The departure of Lis Tras means that the UK will have had (at least) five different Prime Ministers in just over six years.
Surely that must be some sort of world record, right?
Actually no.
People from Argentina will be quick to point out that their country once had five presidents in just... two weeks!
And indeed, Liz Truss' record 45 days in power at 10 Downing Street, the shortest in British political history, seem like an eternity compared to the short terms of these world leaders.
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Germany's Nazi chancellor for one night
Joseph Goebbels is best remembered as the notorious German Minister of Propaganda during the Nazi regime (1933-1945).
But very few people remember that he also found himself in the highest position, chancellor - although only for one day.
This happened on April 30, 1945, when the former holder of that office, Adolf Hitler, took his own life in an underground bunker in Berlin during the last days of World War II in Europe.
As Hitler's first deputy, Goebbels became chancellor, but then he and his wife also committed suicide, after poisoning their six children with cyanide.
A month in the White House
William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) holds the infamous title of both the first American president to die in office and the shortest term in office.
The former army officer spent only 32 days in power when he contracted pneumonia and died at the age of 68.
The revolving door in Kaza Rosada
Argentina found itself in the middle of nowhere in December 2001: a severe economic crisis sparked violent street protests, in which at least 25 people died.
The ensuing political turmoil led to the resignation of President Fernando de la Rue on December 20.
A fascinating series of falling political dominoes ensued: De La Rua was replaced by Senate Majority Leader Ramon Puerta, as the vice-presidential position was left vacant by an earlier resignation.
Two days later, Puerta stepped down as Congress elected Adolfo Rodríguez Sa to enter the Casa Rosada, the presidential residence.
But Sa also resigned within a week after losing support for emergency economic measures.
By law, Puerta was supposed to step in again, but he refused, resigning as Senate leader.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives Eduardo Camano enters the scene - the fourth president (in case you lost count).
Three days later, he gave way to another congress-elected president, Eduardo Dualde, who remained in power until the 2003 general elections.
Indian leader - for less than two weeks
Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee holds the record for the shortest tenure in that role, lasting just 13 days at the head of the government in 1996, due to his failure to secure a coalition majority after parliamentary elections.
He returned to power in 1998, but his mandate lasted only 13 months before another coalition collapsed and the assembly was dissolved.
However, Vajpayee's party (BJP) once again did well in the next elections, so he served a third term, between 1999 and 2004.
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The unusual double crown of Sierra Leone
Siaka Stevens is both the shortest-serving Prime Minister and the longest-serving President in Sierra Leone's history.
Elected in a close race in 1967, he was ousted and arrested in a military coup on the same day he was sworn in.
Stevens, however, had the last laugh: he returned to power a year after the end of military rule and served as president from 1971 to 1985.
His presidential term, however, was marked by an authoritarian approach and numerous accusations of human rights violations, as well as election theft.
Another unusual story comes from South Africa: on September 24, 2008, Ivi Matsepe-Kasaburi became the country's first female president after the resignation of current president Thabo Mbeki - at the time, she was the minister of communications.
Her term as acting president lasted only 15 hours, however, as the South African parliament hastily elected another cabinet minister, Kgalema Motlante, to replace Mbeki.
Very interim presidents in Mexico and Brazil
In addition to Argentina's example, Latin America can boast various other cases of extremely short presidential terms: Mexican Pedro Lascurain served as leader for less than an hour during the military coup that ousted then-president Francisco Madero in February 1913.
In Brazil, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Carlos Luz, assumed the presidency on November 8, 1955, after the current President, Cafe Filho, became seriously ill.
At that time, Brazil had already elected a new president, Juscelin Kubicek, but he was to officially take office in January 1956.
Three days later, however, Luž resigned at the behest of the Ministry of Defense, which claimed that the interim president was plotting a coup to prevent Kubicek's swearing-in.
Senate President Nereu Ramos then held that office for the next two months.
Ephemeral monarchs
Kings and queens don't have to run for office and in modern times are relatively safe from republican revolutions, but that doesn't mean their reigns won't be short.
Just ask Italy's King Umberto II: in 1946, he ascended the throne after the abdication of his father Vittorio Emanuele and tried to moderate Italy's growing anti-monarchist sentiment by supporting a referendum on the monarchy.
Unfortunately for the king, 54 percent of Italians voted in favor of the republic. Umberto's reign lasted 34 days.
An even shorter and more tragic tenure befell King Dipendra Bir Birkam Shah Dev of Nepal.
On June 2001, XNUMX, the then crown prince killed both his parents and various other members of the Nepali royal family, allegedly in retaliation for his relatives' refusal to bless his marriage to an Indian aristocrat.
After the murders, Dipendra tried to kill himself by shooting himself.
He did not succeed and immediately fell into a coma, and he died only three days later.
During this time, Dipendra was technically the king of Nepal.
But among kings, the record for the shortest reign probably belongs to King Louis Nineteenth of France.
On August 1830, XNUMX, he ascended the throne following the abdication of his father, King Charles X, amid mass demonstrations against the monarch.
But Louis Nineteenth followed in his father's footsteps only 20 minutes later, abdicating in favor of his nephew, the Duke of Bordeaux.
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