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2 days ago · Diocletian justified his rule not by military power, but by claiming divine right. He imitated Oriental divine kingship and encouraged the reverence of the emperor, making anything related to him sacer (sacred). He declared himself Jovius, the son of Jupiter, and his partner Maximian was declared Herculius, son of Hercules.
- List of Roman Emperors
The Prima Porta statue of Augustus (r. 27 BC – AD 14), the...
- Roman Emperors Family Tree
Julius Caesar dictator perpetuo 100–44 BC: Julia Minor died...
- List of Roman Emperors
2 days ago · Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any sovereign.
- 14 May 1643 – 1 September 1715
- Anne of Austria
5 days ago · 1880,0617.1941 [1] The Cyrus Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder, now broken into several pieces, on which is written an Achaemenid royal inscription in Akkadian cuneiform script in the name of Persian king Cyrus the Great. [2] [3] It dates from the 6th century BC and was discovered in the ruins of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon (now ...
- About 539–538 BC
- Achaemenid Empire
- Baked clay
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4 days ago · St. Robert, in his writings and studies, had more or less denounced the theory of “the divine right of kings.” And in the unforgettable Galileo affair, St. Robert Bellarmine personally delivered the command to Galileo to stop teaching that the earth revolved around the sun.
3 days ago · William and Mary agreed to the Bill of Rights presented to them by Parliament, thereby acknowledging that their power came from the legislature rather than from any concept of the "divine right of kings." The Bill of Rights confirmed traditional English liberties, especially the power of Parliament to make laws and consent to taxation.
1 day ago · The Reich Chancellor could therefore become, in Bulow's phrase, merely "the executive tool of His Majesty, so to speak, his political Chief of Staff" with the result that "the restoration under Kaiser Wilhelm II of a genuinely functioning monarchy claiming legitimation by Divine Right one hundred years after the French Revolution was even more ...
4 days ago · The Amarna Letters are a body of correspondence exchanged between the Pharaoh of Egypt, his client kingdoms, and the other Great Powers of the Near East. These letters are some of the earliest examples of diplomacy in human history. viii They were discovered in 1887 CE in El-Amarna, the former capital of the Pharaoh Akhenaten.
