* 1594 – Having already inherited the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagellonica of Poland in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.

Having inherited Estigarribia's dictatorial powers, Moríñigo quickly banned both Febreristas and Liberals and clamped down drastically on free speech and individual liberties.

Having inherited a bankrupt treasury, he administered his funds with competence and care, and left five million crowns in the coffers of the Holy See at his death.

Having inherited a virtually bankrupt state from previous reigns, her frugal policies restored fiscal responsibility.

Having inherited a fortune, he bought land in Apulia and Calabria and devoted himself to breeding race-horses.

Having inherited some projects from Disney's aborted Touchmark project, Vertigo was able to plan a first year in which they were to publish " two new series month in a variety of formats, either one-shots or miniseries or ongoing monthlies.

Having inherited a failed government, Dudley set out to restore administrative efficiency and maintain public order to prevent renewed rebellion as seen in 1549.

Having fought for the emperor Maximilian I against Venice in 1508, he inherited large estates on the Rhine, and increased his wealth and reputation by devious methods.

Having returned from France, he settled again at Cardington, Bedfordshire to live on a estate which was formerly two farms, the larger of which he had inherited from his grandparents.

Having suffered long from syphilis, which he had inherited from his father, he died in 1540 at his villa at Marmirolo.

Having on the death of his parents inherited their property, including a couple of slaves, he manumitted them, and made over the house and estate to them, reserving nothing for himself.

Having inherited some land from his father, Chase is determined to make a go of running the winery which in turn brings him into conflict with his aunt Angela.

Having no children, his earldom became extinct, but his title of Baron Raby was inherited by Thomas Wentworth, the grandson of a younger brother of the first earl, who later became Earl of Strafford of a new creation.

Having by Gallic law inherited Piaf's 7 million francs worth of debts, Sarapo was evicted from the apartment they shared on Boulevard Lannes on Christmas Day 1963, and recorded " La maison qui ne chante plus " ( the house which no longer sings ), which also became a hit ; another big hit was " Le jour viendra ", which became in English " Our Day Will Come ".

Having inherited the oldest list in the league, by the end of the season he had the youngest.

Having inherited the country's first ever great barrel-vault roofed station, Newcastle Central, from its constituent the York Newcastle & Berwick railway, the NER during the next half century built by finer set of grand principal stations than any other British railway company, with examples at Alnwick, North Shields, Gateshead East, Sunderland, Stockton, Middlesbrough, Darlington Bank Top, York and Hull Paragon ; the rebuilding and enlargement of the last-named resulting in the last of the type in the country.

Having at an early age inherited a fortune, he decided to gratify his taste for foreign travel.

Having inherited lycanthropy the night before, Jack slew Grant, but also wrongly blamed Philip for some time.

Having inherited at 13 his father's shares in the family iron-making businesses, in 1768 he took over the management of the Coalbrookdale ironworks in the Severn Valley.

Having inherited a large budget deficit, he immediately called for an audit of all state agencies and recovered a million dollars in misallocated funds, a considerable sum at the time.

Having inherited Samuel's war with the Byzantine Empire, Gavril Radomir raided Byzantine territory, reaching as far as Constantinople.

Having inherited the estates of his father and of his uncle, Sir John Wallop, he was knighted in 1569 and was chosen member of parliament for Southampton in 1572.

Having been created Baron Chalfont, of Llantarnam in the County of Monmouthshire on 11 November 1964, his life peerage is the most senior extant ( since the death of Lord Shawcross in 2003 ), and Lord Chalfont is higher in the order of precedence than several hereditary barons whose inherited titles postdate his.

Having inherited her mother's love of food, she found she also enjoyed writing about it.

Having found out that Mordechai is Jewish, Haman plans to kill not just Mordechai but all the Jews in the empire.

Having lost its colonial empire, France saw a good opportunity for revenge against Britain in signing an alliance with the Americans in 1778, and sending an army and navy that turned the American Revolution into a world war.

Having lost the revenue potential of Haiti while escalating his wars against the rest of Europe, Napoleon gave up on an empire in North America and used the purchase money to help finance France's war campaign on its home front.

Having possessions on six continents, Britain had to defend all of its empire with a volunteer army, for it was the only power in Europe to have no conscription.

Having won the support of Confucian scholars who had powered previous Han dynasties ( abandoning the nepotism and corruption of the nine-rank system ), Emperor Wen initiated a series of reforms aimed at strengthening his empire for the wars that would reunify China.

Having failed to perform Roman masculinity and virtue, Antony's only means with which he might “ write himself into Rome's imperial narrative and position himself at the birth of empire ” is to cast himself in the feminine archetype of the sacrificial virgin ; “ once understands his failed virtus, his failure to be Aeneas, he then tries to emulate Dido ”.

Having reached the top of Nittany Mountain, and ".... seeing the prairies and noble forest beneath him, cried out to his attendant, ' By heavens, Thompson, I have discovered an empire!

Having made his mark in opposition during the last days of the empire, he was appointed deputy-mayor of Paris after the government was overthrown.

Having found out that Mordecai is Jewish, Haman plans to kill not just Mordecai but the entire Jewish minority in the empire.

Having not had a chance to be a child, Azalyn must now be strong for the entire empire, and it's a task that she is afraid of taking, but even more afraid of failing in.

Having suffered a stroke in July 2009, followed by a long period of recovery, Ho began steps in late 2010, subsequently hotly disputed and in confusing circumstances ( January 2011 ), to devolve his grip on his financial empire to his various wives and children.

Having seen Shardik's enormous size the Ortelgans believe in his divine status, and led by a young baron called Ta-Kominion they set out to follow Shardik, convinced that he is leading them to victory over the Beklan empire.

Having pushed to the very farthest limits of artificial intelligence, their machines ran their empire for them almost completely, allowing the Titans leave to enjoy all the luxuries they desired ( the nature of which are left to the reader's imagination, although it is revealed that the Titans were able to have some type of sexual activity, at least with other cymeks ).

Having established an empire, he adopted the religious title of Almami in 1884 and recreated the Malian realm.

Having deprived the Inca empire of leadership, Pizarro and another conquistador, Hernando de Soto, moved south to Cuzco, the heart of Tawantinsuyu, which they captured in November 1533 ; they then led their men in an orgy of looting, pillaging, and torture in search of more precious metals.

Having written The Guide to a Fairy Tale Marriage and built an empire as the foremost authority on relationships, Ronnie must now confront the charade she ’ s been living in the public eye as the perfect wife and career woman.

Having lost thirteen provinces to compliment the overbearing prejudices of a king, shall we throw away half our empire to compliment the rash folly of an heir presumptive — are we never to grow wise, does experience work nothing in our favour?

Having opposed Home Rule before 1914, they came to regard a Home Rule Ireland within the empire as preferable to an entirely independent Ireland outside it.

Having successfully crushed his brother's ambitions, Yaqub al-Mansur was left with no choice other than to lead an expedition against the Christians, who were now threatening the northern province of his empire.

Having captured an enemy frigate, they learned that their enemy, the Taiidan, were rulers of a tyrannical interstellar empire.