Editing Reign (section)

==End of reign==
A reign can be ended in several ways:

* [[Abdication]]
* [[Abolition of monarchy]]
* [[Death]]
* [[List of deposed politicians|Deposition]]

===Abdication===
{{Main|List of monarchs who abdicated}}
* Emperor [[Ferdinand I of Austria]], King of [[Kingdom of Hungary|Hungary]] and [[Kingdom of Bohemia|Bohemia]], King of [[Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia|Lombardy-Venetia]] (r. 1835–1848) was abdicated due to his disabilities ([[Feeble-minded|feeble-mindedness]] and [[epilepsy]]).  His successor, Emperor [[Franz Joseph I of Austria|Franz Josef]] (r. 1848&ndash;1916) reigned for 68 years.
* King [[Edward VIII]] of the United Kingdom reigned from January to December 1936 before he abdicated the throne. After his abdication he became known as the [[Duke of Windsor]]. No other monarch of the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] (1707–1800), the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]], the [[United Kingdom|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]], or any [[Dominion]] or [[Commonwealth realm]] has ever abdicated, though forced abdications did occur on rare occasions in the [[England|Kingdom of England]] and the [[Scotland|Kingdom of Scotland]] prior to their merger in 1707.
* Queen [[Wilhelmina of the Netherlands]] reigned from 1890 to 1948, before abdicating in favor of her daughter, Queen [[Juliana of the Netherlands|Juliana]] who then reigned until 1980 when she abdicated in favor of her daughter, Queen [[Beatrix of the Netherlands]]. Beatrix followed suit and abdicated in 2013 in favor of her son and heir apparent, King [[Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands|Willem-Alexander]].

===Abolition of monarchy===
* King [[Louis XVI of France]] reigned from the 1770s until the overthrow of the monarchy in 1792 and his execution the following year.
* [[Puyi|Xuantong Emperor]] of [[Qing dynasty|China]] abdicated in 1912 following the [[1911 Revolution|Xinhai Revolution]], marking the end of the [[Monarchy of China|Chinese monarchy]].
* King [[Humbert II of Italy]] reigned for only a few weeks in 1946 before the abolition of the [[Italy|Italian]] Monarchy.
* King [[Constantine II of Greece]] reigned from 1964 until the abolition of the Greek monarchy in 1973.
* Tsar [[Nicholas II of Russia]] reigned from 1894 until 1917 when he was forced to abdicate and the [[Russian Empire]] was overthrown during the [[Russian Revolution (1917)|Russian Revolution]].
* Emperor [[Haile Selassie I]] of [[Ethiopian Empire|Ethiopia]] reigned for over 40 years (1930-1974) until the [[Derg]] forced him to abdicate and abolished the 3,000 year old monarchy, making him the 225th and final Emperor of Ethiopia.
* [[Shah]] [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]] of [[Iran]] reigned for more than 37 years (1941–1979) until the [[Iranian Revolution]], which superseded the 2,500 years of monarchy with an [[Islamic Republic of Iran|Islamic republic]] system of government. The Shah died the following year and is buried in [[Cairo]].