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, 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, Henry V entrusted Matilda with the imperial insignia.

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 Sunday they refused to attend church.

" On his arrival in Rome, however, charges of simony, or the buying of ecclesiastical office, and lack of learning were brought against him, and his elevation to York was refused by Pope Nicholas II, who also deposed him from Worcester.

On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor.

* On May 18, 1996, a second mutiny was led by 500 soldiers who refused to be disarmed and denounced the agreement reached in April.

On his release, however, Romanus found that enemies had placed their own candidate on the throne in his absence ; he surrendered to them and suffered death by torture, and the new ruler, Michael VII Ducas, refused to honour the treaty.

On January 21, 2000, during demonstrations in Quito by indigenous groups, the military and police refused to enforce public order, beginning what became known as the 2000 Ecuadorean coup d ' état.

On his return he refused to live with his wife and took rooms at Charing Cross.

On his accession to the imperial throne, Theodosius offered to confirm Demophilus as bishop of the imperial city on the condition of accepting the Nicene Creed ; however, Demophilus refused to abandon his Arian beliefs, and was immediately ordered to give up his churches and leave Constantinople.

On the advice of DRI attorney Gerry Davis, Dorothy refused to sign the agreement without Gary's approval.

On September 7, 2004, Busey's landlord filed a lawsuit to evict him because Busey had refused to pay his rent for about three months.

On December 23, 1927 Hawk's sister Grace died of tuberculosis after Hawk's mother refused to allow medical treatment because of her Christian Science beliefs.

On his return to Spain on April 16, 1814, he refused to swear by the constitution himself, and he continued to rule in the authoritarian fashion of his forebears.

On many occasions, a Pope refused to crown a king with whom he was engaged in a dispute, but a lack of a papal coronation deprived a king of only the title Emperor and not of the power to govern ( cf Declaration of Rhens ).

On account of the feeling engendered by the civil war Ambrose left his great church of Preston in 1654, and became minister of Garstang, whence, however, in 1662 he was ejected with the two thousand ministers who refused to conform.

On August 28, the FBI New York field office requested that a criminal case be opened to determine whether Mihdhar was still in the United States, but the request was refused.

On August 22, 2006, the ICM awarded Perelman the Fields Medal for his work on the conjecture, but Perelman refused the medal.

On 3 July 1201, the papal legate, Cardinal-Bishop Guido of Palestrina announced to the people, in the cathedral of Cologne, that Otto IV had been approved by the pope as Roman king and threatened with excommunication all those who refused to acknowledge him.

On 24 April 1975, the West German embassy in Stockholm was seized by members of the RAF ; two of the hostages were murdered as the German government under Chancellor Helmut Schmidt refused to give in to their demands.

On November 17, 2008, McCready spoke in more detail to Inside Edition about her affair with Clemens, stating that their relationship lasted for more than a decade, and that it ended when Clemens refused to leave his wife to marry McCready.

On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled.

On the conclusion of talks in London, Britain agreed to grant Sierra Leone Independence on the 27 of April 1961. however, the outspoken trade unionist Siaka Stevens was the only delegate who refused to sign Sierra Leone's declaration of Independendence on the grounds that there had been a secret defence pact between Sierra Leone and Britain ; another point of contention by Stevens was the Sierra Leonean government's position that there would be no elections held before independence which would effectively shut him out of Sierra Leone's political process.

On Media Day, Duane Thomas refused to answer any questions and sat silently until his required time was up.

On November 4, 1928, Arnold Rothstein was murdered, allegedly because he refused to pay his debts from a poker game he believed to have been fixed.

On 16 September, the president nominated Yaovi Agboyibor of the Action Committee for Renewal ( CAR ) prime minister, snubbing the major opposition party Union of the Forces of Change ( UFC ) which in reaction refused to join the government.

On the last day of its session, when the business session ended, Timothy Ruggles, the president of the body, and a few other more cautious members, refused to sign the memorial of rights and grievances.