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For centuries, English official public documents have been dated according to the regnal years of the ruling monarch.Traditionally, parliamentary statutes are referenced by regnal year, e.g. the Occasional Conformity Act 1711 is officially referenced as "10 Ann. c. 6" (read as "the sixth chapter of the statute of the parliamentary session that sat in the 10th year of the reign of Queen Anne").
Charles was also the longest-serving heir apparent, for the whole 70 years 214 days of his mother's reign. The second-longest serving was Edward VII, from his birth until his ascension at the age of 59 years 74 days. Charles surpassed Edward to become the longest-serving heir on 20 April 2011, the day before his mother’s 85th birthday. [11]
King of Bohemia: Margaret Stuart 1598–1600: King Charles I 1600–1649 King of England r. 1625–1649: Henrietta Maria of France 1609–1669: Robert Stuart 1602 Duke of Kintyre and Lorne: Mary Stuart 1605–1607: Sophia Stuart 1606 of England: Louis XIII 1601–1643 King of France: House of Hanover: Charles Duke of Cornwall 1629: King Charles ...
At his trial in Edinburgh Argyll was acquitted of complicity in the death of Charles I, and his escape from the whole charge seemed imminent, but the arrival of a packet of letters written by Argyll to Monck showed conclusively his collaboration with Cromwell's government, particularly in the suppression of Glencairn's Royalist rising in 1652 ...
Abdication date Successor/Fate Kuai of Yan: State of Yan: King of Yan: 318 BC Zi Zhi: Wuling of Zhao: State of Zhao: King of Zhao: 299 BC Huiwen of Zhao: Liu Ying: Western Han dynasty: Emperor of China: 10 January AD 9 Wang Mang: Xian of Han: Eastern Han dynasty: Emperor of China: 11 December 220 Wen of Cao Wei: Cao Huan: Cao Wei: Emperor of ...
The 83-year-old abdicated after 52 years of service, becoming the first Danish monarch to do so in over 900 years. ... Read on for what we know about abdication, and what would happen if Charles ...
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There have been 13 British monarchs since the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on 1 May 1707.England and Scotland had been in personal union since 24 March 1603; while the style, "King of Great Britain" first arose at that time, legislatively the title came into force in 1707.