) 7 Published 1687 throne of Scotland in 1567. She was executed in 1587 after being held captive in England for 18
Edward, 9 years. (credit u/katsrad)
Edward III
George, 6
Saladin recaptures Richard II 5 7 Irish Throne
Jerusalem 1187 Henry IV (of Bolingbroke) 1 Henry VIII was made King of Ireland in 1542, he and the following monarchs became the King of
Henry, 8 Henry V England and Ireland. This continued until 1707 where it was one of three crowns in the Kingdom of
Marco Polo
Genghis Khan Elected Great Britain. Later, the Acts of Union 1800 merged the three crowns into the United Kingdom of
travels to Henry VI 1* 7 Great Britain and Ireland.
1206 China 1271 Galileo affair
Edward IV 1 5
Battle of Agincourt 1415 Edward V 6 7 trial 1633 Omissions
Edgar Ætheling – Next descendent after Harold II, however, William I took the throne by conquest.
Made by u/Ocelot1138 with help from the Robin Hood
Joan of Arc 1431
Richard III 1+ 4
Henry VII 1
Henry the Younger King – Named King by his father Henry II, but died before his father. He was
Magna Carta 1215 Ottoman Empire
titled as a Junior King.
community of r/dataisbeautiful Founded 1299
Henry VIII
Edward VI Blackbeard dies
Louis VIII of France – Conquered much of England with support of anti-King John barons; claimed
the throne but was never crowned.
Free to use for educational purposes 1718
Princes in the Tower 1483 Lady Jane Grey 2 6 7
There is debate over many details such as died in battle/murdered The Black Adder Mary I 1
etc. All sources are from Wikipedia as at 28 Aug 2020. Phillip 5 Blackadder The Third
Elizabeth I

Life Reign Monarch (epithet) Sistine Chapel Ceiling Painted

James I (James VI of Scotland)
Charles I 2
Oliver Cromwell 3
u/Ocelot1138Charles Darwin published
The Origin of Species

u/Ocelot1138
by Michelangelo 1508-12 Richard Cromwell 2 3 1859
Joint Scottish Throne in Blue Charles II 1
James II (VII of Scotland) 2
Non monarchs in Grey Mary II 1 Sherlock Holmes
William III (of Orange) 1 5
1 - Seized the Crown (conquest/usurpation) Reformation 1517 Anne
2 - Abdicated/Overthrown/Executed George I 5
3 - Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland George II 5
Sir Francis Drake George III Blackadder Goes Forth
4 - Killed in Battle 1577 George IV
5 - Born outside the British Isles William IV
6 - Disputed Claim/Not Crowned Mary Queen of Scots Executed 1587 Great Fire of Victoria
Blackadder II London 1666
7 - Murdered/Assassinated (or some evidence to support) American War
Edward VII
George V
of Independence
Guy Fawkes Battle of Waterloo Edward VIII 2
1* Henry VI seized the crown back from Edward IV not from Henry V The Glorious
Gunpowder Plot 1605 French Revolution 1815 George VI
1+ Richard III arguably usurped the crown through Titulus Regius Revolution 1789-99 Elizabeth II

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War of the Roses Jacobean Caroline Interregnum Regency Inter-War Period
1455-1487 1603-25 1625-49 1649-60 1811-20 1918-39
Significant named The Crusades in the Hundred Years’ War Elizabethan Restoration Edwardian WWI WWII
periods of history Holy Land 1095-1291 1337-1453 1558-1603 1660-1714 1901-14 1914-18 1939-45

Defined periods Anglo-Saxon Norman Plantagenet Tudor Stuart Georgian Victorian Post-War
of history c.500-1066 1066-1154 1154-1485 1485-1603 1603-1714 1714-1837 1837-1901 1945+

King of the Anglo- Kingdom of England and Ireland United Kingdom of Great Britain and United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Monarch of Kingdom of England Kingdom of Great Britain
Saxons Ireland Northern Ireland
Kingdom of Scotland