When the Ming Dynasty Chinese astronomer Xu Guangqi adapted the European southern hemisphere constellations to the Chinese system in The Southern Asterisms, he combined Apus with some of the stars in Octans to form the " Exotic Bird " ( 異雀, Yìquè ).

When the Confucian advisers pressed their point, Li Ssu had many Confucian scholars killed and their books burned — considered a huge blow to the philosophy and Chinese scholarship.

When Westerners speak of Chinese food, they usually refer to Cantonese cuisine.

When it is necessary to distinguish between native Japanese kun ' yomi and Chinese-derived on ' yomi pronunciations, for example in Kanji dictionaries, the Japanese pronunciations are written in hiragana, and the Chinese ones are written in katakana.

When Galileo was viewed as a private-sector development with public-sector financial participation, European Commission program managers sought Chinese participation in pursuit of Chinese cash in the short term and privileged access to China ’ s market for positioning and timing applications in the longer term.

When it was established, it was based entirely on the Chinese Kuomintang and was pro Chinese.

When they arrived, they were confronted with Chinese assertions that the Japanese had invaded unlawfully, while the Japanese claimed they were acting to keep peace in the area.

When Portugal conquered Malacca in 1511 and committed atrocities against the Malay Sultanate, the Chinese responded with violent force against Portugal.

When Jesuit missionaries learned this standard language in the 16th century, they called it Mandarin, from its Chinese name Guānhuà ( 官话 / 官話 ), or " language of the officials ".

When the People's Republic was founded in 1949, the telecommunications systems and facilities in China first established by the Qing and Republican ITA and Ministry of Posts and Communications had been seriously damaged from over thirty years of on and off war between warlords, Japan, and the two sides of the Chinese Civil War.

When the Buddhist texts were translated into Chinese, the concubines of others were added to the list of inappropriate partners.

When enemies attempted to dig tunnels under walls for mining or entry into the city, the defenders used large bellows ( the type the Chinese commonly used in heating up a blast furnace for smelting cast iron ) to pump smoke into the tunnels in order to suffocate the intruders.

When Madame Chiang was 103 years old, she had an exhibition of her Chinese paintings in New York.

When the Chinese begin losing the war, U. S. forces begin to target their strategic assets.

When the government official Dan Song proposed the Chinese calendar should be reformed in 123 to adopt certain apocryphal teachings, Zhang opposed the idea.

Jurchen script | Jurchen translation of the Chinese couplet, Ming wang shen de, si yi xian bin (" 明王慎德. 四夷咸宾 ": " When a wise king is heedful of virtue, foreigners from all quarters come as guests ")

* When the Chinese prefectural government officials travel to the Tang Dynasty's capital of Chang ' an in this year to give the annual report of the affairs in their districts, Emperor Taizong of Tang discovers that many have no proper quarters to rest in, and are renting rooms with merchants.

When the Chinese communists took over Tibet in 1951, Bhutan closed its frontier with Tibet and sided with its powerful neighbor to the south.

When a house accidentally burnt down, military and impoverished citizens started slaughtering and pillaging the Chinese community.

When the Chinese prefectural government officials traveled to the capital in the year 643 to give the annual report of the affairs in their districts, Emperor Taizong discovered that many had no proper quarters to rest in, and were renting rooms with merchants.

When the Khitans began raiding northeast China in 605, a Chinese general led 20, 000 Turks against them, distributing Khitan livestock and women to the Turks as a reward.

: When, after the action had thus occurred, his own men returned to each general, Scipio could adopt no fixed plan of proceeding, except that he should form his measures from the plans and undertakings of the enemy: and Hannibal, uncertain whether he should pursue the march he had commenced into Italy, or fight with the Roman army which had first presented itself, the arrival of ambassadors from the Boii, and of a petty prince called Magalus, diverted from an immediate engagement ; who, declaring that they would be the guides of his journey and the companions of his dangers, gave it as their opinion, that Italy ought to be attacked with the entire force of the war, his strength having been nowhere previously impaired.

When Naka no Ōe's mother re-ascended, he continued in the role of her heir and crown prince.

When regent, during the lifetime of his father, the difficulties arising from conflicting interests and the large demands on his powers had often brought the young prince to the verge of despair.

When astrologers predicted that his own son would some day become a Christian, Abenner had the young prince Josaphat isolated from external contact.

When Rudolf was a prince, Nostradamus prepared a horoscope which was dedicated to him as ' Prince and King '.

When Elizabeth came to the throne, there was much apprehension among members of the council appointed by Mary, due to the fact that many of them ( as noted by the Spanish ambassador ) had participated in several plots against Elizabeth, such as her imprisonment in the Tower, trying to force her to marry a foreign prince and thereby sending her out of the realm, and even pushing for her death.

When King You replaced Queen Shen with the concubine Baosi ( and designated Baosì's son as the crown prince ), the former queen ’ s powerful father, the Marquess of Shen, joined forces with Quanrong to sack the western capital of Haojing in 770 BC.

When Sun He succeeded Sun Deng as the new crown prince, he was supported by Lu Xun and Zhuge Ke, while his rival Sun Ba was supported by Quan Cong and Bu Zhi and their clans.

When Mahmud died, Amir Khusroe Khan, one of his nobles, blinded Baysinghar Mirza, killed the second prince, and ruled as usurper.

When the young prince was born, a rumour immediately spread that a call for a warming pan had been the pretext for a substitution, implying that James and Mary's baby was allegedly stillborn.

When the wedding comes to an end, and Aschenputtel and her prince march out of the church, the doves fly again, striking the remaining eyes of the two evil sisters blind, a punishment they have to endure for the rest of their lives.

When the Prince arrives at Cinderella's villa, the stepsisters try in vain to win over the prince.

When this prince succeeded to the throne as Edward V of England, the Earldom of Pembroke merged in the crown.

* When a crown prince is named, his mother, if still alive, must be forced to commit suicide.

When his mother Queen Beatrix became the queen regnant of the Netherlands, prince Willem-Alexander obtained the title " Prince of Orange " as new heir to the Dutch throne.

When she was 11, her cousin Stephen became prince of Transylvania, and he planned to unite Europe against the Turks.

When Philip returned in 1179 after an unsuccessful siege of Harim during his campaign for the Principality of Antioch, he was designated as the chief adviser of prince Philip II Augustus by his sickly father Louis VII of France.

When Avicenna approached the prince with a knife in his hand, he asked " where is the cow so I may kill it.

When the king found this, he went out of doors, and defended himself with courage ; till, having looked on the etheling ( prince ), he rushed out upon him, and wounded him severely.

When in 1323 Gediminas also gained control of Kiev and installed there as prince his brother Fedor, there was no question of discontinuing the principality's tribute to the Khan.

When the war was over, the power reverted back to the legitimate peacetime ruler — be it the veche or a prince.

When his grandfather was assassinated in 1913, George became the crown prince ( Diadochos ) as well as the Duke of Sparta.

When Condé joined the party of the Fronde Bussy joined him, but a fancied slight on the part of the prince finally decided him for the royal side.