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It's not that rare...list of abdications:

Lucius Tarquinius Superbus 510 BC (Roman Monarchy dissolved) Lucius Cornelius Sulla 79 BC Diocletian AD 305 Romulus Augustulus 476 (Western Roman Empire dissolved) Pope Benedict IX 1048 Isaac I Comnenus 1059 Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor 1105 Emperor Huizong of Song China January 18, 1126 Albert I of Brandenburg 1169 Dermot McMurrough, High King of Ireland 1169 Ladislaus III of Poland 1206 Pope Celestine V December 13, 1294 John Baliol of Scotland 1296 John Cantacuzene, emperor of the East 1355 Richard II of England September 29, 1399 Baldassare Cossa, Antipope John XXIII 1415 Pope Gregory XII 1415 Erik VII of Denmark, XIII of Sweden 1439 Amadeus VIII of Savoy 1440 Murad II, Ottoman Sultan 1444 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1 1555/1556 Christina of Sweden June 6, 1654 Mary Queen of Scots July 24, 1567 John Casimir of Poland 1668 Frederick Augustus of Poland September 24, 1706 Philip V of Spain 14 January 1724 Victor Amadeus of Sardinia 3 September 1730 Ahmed III, Ottoman Sultan 1 October 1730 Charles of Naples (on accession to throne of Spain) 6 October 1759 Stanislaus II of Poland 7 January 1795 Qianlong Emperor of China February 9, 1796 Charles Emanuel IV, King of Sardinia June 4, 1802 Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor August 6, 1806 Charles IV, King of Spain March 19, 1808 Joseph Napoleon, King of Naples June 6, 1808 Gustav IV Adolf, King of Sweden March 29, 1809 Louis Napoleon, King of Holland July 2, 1810 Napoleon I, Emperor of the French April 4, 1814, and again June 22, 1815 Victor Emmanuel I, King of Sardinia March 13, 1821 Charles X, King of France August 2, 1830 Pedro IV, King of Portugal 2 May 28, 1826 Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil 2 April 7, 1831 Miguel, King of Portugal May 26, 1834 William I, King of the Netherlands October 7, 1840 Louis Philippe, King of the French February 24, 1848 Ludwig I, King of Bavaria March 21, 1848 Ferdinand, Emperor of Austria December 2, 1848 Charles II, Duke of Parma March 14, 1849 Charles Albert, King of Sardinia March 23, 1849 Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany July 21, 1859 Isabella II, Queen of Spain June 25, 1870 Amadeo I, King of Spain February 11, 1873 Alexander, Prince of Bulgaria September 7, 1886 Milan, King of Serbia March 6, 1889 Liliʻuokalani, Queen of Hawaiʻi January 17, 1893 (monarchy abolished) Sunjong, Emperor of Korea August 29, 1910 (monarchy abolished) Xuantong Emperor of China February 12, 1912 (monarchy abolished) Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia March 15, 1917 (monarchy abolished) Ferdinand I, Tsar of the Bulgarians October 3, 1918 William II, German Emperor November 9, 1918 (monarchy abolished) Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg January 14, 1919 Constantine I, King of the Hellenes September 27, 1922 Prajadhipok, King of Siam March 2, 1935 Edward VIII, King of Great Britain and Ireland December 11, 1936 Carol II, King of Romania September 6, 1940 Bảo Đại, Emperor of Vietnam April 25, 1945 (Feudal Dynasty dissolved) Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy May 9, 1946 Michael, King of Romania December 30, 1947 (monarchy abolished) Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands September 4, 1948 Léopold III, King of the Belgians July 16, 1951 Farouk, King of Egypt July 26, 1952 Talal, King of Jordan August 11, 1952 Fuad II, King of Egypt June 18, 1953 (Monarchy abolished) Saud, King of Saudi Arabia November 2, 1964 Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg November 12, 1964 Omar Ali Saifuddin, Sultan of Brunei October 4, 1967 Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands April 30, 1980 Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg October 7, 2000 Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein3 August 15, 2004 (Made his son regent) Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia October 7, 2004 Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait January 23, 2006 Jigme Singye Wangchuck, King of Bhutan December 15, 2006 (Made his son King)