Aegina appears to have belonged to the Eretrian league during the Lelantine War ; hence, perhaps, we may explain the war with Samos, a leading member of the rival Chalcidian league in the reign of King Amphicrates ( Herod.

Some historians, particularly Josephus, claim that Claudius was directed in his actions by the Judaean King Herod Agrippa.

King Herod the Great built or rebuilt several fortresses and palaces on the western bank of the Dead Sea.

In 40 – 39, Herod the Great was appointed King of the Jews by the Roman Senate, and in 6 CE the last ethnarch of Judea was deposed by the emperor Augustus and his territories were combined with Idumea and Samaria and annexed as Iudaea Province under direct Roman administration.

In his play En Idealist, for example, the " hero " is King Herod whose fight to maintain power is the motive behind all of his acts until he is at last defeated by a show of kindness to the Christ child in a weak moment.

Some believe this myth was embodied in the dance of the seven veils of Salome, who danced for King Herod, as mentioned in the New Testament in and.

* Herod Agrippa I ( c. 10 BC – AD 44 ), client king of Judaea, called " King Herod " or " Herod " in Acts 12 of the New Testament

* Herod Agrippa II ( AD 27 – 100 ), tetrarch of Chalcis who was described in Acts of the Apostles as " King Agrippa " before whom Paul of Tarsus defended himself

Upon learning that Jesus was from Galilee, Pilate referred the case to the ruler of Galilee, King Herod, who was in Jerusalem for the Passover Feast.

* King Herod the Great begins renovation of the Temple in Jerusalem.

Two of his well-known later screen roles were as Dryden, a cynical British diplomat in Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ) and King Herod in The Greatest Story Ever Told ( 1965 ).

According to the Gospel of Matthew Herod ordered the execution of all young male children in the village of Bethlehem, so as to avoid the loss of his throne to a newborn King of the Jews whose birth had been announced to him by the Magi.

Agrippa I, also known as Herod Agrippa or simply Herod ( 10 BC – 44 AD ), was a King of the Jews during the 1st century AD.

" King Herod ", mentioned in the Bible's Acts of the Apostles, is identified by historians as the same person as King Agrippa I.

King Herod had architects from Greece, Rome and Egypt plan the construction.

However, a public outcry was brewing among the London populace who saw a sinister irony in the parallels between the conviction of Fisher and that of his patronal namesake, Saint John the Baptist, who was executed by King Herod Antipas for challenging the validity of Herod's marriage to his brother's divorcée Herodias.

She was the daughter of King Herod Agrippa I and a sister of King Herod Agrippa II.

* 1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

King Ethelwulf of Wessex, father of Alfred the Great was born in Aachen.

The name's popularity was spread throughout the Greek world by the military conquests of King Alexander III, commonly known as " Alexander the Great ".

* Alexander the Great ( Alexander III of Macedon ), King of Macedon, 356 – 323 BC

Alfred the Great (, " elf counsel "; 849 – 26 October 899 ) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899.

Afonso I ( 25 June 1109, Guimarães or Viseu – 6 December 1185, Coimbra ), more commonly known as Afonso Henriques (), nicknamed " the Conqueror " (), " the Founder " () or " the Great " () by the Portuguese, and El-Bortukali (" the Portuguese ") and Ibn-Arrik (" son of Henry ", " Henriques ") by the Moors whom he fought, was the first King of Portugal.

* Order of the Chrysanthemum, 1930: Emperor Showa's second brother, Prince Takamatsu, traveled to Madrid to confer the Great Collar of the Chrysanthemum on King Alfonso.

* 526 – King Theodoric the Great dies of dysentery at Ravenna ; his daughter Amalasuntha takes power as regent for her 10-year old son Athalaric.

King Alfred's ( Alfred the Great ) translation of Orosius ' history of the world uses Angelcynn (- kin ) to describe England and the English people ; Bede used Angelfolc (- folk ); there are also such forms as Engel, Englan ( the people ), Englaland, and Englisc, all showing i-mutation.

King Alfred the Great and the chronicler Æthelweard identified this place with the district that is now called Angeln, in the province of Schleswig ( Slesvig ) ( though it may then have been of greater extent ), and this identification agrees with the indications given by Bede.

These people may have assisted the Scythians when King Darius the Great led a Persian invasion into what is now Southern Russia to punish the Scythians for their raids into the Achaemenid Empire.

* Queen Caroline, consort of King George II of Great Britain was born in Ansbach in 1683.

Persian King Darius I the Great, in an attempt to subdue the Scythian horsemen who roamed across the north of the Black Sea, crossed through the Bosphorus, then marched towards the Danube River.

However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.

Consolation of Philosophy was written during a one-year imprisonment Boethius served while awaiting trial – and eventual horrific execution – for the crime of treason under the Ostrogothic King Theodoric the Great.

The Chronicle is a set of annals which were compiled near the year 890, during the reign of King Alfred the Great of Wessex.

King Gwanggaeto the Great often led expeditions into the Baekje, Gaya confederacy, Buyeo, Later Yan and against Japanese invaders with his cavalry.

Image: BattleofIssus333BC-mosaic-detail1. jpg | Alexander the Great using armoured cavalry, fighting Persian King Darius III

The following year, having obtained tribute from the East Anglian King Edmund, the Great Army moved north, seizing York, chief city of the Northumbrians.

Casimir III the Great () ( 30 April 1310 – 5 November 1370 ) who reigned in 1333 – 1370, was the last King of Poland from the Piast dynasty, the son of King Władysław I the Elbow-high and Duchess Hedwig of Kalisz.

* 1936 – Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII's abdication as King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India becomes effective.

The Charter was signed on December 13, 1769, on behalf of George III of the United Kingdom | King George III of Great Britain.

The Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches celebrate the feast day of the " Holy Righteous Prophet and King David " on the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers ( two Sundays before the Great Feast of the Nativity of the Lord ), when he is commemorated together with other ancestors of Jesus.

Stanford is also home to the original papers of Martin Luther King Jr., and history professor Clayborne Carson directs the King Papers Project.

Nausikaa, being hospitable, provides clothes, food and drink to Odysseus, then she directs him to the palace of King Alkinoös, since she doesn't want to be seen with a stranger, let alone a man, as she is yet unmarried and people watch and talk and may raise rumors of her befriending men.

Jocelin, the dean of the cathedral, directs the construction of a towering spire funded by his aunt, Lady Alison, a former mistress of the King.