Egwale Seyon (died 3 June 1818) or Gwalu was negus negusti (June 1801 - 3 June 1818) of Ethiopia, and a member of the Solomonid dynasty. He was the son of Hezqeyas. June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years), with 211 days remaining. ... 1818 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... The Emperor of Ethiopia (Amharic ንጉሠ ነገሥት, niguse negest, King of Kings) was the hereditary ruler of Ethiopia until the abolition of the monarchy in 1975. ... The Union Jack, flag of the newly formed United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ... June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years), with 211 days remaining. ... 1818 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... The Solomonid dynasty is the traditional royal house of Ethiopia, claming descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, who is said to have given birth to the traditional first king Menelik I after her Biblically-described visit to Solomon in Jerusalem. ... Hezqeyas or Hezekiah was niguse negest (26 July 1789 - January 1794) of Ethiopia, and a member of the Solomonid dynasty. ...

He was made Emperor by Rasses Wolde Selassie and Gugsa of Yejju and chief of the Oromo. Emperor Egwale Seyon then married Walatta Iyasus, the sister of Ras Gugsa, and they had five children. When Henry Salt visited Ras Wolda Selassie at his palace in Chalacot in 1809/1810, the Emperor's brother, Kenyazmach Iyasus, was also a guest of the Ras.¹ Ethiopian aristocratic and religious titles used in Ethiopia until the end of the Monarchy in 1974. ... Wolde Selassie (died May 1816) was a Ras of Ethiopia and warlord of Tigray. ... Gugsa of Yejju (died 23 May 1825) was a Ras of Begemder from 1798 until his death), and Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia. ... The Oromo are an African ethnic group found in Ethiopia and to a lesser extent Kenya. ... Henry Salt (June 14, 1780 – October 30, 1827) was an English artist, traveler, diplomat, and Egyptologist. ... Ethiopian aristocratic and religious titles used in Ethiopia until the end of the Monarchy in 1974. ...

From 1803 on, his reign was marked by constant civil war. Most of the battles were part of a three-sided struggle between Ras Gugsa, Ras Gabrael of Semien, and Wolde Selassie. Egwale Seyon was also twice attacked (in 1804 and 1808) by armies of the Oromo who lived south of the Abay River, united under the leadership of the disgraced Master of the Horse Asserat. 1803 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1804 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1808 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Abay River is a river in Ethiopia. ...

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1. Henry Salt, A Voyage to Abyssinia and Travels into the Interior of that Country, 1814 (London: Frank Cass, 1967), p. 262.