Alexios ' father declined the throne on the abdication of Isaac, who was accordingly succeeded by four emperors of other families between 1059 and 1081.

Following the Glorious Revolution, the line of succession to the English throne was governed by the Bill of Rights 1689, which declared that the flight of James II from England to France during the revolution amounted to an abdication of the throne and that James ' son-in-law, ( and nephew ) William of Orange, and his wife, James ' daughter, Mary, were James ' successors, who ruled jointly as William III and Mary II.

Thus, during the abdication crisis of 1936, caused by Edward VIII's desire to marry Wallis Simpson, the consent of all realms concerned, along with, in some cases, new acts of parliament, was required in Britain and throughout the British Dominions to allow for Edward's stepping aside and to ensure that if he had any children they would have no claim to the thrones.

Napoleon's son Napoleon François Charles Joseph ( 1811 – 1832 ) was created king of Rome ( 1811 – 1814 ) and was later styled Napoleon II by loyalists of the dynasty, though he only ruled for two weeks after his father's abdication.

Former Pope Gregory XII was then created titular Cardinal Bishop of Porto and Santa Ruffina by the Council, with rank immediately below the Pope ( which made him the highest-ranking person in the Church, since, due to his abdication, the See of Peter was vacant ).

By the time the anti-popes were all deposed and the new Pope, Martin V, was elected, two years had passed since Gregory XII's abdication, and Gregory was already dead.

Napoleon's infant son, Napoleon II, was recognized by the Council of Peers, as Emperor from the moment of his father's abdication, and therefore reigned ( as opposed to ruled ) as Emperor for fifteen days, 22 June to 7 July 1815.

His mother was the Empress Fujiwara no Takaiko, who was also known after Seiwa's abdication as the Nijō empress.

As most of the Assembly still favoured a constitutional monarchy rather than a republic, the various groups reached a compromise which left Louis XVI as little more than a figurehead: he was forced to swear an oath to the constitution, and a decree declared that retracting the oath, heading an army for the purpose of making war upon the nation, or permitting anyone to do so in his name would amount to abdication.

After the abdication of Napoleon following the War of the Sixth Coalition, Austria participated as a leading member of the Holy Alliance at the Congress of Vienna, which was largely dominated by Francis's chancellor Klemens Wenzel, Prince von Metternich culminating in a new European map and the restoration of Francis ' ancient dominions ( except the Holy Roman Empire which was dissolved ).

However, the reforming spirit of Charles III was extinguished in the reign of his son, Charles IV ( 1788 to abdication in 1808 ), seen by some as mentally handicapped.

During the abdication crisis of December 1936, Ribbentrop reported to Berlin that the reason the crisis had occurred was an anti-German Jewish-Masonic-reactionary conspiracy to depose Edward ( whom Ribbentrop represented as a staunch friend of Germany ), and that civil war would soon break out in Britain between the King's supporters and those of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's.

Born into poverty, he was elected emir upon the abdication of his predecessor, and would rule under Ottoman suzerainty, being appointed wali or governor of Mt Lebanon, the Biqa valley and Jabal Amil.

Sigismund fled to his brother's court in Prague and, following Mary's abdication, Charles was crowned on 31 December, with Mary and her mother forced to attend his coronation.

Wilhelm threatened to abdicate ( though his son opposed his abdication ) and believed that Bismarck was the only politician capable of handling the crisis.

After her abdication the queen came to reside in Rome, where she was confirmed in her baptism by the Pope, in whom she found a generous friend and benefactor, on Christmas Day, 1655.

A contemporary, Bartholomew of Lucca, who was present in Naples in December 1294 and witnessed many of the events of the abdication and election, said that Benedetto Gaetani was only one of several cardinals who pressured Celestine to resign.

Pope Gregory VI ( died 1048 ), born in Rome as John Gratian ( Latin Johannes Gratianus ), was Pope from 1 May 1045 until his abdication at the Council of Sutri on 20 December 1046.

Upon the abdication of Pope John XVIII in 1009. he was elected pope and adopted the name Sergius IV.

On 9 November 1918, Maximilian went ahead and announced the abdication anyway, and then resigned in favor of Friedrich Ebert.

Napoleon announced his abdication on 24 June 1815.

On January 22, Sun Yat-sen announced that if Yuan Shikai supported the emperor's abdication, he ( Sun Yat-sen ) would resign the presidency in favor of Yuan Shikai.

Master Hsing Yun announced his abdication on September 22, 1985.

In 2004, King Sihanouk, still in poor health, announced his abdication of the throne.

