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Mentewab had herself crowned as co-ruler, becoming the first woman to be crowned in this manner in Ethiopian history. Ethiopian Prince investiture during the Zemene Mesafint. Empress Mentewab was crowned co-ruler upon the succession of her son (a first for a woman in Ethiopia) in 1730 and held unprecedented power over government during his reign.
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5 May 1941 – Haile Selassie returned to the throne to Ethiopia to help rally resistance. 19 May 1941 – British military occupation of Eritrea began. [57] [58] 31 January 1942 – 1st Anglo-Ethiopian Agreement. [59] 19 December 1944 – 2nd Anglo-Ethiopian Agreement. 10 February 1947 – Italy recognized Ethiopian sovereignty.
King of Italy, proclaimed Emperor of Ethiopia after Italian victory in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War; the title was contested by Haile Selassie in exile. Italian defeat in the East African campaign of World War II , and later Italian capitulation , ended Italian pretensions of rulership over Ethiopia.
The Ethiopian Empire, [a] historically known as Abyssinia or simply Ethiopia, [b] was a sovereign state [16] that encompassed the present-day territories of Ethiopia and Eritrea. It existed from the establishment of the Solomonic dynasty by Yekuno Amlak around 1270 until the 1974 coup d'état by the Derg , which ended the reign of the final ...
First Italo–Ethiopian War: 1895–1896: Modernization: 1913–1974: World War I: 1914–1918: Second Italo–Ethiopian War: 1935–1936: Italian East Africa: 1936–1941: World War II: 1941: Italian guerrilla war: 1941–1943: Federation with Eritrea: 1952–1962: Eritrean Independence War: 1961–1991: Ethiopian Civil War: 1974–1991 ...
12 January - Rank-and-file soldiers of the Negele Borana garrison mutiny over bad food and lack of drinking water. They seize the Emperor's personal envoy sent to negotiate and pacify, Lt. Gen. Deresse Dubale, and force him to eat and drink as they did.