Activities: Joined Spain; Explorer Columbus; Reconquista; Expulsion of Jews
Martin Luther
Nov. 10 1483 – February 18 1546 Activities: German monk/priest; founder of Lutheranism; 95 Theses
Anne Boleyn
1501 – May 19 1536 Activities: Second queen of England to Henry VIII; key figure in the English Reformation
Margaret Cavendish
1623 – December 15 1673 Activities: English aristocrat, scientist, writer
Charles I
Nov. 19 1600 – Jan. 30 1649 Activities: King of England; Long Parliament; English Civil War
Marie Antoinette
Nov. 2 1755 – October 16 1793 Activities: Archduchess of Austria; Dauphine of France' Queen of France; French Revolution
Camillo Cavour
August 10, 1810 – June 6, 1861 Activities: Italian statesman and a leading figure in the movement towards Italian nationalism; becomes Italy's first prime minister
Winston Churchill
Nov. 30 1874 - January 24 1965 Activities: Speaker of Iron Curtain Speech; President of England during WW1
Francesco Petrarch
July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374 Activities: Father of Humanism
Leonardo da Vinci
April 15 1452 –May 2 1519 Activities: Renaissance Man; Mona Lisa; The Last Supper
Mary Tudor: Bloody Mary
February 18 1516 – Nov. 17 1558 Activities: Queen of England, Catholic Queen; executions of Protestants
Louis XIV
Sept. 5 1638 – Sept. 1 1715 Activities: Sun King of France; Palace of Versailles; War of the Spanish Succession
Louis XVI
August 23 1754 – Jan. 21 1793 Activities: Husband to Marie Antoinette; King of France; French Revolution
Queen Victoria
May 24 1819 – January 22 1901 Activities: monarch of UK; also used title Empress of India; Victorian Era: time of expansion for Great Britain
Joseph Stalin
December 18 1878 – March 5 1953 Activities: Leader of Soviet Union; WWII
Joan of Arc
1412 – May 30 1431 Activities: Lead a French army to the besieged city of Orléans, where it achieved a momentous victory over the English and their French allies, the Burgundians; tried for witchcraft and heresy and burned at the stake in 1431, at the age of 19.
Isabella d' Este
May 18 1474 – February 13 1539 Activities: Woman of the Italian Renaissance; patron of the arts
Queen Elizabeth I
September 7 1533- March 24 1603 Activities: Virgin Queen; Enemy of Spain and Philip II; Moderate View
Robert Walpole
August 26 1676 - March 17 1745 Actvities: First Prime Minister of England
Mary Wollestonecraft
April 27 1759 – September 10 1797 Activities: Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women; feminist
Woodrow Wilson
Dec. 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924 Activities: President of US during WWI; The Fourteen Points
FDR
January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945 Activities: President of US during WWII; New Deal; Supreme Commander of Allies; Pearl Harbor Attack
Niccolò Machiavelli
May 3 1469- June 21 1527 Activities: Italian humanist based in Florence in the Renaissance; Wrote The Prince
Henry VIII
June 28 1491 – January 28 1547 Activities: Created Anglican Church; King of England; Annulled marriage with Catherine of Aragon
Queen Mary of Scots
December 8 1542- February 8 1587 Activities: Queen of Scots; Queen Consort of France to King Francis II
William of Orange and Mary II
Activities: End the Glorious Revolution; English Bill of Rights 1689
Napoleon Bonaparte
August 15 1769 – May 5 1821 Activities: Emperor of the French; Napoleonic Code
Vladimir Lenin
April 22 1870 –January 21 1924 Activities: President of Soviet Union; created Leninism; April Theses
Adolf Hitler
April 1889 – 30 April 1945 Activities: Leader of Nazi Party; Center of WWII; Holocaust
Desiderius Erasmus
October 27 1466- July 12 1536 Activities: Humanist writer; Author of The Praise of the Folly; Handbook of a Christian Knight
Thomas Wolsey
March 1473 – November 29 1530 Activities: English cardinal and political figure of the Roman Catholic Church; Lord Chancellor; Rights Hands Man to Henry VIII until his failure to annul marriage to Catherine of Aragon
Oliver Cromwell
April 25 1599 – September 3 1658 Activities: English Civil War; New Model Army; Lord Protector of England
Catherine II / Catherine the Great
May 2 1729- November 17 1796 Activities: Most renowned and longest ruler of Russia; Golden Age; Partition of Poland
Giuseppe Garibaldi
July 4, 1807 – June 2, 1882 Activities: Italian general and politician; central figure in the Risorgimento as commander of many campaigns and battles to a unified Italy.
Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna
June 6 1872 – July 17 1918 Activities: Empress Consort to Russia; wife of Nicholas II; granddaughter of Queen Victoria
Gavrilo Princip
July 25 1894 – April 28 1918 Activities: Bosnian Serb who assassinated the Archduke of Austria; Started WW1