* 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 succeeded in defeating their foes, the majority of the Gauls returned to their homelands but retained an occupation force and colonial settlements throughout the Greek world.

Having borne only a female heir presumptive, it appeared that Ferdinand would be succeeded by his brother, Infante Carlos of Spain.

Having outlived his father Philip, Charles succeeded Maximilian as Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, and thus ruled both the Holy Roman Empire and the Spanish Empire simultaneously.

Having survived his own son, he is succeeded by Cranaus.

Having survived his own son, he is succeeded by Cranaus.

Having succeeded Anderson at Louisville, Sherman now had principal military responsibility for Kentucky, a border state in which Confederate troops held Columbus and Bowling Green and were present near the Cumberland Gap.

Having no son, he is succeeded by his son-in-law, Mirian.

Having caught a fever, he died at the Castle of Valentino, and was succeeded by his brother Charles Emmanuel II.

Having succeeded in ceasing his mother's power in Savoy, Victor Amadeus looked to his oncoming marriage with the youngest child of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans ( brother of Louis XIV ) and Henrietta of England.

Having been elected King of the Romans in 1636, he succeeded his father as Holy Roman Emperor in 1637.

Having quadrupled the area of Baden, Charles Frederick died in June 1811, and was succeeded by his grandson, Charles, Grand Duke of Baden, who was married to Stéphanie de Beauharnais ( 1789-1860 ), a cousin of Empress Josephine's first husband who had been adopted by Napoleon I.

Having succeeded his grandfather as Duke of Ormonde on 21 July 1688, he was appointed a Knight of the Order of the Garter on 28 September 1688.

Having been made a Privy Councillor, Ormonde succeeded Lord Rochester as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1703.

Having failed to buy into Thames Television in 1985, Carlton finally succeeded in ousting that broadcaster in the 1991 / 92 franchise round, for reasons that were seen as political.

Having succeeded as Duke of Devonshire in 1891 and entered the House of Lords, he eventually joined Salisbury's third government in 1895 as Lord President of the Council.

Having held professorial appointments at Kiel and Heidelberg, he succeeded his tutor, Friedrich Ritschl, in the chair of classical philology at Leipzig, where he died.

Having succeeded to the earldom in 1891, Macdonald's prediction came true when Lord Minto was named Governor General of Canada in the summer of 1898.

Having assented, General Van Rensselaer resigned immediately after the battle and was succeeded as senior officer on the Niagara by Alexander Smyth, the officer whose insolence had badly injured the invasion attempt.

Having succeeded with GM, the UAW next turned its attention to Chrysler, which quickly came to terms.

Having succeeded his father as the 6th Earl of Fife, he was elevated to Duke of Fife and Marquess of Macduff in the Peerage of the United Kingdom two days after his marriage in 1889 to Princess Louise of Wales, the eldest daughter of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales ( later King Edward VII ) and Alexandra of Denmark.

Having succeeded another dynamic young minister, Patrick Hillery, O ' Malley acted swiftly to introduce the recommendations that were made in an official report regarding education.

Having succeeded at the Ministry of Transport, in 1937 he was controversially appointed by Neville Chamberlain as Secretary of State for War replacing the popular Alfred Duff Cooper, who later resigned from the government over Chamberlain's policy of appeasement.

Having succeeded an experienced leader in an election-year, he failed to establish himself in time.

Having murdered her husband, the prince of Colchis, she was expelled by her subjects and placed by her father on the solitary island of Aeaea.

Having renounced the world, in his roles of father and king, he attained the status of an immortal being while retaining the duty of ensuring that his dynasty is preserved and that there is always a new king for each generation.

Having been given an ample allowance by his father, he went looking for adventure on the continent, deliberately seeking out circumstances that might be considered dangerous by some.

Having no husband, and not knowing who the father of the child was, she abandoned the child in a rocky place.

Having lost his father in 1254, he grew up at the court of his uncle and guardian, Louis II, Duke of Upper Bavaria.

Having found his life alone with his mother ideal, Stanshall's life took a serious downturn with the addition of his stern, pretentious father.

" Having no ghostly father with him ", he knelt, prayed, and asked the people to pray for him, " holding up his eyes and hands to God many times ".

Having already been influenced by the latent racism of his bigoted firefighter father ( William Russ ), Derek is driven to action when his father is shot and killed while fighting a fire in a suspected Compton drug den.

Having been defeated by William in 1251, Conrad decided to invade Italy in the hope to regain the rich reign of his father, and where his brother Manfred acted as vicar.

Having assaulted the undersheriff of the county in revenge for a wrong done to his father, he was forced to go abroad.

Having received his early education from his father, George Hearn, the parish clerk, he showed such taste for study that a wealthy neighbour, Francis Cherry of Shottesbrooke ( c. 1665-1713 ), a celebrated non-juror, interested himself in the boy, and sent him to the school at Bray " on purpose to learn the Latin tongue.

Having an on-again-off-again marriage to Thorne Forrester, whom she eventually lost to Brooke, Macy went abroad into hiding with her father Adam.

Having a military father, Borrow had a childhood of growing up at different posts.

Having quarreled with the father superior, he attempted to flee southward, but a tempest broke out and his boat was cast ashore on Kiy Island, where he would later establish a great monastery.

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

Having studied under his father, Patrick went to London at the age of twenty, and soon attracted attention as a clever landscapist.

Having an affair with one of Dong Zhuo's concubines, Lü Bu was apprehensive to his adopted father, and again turned on his master and slayed Dong.

Having defeated O ' Neill and his allies, the MacDonnells, the lord deputy, who by the death of his father in February 1557 became Earl of Sussex, returned to Dublin, where he summoned a parliament in June of that year.

Having entered the Cistercian order, Otto convinced his father to found Heiligenkreuz Abbey in 1133, thus bringing literacy and sophisticated agriculture ( including wine making ) to the region that would become Vienna.