* 1614 – Jahanara Begum Sahib, Imperial Princess, daughter of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal ( d. 1681 )

Following the birth of Princess Aiko, there was public debate about amending the current Imperial Household Law to allow women to succeed to the throne.

The government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, conferred the additional title upon her by an Act of Parliament, reputedly to assuage the monarch's irritation at being, as a mere Queen, notionally inferior to her own daughter ( Princess Victoria was the wife of the reigning German Emperor ); the Indian Imperial designation was also formally justified as the expression of Britain succeeding as paramount ruler of the subcontinent the former Mughal ' Padishah of Hind ', using indirect rule through hundreds of princely states formally under protection, not colonies, but accepting the British Sovereign as their suzerain.

However, shortly after the announcement that Princess Kiko was pregnant with her third child, the proposal to alter the Imperial Household Law was suspended by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

* Imperial Princess Koshi ( 高志内親王 ) ( 789 – 809 ), married to Prince Ōtomo ( Emperor Junna later )

* Imperial Princess Asahara ( 朝原内親王 ) ( 779 – 817 ), 12th Saiō in Ise Grand Shrine ( 782 – before 796 ), and married to Heizei

* Imperial Princess Inaba ( 因幡内親王 ) (?– 824 )

* Imperial Princess Anou ( 安濃内親王 ) (?– 841 )

* Imperial Princess Sugawara ( 菅原内親王 ) (?– 825 )

* Imperial Princess Kara ( 賀楽内親王 ) (?– 874 )

* Imperial Princess Shigeno ( 滋野内親王 ) (?– 857 )

* Imperial Princess Takatsu ( 高津内親王 ) (?– 841 ), married to Emperor Saga

* Imperial Princess Ate ( 安勅内親王 ) (?– 855 )

* Imperial Princess Ōi ( 大井内親王 ) (?– 865 )

* Imperial Princess Ki ( 紀内親王 ) ( 799 – 886 )

* Imperial Princess Yoshihara ( 善原内親王 ) (?– 863 )

* Imperial Princess Kannabi ( 甘南備内親王 ) ( 800 – 817 )

* Imperial Princess Ito ( 伊都内親王 ) ( ca.

* Imperial Princess Ikenoe ( 池上内親王 ) (?– 868 )

* Imperial Princess Suruga ( 駿河内親王 ) ( 801 – 820 )

* Imperial Princess Fuse ( 布勢内親王 ) (?– 812 ), 13th Saiō in Ise Shrine, 797 – 806

** Imperial Princess Kasanui ( also named Princess Satake )

** Imperial Princess Ihane-hime or Ihakumo, Ise Virgin ; had to resign her charge being convicted of intrigue with her half brother Imperial Prince Mubaragi

Hi: Imperial Princess Ōyake ( 大宅内親王 ) (?– 849 ), daughter of Emperor Kammu

* Imperial Prince Iyo ( 伊予親王 ) (?– 807 )

* Imperial Prince Asuka ( 明日香親王 ) (?– 834 )

* Nagaoka no Okanari ( 長岡岡成 ) (?– 848 ), removed from the Imperial Family by receiving the family name from Emperor ( Shisei Kōka, 賜姓降下 ) in 787

* Imperial Prince Kose ( 巨勢親王 ) (?– 882 )

* Imperial Princess Kamitsukeno ( 上毛野内親王 ) (?– 842 )

* Imperial Princess Isonokami ( 石上内親王 ) (?– 846 )

* Imperial Princess Ōhara ( 大原内親王 ) (?– 863 ), 14th Saiō in Ise Shrine ( 806 – 809 )

* Imperial Princess Enu ( 叡努内親王 ) (?– 835 )

* Imperial Princess Hideko ( 秀子内親王 ) (?– 850 )

* Imperial Princess Toshiko ( 俊子内親王 ) (?– 826 )

* Imperial Princess Yoshiko ( 芳子内親王 ) (?– 839 )

* Imperial Princess Shigeko ( 繁子内親王 ) (?– 851 )

* Reale, G., ( 1990 ), A History of Ancient Philosophy IV: The Schools of the Imperial Age, SUNY Press, pp. 297 – 303.

