When the Prince's life is threatened by King Miraz the Usurper, Caspian blows the horn and the Pevensies are magically transferred to Narnia from a railway station in England.

Edmund and his siblings return to Narnia to aid Caspian, rightful King of Narnia, against King Miraz the Usurper.

I think he is the first Politician, who, pretending to settle Government upon its true Basis, and to establish the Thrones of lawful Princes, ever told the World, That he was properly a King, whose Manner of Government was by Supreme Power, by what Means soever he obtained it ; which in plain English is to say, that Regal and Supreme Power is properly and truly his, who can by any Means seize upon it ; and if this be, to be properly a King, I wonder how he came to think of, or where he will find, an Usurper.

* 413, Capture of Narbonne and Toulouse by Visigoths led by King Ataulf, Usurper Jovinus is executed, Sack of Trier by Franks.

The story was republished in the collections King Conan ( Gnome Press, 1953 ) and Conan the Usurper ( Lancer Books, 1967 ).

In the hardcover Gnome Press edition of the Conan stories, Conan the Conqueror follows the short stories collected as King Conan ; in the paperback Lancer / Ace edition, it follows the short stories collected as Conan the Usurper.

Its first hardbound publication was in King Conan, published by Gnome Press, and its first paperback publication was in Conan the Usurper, published by Lancer Books in 1967.

* 783-Mauregato the Usurper becomes King of Asturias.

* Wang Mang, Usurper Emperor of the short-lived Xin Dynasty in China r. 9 – 23

Usurper Constantine III declared himself emperor in the West ( 407 – 411 ) and made Arles his capital in 408.

* Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp – Conan the Usurper

* Edward Howard – The Usurper

Although the invading troops were defeated somewhere in a rovină (" ragged marshland ") in Oltenia, the chaos created by the threat of attacks allowed a group of boyars to put Vlad I the Usurper ( 1395 – 1397 ) on the throne.

Vlad I, known as Uzurpatorul ( The Usurper ), was a ruler of the principality of Wallachia, ( 1394 – 1397 ), during the reign of Mircea I of Wallachia, usurping the throne but only lasting 3 years.

Alfonso XIII ( Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Austria-Lorena ; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941 ) was King of Spain from 1886 until 1931.

Chapters 17 to 27 describe the missionary labors of the sons of King Mosiah II who was the last king over the people of Nephi prior to the peaceful transition of the nation from a monarchy to a republican form of government.

However, his rule was short lived and, on 17 October 1929, Habibullah Kalakani was overthrown and replaced by King Nadir Khan.

The King visited Paris, where, on 17 July he accepted a tricolore cockade, to cries of Vive la Nation (" Long live the Nation ") and Vive le Roi (" Long live the King ").

* July 26, 1946 The bombing of British administrative headquarters at the King David Hotel, killing 91 people — 28 British, 41 Arab, 17 Jewish, and 5 others.

On 17 April 1941, after King Peter II and other members of the government fled the country, the remaining representatives of the government and military met with the German officials in Belgrade.

On 17 June 1944 on the Dalmatian island of Vis, the Treaty of Vis ( Viški sporazum ) was signed in an attempt to merge Tito's government ( the AVNOJ ) with the government in exile of King Peter II.

On July 17, 1251, Pope Innocent IV signed two papal bulls, ordering the Bishop of Chełmno to crown Mindaugas as King of Lithuania, appoint a bishop for Lithuania, and build a cathedral.

Lulach mac Gille Coemgáin ( Modern Gaelic: Lughlagh mac Gille Chomghain, known in English simply as Lulach, and nicknamed Tairbith, " the Unfortunate " and Fatuus, " the Simple-minded " or " the Foolish "; before 1033 – 17 March 1058 ) was King of Scots between 15 August 1057 and 17 March 1058.

On June 17, 2011 King Mohamed VI announced a series of reforms that would transform Morocco into a constitutional monarchy.

An 18th-century example of topical song intended as a feminist protest song is " Rights of Woman " ( 1795 ), sung to the tune of " God Save the King ", written anonymously by " A Lady ", and published in the Philadelphia Minerva, October 17, 1795.

