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MARTIN LUTHER
German theologian
1483 - 1546
The First Protestant
Launched Protestantism in Wittenberg, Germany 1517
By faith alone, sole scriptura - one obtains salvation by one's deeds, the only authority is the Bible
Launched the Reformation / Protestant Reformation
Translated the Latin Bible into German
Martin Luther
British movie about Luther
1953
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSoGjprY070
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Henry VIII
Henry Tudor
1491 - 1547
King of England from 1509 to 1547
Broke with the Pope and the Church of Rome /
Roman Catholics in 1534.
Created the Church of England / Protestant
Church of England in 1534.
Made himself the head of the Church of
England in 1534.
The Private Life of Henry VIII
Movie
1933
Charles Laughton as King Henry
Colourised Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqmuYtJQ938
Henry VIII
Mind of a Tyrant
With David Starkey
Part One
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RjKG6gwmiE
Part Two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPl4SrxeWLY
Part Three
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww3AsrPGIb4
Part Four
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsmw0_rMaeQ
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John Calvin / Jean Calvin
French theologian from Picardy
1509 - 1564
Made Geneva, Switzerland his base
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HENRY IV OF FRANCE
Born in 1553
Assassinated in 1610
Henri de Navarre
Henri de Bourbon / first Bourbon king of France
King of France from 1589 to 1610
Henry was baptised a Catholic
Raised as a Huguenot Protestant by his
mother, Queen Jeanne III of Navarre.
Henry inherited the throne of France
as a Protestant.
Henery led Protestant forces against the
Catholics.
To end the war, Henry converted to
Catholicism four years into his reign.
Henry promulgated the Edict of Nantes,
in 1598, guarantying religious liberties
to Protestants.
Thus ended the French Wars of Religion -
civil wars between French Catholics and
Protestants / Huguenots (1562 to 1598).
Henry IV
The Good King
Episode from the French documentary
film series Kings of France.
Dubbed in English
49:59
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q64JqxVY0F8
HENRY 4
A German movie in French about Henry Navarre
before he became King of France.
Henry was a leader of the Protestants in
France.
2010
2:22:15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcC0eXh3fH4&t=371s
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The Lost Colony of Roanoke
The first British colony in America,
with 116 Englishmen, disappeared in 1587
In Search of . . .
Episode from the documentary series
with Leonard Nimoy
1979
22:37
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRG8upOwYNs&t=19s
Pocahontas
In 1607, Englishmen with the Virginia
Company sailed from England to North
America to establish a British colony,
called Virginia, and the first
settlement, Jamestown, named after
King James I of England.
The settlers met the native Americans
who inhabited the region, the
Tsenacommacah - the Powhatan
Confederacy.
Pocahontas, daughter of Wahunsenacawh,
chief of the Tsenacommacah, married a
colonist, John Rolfe, and traveled to
England. She had a child and died in
England.
According to a colonist in Virginia,
John Smith, Pocahontas saved his life
after his capture by the Powhatan.
A Walt Disney Movie / cartoon
1995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdE9fycRn3k&t=844s
Captain John Smith and Pocahontas
1953 movie
1 hr. 16 min. 12 sec.
https://ok.ru/video/4818620779116
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CROMWELL
British movie
1970
Richard Harris as Oliver Cromwell
1599 - 1658
Puritan, military leader
Alec Guinness as King Charles I of England
(reigned 1625 - 1649)
Catholics and Protestants, the English
Civil War (1642 - 1651) and the beheading
of King Charles (1649)
https://vimeo.com/188404456
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Ivan Grozny
1530 - 1584
Ivan the Terrible
First Tsar of Russia
1547 - 1584
IVAN THE TERRIBLE
Two-part movie by Sergei Eisenstein
Part 1
1945
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYOxxp_EVxc
Part 2
1958
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnNgoS8VsoQ
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PETER THE GREAT
Movie
1937
3 hrs. 13 min. 47 sec.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLxsLQLrMH0&t=95s
Pyotr Alekseyevich Romanov
1672 - 1725
Tsar / Czar of Russia
1682 - 1725
Peter 1
Peter the Great
Founded Saint Petersburg
Moved the capital from Moscow to St. Petersburg
Modernised and westernised Russia
Adopted the Julian calendar in 1700, with
January 1 as the first day of the year
Started industrialisation
Peter's second wife, Martha, was given
the name Catherine
1684 - 1727
Catherine succeeded Peter as Empress of Russia
1725 - 1727
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