Ruler · 1945 – 2001

Birendra of Nepal

Lived 1945 – 2001; monarch. King of Nepal of Kingdom of Nepal, 1972 – 2001.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1945 – 2001; 56 years
In office: 29 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Kingdom of Nepal
Left it: killed in office; Wikidata's manner of death

King of Nepal

Kingdom of Nepal · the 13th of 15 dated reigns · 1768 – 2008

9 before

Gyanendra of Nepal1950 – 1951

Tribhuvan of Nepal1951 – 1955

Mahendra of Nepal1955 – 1972

Birendra of Nepal1972 – 2001

Dipendra of Nepal2001

Gyanendra of Nepal2001 – 2008

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1972 – 2001 · 29 years · came to it aged 27

Came to it: the child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: killed in officeWikidata's manner of death: patricide; gunshot wound

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