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1. This monarch didn' t give a name to the future Earl of Buford until he heard his mistress calling the child 'the bastard'

2. At Wexford and Drogheda, this group massacred hundreds of Irish people

3. England's Stuart dynasty began when James VI of this country became James I of England

4. This son of Mary, Queen of Scots was the sixth of his name in Scotland, and he was succeeded by his son Charles I

5. One monarch of this name was the uncle of Nicholas II of Russia and Wilhelm II of Germany, and the period of his reign in the early 20th century is sometimes referred to as his namesake era

6. This kingwon a battle fought near Senlac Hill that took place shortly after the loser's victory at the Battle ofStamford Bridge

7. He served from 1790 to 1797 in his family's seat of Trim in the Irish Parliament and later oversaw victories at Vimeiro and Salamanca in the Peninsular War

8. He won the Battle of Edington where he defeated the Dane Guthrum

9. It was chronicled in the Bayeux Tapestry and was a defeat for Harold Godwinson

10. One of Margaret Thatcher's cabinet members resigned during this scandal that was brought about because of a desire to merge Sikorsky with the this namesake manufacturer of helicopters

11. The remains of one of their settlements can be found at L' Anse Aux-Meadows on the northern tip of Newfoundland in Vinland, which was reached by Leif Erikson

12. In the 1950s, a massive temple dedicated to Mithras at Walbrook was excavated in this city

13. This leader had to receive a special commission to lead cavalry due to a conflict with the Self-Denying Ordinance

14. One treaty named for this city established the procedures for the Nuremberg trials

15. At the start of this event, the 'Proclamation of the Republic' was read on the front steps of the  (*) General Post Office by Patrick Pearse

16. Francis Millen was used by Edward Jenkinson, a minister of this ruler to draw out violent elements by organizing the Jubilee Plot against this ruler

17. The most recent monarch of this name proposed marriage to Wallis Simpson and then abdicated the throne

18. Robert Catesby planned this event which meant to earn more freedoms for Catholics

19. This party took power under Harold Wilson in 1964, after its main opponent was rocked by the Profumo scandal

20. FTP what was this series of fights between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the 17th century

21. The Marquis of Rockingham and the Duke of Grafton were two of the Prime Ministers during his reign

22. This ruler was opposed by a Robert Aske-led movement whose red flag showed the stigmata, the Pilgrimage of Grace

23. Its first Taoseach [TEA-shock], Eamon de Valera, was the leader of Sinn Fein

24. He ended a rebellion at the Battle of Stoke, defeating Lincoln and the pretender Lambert Simnel, and he faced another rebellion from Perkin Warbeck, who claimed to be the younger son of Edward IV

25. The Stanley brothers led their forces in support of this man in the midst of one battle, enabling his victory at Bosworth Field and ending the War of the Roses

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