Sentence examples for length of reign from inspiring English sources

King Harald V of Norway Age: 77 years Born: 21 February 1937 Ascended the throne: 17 January 1991 Length of reign: 24 years.

Queen Victoria's length of reign: 63 years 216 days Victoria Victoria Length of reign: 63 years 216 days Reputation She came to the throne, aged 18, at the time when the reputation of the monarchy had been seriously tested by the behaviour of her father and uncles, the seven sons of George III.

Elizabeth II Length of reign: 63 years 215 days, so far Reputation The monarchy was in good standing when The Queen came to the throne, aged 25, because of the unifying effect of the war, but she has presided over the disappearance of deference.

Putting together the different dates in the Chronicle for birth, death, and length of reign, it appears that Æthelberht's reign was thought to have been either 560 616, or 565 618, but that the surviving sources have confused the two traditions.

Grosjean argues that the best method for resolving the conflicts is to just take 14 July 664 as the date of death, and figure backwards with the length of reign given by Bede, which gives a consecration date of 12 March 655.

He gave the lengths of reign of kings or of entire dynasties and grouped the dynasties into several periods, but, because of textual corruption and a tendency toward inflation, Manetho's figures cannot be used to reconstruct chronology without supporting evidence and analysis.

Manetho's history has not survived except for some fragments of narrative in Josephus's treatise "Against Apion" and tables of dynasties, kings, and lengths of reigns given in the works of Julius Africanus, Eusebius, and George Syncellus.

But in this, as in all matters concerning the length of a reign which stretches back to the very infancy of British polling, we are dependent on occasional attitudinal snapshots rather than the sort of month-in-month-out series available on voting intention.

Corporate bosses are departing with such frequency that if the length of their reign continues to fall at the current rate, estimates Booz Allen Hamilton, a consultancy, by 2042 the average boss will be in office for less than a day.Unlikely perhaps, but it illustrates a sustained and widespread phenomenon.

On that day she overtakes the length of the reign of George III, a king remembered largely for the "madness" which overtook him in later years.

The timing of Frederick's death and the length of his reign are important topics among historians.