USA, the youngest Nation is the Oldest Ruled with a President

                                                                    Nadene Goldfoot

The rainbow at the top right in the window of the Lansdowne Portrait of George Washington (detail) was an 18th century symbol of God's blessings. (Gift of Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, NPG)

  The question of titles was a concern to the Founding Fathers even outside political office. Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution states that “No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States.” Alexander Hamilton called the clause a “cornerstone of republican government,” saying that without titles of nobility, “there can never be serious danger that the government will be anything other than that of the people.”                                                                         

    People came from these islands to populate America in 1620. 

 It took Columbus in 1492 to sail the ocean blue to discover North America and he didn't  do that, exactly.  He discovered some islands near it that led to seeing North America.  He left several dozen men behind in a makeshift settlement on Hispaniola (present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and sailed back to Spain.

                                       

Our American Revolution against the hold Britain had on our settlers in 1776.  
                 

 It was in 1776 that we announced to Europe that we had a country-ruled by a President and a Congress and a Supreme Court, the points discussed earlier in 1620 on board the ship, The Mayflower, called the Mayflower Compact.

Europe has been a continent ruled by kings and emperors.  I shall compare the USA with Europe; king vs something new-a president.  Others have followed us in also choosing to have a president now.  

England populated the USA in the beginning.  The Mayflower had landed in 1620 from Holland with English people on board who had been living there.  They were fighting the fact that their children spoke Dutch and they didn't, and wanted all to speak English in their own country .  They landed in what became Massachusetts, and were sent over by their minister, John Robinson.  By 1776 we had a nation ruled by George Washington, President. Then others came from Europe.  What sort of regime did they come from?  Not one with presidents.                                     

 Alfred the Great as seen on "The Last Kingdom," Netflix. 

This list of kings and queens of the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, who initially ruled Wessex, one of the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms which later made up modern England. Alfred styled himself King of the Anglo-Saxons from about 886, and while he was not the first king to claim to rule all of the English, his rule represents the start of the first unbroken line of kings to rule the whole of England, the House of Wessex. He prevented England from falling to the Danes and promoted learning and literacy. Compilation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle began during his reign, circa 890.  And so started the dynasty of kings in England and later including all of Great Britain.  

                                                                    

Athelstan, a Saxon,  was king of Wessex and the first king of all England from 925-939 . The kingdom of Wessex had united with the kingdom of England in 519 and then again in 927. The first king of Scotland was Kenneth I MacAlpin (Cináed mac Ailpín), who founded the state in 843. 

Great Britain has been ruled by a king all these years, or a queen when necessary. By 1066, William of Normandy invades England, defeats last Saxon king, Harold II, at Battle of Hastings, crowned William I of England (“the Conqueror”).

Scotland was much later in unifying their state.  Ruaidrí mac Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair (Modern Irish: Ruairí Ó Conchúir; anglicized Rory or Roderic O'Connor) (c. 1116 – 2 December 1198) was King of Connacht from 1156 to 1186, and High King of Ireland from 1166 to 1193. He was the last High King of Ireland before the Anglo-Normans invaded Ireland. (Brian Ua Néill and Edward Bruce both claimed the title with opposition in later years but their claims were considered illegitimate.)

Ruaidrí was one of over twenty sons of King Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair (1088–1156). He and his sister Mór were Tairrdelbach's only children from his third wife, Cailech Dé Ní hEidin of Aidhne.

 England hadn't united with Scotland until 1707.  The kingdom of Great Britain  was created on May 1, 1707.  The Lordship of Ireland was created in 1171 and then the Kingdom of Ireland was created in 1542.  The Principality of Wales was created in 1216.  It was united with or annexed to England in 1542.  They've had their problems.  The Irish Free State cut ties with  the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland by agreement in accordance with the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the Irish Free State Constitution Act of 1922.  Northern Ireland opted to exclude itself from the Free State 2 days later.  It had started on December 6, 1922, and then left on December 8, 1922.                             

