Sentence examples for reign length from inspiring English sources

Neither of these sources give his reign length.

The damaged state of the papyrus also makes it impossible to decide safely whose reign length this is.

Of the two entries concerning Shepseskare and Neferefre on the king list, only one reign length is still legible and it has been variously read as one year, eleven years or one to four months.

Like Manetho's later work, the Turin document gave reign lengths for individual kings, as well as totals for some dynasties and longer multidynastic periods.

The Egyptians did not date by eras longer than the reign of a single king, so a historical framework must be created from totals of reign lengths, which are then related to astronomical data that may allow whole periods to be fixed precisely.

A total of 955 years for the 1st through the 8th dynasty in the Turin Canon has been used to assign a date of about 3100 bc for the beginning of the 1st dynasty, but this requires excessive average reign lengths, and an estimate of 2925 bc is preferable.

And feminists might well applaud Abigail's praise of female rulers: "History informs us that of the few Queens who have reigned for any length of Time as absolute Sovereigns the greatest part of them have been celebrated for excellent Govenours".

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.

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.

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

At 85, she is the longest-lived British monarch and her reign is second in length only to that of Queen Victoria.