The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-06-20

founded this royal family, built a castle
on the Habichtsburg, or Hawks Mount
ain, whence the name of the family.
The present Mikado of Japan is Mutsu
Hito. who assembled the throne Febru-
airy Is, 1867 The royal history of ia
pan begins with Jimmu, ego B. c. Since
that time 123 Emperors and Expresses,
with all sorts of unpronounceable names,
have assembled and descended the
throne Among the most remarkable
sovereigns We're Go-ShirakaWa Tschu-
chimikado. Go-Fukakusa, Okimachi,
Nakanomikado and Co Sakuramachi.
The Jews, from the coronation of
Saul, in 1895 B. c., to the accession of
Rehoboam. in 975, had three Kings
Saul, David and Solomon, who each
reigned forty years. The kingdom of
Israel, from the accession of Jeroboam
l., in go to the dispersion of the ten
tribes in 721, had nineteen Kings. Be
tween Rehoboam, B. c. 915, and Zede-
kiah, the last King of Jerusalem before
| the Babylonish captivity in o99 there
were twenty-five Kings.
The present Shah of Persia assembled
the throne this year, directly after the
assassination of his father. The king
dom Of Persia was founded by Cyrus the
Great, who reigned from B. c. 800 TO
B. G. 500. From his accession to the
present time there have been four great
dynasties, which, with their collateral
branches, have ruled the country during
| the intervening time. In all, Persia has
had about 11S Kings Persian, Tartar,
Greek and Mogul.
The present ruler of Germany is En-
peror William IL, who succeeded to
the throne June 10, 1888, on the death
| of his father, Emperor Frederick. The
German empire was the creation of
Charlemagne in 800. Since that time
to the present Emperor there have been
sixty rulers of various royal houses, the
disturbed condition of Germany for sew
eral hundred years and the political
changes made by the wars of the Mid
die Ages bringing first one and then an
other royal family into prominence.
The present President of Mexico is
Genral Porfirio Diaz, whose term began
December /, 1892. He has had the
longest and most brilliant lease of
power of any ruler of Mexico since the
revolt against Spanish rule. From the
first President, in 1921, to the present
| Mexico has had eighteen rulers. The
|
the ill-starred MAMMALIAN scarcely
made more than ripple in Mexican ma
tional affairs, and that unfortunate man
does not really deserve to be classed
| among Mexican rulers.
The present Emperor of Russia, Mich
olas IL, assembled the throne November
>, 1894 The Russian monarchy dates
from S62, when Rurik, Norman noble
man, was elected by number of in
dependent Muscovite tribes as their
| King From that time Russia was
ruled by fifty-seven Cars until the ac-
cession of Peter the Great in 1852, who
was the first to assume the title of En-
peror; since then there have been nine
Emperors and four Expresses, or, in all,
seventy sovereigns. The present house
| of Romanoff holds the throne by virtue
of the election of Michael FeOdor Ro-
manow in 1913.
The present King of Denmark is
| Christian IL. who assembled the throne
November i, 1868. The Danish his
torical records claim that their monar-
chy was established B. c. 60 by Skiold,
| a son of the gods, but for many centu-
| ries the authentic history of Denmark
and it's royal family is uncertain. The
| history of the Danish Kings may be
said to begin with Canute the Great,
who conquered Norway and England
and reigned from 1O16 to 1923. From
that time to the present Denmark has
had thirty Kings. The royal family of
Denmark is related by blood or mar
riage to nearly every reigning family in
Europe.
Queen Victoria began her reign in
1887 and has enjoyed the longest reign
of English history, and one of the long
est in the history of any country. On
the date of her accession she was Is
years old, only two or three sovereigns
of England having been younger on the
date of coronation. English royal his
tory begins with the name of Egbert the
Great, whose reign commenced in S2I.
From that date until the Norman con-
quest, in 1866, there were twenty-one
Kings. From William the Conqueror
| to the accession of the house of Han
over, in 1114, there We're twenty seven
Kings and four Queens. The present
reigning house is represented in history
by five Kings and one Queen.
The present King of Spain is Alphon-
so Kill, who assembled, or, rather, was
lifted up to the throne in the year of his
BIRTH 1886, his mother being declared
Queen Regent. Between ia and 1876
| Spain was governed by Emirs Pelayo
descendant of the Gothic Kings, the
first distinctively Spanish sovereign,
whose rule was acknowledged over a
portion of the north about T19 From
that time to the accession of the present
sovereign Spain has had about $50
! Kings. This extraordinary number for
| that length of time is explained by the
| circumstance that, UP to the union of
| Ferdinand and Isabella, Spain was di-
vided into two and sometimes more in
dependent monarchies, owing allegiance
| to different monarchs.
The present President of the French
| Republic is NJ. Francois Felix Faure.
who was elected after the assassination
| of his predecessor, NJ. Carnot The royal
history of France. began with Clodion
in 42S. The Merovingian dynasty ruled
France from this date to 742, and had
forty Kings; then came the Carlovingi-
an dynasty. beginning With Pepin the
Short in 747 to 752, according to differ
ent historians. This family had eigh-
teen Kings and was succeeded by the
family of Hugh Capet, whose success
sors numbered fifteen then came the
collateral family of Valois, with thir-
| teen sovereigns, and was followed by
the Bourbons, whose dynasty began
with Henry ", and was continued by
four Kings, who ruled until the revolu-
| ton. Between the first Empire and the
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