Throughout history, many have been the leaders who have transcended and who have changed consciences, thoughts or even who have been able to establish the geopolitical bases of many countries. Let’s get to know the most important great leaders in History and their importance.
The most important great leaders in History and their significance
Surely if we mention names like Nelson Mandela , Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar they will sound familiar to you or you will know something of them, but do you know why they are considered great leaders? We review their lives a bit and how they changed the course of history as well as the names of the rest of the great leaders that you should know.
Sir Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Churchill, born in 1874 and died in 1965, is the most admired man of influence among business leaders. Among the historical leaders, Winston Churchill still occupies the first role despite his tempestuous and exuberant character. It is known that British Prime Minister Churchill faced Nazism deployed in Europe during World War II. A lover of good words and phrases that have remained in history, he knew how to lead a leadership policy in the face of the adversity of his time.
Nelson Mandela
Among historical leaders, Nelson Mandela is cited as one of the greatest in more recent history. He stood out as the leader of the anti-apartheid group: the ANC. Mandela had always fought against racial inequalities in South Africa. Arrested in 1962, he retained this ability to defend human rights and interracial equality until the end of his life. Called to the post of President of South Africa in 1994, after being released from prison in February 1990, it was in the company of former President Frederik De Klerk that he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, for his joint action in favor of the end apartheid.
Mandela is recognized for his highly exceptional job skills and exceptional leadership. After his release from prison, he was able to find the capacity for resilience towards the men who harshly condemned him and lead a new organization in his country where apartheid was definitively prohibited.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, a former attorney, served a first term as President of the United States from 1861 to 1865 and was assassinated during his second in late 1865 . Lincoln was a leader of his time who had to demonstrate a great capacity for persuasion in order to abolish slavery in the United States, then in the Civil War.
His second election campaign shows his influence on the political leadership. In effect, Lincoln managed to federate, around his ideas, an expanded vision of the states of the union through the return of the secessionist states to the bosom of the union. Unfortunately, he could not know the end of slavery that was abolished on December 6, 1865 , as he was assassinated on April 15 of that same year.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi is also in the circle of the most important historical and social leaders. Hindu leader, he has never stopped defending the peace between Hindus and Muslims in India . After becoming a lawyer in England, Gandhi moved to South Africa in 1893. Subject to local racism, he created a doctrine based on non-violence and respect for all. This will be the fight of his life. Back in India, Mahatma Gandhi entered politics and became the leader of the Congress party. Then he compromised India’s will for independence in the face of the English presence.
Numerous actions, including several hunger strikes, land him in prison. His vision of an India reconnected with its traditions, and boycotting all the products of England, opens the doors to a possible negotiation of the independence of his country. Greeted by Winston Churchill, another influential leader, he will not achieve his goals. It was only after the end of World War II in 1947 that India proclaimed its independence. Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 by an extremist.
Martin Luther King
Among historical leaders, Martin Luther King is recognized, like Nelson Mandela, as one of the leaders who fought for the rights of black populations throughout the world. His influence and personality make him today a personality that has forever marked the United States. An African-American pastor, he defended, in a pacifist way, the lives of many men and women of color. His influence has grown throughout his participation in various events.
On August 8, 1963, the leader delivered his famous speech “I have a dream!” In front of 250,000 people, in which he called for freedom, peace and equality before justice between all women and all men, whether they are black or white. Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968 by a white segregationist. America has made Martin Luther King’s birthday a holiday in his memory. It is celebrated on the third Monday of January.
Alexander the Great
And if we go back to the Ancient Age , Alexander the Great (or Alexander the Great ) is without a doubt the most powerful leader of all. His Macedonian Empire conquered many peoples including Greece, India and Egypt . A man of noble and strong character, friend of humanity. He was invincible against enemy armies but not against disease. A malaria ended his life.
Vladimir Lenin
Before more famous communists such as Joseph Stalin or Che Guevara himself emerged in history, Lenin had already managed to popularize Marxist political ideology by taking it as the basis for rebuilding the despotic Russia of the Tsars. Communism is today what it is thanks to Lenin , whose Bolshevik Revolution served as an inspiration to the coming leaders mentioned above.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon I Bonaparte was a French military man and ruler, a republican general during the French Revolution and the Directory, the architect of the coup of 18 Brumaire that made him first consul in the first consul of the Republic. He is undoubtedly one of the most studied leaders in history not only for his victories in the multiple battles he fought, but also for the aura of mystery that surrounded his entire life and even his final days living in exile.
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar was a skillful strategist and a courageous military man, whose victories allowed to extend the territory of the Roman Empire . He was also a shrewd politician, whose populist measures won him the affection of large strata of the population. As if that were not enough, he stood out as an exceptional writer (see The Gallic War ) and his conquests allowed much of Europe to adopt Latin customs and models.
