Ruler · 1876 – 1930

Zewditu I of Ethiopia

Lived 1876 – 1930; politician. Emperor of Ethiopia of Ethiopian Empire, 1916 – 1930.

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Lived: 1876 – 1930; 54 years
In office: 14 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Ethiopian Empire
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

Emperor of Ethiopia

Ethiopian Empire · the 77th of 79 dated reigns · 1260 – 1974

73 before

Yohannes IV1871 – 1889

Menelik II1889 – 1913

Lij Iyasu1913 – 1916

Zewditu I of Ethiopia1916 – 1930

Haile Selassie1930 – 1974

Victor Emmanuel III1936 – 1941

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 1916 – 1930 · 14 years · came to it aged 40

Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 1930, the year they died

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