The defeat and death of Adolf of Nassau at the hands of Albert of Habsburg also worked to the disadvantage of the English, for all the efforts to revive the anti-French coalition came to nothing when Philip made an alliance with the new king of the Romans.

This, combined with their post-battle rewards, prompted them to raise Alaric " on a shield " and proclaim him king ; according to Jordanes ( a Gothic historian of varying importance, depending upon who is asked ), both the new king and his people decided " rather to seek new kingdoms by their own work, than to slumber in peaceful subjection to the rule of others.

Although Amalaric eventually became king in his own right, the political continuity of the Visigothic kingdom was broken ; " Amalaric's succession was the result of new power structures, not old ones ," as Heather describes it.

Ealdred perhaps accompanied Harold when the new king went to York and secured the support of the northern magnates shortly after Harold's consecration.

It entailed the recruitment of clerical scholars from Mercia, Wales and abroad to enhance the tenor of the court and of the episcopacy ; the establishment of a court school to educate his own children, the sons of his nobles, and intellectually promising boys of lesser birth ; an attempt to require literacy in those who held offices of authority ; a series of translations into the vernacular of Latin works the king deemed " most necessary for all men to know "; the compilation of a chronicle detailing the rise of Alfred's kingdom and house ; and the issuance of a law code that presented the West Saxons as a new people of Israel and their king as a just and divinely inspired law-giver.

In 1179 the bull Manifestis Probatum accepted the new king as vassal to the Pope exclusively.

In the reign of his grandfather, John I, Ceuta had been conquered from the king of Morocco, and now the new king wanted to expand the conquests.

Within a few days after Canovas del Castillo took power as Premier, the new king, proclaimed on 29 December 1874, arrived at Madrid, passing through Barcelona and Valencia and was acclaimed everywhere ( 1875 ).

Upon the death of the previous king, Tullus Hostilius, the Roman Senate appointed an interrex, who in turn called a session of the assembly of the people who elected the new king.

On the accession of Canute VI in 1182, an imperial ambassador arrived at Roskilde to the new king swear fealty to Frederick Barberossa, but Absalon resolutely withstood him.

With the coronation of Frederick I in 1701 as king ( in Königsberg ), Berlin became the new capital of the Kingdom of Prussia ( instead of Königsberg ); this was a successful attempt to centralize the capital in the very outspread Prussian Kingdom, and it was the first time the city began to grow.

Although chapters 4: 9-10 have said that there is " no king in Zion ", these chapters predict a new military ruler will emerge from Bethlehem, the traditional home of the Davidic monarchy, to restore the security of Israel.

The British Museum was the first of a new kind of museum – national, belonging to neither church nor king, freely open to the public and aiming to collect everything.

The accession of Charles I ( 1625 – 1649 ) brought about a complete change in the religious scene in that the new king used his supremacy over the established, state Church " to promote his own idiosyncratic style of sacramental Kingship " which was " a very weird aberration from the first hundred years of the early reformed Church of England ".

King Louis II died at Mohács, and in 1527, and the Hungarian parliament elected János Szapolyai as the new king of Hungary.

He also sent the Saxons back over the Weser and thus secured his borders — in the name of the new king Clotaire, of course.

The new king of Assyria Sargon II attacked and deposed Marduk-apla-iddina II in 710 BC.

Riots broke out in Germany, a new Antipope Gregory VIII was appointed by the German king, nobles loyal to Rome seceded from Henry.

What this meant, in effect, was that the king would have the bishop he wanted, though some prelate would invest the new bishop with the insignia of the office.

To usher in the new era, he embarked on ambitious economic, military and cultural programs with the intention of restoring the Empire to the splendour it had seen under the Emperor Augustus.

The country has, since July 2007, embarked on a currency re-denomination exercise, from Cedi (¢) to the new currency, the Ghana Cedi ( GH ¢).

Under the rule of Charles III and his ministers – Leopoldo de Gregorio, Marquis of Esquilache and José Moñino, Count of Floridablanca – Spain embarked on a program of enlightened despotism that brought Spain a new prosperity in the middle of the 18th century.

In 1542, the king embarked on a new campaign in France, but unlike in 1512, he only managed with great difficulty.

Brabham spun the new car out of the next championship race, the Monaco Grand Prix, but then embarked on a series of five straight victories.

In 2011, when new President Thein Sein's government came to power, Burma embarked on a major policy of reforms including anti-corruption, currency exchange rate, foreign investment laws and taxation.

The Noriega regime promptly annulled the election and embarked on a new round of repression.

of Fortran, they were unable to do this and embarked on the design of a “ new programming language ” based loosely on Algol labeled “ NPL ".

From 1850 to 1854 he filled the position of assistant in the college, and soon embarked upon original work, not in organic chemistry where the inspiration of his teacher, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, might have been expected to lead him, but on new compounds of selenium.

By 2001, Togo was embarked on an IMF Staff Monitored Program designed to restore macroeconomic stability and financial discipline but without any new IMF resources pending new legislative elections.

After 1277, and increasingly after 1283, Edward embarked on a full-scale project of English settlement of Wales, creating new towns like Flint, Aberystwyth, and Rhuddlan.

As more Champenois winemakers embarked on this new and completely different wine style, the rivalry with Burgundy mellowed and eventually waned.

The country has also embarked ( as of 2006 ) in the construction of a new East-West highway.

:" Some of the faction of the Sicarion ... not content with having saved themselves, again embarked on new revolutionary scheming, persuading those that received them there to assert their freedom, to esteem the Romans as no better than themselves and to look upon God as their only Lord and Master " ( quoted by Eisenman, p 180 ).

The Kennett government also embarked on a series of high-profile capital works projects, such as the restoration of Parliament House ( never completed ), construction of a new $ 250 million Melbourne Museum and IMAX theatre, and a new $ 130 million Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre ( still known colloquially as ' Jeff's Shed ').

Added to the above, the Humanities Institute and the Social Sciences Research Institute have embarked on multidisciplinary research programmes oriented towards relevant national issues, contributing to the national debate on a permanent basis from a rigorous new perspective.

The new play, now revised and updated, had its premiere in Chesterfield in January 2011 and then embarked on a UK tour.

Nikephoros embarked on a general reorganization of the Empire, creating new themes in the Balkans ( where he initiated the re-Hellenization by resettling Greeks from Anatolia ) and strengthening the frontiers.

Having secured his route, John embarked on a new expedition into Syria determined to reduce Antioch to direct imperial rule.

In that same year Statius embarked on a new epic, the Achilleid, giving popular recitations of his work ( Juv.

Fuelled by Alberta ’ s nation-leading economic growth, the university has embarked upon a plan to add capacity for more students and a host of new teaching and research activities.

In July 2010, Robert Plant embarked on a twelve-date summer tour in the United States with a new group called Band of Joy ( reprising the name of his very first band in the 1960s ).