Born in Bozdağan or Manisa, Murad III was the eldest son of sultan Selim II ( 1566 – 74 ), and succeeded his father in 1574.

Born in Treviso, he succeeded Pope Boniface VIII, but was unable to carry out his policies.

Born in Brussels the second ( but eldest surviving ) son of Leopold I and, he succeeded his father to the throne on 17 December 1865 and remained king until his death.

Born in Lisbon, the son of King Afonso V of Portugal by his wife, Isabella of Coimbra, princess of Portugal, John II succeeded his father in 1477 when the king retired to a monastery, but only became king in 1481, after the death of his father and predecessor.

Born John Shute, had had assumed by Act of Parliament the surname of Barrington in lieu of his patronymic in 1716, having previously succeeded to the estates of Frances Barrington, married to his cousin.

Born in 1053 or 1054 he succeeded his father Ramon Berenguer I the Old to co-rule with his twin brother Ramon Berenguer, in 1075.

Born in 1024, he succeeded his father, Berenguer Ramon the Crooked in 1035.

Born in Torgau, he succeeded his father as elector in 1486 ; in 1502, he founded the University of Wittenberg, where Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon taught.

Born on 13 September 1734 Thomas Thynne succeeded his father as 3rd Viscount Weymouth in January 1751 and was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for a short time during 1765, although he never visited that country.

Born at Raynham Hall, Norfolk, Townshend succeeded to the peerages in December 1687, and was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge.

Born in Barcelona, he was ordained as a priest in 1974, became Auxiliary Bishop of Barcelona ( and Titular Bishop of Nona ) in 1993, Coadjutor Bishop of Urgell in 2001 and in 2003 succeeded as Bishop of Urgell.

Born at Bordenau ( now a part of Neustadt am Rübenberge, Lower Saxony ) near Hanover, into a farmer's family, he succeeded in educating himself and in securing admission to the military academy of William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe at the fortress Wilhelmstein.

Born in Motswedi, Mangope worked as a high school teacher until 8 August 1959, when he succeeded his father Lucas as Chief of the Motswedi Ba hurutshe-Boo-Manyane tribe.

Born William Chichester, he succeeded to the estates of his cousin William O ' Neill, 3rd Viscount O ' Neill, in 1855 ( on whose death the viscountcy and barony of O ' Neill became extinct ) and assumed by Royal license the surname of O ' Neill in lieu of Chichester in order to inherit the lands of his cousin, despite not being descended in the male line from an O ' Neill.

Born at Le Fousseret, Haute-Garonne, and educated as a priest, Sicard was made principal of a school for the deaf at Bordeaux in 1786, and in 1789, on the death of the Abbé de l ' Épée, succeeded him at Paris.

Born in Penshurst, Kent, he married Elizabeth Barne and succeeded her father as Lord Mayor of London ( 1573 / 74 ).

Born in Saluzzo, Cuneo, he became commandant of the ( military ) region of Piemonte-Valle d ' Aosta in 1974 and created an anti-terrorism structure in Turin, which succeeded in capturing in September 1974 Red Brigades members Renato Curcio and Alberto Franceschini, with the help of Silvano Girotto, also known as frate mitra (" Machine Gun Friar "), who infiltrated the organisation.

Born at Haltoun House near Ratho, the eldest son and heir of James Maitland, 7th Earl of Lauderdale, whom he succeeded in 1789, he became a controversial Scottish politician and writer.

Born at the Hôtel de Conti in Paris on 1 September 1734 and baptised in the presence of the king and queen, he succeeded his father Louis François de Bourbon as head of the most junior branch of the House of Bourbon in 1776.

Born at the family estate of Saffron Walden, he was the son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, by his second wife Catherine Knyvet of Charlton, and succeeded his father in 1626.

Born in Brussels, he succeeded his father as ruler of Württemberg at the age of 9, but the real power was in the hands of Administrators Carl Rudolf, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt ( 1737 – 1738 ) and Carl Frederick von Württemberg-Oels ( 1738 – 1746 ).

Born to Richard Mór Burke by a daughter of Madden of Portumna, Ulick succeeded to the headship of his clan, and held vast estates in County Galway.

Born in Naples to Ferdinand I and his first wife, Isabella of Taranto, the daughter of Tristan, Count of Copertino and Caterina Orsini, he succeeded his childless nephew Ferdinand II after the latter's early death in 1496, at the age of 28.

