Empress Dowager Cixi

Empress Dowager Cixi

Once upon a time in a distant province of China, an ordinary girl named Empress Dowager Cixi was born on the 29th November, 1835. Her given name was Yehonala. Her father's name was Huizheng and mother's name was Lady Fuca. Empress Dowager Cixi was one of the concubines of the Emperor Hsien-Feng.

Empress Dowager Cixi

Empress Dowager Cixi, at a glance:

Reign: 11 November, 1861 – 15 November, 1908
Date of Birth: 29 November, 1835
House: House of Aisin Gioro
Father's Name: Yehenara Huizheng
Mother's Name: Lady Fuca
Death of Empress Dowager Cixi: 15 November, 1908

Maria Theresa

Maria Theresa

Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina was the only female monarch of the Habsburg dynasty. She reigned over Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Milan, the Austrian Netherlands, and Parma, ruling for forty years until her death. Maria Theresa was born early in the morning of 13 May 1717, at the Hofburg Palace, Vienna. She was the second and eldest surviving child of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

Isabel of Castile

Isabel of Castile

The reign of Queen Isabella of Spain was one of the most significant periods of Spanish history. She was born in Madrigal de las Altas Torres, Ávila on 22 April 1451. With her husband Ferdinand, Isabella united the Kingdoms of Spain under a single crown, drove the last of the Moors from the Iberian Peninsula and supported the voyages of Columbus. While Ferdinand was the military leader of the most important campaigns of this era, Isabella herself played a key role in virtually all of the major developments of Spain during this period and directed most domestic policy.

Isabel of Castile, At a glance:

Reign: 11 December, 1474–26 November, 1504
Birth: 22 April, 1451
Birth Place: Madrigal de las Altas Torres, Ávila
Father's Name : John II, King of Castile
Mother's Name: Isabella of Portugal
Coronation: 13 December 1474 (Segovia)
Religion: Roman Catholic
Death of Isabella: 26 November, 1504 (Medina del Campo, Spain. Aged 53)
Burial: Capilla Real, Granada, Spain

Isabel of Castile

Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. In 1853, she became the first monarch to use an anesthetic. From 1 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India.

Queen Victoria

 

Queen Victoria, at a glance:

Reign: 20 June, 1837 – 22 January, 1901
Maiden Name: Alexandrina Victoria
Born: 24 May 1819
Birth Place: Kensington Palace in London
Father's Name: Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
Mother's Name: Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
House: House of Hanover
Coronation: 28 June, 1838
Married: Her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 10 February 1840.
In 1853, She became the first monarch to use an anesthetic.
Husband's death: 1861 (from typhoid fever), at the age of 42
Imperial Dur-bar: 1 January, 1877
Died: 22 January 1901 (aged 81)
Burial: 4 February, 1901

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Eleanor of Aquitaine

There are a few most powerful women in Ancient History. Eleanor of Aquitaine is one of them. She was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Western Europe during the High Middle Ages, a member of the Ramnufid dynasty of rulers in southwestern France.

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Eleanor of Aquitaine was still a child, then later queen Consort to Louis VII of France in 1137. During her marriage to Louis, she participated in the Second Crusade in 1147 and even traveled with her husband to the Byzantine Empire. Eleanor became a key figure in developing trade agreements between Western Europe, Constantinople, and the Holy Land.

Eleanor of Aquitaine, At a glance:
Born: 1122 or 1124
Father's Name: William X, Duke of Aquitaine
Mother's Name: Aenor de Châtellerault
Queen: Consort to Louis VII of France (1137–1152)
Burial: Fontevraud Abbey, Fontevraud
Religion: Roman Catholicism
Died: 1 April, 1204

Empress Wu Zetian

Empress Wu Zetian

Empress Wu Zetian was a Chinese sovereign, who ruled officially under the name of her self-proclaimed "Zhou Dynasty", from 690 to 705; however, she had previous imperial positions under both Emperor Taizong of Tang and his son Emperor Gaozong of Tang, of the Tang Dynasty of China. Empress Wu Zetian was born in 624 in Wenshui county, Shanxi Province. She is the only woman to rule China in her own right. She died peacefully at age eighty the same year. 

Empress Wu Zetian, at a glance:
Reign: 16 October, 690 – 22 February, 705
Born: 17 February, 624
Birth Place: Lizhou, Sichuan Province, Tang Dynasty
House: Wu (by birth), House of Li (by marriage)
Father's Name: Wu Shihuo, Duke Ding of Ying
Mother's Name: Mother Lady Yang
Died: 16 December, 705 (in Luoyang, Tang Dynasty. Aged 81)
Burial: Qianling Mausoleum

Empress Theodora

Empress Theodora

Queen Empress Theodora is perhaps the most influential and powerful woman in the Roman Empire's history. She was the wife of Justinian I who was crowned Emperor of the Byzantine Empire in 527 AD. As his wife, she ruled by his side, as his partner, and her intelligence helped to advance the Empire. Empress Theodora reigned from 9 August, 527 to 28 June, 548. She died in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 28, 548 A.D.

Hatshepsut

Queen Hatshepsut (left) was the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt and she was the first great woman in recorded history: the forerunner of such figures as Cleopatra, Catherine the Great and Elizabeth I. He was born on c. 1508 BC. Her father's name was Thutmose I and mother's name was Ahmose.

Hatshepsut

Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I was great Queen of England and Ireland from November 17, 1558 until her death. She was born on 7 September, 1533 in Palace of Placentia, Greenwich, England and she was the daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn.

Catherine II

Catherine II

Catherine II (Yekaterina Alexeevna or, Catherine the Great) was the most longest-ruling female leader of Russia, reigning from 9 July, 1762 until her death on 17 November 1796 at the age of sixty-seven. The reign of Yekaterina Alexeevna was a magnificent era during which, according to a contemporary, "Russia became a European country and St. Petersburg came to occupy an important place amongst the capitals of the educated world."

Catherine II

Catherine II, at a glance:
Reign: 9 July, 1762 – 17 November, 1796
Birth: 2 May [or, 21 April] 1729
Birth Place: Stettin, Pomerania, German Kingdom of Prussia
House: House of Romanov House of Ascania
Father's Name : Christian Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst
Mother's Name: Johanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp
Coronation: 12 September 1762 (in Russia)
Religion: Lutheranism
Death of Isabella: 17 November 1796 (Saint Petersburg, Russia. Aged 67)
Burial: Peter and Paul Cathedral in Saint Petersburg