He acquired much favor with the Emperor Hadrian, who adopted him as his son and successor on 25 February 138, after the death of his first adopted son Lucius Aelius, on the condition that Antoninus would in turn adopt Marcus Annius Verus, the son of his wife's brother, and Lucius, son of Aelius Verus, who afterwards became the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.

* 138 – The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.

* February 25 – Emperor Hadrian makes Antoninus Pius his successor, on condition that he adopts Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.

Hadrian's successor Antoninus abandoned the frontier and attempted to move further north and build a new wall between the Forth and the Clyde.

Under Nerva's later dynastic successor Antoninus Pius, Imperial theology represents the death and apotheosis of the Empress Faustina the Elder as Ceres ' return to Olympus by Jupiter's command.

When his father died in early 138, Hadrian chose Antoninus Pius ( 86 – 161 ) as his successor.

In this novel Yourcenar recreated the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world, the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who writes a long letter to Marcus Aurelius, the son and heir of Antoninus Pius, his successor and adoptive son.

However, it was only under Hadrian's successor Antoninus Pius that relations improved to the extent that Pharsman is said to have even visited Rome, where Dio Cassius reports that a statue was erected in his honor and that rights to sacrifice were given.

Also in 138, according to Aurelius Victor ( Epitome ‚ XV, 4 ), and Appian ( Praef., 7 ), Antoninus Pius, successor to Hadrian, received some Indian, Bactrian Hyrcanian ambassadors.

Around 140, His successor Antoninus Pius ( 138-161 ) exempted Jews who circumcised their sons, though not their servants or slaves, from the decree against circumcision.

Either Hadrian or, more probably, his successor Antoninus Pius pushed out from the Odenwald and the Danube, and marked out a new frontier roughly parallel to, but in advance of these two lines, though sometimes, as on the Taunus, coinciding with the older line.

The Second Vatican Council did not speak of any of these concrete methods … This is a different standpoint than that taken under Pius XI some thirty years which was also maintained by his successor ... we can sense here a clear development in the Church, a development, which is also going on outside the Church.

" On 15 December 1937, during his last consistory, Pius XI strongly hinted to the cardinals that he expected Pacelli to be his successor, saying " He is in your midst.

His successor was Pius V.

Pope Pius X also undertook a revision of the Roman Missal, which was published and declared typical by his successor Pope Benedict XV on 25 July 1920.

Following the death of Pius VI, by then virtually France's prisoner, at Valence in August 1799, the conclave to elect his successor met on 30 November 1799 in the Benedictine Monastery of San Giorgio in Venice.

Even then, " her care for mankind continues and the world can rejoice in the warmth of her daughter Proserpina: in Imperial flesh, Proserpina is Faustina the Younger ", empress-wife of Pius ' successor Marcus Aurelius.

Pope Pius X consecrates his future successor Pope Benedict XV as Bishop Giacomo della Chiesa in the Vatican on 18 December 1907

* Some right-wing Roman Catholics also claimed Giuseppe Siri ( 20 May 1906 – 2 May, 1989 ) had been elected as Pope Pius XII's successor in 1958 but that his election was in effect vetoed under Communist threat that Catholics in Communist countries would be persecuted if Siri, who allegedly had announced that he wished to be known as Pope Gregory XVII, was accepted as Pope.

On 9 July 1568, Pope Pius V, the successor of the Pope who closed the Council of Trent, promulgated an edition, known as the Roman Breviary, with his Apostolic Constitution Quod a nobis, imposing it in the same way in which, two years later, he imposed his Roman Missal and using language very similar to that in the bull Quo primum with which he promulgated the Missal, regarding, for instance, the perpetual force of its provisions, the obligation to use the promulgated text in all places, and the total prohibition of adding or omitting anything, declaring in fact: " No one whosoever is permitted to alter this letter or heedlessly to venture to go contrary to this notice of Our permission, statute, ordinance, command, precept, grant, indult declaration, will decree and prohibition.

Benedict's successor, Pope Pius XI, laid the first stone of the new seat of the university on 27 December 1924.

The museum and collection were enlarged by Clement's successor Pius VI.

His successor was Pope Pius X, an equally powerful advocate of Cecilianism.

When this attempt was rejected by Pope St. Pius X, Kowalski set about codifying the movement's own doctrines and beliefs in concert with Sister Maria Franciszka, and upon her death became her successor.

According to historian Peter Gumpel, Pope Pius XII told senior bishops that should he be arrested by the Nazis, his resignation would become effective immediately, paving the way for a successor, according to documents in the Vatican's Secret Archives.

It has been claimed that during World War II, Pius XII drew up a document with instructions that, if he were kidnapped by the Nazis, he was to be considered to have resigned his office, and the Cardinals were to flee to neutral Portugal and elect a successor.

An able diplomat, he was nominated after the death of that pope to be secretary of the conclave that met in Venice from November 1799 to March 1800 to choose his successor, and resulted in the election of Pope Pius VII.

