* 1040 – King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth.

Holinshed portrays Banquo as an historical figure: he is an accomplice in Mac Bethad mac Findlaích's ( Macbeth's ) murder of Donnchad mac Crínáin ( King Duncan ) and plays an important part in ensuring that Macbeth, not Máel Coluim mac Donnchada ( Malcolm ), takes the throne in the coup that follows.

In the second scene of the play, King Duncan describes the brave manner in which Macbeth, Thane of Glamis, and Banquo bravely led his army against invaders, fighting side by side.

The reign of King Donnchad I ( Duncan I ) from 1034 was marred by failed military adventures, and he was defeated and killed by MacBeth, the Mormaer of Moray, who became king in 1040.

Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the throne for himself.

Shakespeare's source for the tragedy are the accounts of King Macbeth of Scotland, Macduff, and Duncan in Holinshed's Chronicles ( 1587 ), a history of England, Scotland and Ireland familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

* Duncan – King of Scotland

* Macbeth – a general in the army of King Duncan ; originally Thane of Glamis, then Thane of Cawdor, and later King of Scotland

* Banquo – Macbeth's friend and a general in the army of King Duncan

In the following scene, a wounded sergeant reports to King Duncan of Scotland that his generalsMacbeth, who is the Thane of Glamis, and Banquohave just defeated the allied forces of Norway and Ireland, who were led by the traitorous Macdonwald and the Thane of Cawdor.

In Chronicles, Banquo is an accomplice in Macbeth's murder of King Duncan.

He murders King Duncan against his better judgement and then wallows in guilt and paranoia.

While the witches do not tell Macbeth directly to kill King Duncan, they use a subtle form of temptation when they tell Macbeth that he is destined to be king.

Malcolm II's grandson Duncan ( Donnchad mac Crínáin ), later King Duncan I, was acclaimed as king of Alba on 30 November 1034, apparently without opposition.

Far from being the aged King Duncan of Shakespeare's play, the real King Duncan was a young man in 1034, and even at his death in 1040 his youthfulness is remarked upon.

Macbeth did not survive the English invasion, for he was defeated and mortally wounded or killed by the future Malcolm III (" King Malcolm Ceann-mor ", son of Duncan I ) on the north side of the Mounth in 1057, after retreating with his men over the Cairnamounth Pass to take his last stand at the battle at Lumphanan.

Macbeth's life, like that of King Duncan I, had progressed far towards legend by the end of the 14th century, when John of Fordun and Andrew of Wyntoun wrote their histories.

In Shakespeare's play, Macbeth is portrayed initially as a valorous and good-hearted general to King Duncan, but who later is corrupted by ambition.

He was the eldest son of King Duncan I ( Donnchad mac Crínáin ).

* King Chimnyu ascends to the throne of Baekje ( Korea ), he welcomes the Indian Buddhist monk Marananta into his palace, and declares later Buddhism the official religion.

Proclaiming him King of Sicily, his partisans, among them Prince Henry of Castile, both in the north and south of Italy took up arms ; Rome received his envoy with enthusiasm ; and the young king himself received welcomes at Pavia, Pisa and Siena.

Specifically, in the book King Kelson's Bride, when young Liam II Lajos returns to Torenth for his investiture, he speaks of the effusive welcomes from his subjects as being saluted as padishah.

The Queen welcomes them, and Theseus looks at the King, who seems distracted, and then realizes that he will be killed the next day at the feast of Dionysos.

Astraea Redux, written by John Dryden in 1660, is a full-blown royalist panegyric in which Dryden welcomes the new regime of King Charles II.

Legend has it that when King Sigismund II Augustus visited Gdańsk in 1549 after his coronation, part of the city's homage to the monarch was a gift of Goldwasser, and he is said to have sung the praises of the golden drink often along the rest of his tour.

The bulk of this work praises King Urien of Rheged and his son Owain mab Urien, although several of the poems indicate that he also served as the court bard to King Brochfael Ysgithrog of Powys and his successor Cynan Garwyn, either before or during his time at Urien's court.

