Beyond his bloody coup d ' etat, and his tolerance for the golden calves at Dan and Bethel ( which drew the disdain of the author of Kings ), little is known of the events of Jehu's reign.

King Philip I, named by his Kievan mother with a typically Eastern European name, was no more fortunate than his predecessor although the kingdom did enjoy a modest recovery during his extraordinarily long reign ( 1060 – 1108 ).

When the emperor Macrinus came to power, he suppressed the threat against his reign by the family of his assassinated predecessor, Caracalla, by exiling them — Julia Maesa, her two daughters, and her eldest grandson Elagabalus — to their estate at Emesa in Syria.

Tarquin commenced his reign by refusing burial to his predecessor Servius, thereby earning for himself the name " Superbus " (' proud '), and then putting to death a number of the leading senators, whom he suspected of remaining loyal to Servius.

Regardless of the brevity of his reign, he was prepared to chart a very different course from that of his predecessor.

Innocent's immediate predecessor was Pope Celestine IV, elected 25 October 1241, whose reign lasted a mere fifteen days.

The sons of Ancus Marcius, Tarquinius ' predecessor as king of Rome, remained angry at Tarquinius during his reign.

Despite this, Elizabeth would not name Mary her heir ; as she had experienced during the reign of her predecessor Mary I, the opposition could flock around the heir if they were disheartened with Elizabeth's rule.

His pontificate was chiefly distinguished by his efforts to repair the damage done by the Saracens during the reign of his predecessor to various churches of the city, especially those of St Peter and St Paul.

The beginning of George VI's reign was taken up by questions surrounding his predecessor and brother, whose titles, style and position were uncertain.

During his reign, Sabinian was seen as a counterfoil to his predecessor Pope Gregory I.

Cerdo, another Gnostic and predecessor of Marcion, also lived at Rome in the reign of Hyginus ; by confessing his errors and recanting he succeeded in obtaining readmission into the bosom of the Church, but eventually he fell back into the heresies and was expelled from the Church.

John of Fordun and others supposed that Indulf had been king of Strathclyde in the reign of his predecessor, based on their understanding that the kingdom of Strathclyde had become a part of the kingdom of Alba in the 940s.

The Emperor favoured his own daughters over those of his elder brother and predecessor, Joseph I, in the succession, ignoring the decree he had signed during the reign of his father, Leopold I. Charles sought the other European powers ' approval.

The Emperor favoured his own daughters over those of his elder brother and predecessor, Joseph I, in the succession, ignoring the Mutual Pact of Succession he had signed during the reign of his father, Leopold I. Charles sought the other European powers ' approval.

Till middle life he was also lieutenant-general in Aragon for his brother and predecessor Alfonso V, whose reign was mainly spent in Italy.

The Dynastic Chronicle may have been composed during his reign as it records the succession of kings from the antediluvian era until that of his immediate predecessor, Nabû-šuma-iškun.

President Kibaki, the economist whose term as Finance minister in the 1970s is widely celebrated as outstanding, has done much to repair the damage to the country ’ s economy during the 24-year reign of his predecessor, President Moi.

A seal of a strategos of Ras has been dated to Tzimiskes ' reign, making it possible for Tzimiskes ' predecessor Nikephoros II Phokas to have enjoyed recognition in Rascia.

Because his predecessor had failed to meet all of the specific costs of the civil government in accordance with the previous arrangement, it was decided that in return for George III surrendering the hereditary revenues from the Crown Estate to Parliament for the duration of his reign, Parliament would assume responsibility for most of the costs of the civil government.

Constantine IV had done away with the requirement during the reign of Pope Benedict II, John V's predecessor, providing that " the one elected to the Apostolic See may be ordained pontiff from that moment and without delay ".

During his reign, the renaissance of letters begun by his predecessor Basil I continued, but the Empire also saw several military defeats in the Balkans against Bulgaria and against the Arabs in Sicily and the Aegean.

The beginning of Frederick III's reign was also plagued by intermittent wars with the Kingdom of Naples ( see War of the Sicilian Vespers ) and also by the Black Death, to which his elder brother and predecessor had succumbed.

While he was traditionally seen as one of Akhenaten's immediate successors, today some Egyptologists such as Aidan Dodson consider him to be the immediate predecessor of Neferneferuaten and a junior co-regent of Akhenaten who did not have an independent reign.

