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jerrab » Yesterday, 2:42 pm » wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 2:42 pm

kings were born, dumb ****, good god you are thick.

• King Richard II (England): Overthrown in 1399 by his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, who invaded the country, forced Richard's abdication, and took the crown as Henry IV. [1]
• King Edward II (England): Dethroned in 1327 by an uprising led by his wife Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer, after which his young son was proclaimed Edward III.
• King Charles I (England): Overthrown and captured during the English Civil War, then put on trial and executed in 1649, temporarily replacing the monarchy with the Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell. [1, 2]
• King James II (England): Deposed during the Glorious Revolution of 1688 when a Dutch military invasion led by William of Orange and his wife Mary (James's daughter) forced him to flee. [1]
• King Henry VI (England): Overthrown during the Wars of the Roses in 1461 by Edward IV of the House of York, losing and briefly regaining the throne before his final defeat. [1]
• King Louis XVI (France): Overthrown and arrested during the French Revolution in 1792, ending the French monarchy before the rise of the First Republic. [1]
• King Farouk I (Egypt): Deposed in a military coup led by Egyptian army officers in 1952, which led to his exile and the establishment of the Republic of Egypt. [1]
• Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia): Overthrown in a 1974 Marxist military coup led by the Derg (headed by Mengistu Haile Mariam), ending the centuries-old Solomonic dynasty.
• Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (Iran): Overthrown during the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which replaced the monarchy with an Islamic republic.