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  British regnal (accession) years
The Normans

Duke of Normandy in France
William I "the Conqueror" 		1066   14 Oct
William II "Rufus" 1087   26 Sep
Henry I 1100     5 Aug
Stephen 1135   26 Dec


The Plantagenets (Angevins)

Duke of Anjou in France
Henry II 		1154   19 Dec
Richard I "the Lionheart" 1189   23 Sep
John "Lackland" — Magna Carta 1199   27 May
Henry III 1216   28 Oct
Edward I "Longshanks" 1272   20 Nov
Edward II — murdered 1307     8 Jul
Edward III 1326   25 Jan
Richard II — deposed, murdered 1377   22 Jun
Angevins — Lancaster line

Duke of Lancaster
Henry IV 		1399   30 Sep
Henry V 1413   21 Mar
Henry VI 1422     1 Sep
 Wars of the Roses (1455 - 1487)
— deposed 1461, briefly restored 1470 - 1471,
      then died in The Tower — murdered?
Angevins — York line    

Edward IV

1461     4 Mar > 1470
and
1471 - 1483
Edward V "the young prince"
— murdered in The Tower 		1483     9 Apr
Richard III "Crookback"
— killed in battle 		1483   26 Jun


Tudors

Henry VII — (restored order) 		1485   22 Aug
Henry VIII 1509   22 Apr
Edward VI 1547   28 Jan
Mary I "Bloody" 1553     6 Jul
Elizabeth I 1558   17 Nov


Stuarts

King of Scotland as James VI
James I 		1603   24 Mar
Charles I — executed 1625   27 Mar


 The English Civil War, 1642 – 51 

 The Commonwealth 

Oliver Cromwell "Lord Protector" 		1649   30 Jan


Stuart Restoration

Charles II 		1660   29 May
James II 1685     6 Feb
    — fled to France; Parliament declared throne vacant
      the "Glorious Revolution"
Prince of Orange,
Stadholder of Holland
William III — Orange-Nassau
  and
Mary II Stuart — died 1694 		Bill of Rights
1689   13 Feb
Anne "Good Queen Anne" 1702     8 Mar
Act of Union with Scotland, 1707


The Hanoverians

George I Brunswick-Luneburg 		1714     1 Aug
George II 1727   11 Jun
George III 1760   25 Oct
George IV — regent from 1811 1820   29 Jan
William IV 1830   26 Jun
Victoria — Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
upon 1840 marriage 		1837   20 Jun
Edward VII 1901   22 Jan


The Windsors

George V — name changed
at outbreak of World War I 		1910     6 May
Edward VIII — abdicated 1936   20 Jan
George VI 1936   11 Dec
Elizabeth II 1952     6 Feb
Prince Charles
(heir apparent,
  succeeds as Charles III ?) 		—
Prince William
(2nd in line,
  succeeds as William V ?) 		—
  Presidents
(of the Continental Congresses)
Peyton Randolph Virginia 1774
Henry Middleton South Carolina 1774
Peyton Randolph Virginia 1775
John Hancock Massachusetts 1775 - 1777
Henry Laurens South Carolina 1777 - 1778
John Jay New York 1778 - 1779
Samuel Huntington Connecticut 1779 - 1781
Thomas McKean Delaware 1781
  Presidents
(under the Articles of Confederation)
John Hanson Maryland 1781 - 1782
Elias Boudinot New Jersey 1782 - 1783
Thomas Mifflin Pennsylvania 1783 - 1784
Richard Henry Lee Virginia 1784 - 1785
John Hancock Massachusetts 1785 - 1786
Nathaniel Gorham Massachusetts 1786
Arthur St. Clair Pennsylvania 1787
Cyrus Griffin Virginia 1788
  Presidents
(under the Constitution, 1789, et seq.)

 Federalist       Democratic-Republican 

 Democratic       Whig       Republican 

• = died in office — red = assassinated

George Washington   1789 – 1797
(two unanimous elections)
John Adams   1797 – 1801
Thomas Jefferson   1801 – 1809
James Madison   1809 – 1817
James Monroe   1817 – 1825
John Quincy Adams   1825 – 1829
Andrew Jackson   1829 – 1837
Martin Van Buren   1837 – 1841
•  William Henry Harrison   1841
John Tyler   1841 – 1845
(expelled from party)
James K. Polk   1845 – 1849
•  Zachary Taylor   1849 – 1850
Millard Fillmore   1850 – 1853
(Whig party collapsed)
Franklin Pierce   1853 – 1857
James Buchanan   1857 – 1861
•  Abraham Lincoln   1861 – 1865
Andrew Johnson   1865 – 1869
(expelled from party)
Ulysses S. Grant   1869 – 1877
Rutherford B. Hayes   1877 – 1881
•  James A. Garfield   1881 – 1881
Chester A. Arthur   1881 – 1885
Grover Cleveland   1885 – 1889
Benjamin Harrison   1889 – 1893
Grover Cleveland   1893 – 1897
•  William McKinley   1897 – 1901
Theodore Roosevelt   1901 – 1909
William Howard Taft   1909 – 1913
Woodrow Wilson   1913 – 1921
•  Warren G. Harding   1921 – 1923
Calvin Coolidge   1923 – 1929
Herbert Hoover   1929 – 1933
•  Franklin
Delano
Roosevelt 		  1933 – 1945
World War II
(elected four terms)
Harry S. Truman   1945 – 1953
Dwight D. Eisenhower   1953 – 1961
•  John F. Kennedy   1961 – 1963
Lyndon B. Johnson   1963 – 1969
Richard Nixon   1969 – 1974, resigned
Gerald Ford   1974 – 1977
(never elected)
Jimmy Carter   1977 – 1981
Ronald Reagan   1981 – 1989
George H.W. Bush   1989 – 1993
Bill Clinton   1993 – 2001
George W. Bush   2001 – 2009
Barack Obama   2009 – present


 

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