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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 .
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 ...
French prisoners of war executed during the battle by troops under the command of Henry V of England: Siege of Caen (1417) 4 September 1417: Caen 1,800–2,000 English forces Between 1,800 and 2,000 civilians rounded up in the town marketplace and killed by troops led by Henry V of England, despite his orders against doing so Paris massacres ...
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".
For a list based on power or death toll see largest artificial non-nuclear explosions or the explosions section of list of accidents and disasters by death toll. This list also contains notable explosions that would not qualify for the articles mentioned above and is more detailed, especially for the latest centuries.
A well-known controversy in historiography is the 1793 Execution of Louis XVI: Legitimists might say it was a "regicide" of the legitimate "King Louis XVI" by "the rabble", but French Revolutionaries could have regarded it as the "lawful execution" of "citizen Louis Capet" after a "fair trial" that had found him guilty. [1]
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
Louis V (c. 966 or 967 – 22 May 987), also known as Louis the Do-Nothing (French: Louis le Fainéant), [1] was a king of West Francia from 979 (co-reigning first with his father Lothair until 986) to his early death in 987. During his reign, the nobility essentially ruled the country.