Abolitions of Monarchies

This list does not include:
--monarchies abolished before 1649
--monarchies which had existed for less than five years
--principalities and other small states
--the two Bonaparte French Empires
--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 (1919) and Spain (1947; confirmed 1969).

1649 England & Scotland (Restored 1660)
1792 France (Restored 1814/15)
1801 Georgia (Annexed by Russia)
1848 France
1861 Two Sicilies (Annexed by Italy)
1889 Brazil
1893 Hawaii (Annexed by United States 1898)
1910 Korea (Annexed by Japan)
1910 Portugal
1911-12 China
1917 Russia
1918 Germany
1918 Austria-Hungary
1918 Montenegro (Annexed by Yugoslavia; last King abdicated 1922)
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
1979 Iran
2008 Nepal


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