Born in Paris, the son of a successful Jewish banker, he was associated with and afterwards succeeded his father in the management of the business.

Eusebius succeeded Agapius, as Bishop of Caesarea soon after 313 and played a prominent role at the Council of Nicaea in 325.

The role of the bishops of the Church was brought into renewed prominence, especially when seen collectively, as a college that has succeeded to that of the Apostles in teaching and governing the Church.

In this role, TT continues Terrestrial Dynamical Time ( TDT ), which in turn succeeded ephemeris time ( ET ).

The role of the bishops of the Church was brought into renewed prominence, especially when seen collectively, as a college that has succeeded to that of the Apostles in teaching and governing the Church.

Initially, the Zytglogge tower marked the western boundary of the city from 1191 until 1256, when the Käfigturm took over this role until 1345, which, in turn, was then succeeded by the Christoffelturm ( located close to today's train station ) until 1622.

Patrick Troughton was succeeded in the role by Jon Pertwee.

Kitchener won fame in 1898 for winning the Battle of Omdurman and securing control of the Sudan, after which he was given the title " Lord Kitchener of Khartoum "; as Chief of Staff ( 1900 – 02 ) in the Second Boer War he played a key role in Lord Roberts ' conquest of the Boer Republics, then succeeded Roberts as commander-in-chief – by which time Boer forces had taken to guerrilla fighting and British forces imprisoned Boer civilians in concentration camps.

Some scholars identify Lycaon with Zeus Lycaeus, Zeus in his role as god of light, who slays Nyctimus ( the dark ), or is succeeded by him, in allusion to the perpetual succession of night and day.

Ron Gans took over the role for Welcome to Pooh Corner and was succeeded by Peter Cullen in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh through My Friends Tigger and Pooh.

In this role, he allied himself with the Rhodian mercenary general Mentor, and with his help succeeded in once again making Egypt a province of the Persian Empire ( probably from 342 BC ).

Cardinal Richelieu originally fulfilled this role ; upon his death in 1642, Pierre Séguier, the Chancellor of France, succeeded him.

His younger brother James succeeded him in this post when he relinquished the role in 1768 in order to devote more time to his elected office as Member of Parliament for Kinross-shire.

He was succeeded to this post by Liu Shaoqi, who along with Premier Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping, took on a more active role in government to curb the excesses of the Great Leap Forward and restore Soviet-based centrally planned economy.

She was succeeded in that role in the 1980s by Mary Robinson, a former Reid Professor of Law and then-Trinity College Senator, who later became the first female President of Ireland.

The Committee of Public Safety succeeded the previous Committee of General Defence ( established in January 1793 ) and assumed its role of protecting the newly established republic against foreign attacks and internal rebellion.

Ashdown announced his intention to resign as leader of the Liberal Democrats on 20 January 1999finally departing on 9 August that year after 11 years in the role, to be succeeded by Charles Kennedy. He was knighted ( KBE ) in 2000 and became a life peer as Baron Ashdown of Norton Sub Hamdon in the House of Lords after retiring from the Commons in 2001.

He was succeeded in the role by on-air personality Don Berns.

Luitpold kept his role as Prince Regent until he died in 1912 and was succeeded by his son Ludwig.

Saskia Reeves played the role in the 2000 Sci-Fi Channel TV miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune, and was succeeded by Alice Krige in the 2003 sequel, Frank Herbert's Children of Dune.

Jones finally succeeded in wooing Foray into taking on the role of Witch Hazel for the 1956 cartoon Broom-Stick Bunny.

Its culture played a crucial role in the short lived Gutian Empire of the 22nd century BC, and from the 6th century BC, during the Persian Achaemenid dynasty that succeeded Elam, when the Elamite language remained among those in official use.

Brune succeeded Carl Pope, who continued in the role of chairman before stepping down in November 2011.

During the run, Elizabeth Ashley was succeeded in her role by Diahann Carroll and Amanda Plummer by Mia Dillon, Carrie Fisher and Maryann Plunkett.

After the purge Lutze succeeded Röhm as Stabschef SA, but after the Night of the Long Knives, the SA no longer had as prominent a role as it did in the early days of the party.

She succeeded Mary-Louise Parker in the lead role in Proof on Broadway in 2001.