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* King Xerxes I of Persia issues a decree, as dictated by Mordecai upon the king's secretaries, giving the Jews in every city the authority to unite to defend their lives against their opponents in all of the 127 provinces of the Persian Empire, stretching from India to Ethiopia.
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King and Xerxes
It was said that the bridge was to rival that of Persian King Xerxes ' crossing of the Hellespont.
King Xerxes held a 180-day feast in Susa ( Shoushan ).
One of them said that all the women in the empire would hear that " The King Xerxes commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.
To find a new queen suitable to King Xerxes, it was decreed that beautiful young virgins be gathered to the palace from every province of his kingdom.
For his wife and queen, King Xerxes chose Esther, an orphan raised by her cousin Mordecai, to replace the recalcitrant Queen Vashti.
When King Xerxes saw Esther, he was pleased and held out his scepter to her, showing that he accepted her visit.
* 486 BC: Xerxes I succeeds Darius I as Great King of Persia
* October, 485 BC: Xerxes I succeeds Darius I as King of Persia
* 480 BC: King Xerxes I of Persia sets out to conquer Greece
* 465 BC: King Xerxes I of the Persian Empire is murdered by Artabanus the Hyrcanian.
* The Persian King Xerxes I arrives at Sardis and begins to build up his great army and navy for the invasion of Greece.
This sacrilege led the Babylonians to rebel in 484 BC and 482 BC, so that in contemporary Babylonian documents, Xerxes refused his father's title of King of Babylon, being named rather as King of Persia and Media, Great King, King of Kings ( Shahanshah ) and King of Nations ( i. e. of the world ).
Other works dealing with the Persian Empire or the Biblical story of Esther have also referenced Xerxes, such as the video game Assassin's Creed II and the film One Night with the King, in which Ahasuerus ( Xerxes ) was portrayed by British actor Luke Goss.
* Xerxes The God-King, a 2010 release by American rapper King Gordy
* May – King Xerxes I of Persia marches from Sardis and onto Thrace and Macedonia.
* King Alexander I of Macedon is obliged to accompany Xerxes in a campaign through Greece, though he secretly aids the Greek allies.
* About 500 BC: ( Information originally from Herodotus ): During a naval campaign the Greek Scyllis was taken aboard ship as prisoner by the Persian King Xerxes I.
* Antiochus III gives his sister Antiochia in marriage to King Xerxes of Armenia, who acknowledges Antiochus III's suzerainty and pays him tribute.
* King Xerxes I of the Persian Empire, together with his eldest son, is murdered by one of his Ministers, Artabanus the Hyrcanian.
King and I
Consequently, on October 31, 1896, Mrs. King wrote to Thompson, quite against her daughter's wishes, asking him not to `` recommence a correspondence which I believe has been dropped for some weeks ''.
Last, not least, there are some poems which K. King sent me ( addressed to herself ) when I was preparing a fresh volume, asking me to include them.
The Church of England ( which until the 20th century included the Church in Wales ) initially separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1538 in the reign of King Henry VIII, reunited in 1555 under Queen Mary I and then separated again in 1570 under Queen Elizabeth I ( the Roman Catholic Church excommunicated Elizabeth I in 1570 in response to the Act of Supremacy 1559 ).
* 1199 – King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder.
* 1782 – King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke ( Rama I ) of Siam ( modern day Thailand ) founded the Chakri dynasty.
* 1921 – The British install the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali ( leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire ) as King Faisal I of Iraq.
* 936 – Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.
* 1385 – Portuguese Crisis of 1383 – 1385: Battle of Aljubarrota – Portuguese forces commanded by King John I and his general Nuno Álvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King John I.
* 1040 – King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth.
* Albert I of Belgium ( 1875 – 1934 ), third King of the Belgians
* Albert I of Germany ( 1255 – 1308 ), King of Germany and Archduke of Austria
Albert was a loyal vassal of his relation, Lothar I, Duke of Saxony, from whom, about 1123, he received the Margraviate of Lusatia, to the east ; after Lothar became King of the Germans, he accompanied him on a disastrous expedition to Bohemia in 1126, when he suffered a short imprisonment.
Albert was chosen as his successor early in 1511 in the hope that his relationship to his maternal uncle, Sigismund I the Old, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, would facilitate a settlement of the disputes over eastern Prussia, which had been held by the Order under Polish suzerainty since the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ).
Prussian Homage ( painting ) | Prussian Homage: Albert and his brothers receive the Duchy of Prussia as a fief from Polish King Sigismund I the Old, 1525.
Albert married first, to Princess Dorothea ( 1 August 1504-11 April 1547 ), daughter of King Frederick I of Denmark, in 1526.
Alaric I (; 370-410 ) was the King of the Visigoths from 395 – 410.
The earliest documented event in Alaric's reign concerned providing refuge to Syagrius, the former ruler of the Domain of Soissons ( in what is now north western France ) who had been defeated by Clovis I King of the Franks.
Edmund ( reigned 1016 ) was an elder half-brother of King Edward the Confessor, and Edmund's son Edward was in Hungary with King Andrew I, having left England as an infant after his father's death and the accession of Cnut as King of England.
King and Persia
Daniel has a lengthy vision ( 10: 1-12: 13 ) in the third year of Cyrus king of Persia, around 536 BCE, regarding conflicts between the " King of the North " and the " King of the South " (= Egypt, 11: 8 ).
In the 20th year of Artaxerxes ( the King of Persia ), Nehemiah, cup-bearer to the King in Susa ( the Persian capital ), learns that the wall of Jerusalem is destroyed.
It was the culmination of the first attempt by Persia, under King Darius I, to subjugate Greece.
In Persia, from the time of Darius the Great, Persian rulers used the title " King of Kings " ( Shahanshah in modern Iranian ) since they had dominion over peoples from India to Greece.
The seventh, the Shabuhragan, was written by Mani in Middle Persian and presented by him to the contemporary King of Sassanid Persia, Shapur I in the Persian capital of Ctesiphon.
In, attributed to the time of the Persian Empire in about 450 BC, it is said that Nehemiah, an official serving King Artaxerxes I of Persia, asked leave to travel to Judea, and the king granted leave and gave him a letter " to the governors beyond the river " requesting safe passage for him as he travelled through their lands.
* Karim Khan, Shah of Iran and King of Persia
* Nadir Shah, King of Persia
* Shah Rukh of Persia, King of Persia.
* May 1 – Naser ad-Din Qajar, Shah of Persia, King of Herat ( b. 1831 )
* Ardashir III, King of Persia
* 492 BC: First expedition of King Darius I of Persia against Greece, under the leadership of his son-in-law Mardonius.
* 464 BC: Regent King Artabanus of Persia is killed by his charge Artaxerxes I.
* Darius I, King of Persia ( reigned 521 – 485 BC )
* 464 BC — death of Artabanus of Persia, Regent King for Artaxerxes I
* King Yazdegerd I of Persia maintains cordial relations with the Roman Empire.
* King Kavadh I of Persia is deposed and exiled to Susiana by his younger brother Djamasp.
* March 9 – Bahrām Chobin is crowned as King Bahrām VI of Persia.
* King Ardashir I, ruler of the Persia, invades the Roman province of Mesopotamia and unsuccessfully besieges the fortress town of Nisibis ( Turkey ).
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