Several years have been referred to as the Year of the Three Kings or Year of Three Kings. This list does not include all years in which a country has had three kings or three claimants to the throne.
Mwanga II fled in September 1888 after his chiefs sought to replace him with his brother,
Kiweewa. Six weeks later, Muslim chiefs captured Kiweewa and replaced him with their initial pick to be
kabaka,
Kalema. In 1889, Mwanga retook the throne from Kiweewa.
When
Tuanku Abdul Rahman of
Negeri Sembilan who reigned from 1957 died in April 1960. The Conference of Rulers elected the Sultan of Selangor, Sultan
Hisamuddin Alam Shah as the new King. However, Sultan Hisamuddin died in September the same year and The Conference of Rulers elected
Tuanku Syed Putra, Raja of Perlis as the new King.
^While only two kings reigned in 1889, historian Sir John Milner Gray uses "Year of Three Kings" to refer to the full time period between Mwanga II's deposition and restoration to power.[4]
References
^"Congress Speakers". Medieval Institute.
Western Michigan University. Retrieved 4 November 2022. Barbara Yorke (University of Winchester), 'The Year of the Three Kings: 1016 in the Context of Early Medieval Succession Disputes'
^Adams, R. J. Q. (1993). "1936: The Year of Three Kings". British Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of Appeasement, 1935–39. pp. 35–55.
doi:
10.1057/9780230375635.
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Several years have been referred to as the Year of the Three Kings or Year of Three Kings. This list does not include all years in which a country has had three kings or three claimants to the throne.
Mwanga II fled in September 1888 after his chiefs sought to replace him with his brother,
Kiweewa. Six weeks later, Muslim chiefs captured Kiweewa and replaced him with their initial pick to be
kabaka,
Kalema. In 1889, Mwanga retook the throne from Kiweewa.
When
Tuanku Abdul Rahman of
Negeri Sembilan who reigned from 1957 died in April 1960. The Conference of Rulers elected the Sultan of Selangor, Sultan
Hisamuddin Alam Shah as the new King. However, Sultan Hisamuddin died in September the same year and The Conference of Rulers elected
Tuanku Syed Putra, Raja of Perlis as the new King.
^While only two kings reigned in 1889, historian Sir John Milner Gray uses "Year of Three Kings" to refer to the full time period between Mwanga II's deposition and restoration to power.[4]
References
^"Congress Speakers". Medieval Institute.
Western Michigan University. Retrieved 4 November 2022. Barbara Yorke (University of Winchester), 'The Year of the Three Kings: 1016 in the Context of Early Medieval Succession Disputes'
^Adams, R. J. Q. (1993). "1936: The Year of Three Kings". British Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of Appeasement, 1935–39. pp. 35–55.
doi:
10.1057/9780230375635.
Index of articles associated with the same name
This
article includes a list of related items that share the same name (or similar names). If an
internal link incorrectly led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.