• Netherlands getting rid of their kings in 1581; England getting rid of their kings in 1649: …

    Sure both went back under constitutional rather than absolute monarchies later, but so did France, and Netherlands and England have gone 229 and 364 years without major revolt (excluding Ireland, but France couldn’t claim 150 if they included Algeria)

    •  pseudo   ( @pseudo@jlai.lu ) 
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      11 month ago

      I speak about major revolt against the monarchy. And yes, it’s my point indeed that most of the other country get a king or some sort of monarch back. If your looking for absence of major revolt in France, we’ll be out of the list for every year since 2019…