The Assyrian empire collapsed due to a bitter series of civil wars followed by a combined attack by Medes, Persians, Scythians and their own Babylonian relations.

Despite continuous wars or imperial expansion on the Empire's frontiers and one year-long civil war over the imperial succession, the Mediterranean world remained at peace for more than two centuries.

Devastated by European diseases to which they had no immunity, and civil wars, in 1532 the Incas were defeated by an alliance composed of tens of thousands allies from nations they had subjugated ( e. g. Huancas, Chachapoyas, Cañaris ) and a small army of 180 Spaniards led by Francisco Pizarro.

He succeeded his cousin Elagabalus upon the latter's assassination in 222, and was ultimately assassinated himself, marking the epoch event for the Crisis of the Third Century — nearly fifty years of civil wars, foreign invasion, and collapse of the monetary economy.

Jerusalem thus turned its attention to Egypt, where the Fatimid dynasty was suffering from a series of young caliphs and civil wars.

* Battle of Adrianople ( 1255 )-An engagement in one of the Byzantine civil wars

Battles in civil wars have often decided the fate of monarchs or political factions.

During the Napoleonic wars the Kingdom of the Netherlands adopted the French code civil in 1809, however the Dutch colonies in the Cape of Good Hope and Sri Lanka, at the time called Ceylon, were seized by the British to prevent them being used as bases by the French Navy.

He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts to end civil wars then raging in several Central American countries.

The collapse of the old defensive system meant that they met no opposition, and the empire's resources were distracted and squandered in a series of civil wars.

Cannibalism has been reported in several recent African conflicts, including the Second Congo War, and the civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

The industrialization process and transportation in Colombia were affected by the internal civil wars that surged after the independence from Spain and that continued throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

Two civil wars resulted from bitter rivalry between the Conservative and Liberal parties.

The Republic lasted from 1823 to 1838, when it began to disintegrate due to civil wars.

This ended the civil wars of Charles ' reign.

After the death of Ashurbanipal, the last great Assyrian king in 627 BC, the Assyrian empire descended into a series of bitter dynastic civil wars.

Chiang grew up in a time period in which military defeats and civil wars among warlords had left China destabilized and in debt, and he decided to pursue a military career.

The term is a calque of the Latin bellum civile which was used to refer to the various civil wars of the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC.

While the rate of emergence of new civil wars has been relatively steady since the mid-19th century, the increasing length of those wars resulted in increasing numbers of wars ongoing at any one time.

For example, there were no more than five civil wars underway simultaneously in the first half of the 20th century, while over 20 concurrent civil wars were occurring at the end of the Cold War, before a significant decrease as conflicts strongly associated with the superpower rivalry came to an end.

Although the term describes events as impinging on England, from the outset the conflicts involved wars with and civil wars within both Scotland and Ireland ; see Wars of the Three Kingdoms for an overview.

This series of civil wars that engulfed England in the 1640s and 50s is known to modern historians as the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

* 1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

** Three civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney, are murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi, by local Klansmen, cops, and a sheriff.

* Zhao Yun, commander of the civil wars of the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period of China ( d. 229 )

Three Oaks Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U. S. state of Michigan on the border with the state of Indiana.

Three Lane brothers purchased of land near the point where the railroads would intersect, and had civil engineers lay out a new town with streets and lots, complete with water, sewer, telephone service, and electric lines.

The death of the royal heir-presumptive, the Duc d ' Anjou, in 1584, which made the Protestant King Henry of Navarre heir to the French throne, led to a new civil war, the War of the Three Henries, with King Henry III of France, King Henry III of Navarre, and Henry of Guise all fighting for control of France.

Eastern Wu, the last of the Three Kingdoms, is finally conquered by Jin after a long period of struggle in the year 280, thus marking the end of the near century-long era of civil strife known as the Three Kingdoms period.

It differed from other armies in the series of civil wars referred to as the Wars of the Three Kingdoms in that it was intended as an army liable for service anywhere in the country ( including in Scotland and Ireland ), rather than being tied to a single area or garrison.

Three sons from Stephen's first marriage ( m. Anna Stent at St Leonard, Shoreditch 1783 ) survived him, and achieved prominence in law, abolition and the civil service: Sir James Stephen ( 1789 – 1859 ), Henry John Stephen ( 1787 – 1864 ), and George Stephen ( 1794 – 1879 ).

Three CORE activists, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan on 21 June 1964 ( see Mississippi civil rights workers murders ).

Following the civil conflicts of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, a more complete unification was attempted following the ratification of Parliament by Oliver Cromwell during the interregnum in 1654.

Three institutions can be reformed to promote good governance: the state, the private sector and civil society.

Examples include a mural of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on King Street ( painted by Andrew Aiken ( Seems ) and Juilee Pryor ), the " Great Wave " mural in Gowrie Street, the " Three Proud People " mural ( a reproduction of a photo taken at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics ), and the " map of Africa " mural in King Street.

He played a significant role in the civil war that led to the collapse of the Han Dynasty and the establishment of the state of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period, of which Liu Bei was the first emperor.

Records of Three Kingdoms did not mention anything about his involvement in the battle, and stated that he served as a civil official in Shu.

The nine rank system ( or ), or much less commonly nine grade controller system, was a civil service nomination system during the Three Kingdoms and the Southern and Northern Dynasties in China.

Three rooms are licensed for civil ceremonies and each year many couples are married at Cliveden.

In 1946, Chang, representing the national government, was a member of the Committee of Three along with General George C. Marshall, then head of the U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Chinese Communist Party representative Zhou Enlai ( 周恩來 ), which had been established in Nanjing in January, 1946 to effect a Kuomingtang-Chinese Communist Party truce and head off civil war.

He occupied the northern territories of China during the civil war that occurred towards the end of the Han Dynasty and the beginning of the Three Kingdoms era.

The War of the Three Henrys ( 1587-1589 ) was the eighth and final conflict in the series of civil wars in France known as the Wars of Religion.

It was the Irish theatre of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms – a series of civil wars in the kingdoms of Ireland, England and Scotland ( all ruled by Charles I ).