| Event | Monarch | House |
| Central Christian commander during the 3rd Crusade | |
| Won the battle of Agincourt against the French | |
| Led the Cavaliers and Royalists | |
| Led the Glorious Revolution | |
| Defeated Harold Godwinson at the battle of Hastings | |
| Presided over the Anarchy, a civil war with his cousin the Empress Matilda | |
| 'Hammer of the Scots' | |
| Led huge resistance to the invading Vikings, Only king with the epithet 'the Great' | |
| | Event | Monarch | House |
| Broke from the Catholic church and established the Church of England | |
| King of England and much of Scandanavia | |
| Defeated the Spanish Armada of 1588 | |
| Survived the gunpowder plot, union of the crowns | |
| Won the War of the Roses after the battle of Bosworth Field | |
| Signatory of the Magna Carta of 1215 | |
| First king of a unified England | |
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