The first coat of arms was granted by King George V by Royal Warrant on 17 September 1910.

" Ancestry and Pathology in King Tutankhamun's Family " < cite > The Journal of the American Medical Association, 17 February 2010.

Many modern English translations of the Bible, including the King James Version mention topaz in Exodus 28: 17 in reference to a stone in the Hoshen: " And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle ( garnet ): this shall be the first row.

William Lyon Mackenzie King, PC, OM, CMG ( December 17, 1874 – July 22, 1950 ), also commonly known as Mackenzie King, was the dominant Canadian political leader from the 1920s through the 1940s.

In the reign of King Rajasinghe II ( 17 century A. D .) in his battle with the Dutch he had a Vedda regiment.

* March 17 – Harold Harefoot, King of England

* July 17 – King George V of the United Kingdom issues a proclamation, stating that thenceforth the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor, vice the Germanic bloodline of House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, which is an offshoot of the historic ( 800 + years ) House of Wettin.

* April 17 – Laurence Powell and Stacey Koon are found guilty in the second Rodney King trial.

* July 17 – King Baudouin takes the oath as king of Belgium.

* May 17 – Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, King of Malaysia

* March 17 – Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, grandson of King George III ( b. 1819 )

In January, 1958, the Minister of the Interior announced that an election law was ready to be submitted to the King, the rumors of election dates appeared once again, first for spring of 1958 and later for the summer.

April was the second month of the Roman calendar, before January and February were added by King Numa Pompilius about 700 BC.

About 700 BC it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days.

They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".

He was the second son of King Afonso II of Portugal and his wife, Urraca of Castile ; he succeeded his brother, King Sancho II of Portugal, who was removed from the throne on 4 January 1248.

Afonso V (, originally Affonso ) KG ( 15 January 1432 – 28 August 1481 ), called the African (), was King of Portugal and the Algarves.

On 15 January 1941, Alfonso XIII abdicated his rights to the Spanish throne in favour of his third ( of four ), but second-surviving, son Juan, father of the current King, Juan Carlos.

Alfonso IV, called the Kind ( also the Gentle or the Nice, ) ( 1299, Naples – 24 January 1336 ) was the King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona ( as Alfonso III ) from 1327 to his death.

The party set out on 27 January 1249, with letters from King Louis and the papal legate, and rich presents, including a chapel-tent, lined with scarlet cloth and embroidered with sacred pictures.

After Eschiva's death in October 1197 he married Isabella, the daughter of Amalric I of Jerusalem by his second marriage, and became King of Jerusalem in right of his wife and crowned at Acre in January 1198.

On January 28, 1931, King Victor Emanuel finally declared Clipperton to be a French possession.

* William " WAK " King ( trumpet, rhythm guitar, synthesizer ) – born January 30, 1949, Alabama.

Catharine of Aragon ( Castilian: Catalina de Aragón ; ; 16 December 1485 – 7 January 1536 ) was the Spanish Queen consort of England as the first wife of King Henry VIII of England and Princess of Wales as the wife to Arthur, Prince of Wales.

Just before and after the execution of King Charles I on 30 January 1649, the Rump passed a number of acts of Parliament creating the legal basis for the republic.

On 8 May it proclaimed that King Charles II had been the lawful monarch since the execution of Charles I in January 1649.

Charles I ( 19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649 ) was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.

On 14 January 1929, Amanullah abdicated in favor of his brother, King Inayatullah Khan.

He successfully brought Wishart back to port in Malta and then attended the funeral of King George V in January 1936.

This threat was realised when on 6 January 1661, 50 Fifth Monarchists, headed by a wine-cooper named Thomas Venner, made an effort to attain possession of London in the name of " King Jesus.

King Behanzin surrendered and was captured by the legionnaires in January 1894.

This work attracted considerable attention, and in January 1810, at the age of 25, Bessel was appointed director of the Königsberg Observatory by King Frederick William III of Prussia.

In January 2010, King Abdullah of Jordan, after a meeting with the Israeli president Shimon Peres at the World Economic Forum in Davos, declared that his country does not want to rule the West Bank and that " the two-state solution " to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was the only viable option.