Nitocris is a woman who may have ruled Egypt in the 22nd century BC, or who may have been a literary invention centuries later. According to Herodotus, she lured her brother’s murderers into a banquet hall and then killed them by diverting the waters of the Nile to flood the room.
Portuguese queen of England, and later regent in Portugal
Neithhotep may have been the first recorded female monarch in world history, circa 3,000 to 3200 BC. She is believed to have been married to either the first or second pharaoh of unified Egypt.
1500s queen of Poland
Indian warrior queen
1500s and 1600sCountess of Desmond who ruled in her husband’s absence
Ann was a Pamunkey chief in the 1600s and 1700s
Queen Ka‘ahumanu was one of the most powerful women in Hawaiian history, whose decisions would affect her people for centuries.
Queen of Gran Canaria
Head woman of the turtle clan of the Mohawks in the 1700s and 1800s