In the King James Version of the Bible it is transliterated as " JAH " ( capitalised ) in only one instance: " Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him ".

With his " Balkan Empress " – inspired by the work of King Nikola, got all the praises of Italian critique in the second half of the XIX century.

It also praises the valor and qualities of a king referred to simply as Chandra, who has been identified with the Gupta King Chandragupta Vikramaditya ( 375-413 ).

Their courts, which were similar to the royal courts of Buda and Visegrád, were visited by such kings, scientists, and artists as Louis the Great, Sigismund of Luxembourg, King Matthias Corvinus, Galeotto Marzio, Regiomontanus, the famous astronomer Márton Ilkus and Georg Peuerbach, Pier Paolo Vergerio and Antonio Bonfini, King Matthias ’ historian, who, in his work praises the constructive work of János Vitéz, King Matthias ’ educator.

This Ayah has a tongue and two lips with which she praises the King ( Allah ) next to the leg of the Throne.

The Portuguese Chronicler Domingo Paes praises Krishna Deva Raya as, “ the most feared and perfect King … a great ruler and a man of much justice ”.

An intellectual with liberal-left ideas who nonetheless proved flexible enough to write praises of the King under Carol's dictatorship, Călinescu outwardly adhered to the new Communist ideology after 1947, likely noting the practical advantages of such a shift in loyalties.

The ' Leela Thilakam ' a Sanskrit work on grammar and rhetoric praises this King.

Gohan, exhausted, falls backwards laughing as Goku praises him from Other World, and King Kai jokes that Goku broke the rules of going back to Earth while dead.

Horror author and movie critic, Kim Newman, praises Cohen's plot originality and canny use of characters in Empire, pointing out the director's use of an oddball as lead-Jimmy Quinn-who would ordinarily be a secondary character or warrant solely a cameo appearance ; Newman also explains how Cohen has relegated all the usual plot devices-in movies such as King Kong-to the background.

The poem praises the Anglo-Saxons defence of " their land, the land of Ethelred the King, the place and the people " and Byrhtnoth, Earl of Essex, is attributed as saying: " Shall our people, our nation, bear you to go hence with our gold?

They are as decisively present in the Oresteia and Oedipus as in Macbeth, King Lear, and Phedre.

* 1057 – King Macbeth is killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada.

Daniel Amneus, however, argues that when Ross and Angus bring King Duncan's praise, and the news that Macbeth has been granted the title of Thane of Cawdor, the " greater honor " he ascribes to Macbeth is actually his title as Prince of Cumberland.

He offers his respects to the new King Macbeth and pledges loyalty.

The scene carries deep significance: King James, on the throne when Macbeth was written, was believed to be separated from Banquo by nine generations.

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* 1054 – Siward, Earl of Northumbria invades Scotland and defeats Macbeth, King of Scotland somewhere north of the Firth of Forth.

Macbeth is Shakespeare ’ s shortest and bloodiest tragedy, and tells the story of a brave Scottish general named Macbeth who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland.

* Three Witches – make the prediction of Macbeth becoming a King and Banquo's descendants being kings

Though Banquo challenges them first, they address Macbeth, hailing him as " Thane of Glamis ," " Thane of Cawdor ," and that he shall " be King hereafter.

The rightful heirs ' flight makes them suspects and Macbeth assumes the throne as the new King of Scotland as a kinsman of the dead king.

Banquo reveals this to the audience, and while skeptical of the new King Macbeth, remembers the witches ' prophecy about how his own descendants would inherit the throne.

In Chronicles, Macbeth is portrayed as struggling to support the kingdom in the face of King Duncan's ineptitude.

In 1605 a medal was struck commemorating the King ’ s escape from the Gunpowder Plot that pictured a serpent among flowers. Macbeth cannot be dated precisely, owing to significant evidence of later revisions.

As the play appears to celebrate King James's ancestors and the Stuart accession to the throne in 1603 ( James believed himself to be descended from Banquo ), scholars say that the play is unlikely to have been composed earlier than 1603 and suggest that the parade of eight kings — which the witches show Macbeth in a vision in Act IV — is a compliment to King James.