Evil Kings That Did Evil Things in History

evil Kings doing evil things hey he wasn't a king yeah you're right while some of the guys on this list weren't Kings by title they held very high positions of power nonetheless so to you I say moving on Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus germanicus or just Nero to his friends and enemies was the very last Roman emperor of the less than impressive Julio claudian Dynasty which lasted from 27 BC to 68 a like any complete psycho Nero had a pretty complicated childhood when Nero was just a we nerite at the age of three his daddy

went in abandon the family by dying mom got exiled to a tiny Island for maybe attempting to kill Emperor Caligula Caligula got killed anyway mom is unex iled and marries the new emperor Claudius which happens to be her uncle by the way the public is all and now little Nero has a great uncle Emperor dad who has proclaimed him to be the new heir to the throne I love you Uncle daddy that's a lot to deal with as a child but the sweet birthday presents help you quickly forget so why did this happen because Nero's

mom agripina was a political Savage her only interest was power so much so that to prevent a Revenge plot she had the recently stabbed Emperor Caligula's Widow accused of black magic banished and even convinced her to fully deplete her own health bar now she wants her baby boy Nero to be Emperor and in 54 ad that's what happened Emperor Claudius died under mysterious circumstances mysterious in the sense of having a potentially poisonous mushroom just absolutely slammed down his gullet by agripina herself maybe but since the board game Clue had yet to be invented forensic puzzle

solving was pretty minimal oh my God put that knife down someone's just been murdered coincidentally Nero's stepbrother britannicus who had claim to the throne also decided to expire around the same time under mysterious circumstances so now at just 16 years old Nero is emperor empor yes yes so how did he do being Emperor he actually started off pretty well he banned capital punishment expanded the Arts gave disaster relief Aid to neighboring cities reduced taxes and even gave some rights to Slaves seems like a pretty nice guy actually uh-oh this is getting click ba we're already

2 minutes in where's all the evil stuff well for one he married his step sister as a power move which is gross but not evil since the relationship was void of any real love Nero started poking around in other women's HOAs one of which was papea Saina a local Town babe who was already married well Nero pops papea and puts a baby in her belly this little stunt ticked off his mom who was trying to maximize power through having a mentally stable Emperor's son since Nero didn't think that his mom's attitude was very Cash Money

of her he had her assassinated but made it look like an accident this is regarded as the turning point in Nero's Reign and when all the ancient [ __ ] started to hit the ancient fan he began going a bit kill happy next he divorced his step sister had her exiled killed and took her head as a trophy apparently under Papa's influence but not to worry Nero did a 360 turned around and forward smashed papea and their unboard child off stage that's one problem taken care of Nero went unhinged he had several close friends and

political Rivals murdered had a former slave castrated then married him and even had a senator murder just because his Expressions were too boring oh would you look at that I'm dying now okay but Nero's crowning moment in history comes in the year 64 where he allegedly started a small fire in a suspiciously flammable Merchant shop According to some sources Nero wanted to make way for a newer more elegant and ornate Palace and you know what they say in order to make an omelet you have to burn down your city about 71% of Rome was destroyed

in the great fire in 64 ad there's rumors that Nero shredded on the fiddle or loot during all this but there's no actual proof of that claim but like could you imagine eventually Nero's frequent and dangerously wacky Antics forced the Senate to declare him a Public Enemy but Nero said that he wouldn't be taken alive and he wasn't he went from Nero to Zero by slamming a knife into his own neck thus ending his 13-year Reign talk about a Nero death experience you may not think it by looking at him but this tall glass of

lukewarm from pondwater was once the most influential and feared Kings in Europe in the late 1400s this is Ferdinand I of Naples AKA fante he was the illegitimate son of King Alfonso the magnanimous of Aragon not Aragorn Aragon is over in Spain Naples is over in Italy geography when Alfonso left this Mortal coil Ferdinand inherited the crown at Naples at the age of 35 now listen if you're going to control a kingdom seldom do kind King success seed though he did bring about 20 years of peace and prosperity to his own kingdom he was cruel

and vile to his enemies which I mean makes sense you can't conquer with forgiveness and love you would just get conquered yourself that being the case Ferdinand got a reputation for being rather ruthless basically if you crossed the guy or got on his bad side you were marked for an unpleasant death an example of this was early on in his reign in 1462 when several Nobles led a revolt against him trying to put some ham hack of a human on the throne instead but ferdinan put a swift end to that gaggle of rabble rousers and

the nobles were put in the corner after many years of keeping his enemies in check the Ottoman Empire decided it was time to do Ottoman Empire things and invaded Naples in 1480 the Southeast region of salento fell to the furniture Empire after a few weeks this caused ferdinan to panic and declared that everyone should be all hands on deck to fill the Kingdom's coffers to fight back the invading Ottomans and were eventually successful but the heavy tax burdens pissed off the no good unthankful Nobles they LED yet another Rebellion against Ferdinand to which he said