France had Charles the Bald as their first king of the Franks starting in August of 843.  Henry VI of England ruled France from October 1422 because his father, Henry V, forced the French to sign the Treaty of Troyes and so he  became heir and regent of France. He was the Grandson of Charles VI of France.

The French invented the guillotine, then used all over Europe, cutting heads off of dissonants and the other guilty ones to control the masses from 1792 of the French Revolution. It was invented because it was more humane than death by other methods.  During the 1700s, executions in France were public events where entire towns gathered to watch. A common execution method for a poor criminal was quartering, where the prisoner's limbs were tied to four oxen, then the animals were driven in four different directions ripping the person apart. Upper-class criminals could buy their way into a less painful death by hanging or beheading.  Beheading devices had already been used in Germany, Italy, Scotland, and Persia for aristocratic criminals. However, never had such a device been adopted on a large institutional scale. The French named the guillotine after Doctor Guillotin. The extra 'e' at the end of the word was added by an unknown English poet who found guillotine easier to rhyme with.

                                                

Spain first had a Queen, Isabella I, who reigned from 1474 to 1504, and was the daughter of John II of Castile and Isabella of Portugal.  Ferdinand, her husband, became king a year later than Isabella in 1475.  

                                                  

Arminius, leader of Barbarians in Battle of Teutoburg Forest

The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, described as the Varian Disaster by Roman historians, took place in the Teutoburg Forest in 9 CE, when an alliance of Germanic peoples ambushed and destroyed three Roman legions and their auxiliaries, led by Publius Quinctilius Varus. 

Germany is another story.  They hadn't had a dynastic king or a president in their history till 1861.  The two parts of the Holy Roman Empire clashed in the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), which was ruinous to the twenty million civilians living in both parts. The Thirty Years' War brought tremendous destruction to Germany; more than 1/4 of the population and 1/2 of the male population in the German states were killed by the catastrophic war. 

1648 marked the effective end of the Holy Roman Empire and the beginning of the modern nation-state system, with Germany divided into numerous independent states, such as Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Austria and other states, which also controlled land outside of the area considered "Germany". After the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars from 1803–1815, feudalism fell away and liberalism and nationalism clashed with reaction.                                       

 William I or Wilhelm I (German: Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig; 22 March 1797 – 9 March 1888) of the House of Hohenzollern was King of Prussia from 2 January 1861 and the first German Emperor from 18 January 1871 to his death.

                                               

In 1547 Ivan IV the Terrible, grand prince of Moscow, was officially crowned “tsar of all Russia,” and thus the religious and political ideology of the Russian tsardom took final form..The grandson of Ivan the Great, Ivan the Terrible, or Ivan IV, acquired vast amounts of land during his long reign (1533-1584), an era marked by the conquest of the khanates of Kazan, Astrakhan and Siberia. Ivan the Terrible created a centrally controlled Russian state, imposed by military dominance. Many believe him to have been mentally ill. One of his violent outbursts was perhaps the reason for his son's death.

Russia has been ruled by Tzars.  In 1547 Ivan IV the Terrible, grand prince of Moscow, was officially crowned “tsar of all Russia,” and thus the religious and political ideology of the Russian tsardom took final form.

I do believe that the USA was the first country to embrace a president instead of a king.  That's the main reason that we are special. Every 4 years we are given the freedom of choosing who will lead us, and have a government also unique and part of the decision-making; a Senate and House and a Supreme Court-our form of having a King Solomon decide the hard things.  We also are the only ones for many years going through the anguish every 4 years of discovery of who wins in our democratic elections.  Other people in the world just have sat back and taken the decisions of their king with little recourse other than blood and thunder.  

Resource:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-america-has-president-instead-exalted-highness-180961841/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_date_of_formation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Germany

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_monarchs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Spanish_monarchs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_system_of_government