1 ) The institution of the rex Nemorensis, Diana's sacerdos ( priest ) in the Arician wood, who held the position till someone else challenged and killed him in a duel, after breaking a branch from a certain tree of the wood.

When he was about nine his father was killed in a duel and his mother left him with his prosperous architect uncles.

He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.

The book provides an alternate history of Gladstone, in which he killed Disraeli in a duel and assisted British forces in colonial expansion.

* July 12 – Alexander Hamilton, American statesman ( killed in a duel )

Christopher Marlowe was killed in an apparent tavern brawl, while Ben Jonson killed an actor in a duel.

Unable to secure promotion in the British Army, in 1769 he returned to Poland and saw action in the Russo-Turkish War, and lost two fingers in a duel in which he killed his opponent.

When eventually Bernard's identity is revealed after a verbal misstep by Chloe, Hannah initially reacts angrily but regardless she agrees to share the research material he requested, allowing him to propose his theory that one of the 1809 inhabitants, Mr. Ezra Chater, was killed in a duel by Lord Byron.

Foolishly, he disregards searching for further proof of his theories, and, hoping for fame, he announces on TV his theory that Lord Byron killed Ezra Chater in a duel.

Blood purchases them himself, relishing the opportunity to turn the tables on his former owner, but Levasseur objects vehemently and is killed in the ensuing duel.

However, at the duel, Hrungnir is quickly killed by the enraged Thor.

A desperate pistol duel takes place, in which the messenger is killed.

Second, in the play Jocasta has not killed herself at the discovery of her incest-otherwise she could not play the prologue, for fathomable reasons-nor has Oedipus fled into exile, but they have stayed in Thebes only to delay their doom until the fatal duel of their sons / brothers / nephews Eteocles and Polynices: Jocasta commits suicide over the two men's dead bodies, and Antigone follows Oedipus into exile.

Felix became heir to the immense fortune after his older brother Nikolai Felixovich, Count Sumarokov-Elston ( born 1883 ), was killed in a duel on June 22, 1908.

The marriage is cancelled when d ' Épinay learns that his father ( believed assassinated by Bonapartists ) was killed by Noirtier in a duel.

As a result, Achilles kills a great number of Trojan warriors, culminating in a duel with Hector in which the latter is killed.

Infuriated, Hidimba declared himself ready to kill not only the Pandavas but also his sister, but he was thwarted by the heroism of Bhima, who defeated and killed him in a duel.

Bhima arrived in time to intervene, and killed Jatasura in a duel.

It was named in honor of Stephen Decatur ; after he was killed in a duel in 1820, President Monroe directed that the Alabama town be named for him.

The castle is flooded by a rainstorm, and in a watery duel with Titus, Steerpike is killed, leaving the way clear for Titus to reign.

When Tecumseh, the famous Indian warrior was killed in a duel with Col. Richard M. Johnson at the Battle of Thames, this almost ended the War of 1812 in this country.

According to local folklore, " Manawa " means " long bow ," and was the name of a Native American killed in a duel near the lower river crossing.

If the challenger was not satisfied, a pistol duel could continue until one man was wounded or killed, but to have more than three exchanges of fire was considered barbaric and, on the rare occasion that no hits were achieved, somewhat ridiculous.

In 1712 a dispute about the ownership of the Gawsworth estate culminated in a duel, in which both the combatants were killed.

Unfortunately, he was challenged by her brother Julien to a duel after the wedding.

Anyone who now doubted that a personal duel was under way had only to watch how these exceptionally gifted golfers were playing this most difficult golf course.

As the third round of the tournament began on Saturday and the duel was resumed in earnest, it was Player's superior aggressiveness that carried him into the lead.

Smiley later wrote to Johnson, saying he was ready to fight ; a potential duel was prevented by the intervention of Washington Burrow and Benjamin F. Cheatham.

Although several shots were fired in the duel, nobody was injured, and the two were persuaded by their seconds to discontinue it.

According to Ivinskaya, however, " I believe that between Stalin and Pasternak there was an incredible, silent duel.

One composer who was influential in spreading the more serious style that Mozart and Haydn had formed is Muzio Clementi, a gifted virtuoso pianist who tied with Mozart in a musical " duel " before the emperor in which they each improvised and performed their compositions.

After Imogene's death in Syn's arms ( during which she revealed to him that he had a son by her who was missing somewhere in America ), Syn fought a final duel with Tappitt in his jail cell, defeating him.

As to his opponent in the duel, Alexandre Dumas names Pescheux d ' Herbinville, one of the nineteen artillery officers whose acquittal was celebrated at the banquet that occasioned Galois ' first arrest and du Motel's fiancé.

However, Dumas is alone in this assertion, and extant newspaper clippings from only a few days after the duel give a description of his opponent that more accurately applies to one of Galois ' Republican friends, most probably Ernest Duchatelet, who was imprisoned with Galois on the same charges.

Whatever the reasons behind the duel, Galois was so convinced of his impending death that he stayed up all night writing letters to his Republican friends and composing what would become his mathematical testament, the famous letter to Auguste Chevalier outlining his ideas, and three attached manuscripts.

Whether it was Sidney next challenged Oxford to a duel or the other way around, Oxford did not take it further, and the Queen personally took Sidney to task for not recognizing the difference between his status and Oxford's.

He never challenged anyone to a duel no matter how much they insulted his honor as was customary then.

The duel with Chouinard is said to have made Carson famous among the mountain men but was also considered uncharacteristic of him.

He returns in Superman # 4, first trying to use a stolen Earthquake machine and challenging Superman to a duel of his science vs Superman's powers, which Superman wins ; however, this was just a distraction to allow him to steal the machine.

According to the introduction of The Book of Five Rings, Musashi states that his first successful duel was at the age of thirteen, against a samurai named Arima Kihei who fought using the Kashima Shintō-ryū style, founded by Tsukahara Bokuden ( b. 1489, d. 1571 ).

In 1599, three years later, Musashi left his village, apparently at the age of 15 ( according to the Tosakushi, " The Registry of the Sakushu Region ", although the Tanji Hokin Hikki says he was 16 years old in 1599, which agrees time-wise with the age reported in Musashi's first duel ).

Tokitsu believes that the duel was politically motivated, a matter of consolidating Tadaoki's control over his fief.

On April 13, 1612, Musashi ( about age 30 ) fought his duel with Sasaki Kojirō, who was known as " The Demon of the Western Provinces " and who wielded a nodachi.

The duel was short.

Some reports go so far as to say that Musashi entered a duel with Ieyasu, but was recruited after Ieyasu sensed his defeat was at hand.