6 sentences with 'abdicated'

Example sentences and phrases with the word abdicated and other words derived from it.

« Charles V finally abdicated in 1558, and recognising that the Habsburg lands were almost ungovernable, handed over power to his brother Ferdinand I in Austria (Ferdinand also became Holy Roman Emperor) and to his son Philip II in Spain and its possessions. »
« What was once the largest and most disparate Habsburg empire split into two separate Habsburg empires in 1558, when the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V abdicated. »
« Surprisingly, Napoleon managed to raise even more armies, and France continued to fight for two more years. Increasingly, however, the French were losing, the coalition armies now trained and equipped along French lines and anticipating French strategy. In April 1814, as the coalition forces closed in, Napoleon finally abdicated. »
« The Kaiser, blaming the Socialists and Jews for "stabbing Germany in the back", slipped away on a train to Holland, where he abdicated. »
« In early March, only a few weeks after it began, the Tsar abdicated, realising that he had lost the support of almost the entire population. »
« In 1931, the king abdicated after an anti-monarchist majority took over the Cortes. The result was a republic whose parliament was dominated by liberals and moderate socialists. »
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