Having taken Nanking in March ( and briefly visited Shanghai, now under the control of his close ally Bai Chongxi ), Chiang halted his campaign and prepared a violent break with Wang's leftist elements, which he believed threatened his control of the KMT.

Having taken on some £ 4 billion of debt to finance these acquisitions, the company had to sell off its commodity chemicals businesses.

Having taken control of several European countries through his machinations, he tries to provoke a war between the two fictional nations of Galonia and Toran with the help of the crooked Galonian General Lupo planning to set all the nations of the world at war, but is stopped by Superman.

Having defeated and slain Manfred in the great Battle of Benevento, Charles established himself firmly in the kingdom of Sicily at the conclusive Battle of Tagliacozzo, in which Conradin, the last of the house of Hohenstaufen, was taken prisoner.

Having taken the degree of master in 1516, he began to study theology.

Having taken the chest, she leaves the tree in Byblos, where it becomes an object of worship for the locals.

Having taken Carlisle, Charles's army progressed as far as Swarkestone Bridge in Derbyshire.

Having taken holy orders, Badham was appointed headmaster of Louth grammar school, Lincolnshire ( 1851 – 1854 ), and subsequently headmaster of Edgbaston proprietary school, near Birmingham.

Having briefly occupied the city and taken hostages and supplies from the city they returned to their ships at Riccall.

Having been taken along to a computer fair, he became enamored of the first model of the Macintosh, the start of a long love-affair with the brand ( he claimed to have bought two of the first three Macintosh in the UK — the other being bought by his friend Stephen Fry ).

Having taken refuge at the Dunbar fortress, Marie of Guise asked France for help.

Having truthfully revealed valuable things, Dolon expected to be taken as a prisoner to the ships, or to be tied up, while the other two found out whether he had told them the truth or not.

' Having taken such vows, ( a mendicant ) should not, on entering a village or scot-free town, etc., take himself or induce others to take or allow others to take, what has not been given.

Having taken the counsel of Bright, Gladstone invited Chamberlain on 27 April 1880 to become President of the Board of Trade.

Having moved into new premises in Cricklewood Lane, the yard was taken over by Clang Electrical Goods Ltd. From 1929 to 1933 the area was finally built over.

Having been taken to the place of execution in a cart with her hands firmly tied in front of her and wearing just a thin shift she was lifted over the executioner ’ s shoulder and carried up a ladder against the stake to be sat astride the saddle.

Having escaped the law, Jay and Silent Bob once again return to their quest to reach Hollywood only to have Suzanne taken by a Hollywood animal acting agency car.

Having taken this bold and honorable course, he quietly awaited the result which was simply that nothing was found against him and he was not molested in person but some cavalrymen belonging to the army that came out to quell the insurrection visited his home and did considerable damage, nearly demolishing his distillery, knocking in the heads of liquor casks and spilling a vast amount of whiskey.

Having two sets of local addresses caused confusion and in 1925 legislative steps were taken to give the whole area, post office, and train depot the name Patrick Springs.

Having taken off from Misawa, Japan, pilots Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon Jr. safely belly-landed their Bellanca airplane Miss Veedol on a nearby airstrip known then as Fancher Field.

Having taken up his residence at Brussels, in 1818 Jacotot was nominated teacher of the French language at the University of Louvain, where he systematized the educational principles which he had already practised with success in France.

Having taken his degree at the University of Oxford ( from Trinity College ) in 1838, he was elected to a fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford, in 1840, of which from 1842 to 1846 he was fellow and tutor.

Having settled by the Elbe, Spree and Neisse in the 6th century, Sorbian tribes divided into two main groups, which have taken their names from the characteristics of the area where they had settled.

Having taken his seat in the Irish House of Lords in 1745, he was appointed one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in 1746, and was one of the ' managers ' of the impeachment of Lord Lovat.

Having refused to collaborate with Bonner Fellers in " Operation Blacklist " to exonerate Hirohito and the imperial family of criminal responsibility, he came under suspicion of war crimes.

Having in September 1548 married his cousin Maria, daughter of Charles V, he acted as the emperor's representative in Spain from 1548 to 1550, returning to Germany in December 1550 in order to take part in the discussion over the imperial succession.

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 secured his route, John embarked on a new expedition into Syria determined to reduce Antioch to direct imperial rule.

Having first visited the Emperor Louis at Pavia, the archbishop repaired, with two imperial delegates to Rome, where Nicholas cited him before the Roman synod assembled in the autumn of 860.

Having fixed his shield to the gate of the imperial capital, Oleg won a favourable trade treaty, which eventually was of great benefit to both nations.

