He retired as leader of the party on 14 December 1955, having led Labour for twenty years, and was succeeded by Hugh Gaitskell.

Neither 495 nor 532 may be treated as reliable, however, the latter date relies on the presumption that the Regnal List is correct in presenting the kings of Wessex as having succeeded one another, with no omitted kings, no joint kingships, and that the durations of the reigns are correct as given.

Working through the Sierra Club he founded, Muir succeeded in 1905 in having Congress transfer the Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley to the National Park Service.

Constitutional nationalism enjoyed its greatest success in the 1880s and 1890s when the Irish Parliamentary Party under Charles Stewart Parnell succeeded in having two Home Rule bills introduced by the Liberal government of William Ewart Gladstone, though both failed.

The play will begin with the snap of the ball ( typically but not exclusively to the quarterback ), and it will end when the effort by the offensive squad to advance the ball has either succeeded in scoring, or has been frustrated by the ball being downed before the aim of the offensive play is accomplished, or by the defensive squad having managed to come into possession of the ball without first downing it.

Philipp Rösler is FDP chairman, having succeeded Guido Westerwelle, the party's second-longest serving chairman, in May 2011.

* 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.

The draft presented to the Council on 8 March drew no serious criticism, but a group of 35 English-speaking bishops, who feared that the opening phrase of the first chapter, " Sancta romana catholica Ecclesia " ( the holy Roman Catholic Church ), might be construed as favouring the Anglican Branch Theory, later succeeded in having an additional adjective inserted, so that the final text read: " Sancta catholica apostolica romana Ecclesia " ( the holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church ).

Charles II, having no direct heir, was succeeded by his great-nephew Philip V, a French prince, in 1700.

The Jersey Green Party succeeded in having candidates elected in the 1980s.

Margaret succeeded in having her son Olav recognized as heir to the throne of Denmark.

Máel Coluim appears to have kept his agreement with the late English king, which may have been renewed with the new king, Edmund having been murdered in 946 and succeeded by his brother Edred.

Masters of the country, they rendered happy the people under their sway ; they succeeded in subduing them without ever having recourse to force.

In 1971, he succeeded in having Lang re-admitted to the Labor Party.

Accompanying the young King on his campaign, he entered Rome along with him, and endeavoured to instigate the convocation of a council to inquire into the conduct of the pontiff with a view to his deposition ; but Pope Alexander, having gained a friend in Charles VIII's minister Guillaume Briçonnet by offering him the position of cardinal, succeeded in defeating the machinations of his enemy.

Initially a landless cadet, Ernest Augustus succeeded in having the House of Hanover raised to electoral dignity in 1692.

Nevertheless Albert, having received a good education, undertook the government of Austria proper on the occasion of Leopold's death in 1411 and succeeded, with the aid of his advisers, in ridding the duchy of the evils which had arisen during his minority.

Maximilian died in Wels, Upper Austria, and was succeeded as Emperor by his grandson Charles V, his son Philip the Handsome having died in 1506.

He was succeeded first by his son Fulk II the Good ( 941 or 942 – c. 960 ), and then by the son of the latter, Geoffrey I Grisegonelle ( Greytunic ) ( c. 960 – 21 July 987 ), who inaugurated a policy of expansion, having as its objects the extension of the boundaries of the ancient countship and the reconquest of those parts of it which had been annexed by the neighbouring states ; for, though western Anjou had been recovered from the dukes of Brittany since the beginning of the 10th century, in the east all the district of Saumur had already by that time fallen into the hands of the counts of Blois and Tours.

Working through the Sierra Club he founded, Muir succeeded in 1905 in having Congress transfer the Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley to the Federal Government.

Caracalla was succeeded by his Praetorian Guard Prefect, Macrinus, who ( according to Herodian ) was most probably responsible for having the emperor assassinated.

In 1994, after a political agreement ( the Olivos Pact ) with the Radical Civic Union party leader, former president Raúl Alfonsín, Menem succeeded in having the Constitution modified to allow presidential re-election, so that he could run for office once again in 1995.

In their Washington, D. C experiment, Bell and Tainter succeeded in communicating clearly over a distance of some 213 meters ( about 700 ft .), using plain sunlight as their light source, practical electrical lighting having only just been invented by Edison.

Vaaler probably succeeded in having his design patented abroad, despite the previous existence of more useful paper clips, because patent authorities at that time were quite liberal and rewarded any marginal modification of existing inventions.

