Aside from the national cup, the Emperor's Cup established in 1921, there had been several attempts at creating a senior-level national championship.

After receiving a plea for help from C ' tair Pilru, an Ixian rebel, Rhombur begins supplying the Ixian resistance with limited aid, though his attempts are greatly hindered by the Emperor's Sardaukar.

Unable to locate even a fraction of that sum and angered by the Mughal Emperor's attempts to eliminate him and his Sikh allies, Ghulam Qadir himself blinded Shah Alam II on August 10, 1788.

Sharing in the attack on the Electorate of Saxony, Albert was taken prisoner at Rochlitz in March 1547 by Elector John Frederick of Saxony, but was released as a result of the Emperor's victory at the Battle of Mühlberg in the succeeding April.

However, his mother consolidated the Doukas family connection by arranging the Emperor's marriage to Irene Doukaina, granddaughter of the Caesar John Doukas, the uncle of Michael VII, who would not have supported Alexios otherwise.

In 350, he was made Caesar ( title ) | Caesar by Constantius and was married to the Emperor's sister, Constantina.

In addition, while formally the Emperor's duties include appointing the Prime Minister to office, article 6 of the constitution requires him to appoint the candidate " as designated by the Diet " ( in practice, the candidate designated by the House of Representatives ), without any right to decline appointment.

The building was named after the ancient phrase of Hakkō ichiu ( literally " eight cords, one roof "), which had been attributed to Emperor Jimmu and, since 1928, has been espoused by the Imperial government as an expression of Japanese expansionism, as it envisioned to the unification of the world ( the " eight corners of the world ") under the Emperor's " sacred rule ", a goal that was considered imperative to all Japanese subjects, as Jimmu, finding five races in Japan, had made them all as " brothers of one family.

* The Emperor's New Clothes ( 1837 ) by Hans Christian Andersen

As the Soga had taken control of the throne in the sixth century, the Fujiwara by the ninth century had intermarried with the imperial family, and one of their members was the first head of the Emperor's Private Office.

The causes were the conflicts between Catholics and Protestants, the efforts by the various states within the Empire to increase their power and the Catholic Emperor's attempt to achieve the religious and political unity of the Empire.

The electors were originally summoned by the Archbishop of Mainz within one month of an Emperor's death, and met within three months of being summoned.

Justinian's rule was not universally popular ; early in his reign he almost lost his throne during the Nika riots, and a conspiracy against the Emperor's life by dissatisfied businessmen was discovered as late as 562.

The northern provinces had remained loyal to the Emperor, and hoping to avoid a civil war, Sun Yat-Sen – already proclaimed " provisional president " by his supporters – had come to a compromise with the Emperor's key ally Yuan Shikai ( 1859 – 1916 ); the monarchy would be abolished, and Late Imperial China would be converted into a new Republic of China, but it would be the royalist Yuan and not the revolutionary Sun who would become its first President.

Another tradition that influenced Beijing cuisine ( as well as influenced by the latter itself ) is the Chinese imperial cuisine that originated from the " Emperor's Kitchen " (), which referred to the cooking facilities inside the Forbidden City, where thousands of cooks from different parts of China showed their best culinary skills to please the imperial family and officials.

He returns home posthaste, uncovers the real plot behind the charges, and escapes trial by gaining the Emperor's approval to enlist the Dendarii ( secretly and without the mercenaries themselves aware of it ) into the Imperial forces.

Being the one with " All the power ", it was not uncommon for nobles to attempt to prove their Emperor's " Omni Potens " to the people, by demonstrating his effectiveness at leading the Empire.

The doctrine then found its way into the doctrine of servitus camerae imperialis, or servitude immediately subject to the Emperor's authority, promulgated by Frederick II.

On 3 May 1241, a combined fleet of Pisan and Sicilian ships, led by the Emperor's son Enzo, attacked a Genoese convoy carrying prelates from Northern Italy and France, next to the Isola del Giglio, in front of Tuscany: the Genoese lost 25 ships, while about thousand sailors, two cardinals and one bishop were taken prisoner.

