* 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 succeeded his father at such a young age, Francis Hyacinth did not rule de facto being only 5 years old.

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

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 learnt from its experience with the first coin, the Bermudian government first fixed a date when the one dollar note would cease to be legal tender, obliging adoption of the new coin, the original one-and five-dollar coins ceasing to be legal tender.

Having no money in the house, he goes to the bank, but when he returns, Lana is gone, along with his mother's expensive Steuben crystal egg.

Having lost his father at the age of seven, Ralph grew up in the midlands with his mother's relatives, including her second husband Thomas Pipe.

Having first approached Thomas Elliot with a cure for his mother's cancer ( the Lazarus Pit ), the Riddler had instead allied with Elliot against Bruce Wayne.

Having been a writer, previously living in Iowa and New York City, she found her mother's company and the general area of Milledgeville to be difficult.

Having been born out of wedlock, he was, in consequence, brought up among his mother's people.

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

Having initially moved into a flat in Aberdeen as a young player, Cooper was ' persuaded ' by Ferguson to return to his mother's home to help ensure that Cooper was shielded from the obvious temptations arising from youthful independence.

Having been involved in literature with such a reading passion, Necip Fazıl states that his " poetry started at the age of twelve " and that his mother said " how much I would like you to be a poet " by showing the " poetry notebook of a girl with tuberculosis " lying on the bed next to his mother's bed when he went to visit her staying at the hospital, and adds: " My mother's wish appeared to me as something that I fed inside but I was not aware of until twelve.

Having spent the greater part of his early life in the twilight of Nero's reign, his formative years would have been strongly influenced by the political turmoil of the 60s, culminating with the civil war of 69, which brought his family to power.

Having no actual power, he rebelled, attempting suicide and accusing Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and his consort Itsuko of adultery.

Having become the established power in Italy, Callistus now returned back the conflict with Henry V over the issue of lay investiture.

Having consolidated power in the northwest, Chandragupta pushed east towards the Nanda Empire.

Having served as rubberstamp bodies in the past, the DPR and MPR have gained considerable power and are increasingly assertive in oversight of the executive branch.

Having helped Stalin achieve unchecked power against the Left Opposition, Bukharin found himself easily outmaneuvered by Stalin.

Having established his power in Italy, the Pope resolved to re-open negotiations with Henry V on the question of investiture.

Having the power to control the Roman calendar, he conducted all religious ceremonies and appointed lower religious offices and officers.

" Having gained more power and independence than ever before in his career, he still faced the issue of ultimate loyalty between al-Adid and Nur ad-Din.

Having no opposition to contend with, he was able to power through much needed social reforms.

Having been imposed by a foreign power, and relying on French troops to survive, the Helvetic Republic was highly unpopular and encountered severe economic and political problems and uprisings.

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 himself come to power by coup, Saleh has been extremely careful to select Commanders whose loyalty is ensured by tribal bonds.

Having ruled Italy for over 40 years with no alternative other than the Italian Communist Party, DC members had ample opportunity to abuse their power, and some did.

Having done either, he would have curtailed his light horse ravaging throughout lower Gaul, and marched at once with his full power against the Franks.

Having had a demonstration of his power the previous year, the majority of Greek cities duly obliged.

Having spent the last six years championing to Hitler sea power as the only way in which Germany could become a world power, Raeder was anxious that the Kriegsmarine be seen as doing more than its share of the fighting to ensure that Hitler would reward the Navy by not cutting its budget after the war.

I generally believe if a government is elected to power in the lower House and has the numbers and can maintain the numbers in the lower House, it is entitled to expect that it will govern for the three-year term unless quite extraordinary events intervene ... Having said that ... if we do make up our minds at some stage that the Government is so reprehensible that an Opposition must use whatever power is available to it, then I'd want to find a situation in which ... Mr. Whitlam woke up one morning finding the decision had been made and finding that he had been caught with his pants well and truly down.

Having this strategic military support, Yuan held the balance of power between various revolutionaries ( like Sun Yat-sen ) and the Qing Court.

Having come to power avenging the murder of a man who had decided to cease interference in Uruguay, Rosas invaded Uruguay upon the 1842 election of a government there antagonistic to his personal commercial interests ( mainly centered in the export of cow hides and beef jerky, valuable commodities in those days ).

Vayu Purana extolls his virtues "" Having worshipped a portion of the divine being called Dattatreya, sprung from the race of Atri, he sought and obtained these boons, viz., a thousand arms and a golden chariot that went wheresoever he willed it to go ; the power of restraining wrong by justice ; the conquest of the earth and the disposition to rule it righteously ; invincibility by enemies, and death at the hands of a man who was more powerful than himself.

Having failed to secure a spot along the river that provided enough water power to run his mill, Talbot dismantled the settlement and moved to the present location of Addison, and by the fall of 1836, milling operations restarted.