* 58 BC – Livia, First Roman Empress the wife of Emperor Augustus ( d. 29 )

During the second russification period, at the start of the First World War, the Dowager Empress, travelling by her special train through Finland to Saint Petersburg, expressed her continued disapprobation for the russification of Finland by having an orchestra of a welcoming committee to play the March of the Pori Regiment and the Finnish national anthem " Maamme ", which at the time were under the explicit ban from Franz Albert Seyn, the Governor-General of Finland.

To further reward Yuan's loyalty to the court, the Empress Dowager Longyu offered Yuan the noble title Marquis of the First Rank ( 一等侯 ), an honour only previously given to General Zeng Guofan.

After becoming the First Consul, Napoleon arranged for a marriage between Louis and Hortense de Beauharnais, the daughter of Empress Josephine, and hence Napoleon's stepdaughter.

The shape is now often known as the Empire silhouette although it predates the First French Empire of Napoleon, but his first Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais was influential in spreading it around Europe.

** First daughter: Imperial Princess Noriko ( 憲子内親王 ) ( Empress Dowager Shin-Sen ' yō ( 新宣陽門院 ))

** First daughter: Imperial Princess Takako ( 孝子内親王 ) ( Empress Dowager Reisei ( 礼成門院 ))

Besides these he painted two portraits of Sir David Wilkie, the Duke of York ( for the town-hall, Liverpool ), Dean William Buckland, Sir Humphry Davy, Samuel Rogers, Michael Faraday ( engraved in mezzotint by Henry Cousins ), Thomas Dalton, and a head of Napoleon I, painted in Paris in 1802, not from actual sittings, but with Empress Josephine's consent, who afforded him opportunities of observing the First Consul while at dinner.

at Fontainebleau ( 1836 ); Sir David Baird Discovering the Body of Tippoo Sahib ( 1838 ); the Empress Josephine and the Fortune-Teller ( 1838 ); and Queen Victoria Presiding at her First Council ( 1838 ).

# First daughter: State Princess Duanmin ( 端憫固倫公主 ) ( 1813 – 1819 ), daughter of Empress Xiaoshencheng.

This practice, which had effectively kept the Solars from rising to power again since the end of the First Age, has faltered in the Exalted timeline because of the recent disappearance of the Scarlet Empress – the absolute monarch of the Realm – and the stability and leadership that she was able to bring to the Dragon-Blooded.

President of the United States Gerald Ford, First Lady Betty Ford, Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Empress Kōjun | Empress Consort Nagako during a state dinner, 1975

Galuppi took pride in his prestigious appointments ; the title page of his 1766 Christmas mass for St Mark's describes him as: " First Master and Director of all the Music for Her Imperial Majesty the Empress of all the Russias, etc.

He gave her the title, Empress of Princesses and she replaced Roshanara as First Lady.

From 1564 Zator had been incorporated into the Kraków Voivodeship of Lesser Poland ; in the course of the 1772 First Partition of Poland it was annexed by the Habsburg Monarchy under Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and incorporated into the Austrian Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.

She is a heavily fictionalized version of the First Empress of Rome – Livia Drusilla Julia Augusta.

He was the first husband of Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie, who later married Napoleon Bonaparte and became Empress of the First Empire.

In 1751 the city received greater attention when Empress Maria Theresa of Austria decided to dedicate the First Military Academy, worldwide, inside the imperial castle.

Hull was 25 years old, and a private in the 21st Lancers ( Empress of India's ), British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place on the North West Frontier of British India for which he was awarded the VC.

They include statues to Goethe, Schiller, Empress Maria Theresia, Prince Eugene of Savoy, Archduke Charles of Austria, the founders of the First Austrian Republic, Athena, Andreas von Liebenberg, Count Radetzky, Georg Coch, and Johann Strauss amongst many.

The castle was the focus of attention during the First Battle of Lincoln which occurred on 2 February 1141, during the struggle between King Stephen and Empress Maud over who should be monarch in England.

Another two princes, Yonglian and Yongcong, became Princes of the First Rank because they were born to Empress Xiaoxianchun.

After his death his widow, Empress Maria, the Patriarch and most of the nobility finally surrendered to Basil II, who soon suppressed the last remnants of resistance and brought about the end of the First Bulgarian Empire.

* Catharine Parr Traill, in an account of her settler's life in Canada in the 1830s, speculated that settlers believed that heat from forest fires set by First Nations peoples " beyond the larger lakes " caused the return of warmer temperatures and other her own alternative theory that the heat derived from the fermentation of vegetation in the vast Canadian forests, which she predicted would cease when the region was well settled.

One can even argue -- though this is a delicate matter -- that every justification existed for their returning the Public Lecture to the First Church, and so to suppress it, rather than let Parker use it as a sounding board for his propaganda when his turn should come to occupy it.

The two men remained unreconciled, even though they later served in the same Cabinet from May 1997 until 1999, when Dewar left to become First Minister.

