Abolitions of Monarchies

This list does not include:
--monarchies abolished prior to the French Revolution
--monarchies absorbed into larger monarchies
--monarchies which had existed for less than ten years
--former colonies of monarchies which have not had their own monarch in modern times

Restoration, when noted, is considered to include the accession of a monarch, therefore excluding the vacant restorations proclaimed by dictators in Hungary (1920) and Spain (1947; confirmed 1969).

1792 France (Restored 1804 as Empire; 1814/15 as Kingdom)
1848 France (Restored 1852 as Empire)
1870France
1889 Brazil
1893 Hawaii (Annexed by United States 1898)
1910 Portugal
1911-12 China
1917 Russia
1918 Germany
1918 Austria-Hungary
1922-23 Turkey (Ottoman Empire)
1924 Greece (Restored 1935)
1931 Spain (Restored 1975)
1945 Yugoslavia
1946 Albania (King exiled 1939)
1946 Italy
1946 Bulgaria
1947 Romania
1953 Egypt
1955 Vietnam
1957 Tunisia
1958 Iraq
1961 Rwanda
1962 Yemen
1964 Zanzibar (Joined with Tanganyika to form Tanzania)
1966 Burundi
1968 Maldives
1969 Libya
1970 Cambodia (Restored 1993)
1973 Afghanistan
1973-74 Greece (King exiled 1967)
1975 Ethiopia (Emperor deposed 1974)
1975 Laos
1975Sikkim (Annexed by India)
1979 Iran
2008 Nepal


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