THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL WORLD LEADERS OF ALL TIME

7 Louis XIV 7 entourage. In 1682 he had the seat of government trans- ferred to Versailles. The following year, the queen died, ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 Peter I (b. June 9 [May 30, Old Style], 1672, Moscow, Russia—d. Feb. 8 [J ...

7 Peter I 7 purposes were to examine the international situation and to strengthen the anti-Turkish coalition (to no avail), but ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 it conform to European usage with regard to the year. Peter simplified th ...

7 Catherine II 7 Catherine II (b. April 21 [May 2, New Style], 1729, Stettin, Prussia [now Szczecin, Poland]—d. Nov. 6 [Nov. 17] ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 The empress Elizabeth died on Dec. 25, 1761. Shortly after Elizabeth’s de ...

7 Catherine II 7 that broke out in Moscow and a great uprising in 1773 led by Yemelyan Pugachov, a former Cossack officer preten ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 The Final Years Catherine felt seriously threatened by the French Revolut ...

7 George Washington 7 George Washington (b. Feb. 22 [Feb. 11, Old Style], 1732, Westmoreland County, Va., U.S.—d. Dec. 14, 1799, ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 Prerevolutionary Military Career and Life Washington began his military c ...

7 George Washington 7 limited interest in state affairs. However, over the next few years, he transformed from a moderate into a ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 his unremitting activity, and his strong common sense con- stituted the c ...

7 George Washington 7 followed a middle course between the political factions that later became the Federalist Party and the Dem ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 Jefferson returned to Virginia in October 1776 and immediately launched a ...

7 Thomas Jefferson 7 a three-pronged division soon emerged over American policy toward the European powers. Washington and Adams ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 Presidency Jefferson was inaugurated into office on March 4, 1801. He del ...

7 Thomas Jefferson 7 of the Embargo Act required the exercise of precisely those coercive powers by the federal government that ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 preference for secession if threatened with any mandatory plan for abolit ...

7 Maximilien de Robespierre 7 Robespierre. Although he had excluded himself and his colleagues from the new Legislative Assembly ...

7 The 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time 7 self-righteousness, however, made him feared and hated by many of his ass ...