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Earlier kings of the Dʿmt, Axum and Zagwe kingdoms are listed separately due to numerous gaps and large flexibility in chronology. For legendary and archeologically unverified rulers of Ethiopian tradition, see Regnal lists of Ethiopia and 1922 regnal list of Ethiopia. Names in italics indicate rulers who were usurpers or not widely recognized.
9 May 1936 – Mussolini proclaims Italian Ethiopia with the assumption of the imperial title by the Italian King Vittorio Emanuele III. [51] 9 June 1936 – Ethiopia was annexed as Italian East Africa; 19 February 1937 – Yekatit 12 massacre took place in Addis Ababa, resulted in 1,400 and 30,000 civilians" deaths and many other imprisonments.
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.
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 ...
The king whose name inspired the name "Ethiopia". 4 'Aksumawi Son of Aethiopis Traditional founder of Axum. [41] 5 Malayka Aksum Son of 'Aksumawi – – Sum The six sons of 'Aksumawi were the "fathers" of Aksum but were not kings of Ethiopia. [41] Budge believed that they may have "[represented] the dynasty of the serpent which was destroyed ...
1425 - 1460 Shongetato (also known as the Girra king) 1460 - 1495 Odhe/Addiotato; 1495 - 1530 Sadi or Shaddi/Shaditato; 1530 - 1565 Madi Gafine/Gafo or Shonge, possibly the same as Borrete; 1565 - 1605 Bong-he or Borrete or Bongatato, said to be the son of Madi Gafo; 1605 - 1640 Giba Nekiok or Bonge or Galo Nechocho; 1640 - 1675 Gali Gafocho or ...
2 December 1950 – The federation of Eritrea with Ethiopia had stipulated under UN Resolution 390 (V). [44] 1961 – Eritrean War of Independence began, followed by the dissolution of the federation and closing of Eritrean parliament. [45] 25 May 1963 – Haile Selassie formed the Organization of African Unity (OAU) headquartered in Addis ...
Until the Ethiopian Revolution of 1974, the heads of state of Ethiopia were either emperors or regents. From the coup d'état of the Derg leading to the fall of the empire in September 1974 until March 1975, the Derg considered the crown prince Asfaw Wossen (later regnal name Amha Selassie ) as the king (not emperor) and the nominal head of ...