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Charles Tilly
Charles Tilly (1929-2008), American sociologist at Columbia, pioneer of contentious politics; originated repertoires of contention and the war-made-the-state thesis in Coercion, Capital and European States.
Charles Tupper
Sir Charles Tupper (1821–1915), Nova Scotia physician, premier 1864–67, Father of Confederation, High Commissioner to London, and Canada's sixth prime minister in 1896, holding the shortest tenure on record.
Charles University
Charles University, also known as Univerzita Karlova, is a public research university in Prague founded by Charles IV in 1348, the oldest in Central Europe.
Charles Upham
Charles Hazlitt Upham (1908–1994), New Zealand captain of the 20th Battalion, 2NZEF, won the Victoria Cross and Bar for Crete 1941 and Ruweisat Ridge 1942; the only combat soldier among three double VC recipients, later a Colditz POW.
Charles V of France
Charles V the Wise (1338–1380), Valois king of France 1364–1380, son of John II; recovered English-held provinces, made royal taxation permanent, created the franc, and built the Louvre library.
Charles V, Duke of Lorraine
Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (Karl V. von Lothringen, 1643–1690) was an imperial field marshal who led Habsburg armies at the relief of Vienna in 1683 and recaptured Buda in 1686.
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V (1500–1558), also Charles I of Spain, Habsburg emperor elected 1519 who ruled Spain, the Netherlands, Austria, and the Americas; fought France, the Ottomans, and the Reformation, then abdicated 1554–1556 and died at Yuste.
Charles Vane
Charles Vane (c. 1680 – 1721) was an English pirate who raided shipping in the Caribbean from 1715 to 1719 and was hanged in Jamaica in 1721.
Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry
Charles William Stewart, later Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (1778–1854): Anglo-Irish soldier, diplomat and coal owner; half-brother and client of Castlereagh, Peninsular adjutant general under Wellington, envoy to Prussia and ambassador to Vienna.
Charles VI of France
Charles VI of France (1368–1422), called le Bien-Aimé and later the Mad (il Folle), reigned 1380–1422; psychosis from 1392, the Armagnac–Burgundian civil war, and the Treaty of Troyes made Henry V of England his heir.
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles VI, also known as Karl VI, was Holy Roman emperor from 1711 to 1740, the last male Habsburg, and promulgated the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713.
Charles VII of France
Charles VII (1403–1461), called the Victorious, king of France 1422–1461; disputed against Henry VI under the Treaty of Troyes, crowned at Reims 1429, allied Burgundy at Arras 1435, built a permanent army, and ended the Hundred Years' War at Castillon 1453.
Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles VII (1697–1745), elector of Bavaria as Charles Albert from 1726, was Holy Roman Emperor from 1742 until his death in 1745, the only non-Habsburg emperor of the modern era.
Charles VIII of France
Charles VIII (1470–1498), l'Affable, king of France 1483–1498; minority under Anne de Beaujeu, marriage to Anne of Brittany 1491, and the 1494–95 Naples expedition that opened the Italian Wars.
Charles Vyner Brooke
Charles Vyner Brooke (1874–1963), last White Rajah of Sarawak, reigned 24 May 1917 to 1 July 1946, ceded Sarawak to Britain as a Crown Colony, and died in London months before Malaysia's formation.
Charles Wager
Sir Charles Wager (1666–1743) was a British admiral and First Lord of the Admiralty, best known for his 1708 attack on a Spanish treasure fleet off Cartagena.
Charles Wagner
Charles Wagner (1852–1918) was a French Reformed pastor and writer, author of the successful La vie simple and founder of the liberal Protestant parish of the Foyer de l'Âme in Paris.
Charles Warre Malet
Charles Warre Malet (1752 to 1815) was an East India Company servant and the first British Resident at the Peshwa's court at Poona, serving there from 1786 to 1797.
Charles Watson
Charles Watson (चार्ल्स वॉटसन; 1714–1757) was a Royal Navy officer who, with Robert Clive, retook Calcutta, captured Chandannagar, and brought about the victory at Plassey in 1757.
Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington
Arthur Charles Valerian Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington (born 1945, Windsor), British peer; Conservative MEP 1979–1989, elected hereditary peer in the Lords 2015, Crossbench since 2019, former chairman of King's College London.
Charles Wesley
Charles Wesley (1707–1788) was an Anglican clergyman who wrote some 6,500 hymns, including "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling," and helped found Methodism with his brother John.
Charles Wesley Gallagher
Charles Wesley Gallagher (1846–1916) was an American Methodist Episcopal clergyman and educator who pastored in New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts and led three Methodist institutions.
Charles Whitman
Charles Joseph Whitman (1941–1966), ex-Marine and UT Austin student, killed his wife and mother then fired from the UT Tower observation deck on August 1, 1966; 17 died including him, 31 wounded; autopsy found a glioblastoma-like brain tumor of disputed relevance.
Charles Wilkins
Charles Wilkins (1749–1836) was a British orientalist and East India Company servant in Bengal, the first Englishman widely known to have learned Sanskrit and translator of the Bhagavad Gita.
Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick
Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick (Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, 1735–1806), ruler of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from 1780, Prussian field marshal, author of the 1792 Brunswick Manifesto; defeated at Valmy and mortally wounded at Auerstädt in 1806.
Charles Wong
Charles Wong is a Singaporean businessman who co-founded the women's footwear and accessories brand Charles & Keith in 1996 and serves as the group's chief executive officer.
Charles Woodruff Shields
Charles Woodruff Shields (1825–1904) was an American Presbyterian clergyman and educator who held Princeton's chair of the harmony of science and religion from 1865 to 1903, later taking Episcopal orders.
Charles X
Charles X (1757–1836), comte d'Artois, brother of Louis XVI and Louis XVIII, was the last Bourbon Restoration king of France (1824–1830). His 1825 Reims coronation, Haitian indemnity, and appointment of Polignac led to the July Revolution and exile.
Charles XI of Sweden
Charles XI (Karl XI, 1655–1697), king of Sweden 1660–1697, son of Charles X; victor of Lund in the Scanian War, founder of Swedish absolutism by the 1680–82 Riksdag decisions, and architect of the reduktion and allotment army.
Charles XII of Sweden
Charles XII (Karl XII, 1682–1718), King of Sweden during the Great Northern War: Narva 1700, Poltava 1709, five-year Ottoman exile, death at Fredriksten 1718, end of the Swedish empire.