Having thus learned of the occupation of German Samoa by the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, who at the request of Great Britain had performed their “ great and urgent imperial service ,” von Spee rushed toward Samoa with Scharnhorst and Gneisenau intent on doing damage to British and Dominion ships at anchor.

Having taken part in 1849 with Otto Jahn and Theodor Mommsen in a political agitation for the maintenance of the imperial constitution, Haupt was deprived of his professorship by a decree of April 22, 1855.

Having refused to become a candidate for the imperial throne in 1619, Maximilian was faced with the complications arising from the outbreak of war in Bohemia.

Having chosen a military career, Poniatowski joined the Austrian imperial army where he was commissioned Lieutenant in 1780, in 1786 / 1788 promoted to Colonel and when Austria declared war against Ottoman Empire in 1788, he became an Aide-de-camp to Emperor Joseph II.

Having built a mosque for his son, he felt it was time to construct his own imperial mosque, an enduring monument larger than all the others, to be built on a gently sloping hillside dominating the Golden Horn.

Having early gained a great reputation for pulpit eloquence, he was appointed imperial court preacher at Vienna in 1669.

* 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 been freed by the Parthians, Demetrius II of Syria recovers the throne of the Seleucid Empire.

Having killed his grandfather by accident, Perseus could not, or would not, inherit the throne of Argos.

Having raised money by pledging Brandenburg to his cousin Jobst, margrave of Moravia ( 1388 ), he was engaged for the next nine years in a ceaseless struggle for the possession of this unstable throne.

Having narrowly avoided implication in Sir Thomas Seymour's attempted abduction of her sickly half-brother, the boy King Edward VI ; she becomes an unintentional figurehead for a Protestant rebellion led by Thomas Wyatt the Younger when her half-sister Queen Mary I of England, a devout Roman Catholic, succeeds to the throne.

Having laid waste to much of the south east of England he was met by Edgar Aetheling ( the English heir to the throne ), the Archbishop Aldred, the Earl Edwin and the Earl Morcar.

As David M. Glixon put it in the Saturday Review: " Having descended from God's throne of supreme authority, the Merriam folks are now seated around the city desk, recording like mad.

Having killed Acrisius, Perseus, who was next in line for the throne, gave the kingdom to Megapenthes (" great mourning ") son of Proetus and took over Megapenthes ' kingdom of Tiryns.

Having divorced Noghès, she and her lover Jean-Charles Rey hatched a plan to depose her brother Rainier III, Prince of Monaco and declare herself Regent on the basis of having a son who would one day inherit the throne.

Having befriended Princess Anne in 1692, he became a favourite of hers after her accession to the throne, receiving the post of Master of the Horse in 1702.

Having been the " Prince of Darkness " for ten thousand years, Satan assembles his sons to decide which of them will succeed him, but instead he keeps the throne for himself.

Having got these concessions, Edward arranged for a court to be set up to decide which of the claimants should inherit the throne.

Having remained unmarried, she was still eligible to inherit the throne but was displaced by her younger brother Infante Philip who was born in 1720.

Having expelled him, he spent most of the rest of his six years on the throne fighting the exarch of Ravenna, Smaragdus, or the Merovingian kings.

Having gained her position through a palace coup, Catherine had no legal claim to the throne and wanted to represent herself as Peter's rightful heir.

He issued a declaration saying, " Having become Head of the House of Bourbon by the death of my brother-in-law and cousin, the Comte de Chambord, I declare that I do not in any way renounce the rights to the throne of France which I have held since my birth ".

Having heard a rumour that Nader was dead, he had prepared to seize the throne by having the Safavid royal captives, Tahmasp and his son Abbas, executed.

Having passed more years on the throne and come closer to bringing the entire peninsula under one rule than any of his predecessors, the great Lombard died in 744 and was buried the church of San Pietro in Ciel d ' Oro, in Pavia.

Having been mentally ill for a long time, the Emperor Lý Huệ Tông ultimately decided to cede the throne of the Lý Dynasty to crown princess Lý Chiêu Hoàng in October of the lunar calendar, 1224.

Having repudiated the titular sovereignty of the Ilkhan claimant Togha Temur early in the summer of 1339, the Jalayirid Hasan Buzurg raised Jahan Temür to the throne.

Having ascended the throne as a youth, Nuh was assisted by his mother and his vizier Abu ' l-Husain ' Abd-Allah ibn Ahmad ' Utbi.

Having hired three powerful ninjas to assist him, Shabadaba has disposed of Kakeru and plans to do the same with Michiru and Hikaru, the remaining heirs to the throne.

Having unified the Chobanid lands, he placed a puppet ( Anusirvan-i ' Adel ) on the throne and ruled in his name.