To be sure, the US is in an interregnum until the election of a new president.

The complete policy paralysis that has prevailed during the interregnum between Presidents Bush and Obama has not helped.

After an interregnum of a hundred or so years, Assyria began to expand once more with the rise of the Neo Assyrian Empire.

The Rule of the Dukes was an interregnum in the Lombard Kingdom of Italy (574 5 584 5) during which Italy was ruled by the Lombard dukes of the old Roman provinces and urban centres.

The history of Moorish Gibraltar began with the landing of the Muslims in Hispania and the fall of the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo in 711 and ended with the fall of Gibraltar to Christian hands 751 years later, in 1462, with an interregnum during the early 14th century.

After the death of Awole there was a scramble for the throne by numerous contenders some were reported to have spent less than six months on the throne there was also a period of interregnum of almost twenty years where the various factions could not agree on a candidate for the throne.