Tewodros II
Emperor of Ethiopia (1818–1868)
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Updated 2026-06-09
The Ethiopian emperor who ended a century of warlord chaos by force, then locked himself into a fortress and shot himself when the British came for him in 1868.
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Baptized Kassa around 1818, Tewodros II rose from the fragmented Era of the Princes to claim the Ethiopian throne in 1855, determined to rebuild a centralized state that had splintered into feuding regions. He subdued Shewa and other provinces through relentless campaigns, adopting a Shewan prince named Sahle Maryam as his own son—the future Menelik II. Between roughly 1861 and 1863 the empire saw relative calm, and Tewodros pushed reforms: salaried governors, a standing professional army, tax codes, a library, new administrative districts. But his attempt to tax church lands made enemies of t…
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