Queen Elizabeth II Reigned Nearly 30% of US History
The United States is a very young country, with less than 250 years in existence. We have accomplished so much in our short time as a nation, that it can sometimes seem like the United States has been around for much longer than it actually has.
If you count 1776 as the beginning of US history, and 2022 as the last year Queen Elizabeth was alive, the exact number of years that she reigned was 28.5% of America’s history. But if you’re rounding up, that’s basically a third of American history. One of the first people to point out this fact was a man named Matt Glassman. When he posted it on Twitter, it went viral with over 11,000 retweets.