Even though Haeckel's program in comparative embryology virtually collapsed after the First World War, his embryo drawings have often been reproduced and redrawn with increased precision and accuracy in works that have kept the study of comparative embryology alive.

The Gatling gun may have been the first automatic weapon, though the modern trigger-actuated machine gun was not widely introduced until the First World War with the German " Spandau " and British Lewis Gun.

A member of the Second Order had the power and authority to initiate aspirants to the First Order, though usually not without the permission of the Chiefs of his or her Lodge.

Even though many repeat the cliché that Italy had over fifty governments in its first fifty years of democracy to stigmatise its alleged political instability, Italy's main political problem was actually the opposite: in all the course of the so-called First Republic, the government was in the hands of the Christian Democrats and their allies, since it was unacceptable for a communist party to rule a western country during the Cold war.

* 1314 – First War of Scottish Independence: the Battle of Bannockburn concludes with a decisive victory by Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce, though England did not recognize Scottish independence until 1328 with the signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton.

Nestorius himself always insisted that his views were orthodox, though they were deemed heretical at the First Council of Ephesus in 431, leading to the Nestorian Schism, when churches supportive of Nestorius broke away from the rest of the Christian Church.

; PDP-3: First 36-bit machine DEC designed, though DEC did not offer it as a product.

The Treasury Commission ceased to meet late in the 18th century but has survived, albeit with very different functions: the First Lord of the Treasury is now the Prime Minister, the Second Lord is the Chancellor of the Exchequer ( and actually in charge of the Treasury ), and the Junior Lords are government Whips maintaining party discipline in the House of Commons ; they no longer have any duties related to the Treasury, though when subordinate legislation requires the consent of the Treasury it is still two of the Junior Lords who sign on its behalf.

First, the soul is unitary, and unlike many areas of the brain the pineal gland appeared to be unitary ( though subsequent microscopic inspection has revealed it is formed of two hemispheres ).

The actions Q took in sending the Enterprise D to System J-25 — and thus maintaining the time loop, are expanded upon in the Star Trek novels as being partially ( though indirectly ) the reason for the existence of the Mirror Universe, explaining that Zefram Cochrane attempted to warn Earth and the worlds that would become part of the Federation about the Borg after First Contact.

The First Samoan Civil War was fought roughly between 1886 and 1894, primarily between rival Samoan factions though the rival powers intervened on several occasions with military forces.

" Ironically ( because, it appears, no one had noticed his allusion ) Sonata No. 7 received a Stalin Prize ( Second Class ), and No. 8 a Stalin Prize First Class, even though the works have been subsequently interpreted as representing Prokofiev " venting his anger and frustration with the Soviet regime.

Also removed was the statutory requirement that the government prove a surveillance target under FISA is a non-U. S. citizen and agent of a foreign power, though it did require that any investigations must not be undertaken on citizens who are carrying out activities protected by the First Amendment.

Watkin Tench, of the First Fleet, wrote of an admiration for the Aborigines of Sydney as good natured and good humoured people, though he also reported violent hostility between the Eora and Cammeraygal peoples, and noted violent domestic altercations between his friend Bennelong and his wife Barangaroo.

Old Bloomsbury ’ s development was inevitably impacted on, along with just about everything else in modernist culture, by the First World War: indeed, " the small world of Bloomsbury was later said by some on its outskirts to have been irretrivably shattered ", though in fact its friendships " survived the upheavals and dislocations of war, in many ways were even strengthened by them ".

First, though, they destroy a World Knot ( a means of magical transport ) behind their lines, which would have allowed The Deceiver to send his forces directly into their territory.

Bruckner's symphonies are all in four movements ( though he was unable to complete the finale of the Ninth ), starting with a modified sonata allegro form, a slow movement in ABA ’ B ’ A ’’ form ( except in the Study Symphony, the First and the Sixth ), a scherzo in 3 / 4 time, and a modified sonata allegro form finale.

Under the calendar of Ancient Israel the date of Pentecost was fifty days from First Fruits, though dates were disputed, as in the Dead Sea scrolls.

After the run of a 1978 play, First Monday of October, he took the advice of his doctors and quit plays, though he continued to star in films and television.

In the First Punic War it was at first dependent upon Carthage ; and though the citizens, alarmed at the progress of the Roman arms, were at one time on the point of revolting to Rome, they were restrained by the Carthaginians, who carried off all the chief citizens as hostages.

Pope Vigilius was also invited ; but even though he was at this period resident in Constantinople ( to avoid the perils of life in Italy, convulsed by the war against the Ostrogoths ), he declined to attend, and even issued a document forbidding the council from preceding without him ( his ' First Constitutum ').

First, multiple lines of evidence in the 1970s and 1980s suggested that the New World vultures Cathartidae were closer related to storks and herons ( Ciconiiformes ), though more recent place them outside that group as well.

First, it has no stars on the blue chief ( though other arms based on it do: the chief of the arms of the United States Senate may show 13 or 50, and the shield of the 9 / 11 Commission has, sometimes, 50 mullets on the chief ).