People

12–41

Caligula was the third Roman emperor, ruling from AD 37 to 41. Ancient sources portray a reign that began with popularity but became associated with autocracy, […]

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895–954

Eric Bloodaxe was a tenth-century Norse ruler associated with Norway and the Viking kingdom of York. His career belongs to the turbulent world of Scandinavian kingship, […]

2 series · 5 books

George B. McClellan is represented in the linked historical fiction through crime, espionage and covert power, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and military command and battlefield […]

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1504–1536

George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, was the only surviving son of Thomas and Elizabeth Boleyn and the brother of Mary and Anne Boleyn. He became a courtier, […]

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1206–1248

Güyük Khan was the eldest son of Ögedei and became great khan of the Mongol Empire in 1246 after a prolonged regency dominated by his mother […]

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276 BCE–229 BCE

Hamilcar Barca was a Carthaginian general and father of Hannibal. He commanded in Sicily during the closing years of the First Punic War, suppressed the Mercenary […]

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1473–1513

James IV ruled Scotland from 1488 to 1513 and became one of the most energetic Renaissance monarchs in northern Europe. He strengthened royal justice, supported shipbuilding, […]

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1505–1542

Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford, was the wife of George Boleyn and served several of Henry VIII’s queens. Later tradition accused her of giving evidence that helped […]

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c. 0s BCE–30

Jesus Christ was the central figure of Christianity, presented in the New Testament as a Jewish teacher, healer and messianic claimant in Roman Judaea. His ministry, […]

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c. 17th century BCE–1550 BCE

Kamose was the last king of Egypt’s Seventeenth Dynasty. He renewed war against the Hyksos, campaigned north from Thebes and attacked their allies in Nubia, preparing […]

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