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So get this: 1444, Ottoman Sultan Murad II signs a peace deal with Hungary and then decides that’s it, his work here is done, the empire is saved forever, and gives the...

The most interesting thing about King Charles the First is that he was five foot six inches tall at the start of his reign. And only four foot eight inches tall at the end of it...

You know I had high hopes for Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, I really did. In my head I always sort of lumped him in with Maximilian Robespierre. I thought they were each a forward-thinking guy who leapt into action and spearheaded the...

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! Usually when a pirate who's plundered numerous cities and exploded his prisoners is captured he's sent to the gallows, but for one Henry Morgan the guy was knighted by the king and sent back to Jamaica to...

To be honest for the last couple years I’ve been thinking to myself “You know, I should pre-make a video about Lizzie, just in case” but two things always stopped me. First, I thought for sure she’d be writing a letter to herself in 2026...

This is the second Frederick the second I’ve talked about on this channel, ain’t that neat? Frederick II of Prussia was the son of Frederick William of Prussia and the grandson of George I of England on his mom’s side, ooh I am just full...

This is one of those episodes I think is going to really speak to like 5% of my audience the other 95% of you, well you’re about to learn something. Because on top of my references being extremely dated, Boudicca also appears to be a...

Napoleon Bonaparte, heralded as the heir to the Republic. But of course, in order to inherit, the Republic must first die...

March 19, 1286. King Alexander III, whom you might vaguely recall from the Haakon IV video as a king who existed, is dead. His only heir is his three-year-old granddaughter, who was also the daughter of the king of Norway and married to...

After the end of the Western Roman Empire, the story in the East is more or less a thousand years of “Well they tried their best but the climate screwed them, people kept dying of plague, every single one of their neighbors made a...

Servius Tullius, sixth king of Rome, has a lot of conflicting stories about his background. His mother was a captured Latin princess, his father was maybe a mercenary, or was he a god? So easy to get the two mixed up. Anyway things were...

Roman king #5! Lucius Tarquinus Priscus was an Etruscan man whose hometown wouldn’t let the children of immigrants run for office so he moved to Rome because he’s rich. Priscus was a close friend of King #4 and managed to lobby his way...

Portugal, 1300-something. Crown prince Peter refuses to marry because he’s in love with a woman named Ines, but the king will not allow it. Still, Peter starts giving Ines’s brothers important positions, they become his closest advisors,...

Lucius Tarquinus Superbus, Tarquin for short, is the reason Rome had only seven kings. After murdering his father-in-law, the previous king, he killed any senators he thought for some strange reason might not be loyal to him, and ruled...

King Ancus Marcius was said to have been as warlike as Romulus and as peace-loving and pious as King Numa. Sure, that makes sense. He definitely did more religious rituals than his predecessor, considering the latter got smited with...

Jeanne de Clisson was just your average 1300s French noblewoman. By the time she was twelve she married a 19-year-old who said she was very mature for her age, and she had two children by the time she was 16 (gag). Her 2nd marriage was...

It’s said the Romans were descended from Mars and Venus, and if Romulus was the aspect of Mars personified, then Rome’s second king Numa was the aspect of Venus. Where Romulus spent his days abducting women and waging war, Numa lived a...

Germany’s kind of a big deal, right? Sort of the unofficial point person of the EU, biggest economy in Europe by a substantial margin, I didn’t even realize how much of a heavyweight they were until I started fact checking for this...

October 14, 1066 - The King of England and the Duke of Normandy meet on the battlefield. The prize to be won; the English crown. King Harold defends the high ground with his infantry in a shield-wall formation. William takes the...

Before she was Queen Elizabeth II, she was Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born on April 21, 1926.

She was never supposed to be the queen, but her uncle — King Edward — abdicated in 1936, making her father George VI king. With the...

In Stavanger, Norway stands the iconic Sverd I Fjell, known to the rest of the world as the Swords In Rock. Unsheathed by King Olav the 5th in 1983, this tribute honors the medieval Battle of Hafrsfjord - in which western Norway began...

In high school, Martin Luther King, Jr. wins an oratorical contest, stating “Black America still wears chains.” On the bus ride home, King is forced to stand so white passengers can sit down. To satisfy his urge to serve humanity,...

What Caused the Scramble for Africa? | History of Africa 1870-1885 Documentary 3/6

Timecodes: 0:00 - Intro 01:15 - Khmelnytsky Uprising