Claim: Denmark had an absolute autocracy from 1660 to 1849.

An autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power is concentrated in the hands of one person , whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control -LRB- except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection -RRB- . Absolute monarchy -LRB- such as Saudi Arabia -RRB- and dictatorship are the main historical forms of autocracy .   In earlier times , the term `` autocrat '' was coined as a favorable feature of the ruler , having some connection to the concept of `` lack of conflicts of interests '' as well as an indication of grandeur and power , the Tsar for example was styled , `` Autocrat of all the Russias '' , as late as the early 20th century .