While legal challenges also dogged COPA's successor, the Children's Internet Protection Act ( CIPA ) of 2000, the Supreme Court upheld it as constitutional in 2004.

Pakistan believes that under uti possidetis juris it should not require one because courts in several countries around the world and the Vienna Convention have universally upheld via uti possidetis juris that binding bilateral agreements are " passed down " to successor states Thus, a unilateral declaration by one party has no effect ; boundary changes must be made bilaterally.

Litvinov's half promises to accept and support joint Finnish – Swedish provisions for the defense of Åland against the potential German threat were not upheld by his successor.

During Coke's lifetime he was judicially dominant, and his ideas were upheld by his successor as Chief Justice, Sir Henry Hobart, in Day v Savadge and Lord Sheffield v Ratcliffe.

Ming Man's successor, Thiệu Trị, upheld the anti-Catholic policy of his predecessor.

Vice President Gustavo Noboa took charge by vice-presidential decree ; Mahuad went on national television in the morning to endorse Noboa as his successor.

On the statement about a decree requiring women to cover their heads, J. P. Kirsch comments in the Catholic Encyclopedia: " Without doubt this decree is apocryphal, and copied by the author of the Liber Pontificalis from the first Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians ( 11: 5 ) and arbitrarily attributed to the first successor of the Apostle in Rome.

One of John XXI's few acts during his brief reign was the reversal of a decree recently passed at the Second Council of Lyon ( 1274 ) that not only confined cardinals in solitude until they elected a successor Pope, but also progressively restricted their supplies of food and wine if their deliberations took too long.

The first was the enacting of a decree forbidding anyone during the lifetime of a pope to discuss the appointment of his successor under pain of excommunication.

* June 29 – WWII: Hitler, s second-in-command Reichsmarshall Hermann Göring appointed as Hitler, s successor in a written decree. The decree will come into effect should Hitler die in the middle of the war. The decree later became void after Göring tried to assume power while Hitler was very much alive leading to Göring being expelled from the party.

Faced with this decree, Hilary submitted to the pope, although under his successor, Ravennius, Leo divided the metropolitan rights between Arles and Vienne ( 450 ).

The opposition to such a procedure led Boniface in the following year to withdraw his designation of a successor and to burn the decree respecting it.

On May 1, 2006, his successor, current president Morales, signed a decree stating that all natural gas reserves were to be nationalized, recovering ownership, possession and control of hydrocarbons.

One of the first examples of rule by decree was in the ancient Roman Republic when, after the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BC, his successor, Gaius Octavian, general Mark Antony and succeeding pontifex maximus Aemilius Lepidus seized power in the Second Triumvirate, officially recognized by the senate by the Lex Titia decree.

However, Valen's successor Theodosius I effectively wiped out Arianism once and for all among the elites of the Eastern Empire through a combination of imperial decree, persecution, and the calling of the Second Ecumenical Council in 381, which condemned Arius anew while reaffirming and expanding the Nicene Creed.

Moreover, after the secret death of the First Emperor, Fusu's youngest brother, Huhai, together with two high officials Zhao Gao and Li Si, forged the First Emperor's decree to rename Huhai as the successor and order Fusu to commit suicide.

According to the majority of the available sources, Imam Ja ’ far al-Sadiq had indeed designated Ismail by nass ( divine decree ) as his successor in Imamate.

Apotheosis in ancient Rome was a process whereby a deceased ruler was recognized as having been divine by his successor, usually also by a decree of the Senate and popular consent.

In April 2011 the State Agency of Ukraine on the Exclusion Zone Management ( SAEZ ) became the successor to the State Department-Administration of the exclusion zone and the zone of absolute ( mandatory ) resettlement according to presidential decree.

In year 20 of the Muslim era, or the year 641 AD, Muhammad's successor the Caliph ' Umar decreed that Jews and Christians should be removed from all but the southern and eastern fringes of Arabia — a decree based on the ( sometimes disputed ) uttering of the Prophet: " Let there not be two religions in Arabia ".

Sunnis maintain that if Ali was the rightful successor as ordained by God, then it would have been his duty as leader of the Muslim nation to make war with these people ( Abu Bakr, Umar and Uthman ) until Ali established the decree.

On 9 July 1568, Pope ( Saint ) Pius V, the successor to Pius IV who closed the Council of Trent, promulgated an edition, known as the Roman Breviary, with his Apostolic Constitution Quod a nobis, imposing it in the same way in which, two years later, he imposed his Roman Missal and using language very similar to that in the bull Quo primum with which he promulgated the Missal, regarding ; for instance, the perpetual force of its provisions, the obligation to use the promulgated text in all places, and the total prohibition of adding or omitting anything, declaring in fact: " No one whosoever is permitted to alter this letter or heedlessly to venture to go contrary to this notice of Our permission, statute, ordinance, command, precept, grant, indult declaration, will decree and prohibition.

King Coloman ( 1095 – 1116 ), the successor of St. Ladislaus, renewed the Szabolcs decree of 1092, adding further prohibitions against the employment of Christian slaves and domestics.