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.

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.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.

but when the bird is found at last, it turns out to be a fake.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.

if so, he would not be the first or last commanding officer who has succumbed to bad information and dubious estimates of the future.

But for the safety of Southeast Asia, and for the sake of the Laotian people -- who would not be well-ruled by either militant minority now engaged in the fighting -- this last big effort to seal that country from the cold war had to be made.

The same can be said about the half-hearted Cuban invasion mounted by the administration last April, which, we trust, is not symptomatic of the methods to be invoked in holding off the felonious Khrushchev.

In accordance with legislation passed at the last session of Congress, each Representative is authorized to deliver to the Post Office in bulk newsletters, speeches and other literature to be dropped in every letter box in his district.

It should be easier to plug two spots than it was to fill the wholesale lots that were open last year, but so far it hasn't worked that way.

Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.

And Walker looks stronger, seems to be throwing better than he did last year.

Rising costs have increased the difficulties of the elderly, and I would be the last to say they should not receive consideration.

The bill which passed the Assembly last May and is now pending in the Senate should be given careful scrutiny.

It reappears, in whole or part, whenever a new crisis exposes the reality: in Cuba last spring ( with which the Dominican events of last month should be paired ) ; ;

The publication last July of the party's Draft Program -- that blueprint for the `` transition to communism '' -- had led the uninitiated to suppose that this Twenty-second Congress would be a sort of apotheosis of the Khrushchev regime, a solemn consecration of ideas which had, in fact, been current over the last three or four years ( i.e., since the defeat of the `` anti-party group '' ) in all theoretical party journals.

But one cannot escape the suspicion that all this non-stop harping on the misdeeds of the long liquidated `` anti-party '' group would be totally unnecessary if there were not, inside the party, some secret but genuine opposition to Khrushchev on vital doctrinal grounds, on the actual methods to be employed in the `` transition to communism '' and, last but not least, on foreign policy.

Juniors competed last year at American Kennel Club and Canadian Kennel Club, recognized shows to be eligible to compete in this Class -- the Finals for the year.

But during the last several years boats were launched in areas where, a short time ago, the only water to be found was in wells and watering troughs for livestock.

In July 1520 Dürer made his fourth and last major journey, to renew the Imperial pension Maximilian had given him and to secure the patronage of the new emperor, Charles V, who was to be crowned at Aachen.

The king or queen of the United Kingdom is one of the last monarchs still to be crowned in the traditional Christian ceremonial, which in most other countries has been replaced by an inauguration or other declaration.

The last emperor to be crowned by the pope was Charles V ; all emperors after him were technically emperors-elect, but were universally referred to as Emperor.

Frederick was the last Emperor to be crowned in Rome ( His great-grandson Charles V was the last emperor to be crowned, but in Bologna ).

Like the first ruling Hohenstaufen, Conrad III, also the last one, Conrad IV, was never crowned emperor.

Charles V was the last to be a crowned Emperor ( elected 1519, crowned 1530 ); his successors were all Emperors by election (; ) only.

However, the witches conjure a procession of eight crowned kings, all similar in appearance to Banquo, and the last carrying a mirror that reflects even more kings.

* 1942 – Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka ( king ) of Buganda.

In accordance with this last policy, the marriage of the Countess Matilda of Tuscany with Guelph of Bavaria was promoted ; Prince Conrad of Italy was assisted in his rebellion against his father and crowned King of the Romans at Milan in 1093 ; and Henry IV's wife, the Empress ( Adelaide ), was encouraged in her charges of sexual coercion against her husband.

He encouraged the deposition of the last Merovingian king of the Franks, Childeric III, and it was with his sanction that Boniface crowned Pepin the Short as King of the Franks at Soissons in 752.

After the death of the last Saxon Emperor Henry II the first Salian regent Conrad II was elected by the majority of the Prince-electors and was crowned German king in Mainz on 8 September 1024.

Bidding farewell to the White Knight, Alice steps across the last brook and is automatically crowned a queen ( the crown materialising abruptly on her head ).

* March – Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor becomes the last to be crowned in Rome.

In March 1452 he crowned Frederick III as Holy Roman Emperor in St. Peter's, the last occasion of the coronation of an Emperor at Rome.

Louis had him crowned at Reims in 1179, in the Capetian tradition ( Philip would in fact be the last King so crowned ).

In 1924 he crowned his vast research with a comprehensive study of Savonarola ’ s life and times in which he presented the friar as the last best hope of the Catholic Church before the catastrophe of the Protestant Reformation.

Charles V was the last Holy Roman Emperor to be crowned by the Pope.

In 1530, he was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Clement VII in Bologna, the last Emperor to receive a papal coronation.