This election followed on the death of Emperor Ferdinand III, on April 2, 1657, which was followed by the longest interregnum since the 13th century.

Even in the long interregnum when the Archipelago was without a king, the Archmage did not try to usurp power, but sought only to maintain the balance.

Would die-hard fans have the patience to wait through a long interregnum for fresh episodes?

But on this occasion some drastic changes for the worse in the state of my clothing argued for a long interregnum.

When Fr Leslie resigned in 2002, the church then went through the longest interregnum of any Devizes church.

The German occupation in 1940 was the beginning of a 40-year long "interregnum" of the traditional "Marsimartnan".

John III's death in 1696 commenced the longest, most contentious and corrupted interregnum in the country's history.

There is much debate over why there was such a long interregnum.

If the new developer succeeds, it will have been a long and tumultuous interregnum.

However, there are other likely reasons for this long interregnum judging from oral historians accounts of events.