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His name Haile Selassie was given to him at his infant baptism and adopted again as part of his regnal name in 1930. [ 3 ] On 1 November 1905, at the age of 13, Tafari was appointed by his father as the Dejazmatch of Gara Mulatta (a region some twenty miles southwest of Harar). [ 33 ]
Haile Selassie wearing the regalia of a Knight of the Garter. He was the first African to have been bestowed that order. He was the first African to have been bestowed that order. In his 58 years of leadership (1916–1974) in the Ethiopian Empire , first as Regent and then Emperor , Haile Selassie accumulated numerous honours and decorations ...
2 May 1936 – Haile Selassie appointed Ras Imru Haile Selassie as Prince Regent in his absence, departing with his family for French Somaliland. [29] 30 June 1936 – Haile Selassie appealed to the League of Nations address the invasion. [30] 1936–1941 – Haile Selassie lived in Bath, England, in Fairfield House, which he bought. [31]
Upon the death of Empress Zewditu in 1930, Ras Tafari Makonnen, adopting the throne name Haile Selassie, was crowned Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia. His full title was "His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, King of Kings of Ethiopia and Elect of God."
The direct male line ended with Menelik II, who was succeeded first by the son of his daughter Lij Iyasu from 1913 to 1916, then by his daughter Zewditu until 1930, and finally by the son of a first cousin in the female line, Haile Selassie. Haile Selassie's reign lasted until 1974, when the dynasty was removed from power.
The 1922 regnal list of Ethiopia is an official regnal list used by the Ethiopian monarchy which names over 300 monarchs across six millennia.The list is partially inspired by older Ethiopian regnal lists and chronicles, but is notable for additional monarchs who ruled Nubia, which was known as Aethiopia in ancient times.
Ras Makonnen, August 1902. Ras Makonnen Wolde Mikael Wolde Melekot was born in Derefo Maryam near Ankober, in what was then in the province of Menz [3] [4] to his mother Woizero Tenagnework Sahle Selassie and his father Dejazmach Wolde Mikael Wolde Melekot, who was the governor of the provinces Menz and Doba (which are located in Semien Shewa) [5] [6] His maternal lineage is ethnically Amhara ...
The Fulfilled Rastafari group accept Haile Selassie's statements that he was a man and that he was a devout Christian, and so place emphasis on worshipping Jesus through the example set forth by Haile Selassie. [399]