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William the Conqueror
Reign: 1066–1087, Notable Events: Norman Conquest of England, Battle of Hastings.
Henry II
Reign: 1154–1189, Notable Events: Thomas Becket's murder, Legal reforms and the development of Common Law.
Richard the Lionheart
Reign: 1189–1199, Notable Events: Third Crusade, Development of English Chivalry.
Elizabeth I
Reign: 1558–1603, Notable Events: Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Elizabethan Religious Settlement, Flourishing of English drama.
Victoria
Reign: 1837–1901, Notable Events: Victorian Era, Industrial Revolution, Expansion of the British Empire.
Edward VII
Reign: 1901–1910, Notable Events: End of the Victorian Era, Entente Cordiale.
George V
Reign: 1910–1936, Notable Events: World War I, The first monarch of the House of Windsor.
Edward VIII
Reign: 1936, Notable Events: Abdication Crisis.
Elizabeth II
Reign: 1952–2022, Notable Events: Longest-reigning current monarch, Decolonization of Africa and the Caribbean, COVID-19 pandemic.
Charles II
Reign: 1660–1685, Notable Events: Restoration of the monarchy, Great Plague, Great Fire of London.
Henry VIII
Reign: 1509–1547, Notable Events: English Reformation, Dissolution of the Monasteries, Six marriages.
Henry VII
Reign: 1485–1509, Notable Events: End of the Wars of the Roses, Establishment of the Tudor dynasty.
Edward I
Reign: 1272–1307, Notable Events: Conquest of Wales, Laws of Edward the Confessor, Expulsion of the Jews.
George III
Reign: 1760–1820, Notable Events: American War of Independence, Acts of Union with Ireland, Napoleonic Wars.
Edward III
Reign: 1327–1377, Notable Events: Hundred Years' War, Black Death, Founding of the Order of the Garter.
James I
Reign: 1603–1625, Notable Events: Authorized King James Version of the Bible, Gunpowder Plot, Foundation of Jamestown.
George VI
Reign: 1936–1952, Notable Events: World War II, Independence of India and Pakistan, Beginning of the NHS.
Richard III
Reign: 1483–1485, Notable Events: Death at the Battle of Bosworth Field, Last king of the House of York and Plantagenet.
William IV
Reign: 1830–1837, Notable Events: Reform Act of 1832, End of slavery in the British Empire.
Queen Anne
Reign: 1702–1714, Notable Events: Acts of Union 1707, War of the Spanish Succession, Formation of the United Kingdom.
James II
Reign: 1685–1688, Notable Events: Glorious Revolution, Declaration of Indulgence, Deposition and exile.
Stephen
Reign: 1135–1154, Notable Events: Anarchy, Battle of Lincoln, Treaty of Wallingford.
Henry I
Reign: 1100–1135, Notable Events: Shipwreck of the White Ship, Charter of Liberties, Exile of Robert Curthose.
Edward II
Reign: 1307–1327, Notable Events: Defeat at Bannockburn, Ordinances of 1311, Forced abdication for son Edward III.
Matilda
Reign: Not a monarch but claimed the throne during 1139–1148, Notable Events: Battle of Lincoln, Rout of Winchester, Anarchy.
Henry III
Reign: 1216–1272, Notable Events: Signing of the Magna Carta, Barons' War, Reconstruction of Westminster Abbey.
Henry IV
Reign: 1399–1413, Notable Events: Deposition of Richard II, Revolt of Owain Glyndŵr, Establishment of the Lancastrian dynasty.
Henry VI
Reign: 1422–1461, 1470–1471, Notable Events: Wars of the Roses, Loss of Hundred Years' War, Mental illness and incapacity.
Henry V
Reign: 1413–1422, Notable Events: Battle of Agincourt, Treaty of Troyes, Ascendancy in the Hundred Years' War.
Charles I
Reign: 1625–1649, Notable Events: English Civil War, Trial and execution, Personal rule period (Eleven Years' Tyranny).
Mary I
Reign: 1553–1558, Notable Events: Marian Persecutions, Restoration of Roman Catholicism, Loss of Calais to France.
Edward VI
Reign: 1547–1553, Notable Events: Protestant reformation, Book of Common Prayer, Devise for the Succession.
William III and Mary II
Reign: 1689–1702 (William III alone until 1694), Notable Events: Glorious Revolution, Bill of Rights 1689, Establishment of the Bank of England.
George I
Reign: 1714–1727, Notable Events: First monarch of the House of Hanover, Jacobite rising of 1715, South Sea Bubble.
George II
Reign: 1727–1760, Notable Events: War of Jenkins' Ear, Seven Years' War, Last British monarch born outside Great Britain.
George IV
Reign: 1820–1830 (as Regent from 1811), Notable Events: Regency Era, Cato Street Conspiracy, Construction of Buckingham Palace.
Edward IV
Reign: 1461–1470, 1471–1483, Notable Events: Wars of the Roses, Battle of Towton, Establishment of the Yorkist dynasty.
Lady Jane Grey
Reign: 1553 (disputed), Notable Events: Nine Days' Queen, Executed after Mary I's ascension, Protestant martyr.
Mary II
Reign: 1689–1694 (with William III), Notable Events: Glorious Revolution, Jacobite plots against them, Co-ruler as per the wishes of Parliament.
Anne, Queen of Great Britain
Reign: 1702–1714, Notable Events: Acts of Union 1707, War of the Spanish Succession, Last monarch of the House of Stuart.
William II
Reign: 1087–1100, Notable Events: Rebellion of 1088, Accidental death while hunting, His death led to the accession of Henry I.
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