* The king of Caria, Pixodarus, dies and is succeeded by his son-in-law, Orontobates.

* Idrieus, king of Caria

* Mausolus of Caria joins the revolt of the satraps of Anatolia against the Persian king Artaxerxes II.

When, therefore, in 408 BC the king decided to support Sparta strenuously, Tissaphernes was removed from the generalship and limited to the satrapy of Caria, whereas Lydia and the conduct of the war were entrusted to Cyrus the Younger.

After helping to weaken Athenian power, in the Social War ( 357-355 BC ), it fell for a few years to the king Mausolus of Caria.

In 357 BC, the islands were conquered by the king Mausolus of Caria, then in 340 BC by the Persians.

In Greek mythology, Endymion (, gen .: Ἐνδυμίωνος ), was variously a handsome Aeolian shepherd, hunter, or king who was said to rule and live at Olympia in Elis, and he was also venerated and said to reside on Mount Latmus in Caria, on the west coast of Asia Minor.

Artemisia II of Caria ( in Greek, Ἀρτεμισία ; died 350 BC ) was a sister, the wife and the successor of the king Mausolus.

While the Assyrian Empire was preoccupied with revolts and civil war over control of the throne, Psammetichus threw off his ties to the Assyrians, and formed alliances with Gyges, king of Lydia, and recruited mercenaries from Caria and Greece to resist Assyrian attacks.

The same promontory was also the probable site of the palace of Mausolos, the famous king of Caria.

Diodorus was a son of Ameinias of Iasus in Caria, and he lived at the court of Alexandria in the reign of Ptolemy I Soter, who is said to have given him the surname of Cronus (" old fogey ") on account of his inability to solve at once some dialectic problem proposed by Stilpo, when the two philosophers were dining with the king.

Shortly after his accession, at the request of the Persian king, Artaxerxes III, Idrieus equips a fleet of 40 triremes and assembles an army of 8, 000 mercenary troops and despatches them against Cyprus, under the command of the Athenian general Phocion.

In chapter 17, the king Dyggvi dies of sickness.

* 1718 – Swedish king Charles XII dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway.

Mosiah, the king dies and his son, Benjamin, becomes king.

The Ndlovukati ( Senior Queen, preferentially the mother of the king, she-elephant, representing softness as in water ) is in charge of national rituals, and acts as regent if her counterpart Ngwenyama dies and the heir has not performed royal adulthood rituals or is indisposed.

* August 16 – Elvis Presley, the king of rock and roll dies in his home in Graceland at age 42.

* Olav Tryggvason becomes the first king to try to Christianize Norway, dies at the Battle of Svolder in 1000.

* 768: Pepin dies ; Charles becomes king at Noyan and his brother Carloman becomes king at Soissons.

* 1039 BC: Neferkare Amenemnisu, king of Egypt, dies.

* Pepin the Short ( 714 – 768 ), king of the Franks since 751, dies ; he is succeeded by his sons Carloman ( eastern Franks ) and Charles, aka Charlemagne ( western Franks ).

Athanaric dies 2 weeks later after an 18-year reign in which he has been undisputed king of all the Goths for just 1 year.

* December 4 – Carloman I, King of the Franks, dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne king of the now complete Frankish kingdom.

* Artabanus III king of Parthia dies after a 10-year period in which he has challenged the suzerainty of Pacorus II, who will continue his reign until 105 AD

* In northern India, Nahapana, king of the Scythians, is defeated and dies in battle while fighting against King Andhra Gautamiputra Satakarni.

* Clotaire I dies, and the Frankish kingdom is divided ; Sigebert I becomes king of Austrasia, Chilperic I becomes king of Neustria, Charibert becomes king of Paris, and Guntram becomes king of Burgundy.

* December 28 – The Visigoth king Euric dies and is succeeded by his son Alaric II.

* December 23 – Huneric dies and is succeeded by his nephew Gunthamund, who becomes king of the Vandals.

* According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Hengist dies and is succeeded by his son Oisc as king of Kent.

It is also possible that Knut dies of natural causes and Erik peacefully then returns as king.

Visigothic king Roderic ( Rodrigo in Spanish and Portuguese ) dies in the battle.

Its importance waned somewhat when the French king, Charles VII, took the city at the end of the Hundred Years ' War and the Adour changed course shortly afterwards, leaving Bayonne without its access to the sea.

In 899 Alfred the Great, king of Wessex, died leaving his son Edward the Elder as ruler of Britain south of the River Thames and his daughter Æthelflæd and son-in-law Æthelred ruling the western, English part of Mercia.

Hearing of the doings at Rome the king, his sons and a party of retainers rode posthaste for the city, leaving Titus Herminius and Marcus Horatius in command of the troops at Ardea.

The policy decimated the population of Martinique and the rest of the French Antilles and set back their colonization by decades, causing the French king to relax his policies in the islands yet leaving the islands susceptible to British occupation over the next century.

Both Matilda's mother and husband died in 1076, leaving her in sole control of her great Italian patrimony as well as lands in Lorraine, while at the same time matters in the conflict between Pope Gregory VII and the German king Henry IV were at a crisis point.

* 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.

" He ( Antiochus ) crossed the Caucasus and descended into India ; renewed his friendship with Sophagasenus the king of the Indians ; received more elephants, until he had a hundred and fifty altogether ; and having once more provisioned his troops, set out again personally with his army: leaving Androsthenes of Cyzicus the duty of taking home the treasure which this king had agreed to hand over to him ".

On 16 December 1325, Charles died, leaving Anjou to his eldest son Philip of Valois, on whose recognition as king of France ( Philip VI ) on 1 April 1328, the countship of Anjou was again united to the crown.

Louis III, who also succeeded his father as king of Naples, died on 15 November 1434, leaving no children.

Before leaving, he had the nobles elect and crown his son Henry Berengar king.

Al-Nadim then writes about the Persian Hazār Afsān, explaining the frame story it employs: a bloodthirsty king kills off a succession of wives after their wedding night ; finally one concubine had the intelligence to save herself by telling him a story every evening, leaving each tale unfinished until the next night so that the king would delay her execution.

These various sources of wealth and influence rendered Rudolph the most powerful prince and noble in southwestern Germany ( where the tribal Duchy of Swabia had disintegrated, leaving room for its vassals to become quite independent ) when, in the autumn of 1273, the prince-electors met to choose a king after Richard of Cornwall had died in England the year before.

Winchelsey was presented with a dilemma between loyalty to the king and upholding the papal bull, and he responded by leaving it to every individual clergyman to pay as he saw fit.

Both the king and the Black Prince were by this time incapacitated by illness, leaving Gaunt in virtual control of government.

According to Curtius ' History of Alexander, at this point Alexander and a small, mobile force arrived and threw the Persians into a panic, leading Bessus and two other conspirators, Satibarzanes and Barsaentes, to wound the king with their javelins and leaving him to die.

* 133 BC – Attalus III, king of Pergamon, leaving the kingdom to Rome

* Louis the Younger, king of Saxony dies, leaving his territory to his brother, the emperor Charles the Fat.

The aliens are gone, leaving a world where a 20th century go-getter can make himself king!

Each son became king in turn but died young without male heirs, leaving only daughters who could not inherit the throne.

Frederick's wife Yolande, the heiress, had died, leaving their infant son Conrad as rightful king.

Shortly after leaving Warrington the young king had resolved to abandon the direct march on London and to make for the Severn valley, where his father had found the most constant and the most numerous adherents in the first war, and which had been the centre of gravity of the English Royalist movement of 1648.