On March 2, 1955, he announced his abdication in favor of his father, Norodom Suramarit.

In conclusion, Ivan announced his abdication.

After the King announced his permanent abdication on October 7, 2004, Chea Sim once again became acting Head of State.

The Retired Emperor Go-Toba announced, in the second year of his abdication ( 1200, the second year of the Shōji era ) that he would be conducting a poetry contest.

Immediately after his abdication, he had announced that he would hold two poetry contests, each requiring a number of preeminent poets to compose some 100 waka in a particular thematic progression, known as the hyakushu genre of poem sequences.

On 24 March 1849 the abdication of Charles II was announced.

His visit there was to examine the seventeenth-century house she and her husband Sir Oswald Mosley were then renting ; he recorded later how he and Diana ( her husband was in London ) had listened to the King's broadcast abdication speech with tears running down their faces.

The story, recorded in Isidore, that Hermeric sent Rechila to Baetica to defeat Andevotus, Romanae militiae dux, is false, as there is no contemporary evidence that Hermeric retained any authority after his abdication.

The day before the abdication, he went to London to see his mother, Queen Mary.

After Richard Cromwell's abdication, Monck gave his support to the Stuarts, and on 1 January 1660 he crossed the River Tweed into England at the village of Coldstream, from where he made a five-week march to London.

He was chosen to bear to London the news of the first abdication of Napoleon in April 1814.

Two die-proofs were sent to London for the King to approve, but arrived after the abdication and were brought back to Canada.

He succeeded to the throne in 1703 on the abdication of his brother Mustafa II ( 1695 – 1703 ).

The title has not been used in Russia since the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II on 15 March 1917.

Arrangements for his subsequent return to Paris on a new agreement were temporarily upset by the abdication of Charles X and the July Revolution of 1830.

The German Empire () is the common name given to the state officially named the ( literally: " German Realm "), designating Germany from the unification of Germany and proclamation of Wilhelm I as German Emperor on 18 January 1871, to 1918, when it became a federal republic after defeat in World War I and the abdication of the Emperor, Wilhelm II.

Philip II became king on Charles V's abdication in 1556.

Spain temporarily broke off from the Continental System, and Napoleon – aggravated with the Bourbon kings of Spain – invaded Spain in 1808 and deposed Ferdinand VII, who had been on the throne only forty-eight days after his father's abdication in March 1808.

Leo entered Constantinople on 25 March 717 and forced the abdication of Theodosios III, becoming emperor as Leo III.

All of these political and economic developments put Paraguay on the path of independent nationhood, yet the country's undoubted progress during the years of the Franciata took place because of complete popular abdication to Francia's will.

After Romulus ' abdication, the Roman Senate, on behalf of Odoacer, sent representatives to the Eastern Roman Emperor Zeno.

According to tradition, Pope St. Pontian died on Tavolara following his abdication and exile in 235.

The Queen, who would eventually declare her abdication in the great hall of Uppsala Castle, visited the university on many occasions ; in 1652 she was present at an anatomical demonstration arranged at the castle for the young physician Olaus Rudbeck.

After her abdication on the same day, Christina, now the former reigning queen of a Protestant nation, secretly converts to Catholicism.

Although the Riksdag of the Estates of 1840 meditated compelling him to abdicate, Charles John survived that abdication controversy and he went on to have his silver jubilee, which was celebrated with great enthusiasm on 18 February 1843.

In 1470, Albert, who had inherited Bayreuth on the death of his brother John in 1464, became Margrave of Brandenburg, owing to the abdication of his remaining brother, Elector Frederick II.

* August 31 – Ferdinand becomes King of Castile on abdication of his mother Berengaria.

After German Emperor Wilhelm II was forced to abdicate following the exhaustion and defeat of the German Empire in World War I, monarchic rule ended in Oldenburg as well with the abdication of Grand Duke Frederick Augustus II of Oldenburg ( Friedrich August II von Oldenburg ) on 11 November 1918.

According to Byzantine chronicles, on his abdication he achieved some degree of anecdotal fame by crying out the verse from Ecclesiastes, ' Vanity of vanities, all is vanity ' during Justinian's triumph in Contstantinople .< ref > Edward Gibbon,

With the abdication of Napoleon on 11 April 1814 the Bourbon Dynasty was restored to the kingdom of France in the person of Louis XVIII, brother of Louis XVI.

Despite the Emperor ’ s abdication, irregular warfare continued along the eastern borders and on the outskirts of Paris until the signing of a cease-fire on 4 July.