At the Sack of Rome ( 1527 ) he was one of the hostages given by Pope Clement VII to the Emperor's forces, and barely escaped execution.

During the Qianlong Emperor's reign, for example, members of his family were distinguished by garments with a small circular emblem on the back, whereas Han officials wore clothing with a square emblem.

The Qianlong Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Twelve: Return to the Palace ( detail ), 1764 — 1770, by Xu Yang

Plautianus ’ s excessive power came to an end in 205, when he was denounced by the Emperor's dying brother and killed.

Everywhere else the power of life and death, originally reserved to the Emperor alone, had been usurped by the territorial nobles ; only in Westphalia, called “ the Red Earth ” because here the imperial Blutbann was still valid, were capital sentences passed and executed by the Fehmic courts in the Emperor's name alone.

* May 5 – Princess Oku is made to dwell in the Abstinence-palace of Hatsuse by the Emperor's order.

The novel establishes that she previously was an " Emperor's Hand " — a special agent — for Emperor Palpatine.

Emperor's albums were also re-issued in a special box version with a bonus poster on Aug. 21, 2007.

The tale was made into a stop-motion animated TV special from Rankin-Bass, again with Danny Kaye's involvement and narration, entitled: The Enchanted World of Danny Kaye: The Emperor's New Clothes.

De Tudela visited Constantinople, during the reign of Manuel Comnenus ( 1143-1180 AD ), and wrote of the Emperor's special sympathy for the Vlachs because of his origins from that people.

The return would be under the auspices of the EWF, founded in 1937 by the Emperor's special emissary to Black America, Melaku E. Bayen.

The Kaiserwagen ( Emperor's car ), the original train used by Emperor Wilhelm II during a test ride on 24 October 1900, is still operated on scheduled excursion services, special occasions and for charter events.

In 1841, a special title of Ajdutant General of the Emperor's Person was created.

The regiment performed special duties on campaign, including guarding the imperial camp, relaying the Emperor's orders, and guarding prisoners of war.

Anna was a Porphyrogenita, a legitimate daughter born in the special purple chamber of the Byzantine Emperor's Palace.

With order now restored throughout the Empire, Franz Joseph felt free to go back on the constitutional concessions he had made, especially as the Austrian parliament, meeting at Kremsier, had behaved, in the young Emperor's view, abominably.

The Emperor's army besieged and captured the Byzantine city of Taranto, the administrative center of Apulia, in March 982.

He also took advantage of the difficulties in the Byzantine military, coming to the aid of Narses, a Byzantine general who refused to acknowledge the new Emperor's authority and who was besieged by troops loyal to Phocas in Edessa.

The city of Bari, which had been the capital of the Byzantine Catapanate of Southern Italy for centuries before the arrival of the Normans, opened its gates to the Emperor's army, and the overjoyed citizens tore down the Norman citadel.

In the Byzantine Empire, the still autocratic Emperors passed general legal measures assigning all bishops certain rights and duties in the secular administration of their dioceses, but that was part of a caesaropapist development putting the Eastern Church in the service of the Empire, with its Ecumenical Patriarch almost reduced to the Emperor's minister of religious affairs.

By the seventh century, Byzantine authority was largely limited to a diagonal band running roughly from Ravenna, where the Emperor's representative, or Exarch, was located, to Rome and south to Naples ( the " Rome-Ravenna corridor ").

He also earned the notice of Michael III by his abilities as a horse tamer and in winning a victory over a Bulgarian champion in a wrestling match ; he soon became the Byzantine Emperor's companion, confidant, and bodyguard ( parakoimomenos ).

The Byzantine army was turned to flight and the Emperor's position was seriously weakened.

During Murad's siege of Constantinople, the Byzantine Emperor's control over the Greek city-states weakened.

Some clear references to actual historical events include the Vulgar Holy War ( a parallel of the People's Crusade ) and the Emperor's Indenture ( a parallel of the oaths of homage extracted from the crusaders by Byzantine Emperor Alexius I )

His main success was to prevent a clash between fellow Crusaders, who had been pillaging Byzantine territory on their way to Constantinople, and the Byzantine Emperor's Pecheneg mercenaries.