On his deathbed in 1836, he ordered that an inscription be placed upon his tombstone: Tandem Felix ( Happy at Last ).

On his deathbed Amalric bequeathed Nablus to Maria and Isabella, both of whom would retire there.

On his deathbed, Abu Bakr appointed Umar as his successor without an election by the community of Believers.

On his deathbed Charles II had bequeathed the entire Spanish inheritance to Louis XIV's grandson, Philip, Duke of Anjou.

On his deathbed, Origen had made a bequest of his private library to the Christian community in the city.

On his deathbed, Conrad yielded the crown to his main rival, Henry of Saxony ( r. 919 – 36 ), who was elected king at the Diet of Fritzlar in 919.

On his deathbed, Tetzel received a magnanimously penned correspondence from Martin Luther, stating that the child ( i. e. the scandal ) had a different father.

On November 10, 1928, when the " Fighting Irish " team was losing to Army 6-0 at the end of the half, Rockne entered the locker room and told the team the words he heard on Gipp's deathbed in 1920: " I've got to go, Rock.

On his deathbed he was exhibited with the black square above him, and mourners at his funeral rally were permitted to wave a banner bearing a black square.

On January 8, 1324, despite physicians ' efforts to treat him, Polo was on his deathbed.

On his deathbed, Murad IV ordered the execution of his mentally disabled brother, Ibrahim I ( reigned 1640 – 48 ), which would have meant the end of the Ottoman line ; but the order was not carried out.

On his deathbed, Mr. Dashwood extracts a promise from his son, that he will take care of his half-sisters ; however, John's selfish and greedy wife, Fanny, soon persuades him to renege.

On his deathbed he accuses Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, the governor of Syria, of poisoning him.

On his deathbed he refused to receive the last sacraments of the Church.

On his deathbed, in the presence of only two witnesses, his nephew Frederick Barbarossa and the Bishop of Bamberg, he allegedly designated Frederick his successor, rather than his own surviving six-year-old son Frederick.

On 23 November 1991, in a prepared statement made on his deathbed, Mercury confirmed that he had AIDS.

On his deathbed, he named his younger brother, Sun Quan, as his heir.

On his deathbed, he committed a manuscript to his chaplain, ordering him to consult with Libert Fromondus, a theology professor at Leuven, and Henri Calenus, a canon at the metropolitan church, and to publish the manuscript if they agreed it should be published, adding " If, however, the Holy See wishes any change, I am an obedient son, and I submit to that Church in which I have lived to my dying hour.

On his deathbed, he knew that his son was still too young to be considered a realistic heir, so he entrusted the 18-year-old Sun Quan to his faithful subordinates.

On his deathbed, Bolívar asked his aide-de-camp, General Daniel F. O ' Leary to burn the remaining, extensive archive of his writings, letters, and speeches.

On his deathbed, Ivan appointed a council consisting of Godunov, Feodor Nikitich Romanov, Vasili Shuiski and others, to guide his son and successor, for Feodor was feeble both in mind and body ; " he took refuge from the dangers of the palace in devotion to religion ; and though his people called him a saint, they recognized that he lacked the iron to govern men.

On his deathbed, he reportedly asked to be reconciled to his father, but King Henry, fearing a trick, refused to see him.

On her deathbed, she convinces her father to free Tom, but because of circumstances the promise never materializes.

On his deathbed in 1020 Manuel commended his two surviving sons Isaakios and Ioannes to the emperor's care.

On October 8th of last year, the Industrial Division sponsored the Governor's Conference on Industrial Development at the former Henry Barnard School.

On March 21, 1845 the bark Bashaw weighed anchor at New Orleans, while on the levee Henry and William Palfrey waved farewell to their father's former chattels who must have looked back at the receding shore with mingled regret and jubilation.

One of the President's special assistants, the Harvard dean McGeorge Bundy, was co-author with Henry L. Stimson of the latter's classic memoir, On Active Service.

On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee tabled a resolution before the Continental Congress declaring the colonies independent ; at the same time he also urged Congress to resolve “ to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances ” and to prepare a plan of confederation for the newly-independent states.

On February 6, 1862, Union Navy gunboats quickly reduced the defenses of ill-sited Fort Henry, inflicting 21 casualties on the small remaining Confederate force.

On March 5, 1868, the impeachment trial began in the Senate and lasted almost three months ; Reps. George S. Boutwell, Ben Butler and Thaddeus Stevens acted as managers ( prosecutors ) for the House and William M. Evarts, Benjamin R. Curtis and Attorney General Henry Stanberry served as Johnson's counsel ; Chief Justice Chase served as presiding judge.

On January 24, 1776, Henry Knox arrived with artillery captured from Fort Ticonderoga, which enabled Washington to drive the British army out of Boston.

On Palm Sunday, 1084, Henry IV solemnly enthroned Clement at St. Peter ’ s Basilica and on Easter Day, Clement returned the favor and crowned Henry IV as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

* On Higher Ground: Selections From the Walter O. Evans Collection, group show, 2001, Henry Ford Museum, Michigan

On Midsummer's Day, Sunday, 1509, Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon were anointed and crowned together by the Archbishop of Canterbury at a lavish ceremony at Westminster Abbey.

On 18 May 1152 ( Whit Sunday ), eight weeks after her annulment, Eleanor married Henry ' without the pomp and ceremony that befitted their rank '.

On 8 July 1174, Henry and Eleanor took ship for England from Barfleur.

On 1562, John de Vere had contracted with Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon for Edward to marry one of Huntingdon's sisters ; when he reached the age of 18, he would choose either Elizabeth or Mary Hastings.

On 24 February 1593, she gave birth to Oxford's only surviving son and heir, Henry de Vere, at Stoke Newington.

On 8 November 1266, a contract between Henry III and Hamburg's traders allowed them to establish a hanse in London.

On 7 November 921 Henry and Charles met each other and concluded a treaty of friendship between them.

On 25 May 1420, Henry gained appointment as the governor of the very rich Order of Christ, the Portuguese successor to the Knights Templar, which had its headquarters at Tomar.

On 11 November 1100 Henry married Edith, daughter of King Malcolm III of Scotland.

On the morning of 28 September 1106, exactly 40 years after William had made his way to England, the decisive battle between his two surviving sons, Robert Curthose and Henry Beauclerc, took place in the small village of Tinchebray, in Lower Normandy.

On Cyprus, King Henry I came of age in 1232 and John's regency was no longer necessary.

On 18 November, she was received by Henry Ford in Detroit and Olympia was shown at " The Chicago Engineers Club " two days later.

On 27 May 1234, Louis married Margaret of Provence ( 1221 – 21 December 1295 ), whose sister Eleanor later became the wife of Henry III of England.

On his return to Europe, he stopped in London, where the Hanover Gallery had organized a solo show of his work, and there met Henry Moore.