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The following list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war [a]) which relate to the United Kingdom, Ireland or the Isle of Man, or to the states that preceded them, or that involved their citizens, in a definable incident or accident such as a shipwreck, where the loss of life was forty or more.
Louis XIV of France, the 'Sun King' Louis XV of France (died 1774), called the Louis the Beloved; Louis XVI of France (died 1793) executed in the revolution; Louis XVII of France (died 1795), died in prison, never anointed as king; Louis XVIII of France (died 1824), Louis XIX of France (died 1844), nominally king for less than an hour; Louis ...
Refused to convert to Catholicism before his death. Lady Jane Grey: 12 February 1554 Former de facto Queen of England and Ireland. Executed for high treason at Tower Hill under the Third Succession Act and the Treason Act 1547 establishing Queen Mary as the legitimate heir to the throne. Guilford Dudley: Former de facto king consort of England ...
Death said to have been caused by the shock of hearing that his son James (later King James I of Scotland) had been captured by the English. Henry IV: House of Lancaster (England) 15 April 1367 1399–1413 20 March 1413 Several years of ill health- some type of visible skin ailment. Leprosy is also rumoured to have been possible. Henry V
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics , famines , or genocides .
King Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1649) Cuauhtémoc (1525) Daskalogiannis (1771) György Dózsa (1514) Jean-Michel Duroy (1795) Madame Elisabeth (1793) Matija Gubec (1573) Kryštof Harant (1621) Wijard Jelckama (1523) Matthew Keogh (1798) Jan Sladký Kozina (1695) King Louis XVI of France (1793) Jacques Vincent Ogé (1791) Johan ...
In 1016 Cnut the Great, a Dane, was the first to call himself "King of England". In the Norman period "King of the English" remained standard, with occasional use of "King of England" or Rex Anglie. From John's reign onwards all other titles were eschewed in favour of "King" or "Queen of England".
King of England r. 1272–1307: Joan I Queen of Navarre r. 1274–1305: Philip IV "the Fair" King of France r. 1285–1314 Philip I King of Navarre r. 1284–1305: Edward II King of England r. 1307–1327: Isabella "She-Wolf of France" Louis X King of France r. 1314–1316 Louis I King of Navarre r. 1305–1316: Philip V "the Tall" King of ...