cultures have viewed abdication as an extreme abandonment of duty, in other societies (such as pre-Meiji Restoration Japan), abdication was a regular event...

confirmed the abdication. South Africa passed His Majesty King Edward the Eighth's Abdication Act 1937, which declared that the abdication took effect there...

ISBN 978-0-7126-4194-4. Valente, Claire (1998). "The deposition and abdication of Edward II". The English Historical Review. 113 (453): 852–881. doi:10...

Scotland, was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567. The only surviving legitimate child of James V of Scotland, Mary...

of British films of 1974 "The Abdication". www.tcm.com. Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 31 December 2022. "The Abdication (1974)". BFI. Archived from the...

son, King Frederik X, on 14 January 2024. Margrethe's abdication was the first voluntary abdication of a Danish monarch since that of King Eric III in 1146...

Emperor's abdication. In January 2017, the Lower House Budget committee began informally debating the constitutional nature of the abdication. On 19 May...

Henry was crowned king. Henry had agreed to let Richard live after his abdication. This changed when it was revealed that the earls of Huntingdon, Kent...

official program for the abdication and inauguration took place on 30 April 2013. Beatrix signed the instrument of abdication in the Vroedschapkamer (also...

The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI took effect on 28 February 2013 at 20:00 CET, following his announcement of it on 11 February. It made him the first...