The reign of Vasil Mzhavanadze, Shevardnadze's predecessor in office, had been characterised by weak leadership, nepotism, despotism, bribery and corruption at the upper echelons of power.

These are during 853 – 841 BC when Jerusalem was invaded by Philistines and Arabs during the reign of Jehoram ( recorded in 2 Kings 8: 20-22 and 2 Chronicles 21: 8-20 in the Christian Old Testament ) and 605 – 586 BC when Jerusalem was attacked by King Nebuchadnezzer of Babylon, which led to the Babylonian exile of Israel ( recorded in Psalm 137 ).

Jehoram began to reign in Israel in the 18th year of Jehoshaphat of Judah, and reigned 12 years.

Edwin Thiele placed a coregency of Jehoram with his father Jehoshaphat, starting in 853 / 852 BC, with the beginning of his sole reign occurring in 848 / 847 and his death in 841 / 840 BC.

For Jehoram, the Scriptural data allow the narrowing of the first year of his sole reign to some time between Nisan 1 of 848 BC and the day before Tishri 1 of the same BC year.

Thiele showed that for the reign of Jehoram, Judah adopted Israel's non-accession method of counting the years of reign, meaning that the first partial year of the king's reign was counted as his first full year, in contrast to the " accession " method previously in use whereby the first partial year was counted as year " zero ," and " year one " was assigned to the first full year of reign.

During his approximately 37-year reign ( c. 842 BC-805 BC ), King Hazael led the Arameans in battle against the forces of King Jehoram of Israel and King Ahaziah of Judah.

The town of Libnah revolted during the reign of King Jehoram of Judah, according to II Chronicles ( 21: 10 ), because he " had abandoned God of his fathers.

Like his volume on Wycliffe, the work was accompanied by the publication of a selected group of documents, in this case illustrative of the history of Queen Anne's reign down to 1707.

There was a tradition that the Delphic oracle was consulted as early as the period of the kings of Rome during the reign of Tarquinius Superbus.

In England it was first imposed by statute in the reign of Elizabeth I of England ( 1558 ) and its form has more than once been altered since.

His reign was headquartered in Magadha ( present-day Bihar ).

His reign was the most peaceful in the entire history of the Principate ; while there were several military disturbances throughout the Empire in his time, in Mauretania, Iudaea, and amongst the Brigantes in Britannia, none of them are considered serious.

Nevertheless, Antoninus was virtually unique among emperors in that he dealt with these crises without leaving Italy once during his reign, but instead dealt with provincial matters of war and peace through their governors or through imperial letters to the cities such as Ephesus ( of which some were publicly displayed ).

The older son, Gesalec, was chosen king but his reign was disastrous.

During Ahab's reign, Moab, which had been conquered by his father, remained tributary ; while Judah, with whose king, Jehoshaphat, he was allied by marriage, was probably his vassal.

Caracalla left for the frontier, where for the rest of his short reign he was known for his unpredictable and arbitrary operations launched by surprise after a pretext of peace negotiations.

This step was the beginning of the troubles which clouded the closing years of Albert's reign.

He was responsible for the destruction of the musical clock organ that Elizabeth I of England sent to the court during the reign of his father.

The reign of Ahmed III, which had lasted for twenty-seven years, although marked by the disasters of the Great Turkish War, was not unsuccessful.

It was in this reign that an important change in the government of the Danubian Principalities was introduced: previously, the Porte had appointed Hospodars, usually native Moldavian and Wallachian boyars, to administer those provinces ; after the Russian campaign of 1711, during which Peter the Great found an ally in Moldavia Prince Dimitrie Cantemir, the Porte began overtly deputizing Phanariote Greeks in that region, and extended the system to Wallachia after Prince Stefan Cantacuzino established links with Eugene of Savoy.

Agrippina was the first Roman matron to have more than one child from her family to reign on the Roman throne.

In the first years of Claudius ’ reign, Claudius was married to the infamous Empress Valeria Messalina.

During the remainder of Nero's reign, Agrippina's grave was not covered or enclosed.

One was a praetor under Emperor Tiberius ’ reign and the other, his son, was a general.

The earliest " year names ", whereby each year of a king's reign was named after a significant event performed by that king, date from the reign of Sargon the Great.

The period of Alboin's reign as king in Pannonia following the death of his father, Audoin, was one of confrontation and conflict between the Lombards and their main neighbors, the Gepids.