Unknown Periods Thought To Be Less Than A Year
Note: Some of the following have been disputed as genuine monarchs
Name | Country | Royal house/dynasty | Reign began | Reign ended | Length | Comments |
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Pharaoh Nebiriau II | King of Egypt | Sixteenth Dynasty | c.1600 BC | c.1600 BC | Obscure Pharaoh of the Second Intermediate period | |
Pharaoh Tao I the Elder | Pharaoh of Egypt | Seventeenth Dynasty | c.1558 BC | c.1558 BC | An equally obscure Pharaoh of the Second Intermediate period | |
Queen Cleopatra IV of Egypt | Queen of Egypt | Ptolemaic | 116 BC | 115 BC | Pushed out of joint reign by her mother, Cleopatra III | |
Emperor Triệu Dương Vương | Vietnam | Triệu | 111 BC | 111 BC | Captured and executed by the Han after his army was destroyed leading to 150 years of Chinese mastery. | |
King Ildibad | King of the Ostrogoths | 540 | 541 | Assassinated by a Gepid | ||
Duke Bezprym | Duke of Poland | 1031 | 1032 | The reason for his downfall was his extreme cruelty. According to the Chronicles of Hildesheim, he was murdered by his own men no later than spring of 1032. Probably the instigators of his death were his half-brothers, although the main conspirator was Otto, who remained free in Germany. | ||
King Eraric | King of the Ostrogoths | 541 | 541 | Assassinated by a member of his own royal guard. | ||
High King Fogartach mac Néill | Ireland | Uí Néill | 724 | 724 | Claimed by some to be the High King of Ireland for several months during a period of high conflict. | |
Jaya Harivarman II | Champa | 1167 | 1167 | |||
Jaya Indravarman V | Champa | 1191 | 1191 | |||
Emperor Constantine Laskaris | Nicaea | Laskaris | 1204 | 1205 | Constantine Laskaris was declared nominal Byzantine emperor after Alexios V Doukas was deposed as the Byzantine emperor by the Fourth Crusade. | |
Emperor Mạc Toàn | Vietnam | Mạc | 1592 | 1592 | Mạc Toàn succeeded Mạc Mậu Hợp for a short period after the latter was killed by the forces of Trịnh Tùng. |
Read more about this topic: List Of Shortest-reigning Monarchs
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“Pray you bid
These unknown friends tos welcome, for it is
A way to make us better friends, more known.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“How easily and cleverly do I write just now! I am really pleased with myself; words come skipping to me like lambs upon Moffat Hill; and I turn my periods smoothly and imperceptibly like a skilful wheelwright turning tops in a turning-loom. Theres fancy! Theres simile!”
—James Boswell (17401795)
“O, I am smitten with a hatchets jaw;
And that in deed and not in word alone.
chorus: I thought I heard a sound within the house
Unlike the voice of one that jumps for joy.
He splits my skull, not in a friendly way,
Once more: he purposes to kill me dead”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)
“Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
When the last fires will wave to me”
—William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)