The XXVIth Dynasty, which lasted 139 years, is particularly clear, and synchronisms fix its regnal dates to the years B.
From the Middle Kingdom onward to the Roman period, the dates upon Egyptian documents are given in regnal years.
The question arises from what point these regnal dates were calculated.
As to absolute chronology, the assigning of a regnal year to a definite date B.
Probably neither the Sothic nor any other era was employed by the ancient Egyptians, who dated solely by regnal years (see below).
His first regnal act was to grant to himself all the "honours of descent" derived from his father; in other words, to revoke his own attainder.
The first regnal act of Henry the Eighth was to strip the loyal lords of the titles conferred upon them just two years before.
Among the regnal years marked on the reverse have been found the numbers "nineteen" and "twenty.
The reverse shows the regnal year, which ranges from eleven to forty-three, together with a mint-mark.
The regnal years range from one to thirteen; the number of the mint-marks is about thirty.
The legend is merely the regnal year and a mint-mark.
The Civil Year (consuls, or regnal years of Tiberius) in early Christian tradition.
In process of time, however, the custom of dating by the regnal year of the king became general.
Now, if the regnal years of the kings of Israel from Jeroboam to Jehoram be added together, they will be found to amount to 98, while if those of the kings of Judah for the same period (viz.
But when we proceed to add up similarly the regnal years in the two kingdoms from the division after Solomon's death to the fall of Samaria in the sixth year of Hezekiah (2 Kings xviii.
It was established and set going as an era by his successor, who continued the reckoning so started, instead of breaking it by introducing another according to his own regnal years.
But his successors introduced their own regnal reckonings; and that prevented it from acquiring permanence.
The Irish Nennius gives an Irish regnal date for this event--"the fifth year of King Loiguire.
Exact dates are assigned to him in the extant regnal lists, but these lists do not agree with each other, and it is safer to rely on the law of averages.
I had become familiar with this plan of transforming pedigrees into regnal lists before I first read Buchanan's history of Scotland.
Ireland a share in the monarchy, they produced a regnal history which was flattering in an all-round way and which succeeded in relegating the earlier device to comparative oblivion.
So the only consecutive history we find of Ireland before St. Patrick's time consists in like manner of regnal lists with little bits of anecdotal matter added here and there.
The new regnal year of Edward, which began on January 25, was styled the fourteenth of his reign in England, and the first of his reign in France.
On the stele, during the dynastic period, each regnal year is allotted its own space or rectangle,(2) arranged in horizontal sequence below the name and titles of the ruling king.
The regnal year was usually cited; but the year of the Incarnation was also sometimes given.
From the Roman custom of dating by the consular year arose the medieval practice of dating by the regnal year of emperor, king or pope.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "regnal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