* 7 markers, one for each of the hotel chains: American, Continental, Festival, Imperial, Luxor ( or Sackson in the 2008 version ), Tower, and Worldwide.

Achaemenid Assyria ( 539 BC – 330 BC ) retained a separate identity ( Athura ), official correspondence being in Imperial Aramaic, and there was even a determined revolt of the two Assyrian provinces of Mada and Athura in 520 BC.

Biological sabotage – in the form of anthrax and glanders — was undertaken on behalf of the Imperial German government during World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ), with indifferent results.

During the Sino-Japanese War ( 1937 – 1945 ) and World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ), the Special Research Units of the Imperial Japanese Army, such as Unit 731, conducted human experimentation on thousands of Chinese, among others.

Charles Louis Napoléon ( 1808 – 1873 ), son of Louis Napoléon, was president of France in 1848 – 1852 and emperor in 1852 – 1870, reigning as Napoléon III ; his son, Eugène Bonaparte ( 1856 – 1879 ), styled the Prince Imperial, died fighting the Zulus in Natal, South Africa.

Cavalry found new success in Imperial operations ( irregular warfare ), where modern weapons were lacking and the slow moving infantry-artillery train or fixed fortifications were often ineffective against native insurgents ( unless the natives offered a fight on an equal footing, as at Tel-el-Kebir, Omdurman, etc .).

He then left for the Tokyo Shinbu Gakko ( 東京振武學校 ), an Imperial Japanese Army Academy Preparatory School for Chinese students, in 1907.

An example of a now discredited " ethnographic " map of India from the Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1909, purporting to show the different " races " ( in coloured regions ), and castes ( in labels ).

An Imperial Conference in 1926 that included the leaders of all Dominions and representatives from India ( which then included Burma, Bangladesh, and Pakistan ), led to the eventual creation of the Statute of Westminster in 1931.

Also during this period Frank Hurley's documentary film, South ( 1919 ), about the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was released.

Regardless, his Imperial titles did not pass to his daughters ( the Empire operated Salic Law which prevented female succession ), so became extinct on his death in 1722.

** Imperial Diet ( Holy Roman Empire ), the imperial assembly of the princes of the Holy Roman Empire until 1806

Prince Eugene of Savoy ( French: François-Eugène de Savoie, German: Eugen von Savoyen, Italian: Principe Eugenio di Savoia-Carignano ; 18 October 1663 – 21 April 1736 ), was one of the most successful military commanders in modern European history, rising to the highest offices of state at the Imperial court in Vienna.

Eugene enhanced his standing during the War of the Spanish Succession where his partnership with the Duke of Marlborough secured victories against the French on the fields of Blenheim ( 1704 ), Oudenarde ( 1708 ), and Malplaquet ( 1709 ); he gained further success in the war as Imperial commander in northern Italy, most notably at the Battle of Turin ( 1706 ).

These ties, together with his ascetic manner and appearance ( a positive advantage to him at the sombre court of Leopold I ), ensured the refugee from the hated French king a warm welcome at Passau, and a position in Imperial service.

Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Imperial Palace has been called " Kyūjō " ( 宮城 ), then Kōkyo ( 皇居 ), and located on the former site of Edo Castle in the heart of Tokyo.

From 1192 to 1867, sovereignty of the state was exercised by the shoguns, or their shikken regents ( 1203 – 1333 ), whose authority was conferred by Imperial warrant.

One of the most famous Imperial coronation ceremonies was that of Napoleon, crowning himself Emperor in the presence of Pope Pius VII ( who had blessed the regalia ), at the Notre Dame de Paris | Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The painting by Jacques-Louis David | David commemorating the event is equally famous: the gothic cathedral restyled Empire ( style ) | style Empire, supervised by the Letizia Ramolino | mother of the Emperor on the balcony ( a fictional addition, while she had not been present at the ceremony ), the pope positioned near the altar, Napoleon proceeds to crown his then wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais as Empress.

Earlier Imperial sponsorship of Buddhism, beginning with Prince Shōtoku ( 574 – 622 ), had led to a general politicization of the clergy, along with an increase in intrigue and corruption.