Henry III, King of France from 1574 to 1589, was the last ruler of the Valois dynasty. The fourth son of Henry II and Catherine de’ Medici, he was not initially destined to reign. A skilled legislator ...
The Merovingian dynasty was the first Frankish line of kings who ruled in Western Europe from AD 476 to 752. Dynasty of Frankish kings descending from Merovech, the Merovingians ruled over Gaul until ...
Could there have been an easier conquest? In 332 BC, Alexander the Great entered Egypt without a struggle. At the walls of the capital, Memphis, he received the keys to the royal treasury from the ...
Under his real name, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavius, Augustus was the first and most famous Roman emperor. When his uncle Julius Caesar died in 44 BCE, Octavius began a long political struggle to gain ...
The period of the French Revolution is often primarily seen as a violent confrontation between two orders, the Third Estate and the nobility, with the execution of Louis XVI in 1793 being a focal ...