Historical rankings of heads of government

Last updated December 01, 2025

The following articles describe various historical rankings of heads of government for different countries.

See also

Historians
- list / by area of study
History

Historical sources

Types	Primary sources Secondary sources Tertiary sources
Sources	Annals Archives Artifacts Archaeological site Chronicles Codices Deeds Facsimiles Features Hieroglyphs Historical documents Logbooks Manuscripts Cartulary Illuminated Rotulus Oral tradition Palimpsest Papyri Religious texts Scrolls War diaries Service records

Fields of study

By scale	Big History World history Human history Local history Microhistory
By source	Archival science / Library and information science (template) Books / Writing systems Chorography Chronology dating Diplomatics Encyclopaedistics Epigraphy Genealogy Heraldry Numismatics (Money) Onomastics Oral history preservation Phaleristics Philology Postage stamps Prosopography Sigillography Toponymy Vexillology
By topic	Anthropology / Paleoanthropology Cultural Ecology / Environment / Geography Economic Business Capitalism Perspectives on capitalism by school of thought Thought Intellectual Geistesgeschichte Linguistics Maritime Medieval churches Military Political Constitutional Diplomatic Social Feminism Gender Indigenous Labour LGBTQ Rural Quantitative Urban Women

Approaches,
schools

Concepts

General

Specific

Periodization of modern history	Age of Discovery Age of Enlightenment European Civil War / Second Thirty Years' War Long 18th / 19th century Renaissance Continuity thesis

By country or region

Africa

African historiography
Egypt
- Pyramid construction techniques
- Black Egypt Thesis [ es ]
Ethiopia
Morocco
- Greater Morocco
Rwanda
- Double genocide theory
Maafa

Americas

Latin America	Argentina May Revolution / Causes Revisionist [ es ] Peru Iquicha Royalism Colonial Spanish America Casta
United States	African-American history Nadir of American race relations Neoabolitionism Reconstruction era Consensus history Cyclical theory Frontier thesis Political history Eras Progressive-era historians

Eurasia

Albania
- Dealbanisation
Austria
- Habsburg myth
Balhae
Belarus
- Litvinism
Bulgaria
Byzantine Empire [ de ]
- Early [ ru ]
Croatia
Europe
- Ancient [ ru ]
- Medieval [ ru ]
- New Age [ ru ]
Georgia
- Aryan Kartli
Greek
- Ages of Man
Iran
- 2,500-year celebration
Japan
Korea
- Nationalist
- Goguryeo controversies
North Macedonia
Philippines
- Early settlements
Portugal [ pt ]
- Lusotropicalism
Romania
- Great Union
Serbia
- Kosovo Myth
Sweden
- Götaland theory
Switzerland
Taiwan
Ukraine
- Executed Renaissance
Vietnam
- Nam tiến
- Trưng sisters

France

Italy

Poland

Russia

Spain

Turkey

British Empire	Cambridge School Porter–MacKenzie debate Second colonial occupation

Oceania

Colonial Australia

By war, conflict

Military historiography

Military history
List of military museums

Pre-18th century
conflicts

18th and 19th
century conflicts

Coalition Wars (1792–1815)	French Revolution Causes War in the Vendée Napoleonic era Invasion of Russia Waterloo

Causes (Color books / Fischer thesis)
Late Ottoman genocides (Causes of the Armenian genocide)
Patriotic consent
Persian famine of 1917–1919
Powder keg of Europe
Schlieffen Plan
Spirit of 1914 / 1917
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Germany imposed this on Russia in 1918

Treaty of Versailles	Reparations War guilt question Article 231 Reichstag inquiry

Interwar period

Eastern Front	Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact Soviet offensive plans Soviets and the Warsaw Uprising Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Winter War Background Spirit
The Holocaust	Auschwitz bombing debate Awareness in Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe Functionalism–intentionalism debate In relation to the Armenian genocide / Nakba Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust Pius Wars "Polish death camp" Responsibility Slovakia Uniqueness
Pacific War	Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki "Battle for Australia" Bengal famine Second Sino-Japanese War Nanjing Massacre
Western Front	Battle of France Guilty Men Résistancialisme Vichy France

Post-Cold War

Russo-Georgian War
- Background
- Responsibility
Syrian revolution
- Causes

Related

Category

By person

Political
leaders

Historical rankings	Australia Canada Modern Germany Netherlands United Kingdom United States

Others

Other topics

Economics	Industrial Revolution Great Recession Great Depression School of Thoughts Historical school of economics English historical school of economics
Religion	Avestan geography Early Christianity Background Historical reliability of the Gospels Primacy of Peter Opposition to Papal supremacy Proto-orthodox Christianity Early Islam Criticism of the Quran Succession to Muhammad Islamic golden age Kharijites Ecclesiastical history of the Catholic Church Second Vatican Council Hermeneutics of Vatican Council II [ it ] Hesychast controversy Protestant Reformation Proto-Protestantism Criticism of Protestantism Protestant work ethic Jesuit historiography Modern Jewish history Wissenschaft des Judentums Schools of thought Biblical criticism Catholic theology Panbabylonism Urreligion Perennial Religionsgeschichtliche Schule Roman Revisionist school of Islamic studies
Science / Technology	Merton thesis Protestant Ethic and Capitalism Heroic theory of invention and scientific development Gunpowder and gun transmission Torsion mangonel myth

Organizations, publications
Heritage registers Historical society (list) History institutes History journals template

Related
Commemorative plaque Documentary film Hagiography Historical fiction Historical realism Historiographic metafiction Historical geographic information system

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