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European History by Letter - J

Are you a true expert of Europe's historical figures and locations?

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Question 10: Be precise
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Last updated: July 5, 2022
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Inspired the French to rise against English rule
Joan of Arc
Overthrown in the Glorious Revolution
James II
Elephant-hunting successor of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco
Juan Carlos
English king forced to sign the Magna Carta
John Lackland
“Great” Byzantine emperor
Justinian
1830 uprising in France (named after the month it occured) tumbling the Bourbon dynasty
July Revolution
Most feared London criminal of the 19th century
Jack the Ripper
Short-lived emirate in Andalusia, today a Mecca of motor racing
Jerez de la Frontera
Fool at medieval noble courts
Jester
"The Good Pope": Popular reformist pope calling the 2nd Vatican Council
John XXIII
Founder of the best-known Irish whiskey distillery in 1780 (John)
Jameson
Royal dynasty ruling in Poland, Lithuania, Bohemia and Hungary
Jagiellons
Influential political club during the French Revolution
Jacobins
Popular (and sometimes controversial) Queen of the Netherlands (1948-1980)
Juliana
Dynasty of the first five Roman emperors
Julio-Claudian
City in Thuringia famous for its optical industry (Carl Zeiss)
Jena
Balfour promised these often persecuted people a nation
Jews
Germanic tribe possibly from continental Denmark who settled in Britain along with the Angles and Saxons
Jutes
General, PM and president of communist Poland, often pictured with dark sunglasses (Wojciech)
Jaruzelski
Danish daredevil, self-declared and short-lived “protector” of Iceland in 1809 (Jørgen)
Jørgensen
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