In the wake of the resignation of British Prime Minister Liz Terrace, headed by a list of the shortest-serving prime minister in British history, we presented in this report a list of some of the rulers and the shortest-ruled leaders in history.
British Prime Minister Liz Truss announced her resignation Thursday, 45 days after she formally assumed her duties from Boris Johnson on September 6, thus becoming the shortest-term head of government in Britain's history.
According to the British newspaper , The Guardian , Truss' resignation comes after a series of chaotic political decisions followed by unexpected economic indicators, and accompanied by media gaffes and high-level resignations, not to mention opinion polls that saw the Conservative Party decline while the opposition Labor Party rose.
In this report, we list the shortest ruling world leaders in history:
- Prime Minister George Canning (Britain - 119 days)
To this day, Conservative statesman George Canning held the title of shortest-lived Prime Minister before Terrace, having served 119 days in office before he died of tuberculosis on 8 August 1827. According to the Guardian.
Canning held many senior government positions in his time, including that of Secretary of State. He is remembered for his role in such an extreme example of cabinet infighting that Truss' problems pale in comparison.
President Henry Harrison (USA - 32 days)
William Henry Harrison was the ninth president of the United States. Besides having the shortest term in the history of the US presidency, he is also the oldest person to hold the office at the time, at age 68, after his inauguration in 1841. He is also the first to die in office.
His death was attributed to the fact that he was sworn in on March 4, a cold, rainy day on which he rode a horse and gave perhaps the longest inaugural address in American history, lasting about two hours. Some reports claim that his refusal to wear a coat or hat that day contributed to the pneumonia that killed him on 4 April, although other reports attribute his death to typhoid fever.
- President Bashir Gemayel (Lebanon - 22 days)
Bashir Gemayel was the leader of the Lebanese Forces during the Lebanese Civil War, and was elected on August 23, 1982, as President of the Lebanese Republic by Parliament. But he was assassinated 22 days later, specifically on September 14, before taking office, when a bomb exploded in the Kataeb stronghold. in Achrafieh.
Queen Lady Jane Gray (Britain - 9 days)
Lady Jane Gray, nicknamed the "Queen of the Nine Days", is the queen with the shortest reign in Britain. She was proclaimed Queen of England, Wales and Ireland on July 10, 1553, at the age of 16 after the death of her Protestant cousin Edward VI. She was in fact fifth in the ranking But she was chosen because she was a Protestant.
However, the country rose in favor of first in line, Mary, who was Edward's half-sister and Henry VIII's daughter with Catherine of Aragon, a Catholic. The royal council changed its positions in favor of Mary, and Jane was dismissed, who was executed the following year. According to the Guardian.
- Prince Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah (Kuwait - 9 days)
Fifteen rulers from the Al-Sabah family took over the rule of the State of Kuwait from 1756 until the present time. Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah was the 14th Emir of Kuwait, after assuming power on January 15, 2006 after the death of his father.
However, for health reasons, the National Assembly, in its session held on January 24, 2006, transferred the Amiri authorities to the Council of Ministers, only 9 days after his inauguration, making his term the shortest term for the Emirate in the history of Kuwait.
Emperor Michael II (Russia - 18 hours)
Michael II lasted less than a day as Emperor of Russia after his brother Tsar Nicholas II abdicated on March 15, 1917.
His position was disputed and he made his assumption conditional on the decision of the new provisional government in Russia. About 18 hours after the abdication, Michael signed a statement recognizing the provisional government, thus marking the end of the tsarist regime in Russia. It was never confirmed that he was emperor, and after the Russian Revolution of 1917, he was imprisoned and murdered.
Chancellor Joseph Goebbels (Germany - 1 night)
Joseph Goebbels served as Minister of Military Information at the time of Hitler, and after the latter's killing on April 30, Joseph Goebbels became German chancellor for only one night, but the next day, Goebbels and his wife poisoned their six children, and then killed themselves.
King Louis XIX (France - 20 minutes)
Louis XIX has the shortest reign. Louis XIX, who spent his early life outside France but returned to fight for the royalists against Napoleon during the first decade of the 19th century, was crowned King of France after his father Charles X abdicated during the July Revolution July 1830, however he was never proclaimed as such, and he reportedly stepped down about 20 minutes after Charles X's death.
Although details are disputed, the Guinness Book of Records recognizes his "reign" as the shortest reign in history. Technically, Louis apparently served as king only between the time his father signed the abdication and his own signature of the abdication.
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