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Abdicated 10 July 1510 [5] France: Napoleon III: Emperor of the French: 20 April 1808 2 December 1852 4 September 1870 Abdicated: 9 January 1873 [6] Germany: Wilhelm II: Emperor of Germany, King of Prussia: 27 January 1859 15 June 1888 9 November 1918 Abdicated: 9 June 1941 [7] Greece: Constantine II: King of the Hellenes: 2 June 1940 6 March ...
Portrait of Emperor Wilhelm II from 1895. The abdication of Wilhelm II as German Emperor and King of Prussia was declared unilaterally by Chancellor Max von Baden at the height of the German revolution on 9 November 1918, two days before the end of World War I.
Emperor of Japan: 2 March 1301 Go-Nijō: Hanazono: Japan: Emperor of Japan: 29 March 1318 Go-Daigo: Edward II Kingdom of England: King of England: 20 January 1327 Edward III: Andronikos II Palaiologos Eastern Roman Empire: Byzantine emperor: 24 May 1328 Andronikos III Palaiologos: Kōgon: Northern Court of Japan: Emperor of Japan: 7 July 1333 ...
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-59302-3. Cecil, Lamar (1989), Wilhelm II: Prince and Emperor, 1859–1900, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, ISBN 978-0-8078-1828-2, archived from the original on 14 September 2011
World War II deaths by country World War II deaths by theater. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history.An estimated total of 70–85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the estimated global population of 2.3 billion in 1940. [1]
Several emperors abdicated while still in their teens. These traditions show in Japanese folklore, theatre, literature and other forms of culture, where the emperor is usually described or depicted as an adolescent. Before the Meiji Restoration, Japan had eleven reigning empresses. Over half of Japanese empresses abdicated once a suitable male ...
The monarchs of the constituent states within the German Empire, most importantly Ludwig III of Bavaria, Frederick Augustus III of Saxony and Wilhelm II of Württemberg, soon abdicated. During the war, monarchies were planned for Poland (Kingdom of Poland), the Grand Duchy of Finland (to have a Finnish King), and Lithuania (Mindaugas II of ...
In June 2005, the Emperor and Empress visited the island of Saipan (part of the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory), [21] the site of a battle in 1944 during World War II. Akihito offered prayers and flowers at several memorials, honouring not only the Japanese who died, but also American servicemen, Korean labourers, and local islanders.