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Philip I. The Handsome. 1478-1506. King of Castile 1504-. Established Spanish Hapsburg line by marrying daughter of Ferdinand II.
Philip II. 382-336BC. General: unified Macedonia. Alexander’s father.
Philip II. 1165-1223. French Capetian king 1179-. 3rd Crusade. Conquered Flanders. Doubled France. Fought Richard the Lion Heart for Angevin Empire.
Philip II. 1527-98. Spanish king. Revolt, 1579. Married Mary I of England. Sent Armada against Elizabeth I, 1588. Counter-Reformation champion.
Philip IV. The Fair. 1268-1314. French Capetian king 1285-. Taxed Roman Catholic Church. Ended Templars.
Philip IV. 1605-65. Spanish king 1621-. Lost Portugal, Catalonia, Utrecht.
Philip V. 238-179BC. Macedonian king 221-. Defeated by Rome.
Philip V. The Tall. 1293-1322. French king 1316-. Succeeded over Joan by Salic Law.
Philip V. 1683-1746. First Bourbon king of Spain 1700-. Accession led to War of Spanish Succession, loss of Netherlands and Italian possessions. War of Polish Succession.
Philip VI. 1293-1350. French Valois king 1328-1350.
Philip the Good. 1396-1467. Valois Duke of Burgundy 1419-. Allied with England vs France.
Philippe Auguste Wall. 1210. First defensive wall around Paris.
Philippe de Champagne. Cartoonist 1631. Windows of St-Eustache.
Philippi, Battle. 42BC. Antony and Octavian beat republicans Brutus and Cassius.
Philippics. Acrimonious orations of Demosthenes against Philip II of Macedonia.
Philippine Sea, Battle. 1944. Major US victory over Japanese. Philippines reconquered. MacArthur.
Philippines. 1521 Magellan discovers. 1565 Spanish conquer. 1762-64 British occupy. 1898 US. 1935 Commonwealth. 1941-11 Japan occupies. 1946 Republic. 1973 Marcos dictator. 1986 Democracy. MacArthur.
Phillips, Wendell. 1811-84. US abolitionist, women’s suffrage, prohibition crusader.
Philo. c20BC-50. Alexandrian Jew. Reconciled Jewish faith with Greek reason.
Philoctetes. Mythical Greek warrior. Killed Paris at Troy.
Philomela. Mythical Greek princess. Raped by Tereus. Tongue cut out.
Philostratus. 3C Greek Sophist. Lives of Sophists. Imagines.
Phoebe. Greek Titan, associated with moon.
Phoenicians. Canaanites. 30-4C BC. Eastern Mediterranean traders from England to Africa. 20C BC Tyre. 15C BC invented alphabet. 814BC Carthage.
Photius. c820-91. Patriarch of Constantinople 858~86. Began Great Schism controversy.