The last Assyrian city to fall was Harran in south east Anotolia, this city was also the birthplace of the last king of Babylon, the Assyrian Nabonidus and his son and regent Belshazzar.

The last king to be crowned here was Ferdinand I in 1531.

As a result, their last king Ishaq ibn Ali was killed in Marrakesh in April 1147 by the Almohads who replaced them as a ruling dynasty both in Morocco and Al-Andalus.

* 1879 – Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.

* 1526 – Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.

" He is considered the last of the " early " kings of Jerusalem, after whom there was no king able to save Jerusalem from its eventual collapse.

Thus Jerome's Chronicon lists 36 kings of the Assyrians, beginning with Ninus, son of Belus, down to Sardanapalus, the last king of the Assyrians before the empire fell to Arbaces the Median.

The first autobiographical work in Islamic society was written in the late 11th century, by Abdallah ibn Buluggin, last Zirid king of Granada.

Polybius tells that 28 years after the expulsion of the last Persian king Xerxes crossed over to Greece, and that event is fixed to 478 BC by two solar eclipses.

That he was highly respected by the Gentiles as well as by the Jews of Babylonia is proved by the friendship which existed between him and the last Parthian king, Artaban ( Avodah Zarah 10b ).

Chapters 17 to 27 describe the missionary labors of the sons of King Mosiah II who was the last king over the people of Nephi prior to the peaceful transition of the nation from a monarchy to a republican form of government.

The last events in Chronicles take place in the reign of Cyrus the Great, the Persian king who conquered Babylon in 539 BCE ; this sets an earliest possible date for the book.

According to the book of Ezra-Nehemiah they did so under the joint leadership of a descendant of the last king and the last High Priest, rebuilding the Temple and reconstituting Judah ( now called Yehud ) as a holy community ruled by priests.

( The final verses record how Jehoiachin, the last king, is set free and given honour by the king of Babylon ).

Later king Olof met him there as well during his last trip in 852 ( Chapter XXVI ).

Castling consists of moving the king two squares along the first rank toward a rook ( which is on the player's first rank ) and then placing the rook on the last square the king has just crossed.

Separate coronation as King of Croatia was gradually allowed to fall into abeyance and last crowned king is Charles Robert in 1301 after which Croatia contented herself with a separate diploma

After the death of Ashurbanipal, the last great Assyrian king in 627 BC, the Assyrian empire descended into a series of bitter dynastic civil wars.

In 256 BC, as the last Zhou king ceded his territory to Qin, a new calendar ( the Qin calendar ) began to be used.

The Pictish king-lists originally ended with this Causantín, who was reckoned the seventieth and last king of the Picts.

According to the king lists, he was counted the 70th and last king of the Picts in later times.

Judah prospered as an Assyrian vassal state, despite a disastrous rebellion against Sennacherib ), but in the last half of the 7th century BCE Assyria suddenly collapsed, and the ensuing competition between the Egyptian and Neo-Babylonian empires for control of Palestine led to the destruction of Judah in a series of campaigns between 597 and 582.

The Neo-Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II exiled to Babylon Joconiah and Jeconiah's uncle King Zedekiah the last king of Judah and killed Zedekiah there.

* Nabonidus, the last Neo-Babylonian king

Nabonidus (; Akkadian Nabû-naʾid, " Nabu is praised ") was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, reigning from 556-539 BCE.

King Nabonidus, the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire in the 6th century BC, after " finding little left but the last stage and nothing to guide him as to the monument's original appearance ", had it restored in seven stages rather than three.

Many people think that pansies last only a few weeks, then their period of growth and bloom is over.

The cumulative total of construction contracts for the first ten months of 1961 amounted to $634,517,000, a 4 per cent increase compared to the corresponding period of last year.

The last stage in the development of the Kouros type is the late archaic period ( 520 – 485 BC ), in which the Greek sculpture attained a full knowledge of human anatomy and used to create a relative harmonious whole.

The Armenian government collected 383. 5 billion drams ($ 1. 26 billion ) in various taxes in the first nine months of 2008 ( a 33. 2 percent increase from the same period last year ).

In French, the period only follows an abbreviation if the last letter in the abbreviation is not the last letter of its antecedent: " M ." is the abbreviation for " monsieur " while " Mme " is that for " madame ".

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, one of the founders of modern architecture and the last director of the Bauhaus during its period in Dessau and Berlin was born in Aachen as well.

Referring to the above sketch of Spartan history, we find Agesilaus shining most in its first and last period, as commencing and surrendering a glorious career in Asia, and as, in extreme age, maintaining his prostrate country.

* Full stops / Periods in abbreviations: Americans tend to write Mr., Mrs., St., Dr .; the British will most often write Mr, Mrs, St, Dr, following the rule that a full stop / period is used only when the last letter of the abbreviation is not the last letter of the complete word.

During the Julio-Claudian period, the Temple of Rome and Augustus, a small, round edifice, about 23 meters from the Parthenon, was to be the last significant ancient construction on the summit of the rock.

Historians are divided on the detail of Ælle's life and existence as it was during the least-documented period in English history of the last two millennia.

The discovery on the island of a number of gold ornaments belonging to the last period of Mycenaean art suggests that Mycenaean culture held its own in Aegina for some generations after the Dorian conquest of Argos and Lacedaemon.

The effort has focused on changes observed during the period of instrumental temperature record, when records are most reliable ; particularly on the last 50 years, when human activity has grown fastest and observations of the troposphere have become available.

During the last glacial period of the Würm glaciation, the Black Forest was covered by glaciers ; several tarns ( or lakes ) such as the Mummelsee are remains of this period.

Mineralized skeletons of bryozoans first appear in rocks from latest Cambrian period, about, making it the last major phylum to appear in the fossil record.

On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996 – 2001 ( including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band ), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.

To be a blizzard, a snow storm must have sustained winds or frequent gusts that are greater than or equal to with blowing or drifting snow which reduces visibility to 400 meters or a quarter mile or less and must last for a prolonged period of time — typically three hours or more.

It is the last period of the Mesozoic Era, and, spanning 80 million years, the longest period of the Phanerozoic Eon.

The wardens looked around the hills, stated Kulesh's evidence, that last time Kulesh had seen his workmate near the fireplace, Kulesh went out to work and Centurashvili left to warm himself more ; but when Kulesh returned to the fireplace, Centurashvili had vanished ; who knows, maybe he got frozen somewhere in snow, he was a weak guy (...) The wardens searched for two more days, and then assumed that it was an escape case, though they wondered why, since his imprisonment period was almost over (...) The crime was there.

The second set – from the later Shang or Yin ( 殷 ) period – is at Anyang, in modern-day Henan, which has been confirmed as the last of the Shang's nine capitals ( c. 1300 – 1046 BC ).

The first sixty-nine weeks are interpreted as covering the period until Christ ’ s first coming, but the last week is thought to represent the years of the tribulation which will come at the end of this age, directly preceding the millennial age of peace:

When the last period began, all hope of conciliating the Protestants was gone and the Jesuits had become a strong force.