Rotation went often between two or more of the branches of the imperial house, thus more or less distant cousins succeeded each other.

Article 2 of the 1889 Meiji Constitution ( the Constitution of the Empire of Japan ) stated, " The Imperial Throne shall be succeeded to by imperial male descendants, according to the provisions of the Imperial House Law.

After the lapse of three years, he succeeded in regaining the imperial favor by convincing Constantine that Arius and his views do not conflict with the Nicene Creed.

Unlike the earlier usurper, Albinus, he succeeded in using his base in Britannia as the starting point of his march to the imperial throne.

The Han Dynasty ( simplified Chinese: 汉朝 ; traditional Chinese: 漢朝 ; pinyin: Hàn Cháo ; 206 BCE – 220 CE ) was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms ( 220 – 265 CE ). Spanning over four centuries, the period of the Han Dynasty is considered a golden age in Chinese history. To this day, China's majority ethnic group refers to itself as the " Han people ".

He died in 1627 and was succeeded by Khurram, who took the imperial throne of Hindustan as the Emperor Shah Jahan.

He also allowed Hürrem Sultan to remain with him at court for the rest of her life, breaking another tradition — that when imperial heirs came of age, they would be sent along with the imperial concubine who bore them to govern remote provinces of the Empire, never to return unless their progeny succeeded to the throne.

* March 7 – Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by Marcus Aurelius who shares imperial power with Lucius Verus, although Marcus retains the title Pontifex Maximus.

The Han Dynasty (; ) ( 206 BCE – 220 CE ) was an imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty ( 221 – 207 BCE ) and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms ( 220 – 280 CE ).

Napoleon succeeded in bringing the total imperial forces in the region to around 650, 000 — although only 250, 000 came under his direct command, with another 120, 000 under Nicolas Charles Oudinot and 30, 000 under Davout.

Success was limited, however, partly owing to personal skirmishes between Johann George, the Field Marshal Hans Adam von Schöning and the imperial commander Caprara ; only the crossing of the Rhine at Sandhofen succeeded.

Alfonso's election as King of the Romans by the imperial prince-electors misled him into complicated schemes that involved excessive expense but never succeeded.

In 1275 Alfonso tried to meet with his nominal imperial vicar in Italy, William VII of Montferrat ( who had succeeded Ezzelino ) and his Ghibelline allies in Piedmont and Lombardy to fight against the Guelph Charles I of Anjou ; he was however halted in Provence by the Pope who, after a long negotiation, obtained Alfonso's renunciation of the title of King of the Romans.

John V was finally succeeded to the imperial throne by his son Manuel.

Salvianus died in Rome, but through the intervention of Macedonius, the imperial magister officiorum and an enemy of Ambrose, they succeeded in procuring the withdrawal of Gratianus ' edict, and the attempted arrest of Ithacius of Ossonuba.

In 1312 he was succeeded by Malatesta II, first signore ( lord ) of the city and Pandolfo I, the latter's brother, named by Louis the Bavarian imperial vicar in Romagna.

The imperial court later sought refuge in Lantau Island's Mui Wo, where Emperor Zhao Shi eventually died ; he was succeeded by his younger sibling, Zhao Bing, who was seven.

Chen took and passed the county-level imperial examination ( 鄉試 ) in 1896, and succeeded in the provincial-level examination ( 省試 ) the following year.

So he succeeded, through clever marriage policy, to bring former imperial properties back under the control of the emperor.

* 645: Prince Shotoku is succeeded by Kotoku Tenno, who strengthens imperial power over aristocratic clans ( Taika Reform ), turning their states into provinces

Once Burke had succeeded in this endeavor, the stain of commercial origins could be removed, the special mix of economic and political interests realigned as the expression of national interest, the blot of scandal washed out as the moral mandate for a new kind of imperial project was launched.

The imperial authorities at Speyer now forbade all breach of the peace, and, after long negotiations, Philip succeeded in extorting the expenses for his armament from the dioceses of Würzburg, Bamberg, and Mainz, the latter bishopric also being compelled to recognize the validity of ecclesiastical jurisdiction in Hessian and Saxon territory until the Holy Roman Emperor or a Christian council should decide to the contrary.

A few years earlier, the King of Loulan had died, and with Xiongnu support, one of his sons, Angui ( 安歸 ) succeeded him, and Angui started a policy of befriending Xiongnu and resisting Han, particularly because Luolan's geographical location meant that it was often ordered by Han to escort its imperial messengers, who were also rude to Luolan officials.