In 1975, two years before his death, Queen Elizabeth II made him a Knight Commander of the British Empire ( KBE ).

Their time at the school was cut short when Elizabeth Branwell, their aunt who joined the family to look after the children after the death of their mother, died of internal obstruction in October 1842.

Charlotte's friendship with fellow writer Elizabeth Gaskell, whilst not necessarily close, was significant in that Gaskell wrote Charlotte's biography after her death in 1855.

The first death due to cholera occurred in 1866, but by then Elizabeth had already opened St. Mary ’ s Dispensary for Women and Children, at 69 Seymour Place.

They retired to Aldeburgh in 1902 and moved to Alde House in 1903, after the death of Elizabeth ’ s mother.

War broke out less than fifty years after the death of Elizabeth I in 1603.

After the death of their mother in 1821, when Emily was three years old, the older sisters Maria, Elizabeth and Charlotte were sent to the Clergy Daughters ' School at Cowan Bridge, where they encountered abuse and privations later described by Charlotte in Jane Eyre.

* Universalis Ecclesiae, a bull of Pope Pius IX that recreated the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England, which had gone underground with the death of the last Marian bishop in the reign of Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I ( known simply as " Elizabeth " until the accession of Elizabeth II ; 7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603 ) was queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death.

It was here that Elizabeth was told of her sister's death in November 1558.

In 1581, to convert English subjects to Catholicism with " the intent " to withdraw them from their allegiance to Elizabeth was made a treasonable offence, carrying the death penalty.

At first, Elizabeth resisted calls for Mary's death.

Elizabeth was lamented by many of her subjects, but others were relieved at her death.

After the death of his father in 1562, he became a ward of Queen Elizabeth and received an excellent education in the household of her Principal Secretary, Sir William Cecil.

After the death of Oxford's widow, Elizabeth, their son, Henry, the 18th Earl of Oxford, inherited the remainder of his father's estate.

In these cases, the position has been filled by a female relative or friend of the president, such as Martha Jefferson Randolph during Jefferson's presidency, Emily Donelson and Sarah Yorke Jackson during Jackson's, Mary Elizabeth ( Taylor ) Bliss during Taylor's, Mary Harrison McKee during Harrison's presidency, upon her mother's death, and Harriet Lane during Buchanan's.

* 1952 – Elizabeth II becomes the first queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth Realms since Queen Victoria upon the death of her father, George VI.

After Drake's death, the widow Elizabeth eventually married Sir William Courtenay of Powderham.

The rest of his Henry VII's reign was relatively peaceful, despite worries concerning succession after the death of his wife Elizabeth of York in 1503.

The reign of Elizabeth restored a sort of order to the realm following the turbulence of the reigns of Edward and Mary when she came to the throne following the death of Mary in 1558.

Although the Privy Council declined after the death of Elizabeth, while she was alive it was very effective.

Louis was proclaimed king, while Elizabeth held much of the practical power until her death in 1380.

He became Elector of Brandenburg upon his father's death in January 1499, and soon afterwards married Elizabeth of Denmark, daughter of King John of Denmark.

Alexander Alexandrovich () ( 10 March 1845 – 1 November 1894 ), known historically as Alexander III or Alexander the Peacemaker reigned as Emperor of Russia from until his death on.

He developed a reputation as a military commander during wars with Russia and the Ottoman Empire, as an early modernizer of Persia's armed forces and institutions, and for his death before his father, Fath Ali Shah.

According to Ivinskaya, " He began to say what an authentic event the funeral was -- an expression of what people really felt, and so characteristic of the Russia which stoned its prophets and did its poets to death as a matter of longstanding tradition.

As a result, Europe is a continent free of the death penalty in practice, all states but Russia, which has entered a moratorium, having ratified the Sixth Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights, with the sole exception of Belarus, which is not a member of the Council of Europe.

W. H. Chamberlin claims, " It is simply impossible to believe that the Cheka only put to death 12, 733 people in all of Russia up to the end of the civil war.

By the time of her death in 1796, Catherine's expansionist policy had made Russia into a major European power.

* 1718 – Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.

The Constitution of Russia stipulates that, until the abolition of the death penalty, all defendants in a case that may result in a death sentence are entitled to a jury trial.

* 1801 – Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle.

Following a service at Saint Isaac's Cathedral, she was interred next to her husband Alexander III in the Peter and Paul Cathedral on 28 September 2006, 140 years after her first arrival to Russia and almost 78 years after her death.

Some in the German military clamored for a preemptive war with Russia, but Bismarck said that " Preemptive war is like committing suicide for fear of death.

However, upon Elisabeth's death, all these conquests were returned to Kingdom of Prussia by pro-Prussian Peter III of Russia.

Other victims died a slow death including Prince Ioann Konstantinovich of Russia, Prince Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, Prince Igor Konstantinovich of Russia and Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley, Grand Duke Sergei's secretary Varvara Yakovleva and Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.

In exchange for Russian support, he agreed to give up any remaining Polish claims to Livonia, and promised to Anna of Russia her choice of successor to the Duchy of Courland, a Polish fief ( of which she had been duchess prior to her ascension to the Russian throne ) which would have otherwise come under direct Polish rule on the death of the current duke, Ferdinand Kettler, who had no heirs.

Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino near Gzhatsk ( renamed Gagarin in 1968 after his death ), ( now in Smolensk Oblast, Russia ), on 9 March 1934.

* April 21 – The death of Grand Duke Vladimir Cyrillovich of Russia results in a succession dispute between Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia and Vladimir's daughter Maria for the leadership of the Imperial Family of Russia.

* January 29 – Anna Ivanovna ( Anna of Russia ) becomes tsarina, following the death of her cousin, Tsar Peter II.

* January 7 – Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia, following the death of his brother-in-law, Tsar Feodor I ; the Time of Troubles starts.

* July 8 – Louis XVIII returns to Paris, and is ' restored ' as King of France ( he had declared himself king on 8 June 1795, at the death of his nephew, 10-year-old Louis XVII, and had lived in Westphalia, Verona, Russia, and England ).

** Alexander II of Russia ascends the Russian throne, upon the death of his father Nicholas I.