Europe's Absolute Monarchs

King Henry VIII

-Tudor King or England

-Breaks from catholic Church to get divorce

-Bloody Mary’s Dad

-6 MArrigaes

-DAughter Elizabeth founded Angilcan church

Phillip I

-King Of Spain

-Great wealth from New World colonies

-Claims divine rights

Louis XIV

-Bourbon King

-”Sun King”

-”I am the state!”
-”Builds Versailles”

Peter The Great

-Czar of Russia

-Westernizes Russia

James I

-Becomes King when elizabthe dies

-fights w/ parliament

-founds Jamestown colony

-survives gunpowder plot

-Guy Fawkes- Nov. 5th holiday to celebrate king

Charles I

-struggles w/ parliament

-signes petition of right

-Civil war against parliament

-Executed for treason

Oliver Cromwell

-Puritan army general

-abolishes the monarchy

-rules as military dictator

-Has Charles I executed

The Common Wealth Of England

-Rump parliament

-Puritan reforms the nations morals

-religious toleration

Charles II

-Exiled to france

-Restores Monarchy

-Dissolves parliament

-Merry Monarch

James II

-Brother of charles II

-married a Roman catholic

-struggle with parliament

-overthrown in the glorious revolution

william and mary

-offered the thrown by parliament

-mary is the daughter of James II

-begins constitutional monarchy (bill of rights)

-share power w/ parliament