okay and seized their property and wealth the Nobles gave up yet again but Ferdinand wanted to put an end to this once and for all fool me once shame on you fool me twice you're [ __ ] dead so Ferdinand set up a meeting to Grant the rebels amnesty and forgiveness at said meeting a deal was struck and the rebels were quickly forgiven and also quickly murdered as a warning to any future conspirators King Ferdinand had their bodies mummified stuffed dressed and put on display in what he called his black Museum listen here Ferdinand I

think some things need to change around here oh really you know you're doing such a good job as king Excuse me while I go and unshit my pants Ferdinand eventually died of butthole cancer and Naples fell to the French soon after now the title lame here isn't what you think it is instead of being lame like some dumb nerd teor was lame in the sense of being disabled while committing casual sheep theft as children do young teamour took an arrow to the knee and an arrow to the hand which caused lifelong injury but do you

think being reduced down to the usefulness of a cup of tapioca pudding is going to stop this future conquering warlord definitely not in fact little teamour grew up to be an extremely cruel but highly intelligent and effective military tactician through his efforts the tur Mongol warlord conquered most of Western and Central Asia caucasia Persia the Middle East and parts of South Asia and Eastern Europe by 1404 all while forming an Empire to call his own the Timor Empire not bad for running on a 50% limb deficit during his conquests he spread destruction and Terror almost

everywhere he went cuz that's kind of what conquerors do remember real power is taken not given throughout these campaigns tour's actions gained him quite an Infamous reputation placing him amongst other horrifying Legends one such action was the massacre of Isfahan formerly a Persian City Isfahan was a flourishing Hub of art medicine music philosophy and architecture which meant had had wealth a thriving city is great and all but when you have no Army to defend it you're basically just begging for a pillagin oh no I hope no one takes makes my hard earned money GH my

coins are just spilling out please don't plunder me pockets is it is this a sexual thing it could be so with little to no defense in place teamour waltzed right in and was all this is mine now and Isfahan was all fair enough surrendering immediately as an act of Mercy teor spared the population did some light looting and left some soldiers in command as he went on his next Conquest well a few young Hooligans decided to be here Heroes and murder teor soldiers bad move teor caught wind of this and immediately High tailed it back

to Isfahan in a completely levelheaded and reasonable response he ordered the slaughter of every man woman and child in the city he gave each of his soldiers a quota of heads to bring him if they failed to collect the craniums they would lose their own Noggin to add to the count one by one each citizen was cut down almost the entire population of 100,000 people including a lot livestock were murdered piles of skulls were scattered around the city as Testament to the horrific act look taking a revenge against those who directly defied you is one

thing but when tens of thousands of innocent civilians become collateral damaged to your blind wrath that's when things cross over into evil territory one surviving prisoner stated that teamour quote ordered the women and children to be taken to a plane outside the city and ordered the children under 7 years of age to be placed apart and ordered his people to ride over these same children when his counselors and the mothers of the children saw this they fell at his feet and begged that he would not kill them he would not listen and ordered that they

should be ridden over but none would be the first to do so he got angry and rode himself among them and said now I should like to see who will not ride after me then they were obliged to ride over the children and they were all trampled upon there were 7,000 yet teor was a pretty bad dude and that's really just one example of his many atrocities by the time of his death in 1405 it is estimated that tour's Conquest caused the death of over 17 million people which was about 5% of the world's population

at the time pretty solid killstreak the Shia Dynasty the very first dynasty in ancient China is estimated to have been founded around 2070 BC and remained in power for several hundreds of years until this guy showed up King G was the last ruler of the Shia Dynasty which most certainly means that he royally fudged up in some shape or form so what happened not surprisingly GA had a reputation as a cruel Tyrant he was the big cheese around these parts and he wanted everyone to know that at all times but you could argue that g

was ahead of his time because instead of focusing on ways to better his Empire like any good Emperor would he only sought ways to make life better for himself and his closest buddies like modern politicians he also loved spending money tons of it he would drain the Kingdom's coffers on frivolous activities like luxurious Palace upgrades endless entertainment and smashing some gash with the Royal concubines when he ran out of money he would either raise taxes to continue to fund his lifestyle or randomly invade small neighboring towns to relieve them of their hard-earned money and their

women on one particularly lucrative Expedition GA decided to ravage the local Yushi Clan open up Yushi I know you're in there oh sorry wrong Clan there we go the Yushi Clan didn't want to put up a fight because they knew they would get their [ __ ] kicked in so they instantly surrendered as you can see they were pretty smart the clan offered up a substantial Bounty of riches for King GA to hit the road but since the king had a boner for spilling blood he felt fled and defeated by an enemy who quickly gave

up without a fight before King G could act the chief of the Yushi Clan offered one more prize a beautiful woman by the name of Moshi enamored by her obvious Beauty King G swiftly accepted the offer I love you g became unhealthily obsessed with MOSI trying anything and everything to please her he once had servants dig a lake and fill it with wine so the couple could bathe drink and flop around on and in each other I mean the lake was just full of completely disgusting fluids now that it was properly flavored 3,000 men were

