People

1350–1403

Katherine Swynford was the daughter of a Hainaut knight and became a member of the household of John of Gaunt. Widowed from Sir Hugh Swynford, she […]

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1641–1703

Kira Yoshinaka was a high-ranking Edo court official attacked by Asano Naganori in 1701. After Asano was ordered to die, former retainers of Akō blamed Kira […]

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died 481 BCE

Leonidas I was a king of Sparta who commanded the Greek force defending the pass of Thermopylae during Xerxes’s invasion in 480 BC. After the Persian […]

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1785–1850

Lin Zexu was a Qing scholar-official appointed by the Daoguang Emperor to suppress the opium trade at Canton in 1839. He arrested Chinese dealers, pressured foreign […]

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60 BCE–29

Livia was the wife of Augustus and a central matriarch of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Her long public career linked the household of Augustus to the succession […]

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1187–1226

Louis VIII of France was a Capetian king who reigned briefly after a long career as a prince and military commander. Before becoming king he invaded […]

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1289–1316

Louis X of France, called the Quarreller, ruled France and Navarre from 1314 to 1316. His short reign and death without a surviving adult male heir […]

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1755–1824

Louis XVIII was king of France after the fall of Napoleon, ruling during the Bourbon Restoration. His reign involved balancing royal authority, constitutional settlement and the […]

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335–388

Magnus Maximus was a Roman general in Britain who was proclaimed emperor in 383 and ruled parts of the western empire. His career became important in […]

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1869–1948

Mahatma Gandhi was an Indian lawyer and political leader who developed mass nonviolent resistance as a central strategy against British rule. His campaigns included non-cooperation, the […]

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