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The abolition of monarchy is a legislative or revolutionary movement to abolish monarchical elements in government, usually hereditary. The abolition of an absolute monarchy in favour of limited government under a constitutional monarchy is a less radical form of anti- monarchism that has succeeded in some nations that still retain monarchs ...
Proclamation of the abolition of the monarchy, high-relief bronze by Léopold Morice, Monument of the Republic, Place de la République, Paris, 1883. During the French Revolution, the proclamation of the abolition of the monarchy (French: Proclamation de l'abolition de la royauté) was a proclamation by the National Convention of France announcing that it had abolished the French monarchy on ...
The act abolishing the kingship was an Act of the Rump Parliament that abolished the monarchy in England in the aftermath of the Second English Civil War. In the days following the execution of Charles I on 30 January 1649, Parliament debated the form that any future government should take. On 7 February, Parliament voted down the idea of ...
monarchy abolished 95.6 4.4 91.7 [5] The Gambia: 1965 Gambian republic referendum: 24 November 1965 monarchy retained 65.85 34.15 60.46 Required 2/3 majority. [6] The Gambia: 1970 Gambian republic referendum: April 1970 monarchy abolished 70.45 29.55 90.1 [7] Greece: 1920 Greek referendum: 22 November 1920 monarchy restored - - Constantine I ...
The monarchy had effectively ended soon after the coup of 9 September 1944, which saw the Fatherland Front seize power. At that time, the regency council for the head of state, Tsar Simeon II , was replaced by a new council made up entirely of members of the Bulgarian Communist Party , the dominant force of the Fatherland Front.
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King Charles I is the only British sovereign whose rule led to revolution and the temporary abolition of the monarchy. He took the throne in 1625, and his reign saw a growing power struggle ...
King Constantine II was exiled in 1967 and was deposed by a referendum abolishing monarchy in 1973 (both events under dictatorial rule), during democratic rule the referendum was repeated in 1974, and the monarchy remained abolished.