then commanded to drink the lake dry they drowned after learning that his nearest dearest darlingest love weirdly enjoyed the ASMR pleasures of tearing silk he demanded that the finest silks from the farthest reaches of the Kingdom be brought before him so he could rip them for her all of these dumbass Endeavors continued to clear out the Kingdom's already scant reserves so it was time to fundraise okay fellas taxes are going up again what the [ __ ] G we can't afford to live like this you don't understand I'm this close to getting her to notice

me stop being a s all right that guy someone kill that guy you're still a s you know I know basically over the next several years all the pissed off and neglected subjects and neighbors started feeling pissed off and neglected so they turned their attention to a newer cooler guy instead of GA of Shia now they want to Tang of Shang how funny is that after many years of gaining political power and support around the country Tang of Shang built an army revolted and eventually defeated and captured King G stripping him of his kingship around

1600 BC the Shia Dynasty had fallen after about 500 years of rule G eventually died of natural causes as a penniless commoner evil can be subjective what could be viewed as an active Evil by one group may be celebrated and revered by another for instance Vlad the impaler's cruel acts of well impaling 20,000 people may be seen as wicked and sadistic by most but to Romanians he's seen as a hero because he defended his homeland from the invading Ottoman Empire but then there's just completely unjustifiable evil [ __ ] like King Leopold II of Belgium

what do you think of when you think of Belgium waffles chocolate well how about indigenous genocide yeah in case you didn't know the Belgian Crown was once in possession of one of if not the bloodiest European colonies in African history at the Berlin Conference in 1884 King Leopold II sought to expand his fortune by staking claim to the Congo over 900,000 square miles of African rainforest in the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo to sweeten the deal Leo formed the international African Association under the guise that it was for humanitarian and philanthropic purposes also to

establish free trade between the European countries which was the real selling point with that the other colonizing European countries of France Germany Italy Spain Portugal and the United Kingdom welcomed Belgium's claim to the land and King leopo II was now the sole owner of the ironically named Congo free state but there was nothing free about it King Leo's only interest was to extract as much resources and wealth from the land by any means necessary in order to to do that he needed Manpower so he forced new laws on The congales Chieftains to implement within their

own communities those who resisted were swiftly eradicated by other congales communities who were backed by the Belgian Crown initial collection and trade of precious Ivory exports weren't the best for profit margins so not as much money was being made as expected causing the colony to fall into massive debt but with the invention and development of automobiles in the late 1800s the demand for tires shot through the the thatched roof in order to make tires you need rubber lots of rubber where does rubber come from rubber trees and boy let me tell you that the Congo

had some rubber trees after establishing his own personal African Army called The False pu to enforce Rule King Leo extracted a fortune Through Blood millions of congales natives were enslaved and forced to harvest and process rubber from the Congo with the main goal of maximizing production at all costs those who were unable to meet a labor quota were sometimes murdered on the spot those who refused to work were savagely beaten with their Villages raided and destroyed this system called the Red Rubber system led to the utter collapse of the congales economy and culture it should

be noted that King Leo never stepped foot in the Congo himself he left all of his Dirty Work to handpicked Belgian officials who ruled as they pleased often contributing their own atrocities against the native people one particularly nasty official was Leon feves he was Notorious for punishing underperforming Slaves by having their hands cut off he claimed that it was a way to settle the debt of Labor owed to him the false Pub soldiers were in charge of collecting these debts and they were even rewarded for the amount of hands they could collect with that mentality

they would often resort to cutting the hands off of working slaves to cheat the system this actually ended up pissing the king off because how the hell are slaves supposed to work with no hands there were several other issues that plagued the Congo as a direct result of Belgian brutality all of the development and forced labor caused the vast majority of farming to come to a dead halt leading to extreme famine and even more deaths children who were orphaned during the colonization were kidnapped and forced into Catholic schools where they would learn to work or

be soldiers fatal diseases ran rampant through the Congo including small poox Amic dysentery and the parasitic trapan aiis also called the sleeping sickness which caused Mass insomnia and painful muscle spasms through the culmination of these atrocities historians estimate that roughly 5 to 10 million congales people lost their lives during Belgium's Reign Over the Congo from 1885 to 1908 thanks to missionaries who secretly documented these atrocities the public was informed of the horrors of the Congo the Belgian public who had no knowledge of these actions caused an uproar after much public outcry around the world including

famous writers like Mark Twain and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the Belgian Parliament forced King Leopold II to seed the Congo free state to Belgium itself in 1908 but not before he could destroy any and all documented evidence of his wrongdoings that he could find the Congo free state was changed to the Belgian Congo then the Republic of the Congo than the Democratic Republic of the Congo since its Western neighbor had the same name King Leopold died a year later in 1909 and the public dunked on his funeral with loud booing and heckling even today many

belgians are ashamed of their late Monarch's atrocious behavior and demonstration of how evil a human could be fun stuff right here's another video [Music]