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Yohannes IV

1837 - 1889

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Yohannes IV (Tigrinya: ዮሓንስ ፬ይ Rabaiy Yōḥānnes; horse name Abba Bezbiz also known as Kahśsai; born Lij Kahssai Mercha; 11 July 1837 – 10 March 1889) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1871 to his death in 1889 at the Battle of Gallabat, and king of Tigray from 1869 to 1871. During his reign he successfully defended Ethiopia against a large scale Egyptian invasion. In his earlier years, he rebelled against Tewodros II; having risen to power in the 1860s, he maintained the policy of Tewodros, that of continued unification and also implemented a policy of touring entire regions and meetings with governors. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yohannes IV has received more than 796,793 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Yohannes IV is the 9,098th most popular politician (down from 8,539th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Ethiopia (down from 16th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Ethiopian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Yohannes IV ranks 9,098 out of 15,577. Before him are Héctor José Cámpora, Neferkara I, Kōichi Kido, Matti Vanhanen, Andrés de Santa Cruz, and Halil Kut. After him are Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Aguila Saleh Issa, Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther, Fulbert Youlou, Oswiu, and Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Yohannes IV ranks 53. Before him are Ernest Guiraud, Itagaki Taisuke, John Wesley Hyatt, Franz Overbeck, Mubarak Al-Sabah, and Moritz Kaposi. After him are Sanjō Sanetomi, George Dewey, Hans von Marées, Zhang Zhidong, Nicolás Avellaneda, and Dwight L. Moody. Among people deceased in 1889, Yohannes IV ranks 44. Before him are Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, Đồng Khánh, Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, Champfleury, and Alfred Józef Potocki. After him are Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, Laura Bridgman, Jean-Baptiste Arban, Johann Jakob von Tschudi, Ivan Larionov, and Albrecht Ritschl.

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In Ethiopia

Among people born in Ethiopia, Yohannes IV ranks 21 out of 89. Before him are Amha Selassie (1916), Gebre Mesqel Lalibela (1200), Abiy Ahmed (1976), Mulatu Teshome (1955), Haile Gebrselassie (1973), and Taytu Betul (1851). After him are Mamo Wolde (1932), Fasilides (1603), Zara Yaqob (1399), Mulatu Astatke (1943), Negasso Gidada (1943), and Wilfred Thesiger (1910).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ethiopia

Among politicians born in Ethiopia, Yohannes IV ranks 17. Before him are Meles Zenawi (1955), Amha Selassie (1916), Gebre Mesqel Lalibela (1200), Abiy Ahmed (1976), Mulatu Teshome (1955), and Taytu Betul (1851). After him are Fasilides (1603), Negasso Gidada (1943), Dawit II (1496), Zera Yacob Amha Selassie (1953), Ezana of Axum (325), and Tafari Benti (1921).

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