He wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from Antiquity ( the last was written by Procopius ).

They were tried and executed one after the other until, when only one was still alive, the accounting error was discovered and that last surviving treasurer was acquitted.

However, Mary II died childless in 1694, after which William III did not remarry, and Princess Anne's last surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, died six years later, after which it was unlikely she would have any more children due to her age and the large number of miscarriages she had previously suffered.

In his last surviving letter from 14 October 1791, Mozart tells his wife that he collected Salieri and Caterina Cavalieri in his carriage and drove them both to the opera ; about Salieri's attendance at his opera The Magic Flute, speaking enthusiastically: " He heard and saw with all his attention, and from the overture to the last choir there was not a piece that didn't elicit a ' Bravo!

His last surviving work is a letter to Ecgbert of York, a former student, written in 734.

The Korowai tribe of south-eastern Papua could be one of the last surviving tribes in the world engaging in cannibalism, although there have been media reports of soldiers / rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Liberia eating body parts to intimidate child soldiers or captives.

By then Wilson was the last surviving member of Attlee's cabinet and the unveiling of the statue would be the last public appearance by Wilson, who was by then in the first stages of Alzheimer's Disease and who died in May 1995 after a decade of ill health.

( As a result of the setting of the age limit at the start of 1971, twenty-five living cardinals, including the last three surviving cardinals elevated by Pope Pius XI, lost the right to participate in a conclave.

When he died in 1899 he was the last surviving cardinal who was not at least ordained a priest.

Shortly after in 355, Constantius promoted Gallus ' younger half-brother and Constantius ' last surviving cousin, Julian to the rank of Caesar.

A few days later, Julian was married to Helena, the last surviving sister of Constantius.

Jones, the second to last surviving animation director from the " Termite Terrace " days of the WB cartoons, died of heart failure in 2002.

Ishi, who had grown up without contact to whites, was monolingual in Yahi and was the last surviving member of his people.

* 1901 – Florence Green, British, last surviving veteran of World War I ( d. 2012 )

* 2012 – Florence Green, British, last surviving veteran of World War I ( b. 1901 )

The vihuela enjoyed only a short period of popularity in Spain and Italy during an era dominated elsewhere in Europe by the lute ; the last surviving published music for the instrument appeared in 1576.

On 25 April 2005, to mark the 90th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing, government officials from Australia and New Zealand, most of the last surviving Gallipoli veterans, and many Australian and New Zealand tourists traveled to Turkey for a special dawn service at Gallipoli.

The text records conversations between Caílte mac Rónáin and Oisín, the last surviving members of the Fianna, and Saint Patrick, and consists of about 8, 000 lines.

Polk was the last strong pre – Civil War president, and he is the earliest of whom there are surviving photographs taken during a term in office.

These journal-letters now represent the only surviving account of the poet's final months and as a consequence are used as the primary historical source for biographers of Keats's last days.

In 1467, Elisabeth, Queen of Poland, the last surviving sister, and later their son Philip the Handsome.

After surviving a period of financial uncertainties, the institute saw significant expansion in the last two decades of the 19th century under President Francis Amasa Walker.

* Progressive rock band Ayreon's 2000 album Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer tells the story of the last surviving human living on a Mars colony, many years after a war wiped out all life on Earth, leaving the Mars colony berift of supplies.

* 1922 – Tuomas Gerdt, Finnish soldier, last living Knight of the Mannerheim Cross

Bidding farewell to the White Knight, Alice steps across the last brook and is automatically crowned a queen ( the crown materialising abruptly on her head ).

** Tuomas Gerdt, Finnish soldier, last living Knight of the Mannerheim Cross

Dale, having been recalled under criticism, writes A True Relation of the State of Virginia, Left by Sir Thomas Dale, Knight, in May last, 1616 in a successful effort to redeem his leadership.

Polish DVD edition of Knight Rider contains original order of episodes ( Scent Of Roses as last episode ).

Banished by his tribe for his clumsiness, he is nearly killed by a federation transport, only to be saved at the last minute by Jedi Knight Qui-Gon Jinn ( Liam Neeson ).

Indiana succeeds and finds himself in a room with the last Knight, kept alive for seven hundred years with the power of the Grail, which has been hidden among dozens of other cups.

* Rayt Marius in Knight Templar and The Misfortunes of Mr. Teal, featuring Leslie Charteris ' the Saint, appears to be based on Zaharoff, with the last referring specifically to the theft of his explosive memoirs.

The first story appeared in Unknown in 1939 and the last in The Knight and Knave of Swords in 1988.

Like most of Charles Dickens ' novels, David Copperfield was published in 19 monthly one-shilling installments, containing 32 pages of text and two illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne (" Phiz "), with the last being a double-number:

The last published book of Gordon R. Dickson's semi-historical Dragon Knight series is titled The Dragon and the Fair Maid of Kent, and concerns Joan's attempts to reconcile the Black Prince with his father Edward III during the first years of the Black Death in England.

His last opera, nearly completed when he died, was The Knight of the Leopard and achieved considerable success in Italian as Il Talismano.

** The Knight of Sainte-Hermine ( Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine, 1869 ): This nearly completed novel was his last major work ; it was being published serially.

" Neither One of Us " also happened to be one of their last Motown hits, as Knight and the Pips departed Motown for Buddah Records in 1973.

Peter and Gordon had their last hit in Britain in late-1966 (" Lady Godiva ") which reached No. 16 there ( No. 6 in the US ), whilst their success lasted into 1967 in the US ( with " Knight In Rusty Armour ", and " Sunday for Tea " both registering in the upper reaches of the Billboard Hot 100 that year ).

All are under governmental operations, except for the last entry, the privately operated White Knight / SpaceShipOne.

Eventually the wives tell their husbands about the series of jokes they have played on Falstaff, and together they devise one last trick which ends up with the Knight being humiliated in front of the whole town.

The first of these, Erec, which may have been written as early as 1191 or 1192, and the last, Iwein, belong to the Arthurian cycle and are based on epics by Chrétien de Troyes ( Erec and Enide and Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, respectively ).

The collapse of Death Row Records meant its title as a powerful hip-hop label was subsequently revoked despite attempts from the last remaining founder and CEO at the time, Suge Knight, that included signing new talents and releasing many compilations of previously unreleased content recorded by ex-Death Row artists.

Similarly, Arthur Knight credited Kramer for the film's significance: " from first to last, the director is in command of his material.

At times, it parallels the life and adventures of admiral Roger de Flor, a Templar Knight and participant in the last crusade, leader of the Almogavar ( Valencian, Catalan and Aragonese ).

Lost plays by Ford include The Royal Combat and Beauty in a Trance, plus more collaborations with Dekker: The London Merchant, The Bristol Merchant, The Fairy Knight, and Keep the Widow Waking, the last with William Rowley and John Webster.

In Scotland, Dr Malcolm Knight has championed the art form and over the last 25 years the Scottish Mask and Puppet Centre has acted as a catalyst, a lead agency, and as a resource centre for all those with an interest in mask and puppet theatre.

Most notable in this respect was Queensland, which was the last Australian state to recommend its citizens to the Queen for admission to various Orders as Knight or Dames.

The last knight, Desmond FitzGerald, 29th Knight of Glin, died on September 14, 2011.