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PEOPLE IN HISTORY A - C
 

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A

Adams, John
Second president of the US.

Adams, John Quincy
Sixth president of the US.

Adhémar of Puy
French bishop.

Adolf Frederick
The elected king.

Aeschylus
The King of Tragedy.

Alexander I
Catherine's grandson.

Alexander II
Russian emperor.

Alexander VI
Corrupt pope.

Alexander the Great   TIP
The one who conquered the whole world in a decade.

Alexandra, Princess of Wales
The pretty one.

Alexis
Russian tsar.

Angeles, Felipe
Capable Revolutionary.

Anna
Ivanovna.

Anne of Cleves
Henry's number four.

Ansegisel
Father of Pepin II.

Antigonus I Monophthalmus
Lost the other eye in 301 BC.

Antiochus III
Antiochus the Great.

Armfelt, Gustaf Mauritz
Swedish diplomat and Finland's hero.

Arnulf, Bishopf of Metz
Co-founder of the Carolingians.

Arthur I
Richard the Lionheart's nephew.

Assurbanipal
King of Assyria.

Attila the Hun
This king only lost one battle.

Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal
Founder of modern Turkey.

Augustine of Hippo
The Saint.

Augustus II
The strong king of Poland.

Augustus Caesar
First Roman emperor.

Aurelian
Another Roman emperor.

Ayaquica, Fortino
Mexican Revolutionary.
 

B

Balzac, Honoré de
Father of The Human Comedy.

Barra, Francisco Leon de la
Mexico's Interim.

Barrett, John
Expert on Latin America.

Batu
Grandson of Genghis Khan.

Begga
Pepin II's mother.

Benedict
Saint.

Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett's nightmare.

Bismarck, Otto
Founder of the German Empire.

Bohemond I
Crusader.

Bohr, Niels   TIP
Danish friend of the atoms.

Boleyn, Anne
Henry's number two and mother of famous Lizzy.

Bonaparte, Hortense de Beauharnais
Josephine's daughter

Bonaparte, Louis
The emperor's brother.

Brecht, Bertolt
Big shot among German playwrights.

Brezhnev, Leonid Ilich
The one who invaded Prague

Bruce, Robert the
Hero of the Scots.

Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)
The enlightened founder of a religion.
 

C

Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Cannary)
The one with the gun.

Calvin, John
French answer to Martin Luther.

Cambyses II
Son of Cyrus the Great.

Canute the Great
Danish king of England, Denmark, and Norway.

Carloman
Son of Charles Martel the Hammer.

Carloman
Son of Louis II the Stammerer.

Caroline Bonaparte
Queen of Naples.

Carranza, Venustiano
Mexican president.

Carson, Christopher (Kit)
Brave frontiersman.

Carter, Jimmy
39th president.

Cassander
One of Alexander's successors.

Castro, Fidel
Cuba's leader.

Catherine I
Peter the Great's love of his life.

Catherine II the Great
The German lady who ruled Russia.

Catherine de Médicis
Queen of France.

Catherine of Aragon
Henry's first.

Cartier, Jacques
French explorer who could have done better.

Charlemagne
First emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

Charles I
English king with Scottish accent.

Charles II
Laid back king of Great Britain and Ireland.

Charles II the Bald
Son of Louis the Pious.

Charles III the Fat
Charlemagne's great-grandkid.

Charles III the Simple
Son of Louis II the Stammerer.

Charles V
Holy Roman emperor.

Charles VI
Maria Theresa's dad.

Charles VIII
French king.

Charles X
Nephew of Gustavus Adolphus.

Charles XII
Voltaire wrote his bio.

Charles XIII
Brother of Gustav III.

Charles Martel
The Hammer.

Charles the Bold
Last duke of Burgundy.

Chiang Kai-shek
President of China.

Childeric III
Last Merovingian king.

Christian II
The one who got exiled by his uncle.

Christina
Daughter of Gustavus Adolphus.

Churchill, John
Duke of Marlborough.

Churchill, Winston   TIP
The one with the cigar.

Clark, William
The one with Lewis.

Clemenceau, Georges
French premier who was also a playwright.

Clement III
The one who rallied for the Third Crusade.

Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator
Egyptian femme fatale.

Clive, Robert
Baron of Plassey.

Clovis I
King of the Franks.

Cobden, Richard
The one who was against the Corn Laws.

Columbus, Christopher
The sailor.

Conrad III
First of the Hohenstaufens.

Constantine the Great
Founder of Istanbul.

Copernicus, Nicolas
The one with the sun and the planets.

Corral, Ramon
Porfirio's vice.

Cortes, Hernan
The last thing the Aztec empire saw.

Crassus, Marcus Licinius
The one who killed Spartacus.

Crazy Horse (Ta-sunko-witko)   TIP
Son of the Worm.

Creel, Enrique C.
Mexican money bag.

Creelman, James
American Journalist.

Crockett, Davy
The defender of the Alamo.

Cromwell, Oliver
The one who signed Charles's execution papers.

Cyrus the Great
Founder of the empire that ruled until Alexander cleaned up.

Cyrus the Younger
Who wanted to be king so bad.
 

 

 


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