This may not be a joke about her short tenure. Liz Truss nothing was more amazing at the helm of Britain than… the lettuce that conquered it. Five prime ministers in six years is a lot for the UK, and 45-day Prime Minister Liz Truss is coming to confirm the political chaos that reigns on the “island”.

While the processes within the Conservative Party to elect their next leader, and with him a new Prime Minister of Britain, moved at a feverish pace, we delve into history and find shortest-lived heads of state.

British prime ministers

“Premier” may now belong to Liz Truss (who, ironically, was the longest-serving British monarch), but before her, the record was held by George Canning who served as prime minister for 119 days before dying of tuberculosis on August 8, 1827.

OUR Alec Douglas-Homm, he again took office on October 19, 1963, but he barely managed to serve a year as prime minister – in fact, he held this post for 363 days.

Chancellors

As a rule, this record belongs to Joseph Goebbels, who was chancellor for just one night after Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945. After that, Goebbels and his wife poisoned their 6 children and then committed suicide themselves.

presidents

ninth President of the United States William Henry Harrison, who took office in 1841 was, at age 68, the oldest at the time of taking office. He was also to be the first in this position to die in it. In particular, he died 32 days after he became President of the United States. In fact, on March 4, when he was appointed, Harrison arrived on horseback on a very cold and rainy day. According to some sources, the pneumonia he suffered then also led to his death, and according to other sources, his death is attributed to typhus.

According to historians, one of the shortest presidents ever to pass away was Pedro Lascurain who was President of Mexico… 45 minutes. In fact, he was appointed to this position in order to legitimize the military coup led by Victoriano Huerta.

Emperors

OUR Michael II he became Emperor of Russia less than a day after the abdication of his brother Tsar Nicholas II on March 15, 1917. His position was contested, and he made enthronement contingent on the decision of the new transitional government in Russia. Approximately 18 hours after the abdication, Michael signed a manifesto recognizing the transitional government and, consequently, the end of the tsarist empire. He was never officially registered as emperor, and after the Russian Revolution of 1917 he was imprisoned and executed.

monarchs

She went down in history as the “Queen of the Nine Days”. Lady Jane Grey, who is also Britain’s longest-serving monarch. She took office on 10 July 1553 at the age of 16 after the death of her cousin and King Edward VI. Although she was fifth in line, she was chosen because she was a Protestant. But people made no secret of their preference for Mary (a Catholic), who eventually took the throne – Lady Jane Gray was executed the following year.

OUR Louis IX of France, again he found himself in 1830 on the throne … for only 20 minutes. Charles I’s legitimate heir, the Dauphin may have spent his early years outside of France, but he returned to fight alongside the royalists against Napoleon in 1810. During the Julian Revolution, he became king after his father’s abdication. He may not have been officially declared as such, but he is said to have resigned in turn after 20 minutes. For the Guinness Book of Records, he remains the shortest-lived monarch in history, although he was technically in power – in fact, he was king for the time between his father’s abdication and his own, which were in the same document.

Something similar certainly happened to him. Louis II of Portugal who officially became king on 1 February 1908 after the assassination of his father Charles I in Lisbon. Louis Philippe of Portugal was also mortally wounded and died about 20 minutes after his father.

However, in the first millennium and early in the second, history recorded many monarchs who were literally “kings for a day”. How Vira Bahu First, The King of Polonnaruwa (now Sri Lanka), who was assassinated in 1196 by the Chief of the Army General Staff, succeeded his father on the same day.