Upon becoming king, Henry inherited a government severely weakened and degraded by the Wars of the Roses.

Upon becoming a student at Locke High School, Smith played on the basketball and baseball teams.

Upon becoming President of Egypt following the death in office of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Al-Sadat sought a diplomatic solution to the conflict, offering peace and recognition to Israel in exchange for the Israeli withdrawal from all the Egyptian, Palestinian, and Syrian territory occupied in 1967, and a resolution of the Palestinian refugee problem.

Upon graduation in 1982, Rampton worked as a newspaper reporter before becoming a peace activist.

Upon his death in 79, he was succeeded by his eldest son Titus, thus becoming the first Roman Emperor to be directly succeeded by his own son.

Upon becoming wealthy, Prinze took martial arts lessons from Robert Wall, a student of Bruce Lee, who appeared in Enter the Dragon and Return of the Dragon.

Upon the death of his father in 1828 and his becoming Viscount Melbourne, he moved to the House of Lords.

Upon becoming king in 1481, John II of Portugal set out on many long reforms.

Upon becoming Emperor, Marcian repudiated the embarrassing payments of tribute to Attila the Hun ( 434 – 453 ), which the latter had been accustomed to receiving from Theodosius II in order to refrain from attacks on the Eastern Empire.

Upon his return young Bolesławowic accepted the over-lordship of his uncle and gave up his hereditary claim to the crown of Poland in exchange for becoming first in line to succeed him.

Upon becoming Pope, one of Hormisdas ' first actions was to remove the last vestiges of the schism in Rome, receiving back into the Church those adherents of the Laurentian party who had not already been reconciled.

Upon graduating, Bashir studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, becoming a proficient violinist.

* Upon becoming ruler of Epirus, Phyrrhus allies himself with his brother-in-law, Demetrius Poliorcetes, son of Antigonus.

Upon becoming Augustus in 305, Constantius launched a successful punitive campaign against the Picts beyond the Antonine Wall.

Upon becoming emperor he made his brother Valens his co-emperor, giving him rule of the eastern provinces while Valentinian retained the west.

Upon their arrival in New Amsterdam, Huguenots were offered land directly across from Manhattan on Long Island for a permanent settlement and chose the harbor at the end of Newtown Creek, becoming the first Europeans to live in Brooklyn, NY, then known as Boschwick, today known as Bushwick.

Upon becoming secretary he set up a special advisory group of DoD officials, known as the Vietnam Task Force, and he met with them almost every morning he was in the Pentagon.

Upon becoming king, Euric defeated several other Visigothic kings and chieftains in a series of civil wars and soon became the first ruler of a truly unified Visigothic nation.

Upon becoming king, Pelasgus was responsible for inventing huts, sheep-skin coats, and a diet consisting of acorns.

Upon legally becoming an Indiana Fifth-Class City in 1935, its first mayor and four city council members were elected ( three district members, and one at-large ).

Upon becoming World Champion, Petrosian campaigned for the publication of a chess newspaper for the entire Soviet Union rather than just Moscow.

Upon Wach's death before the lectures were delivered, Eliade was appointed as his replacement, becoming, in 1964, the Sewell Avery Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions.

Upon its release, Marble Madness was commercially successful, becoming a profitable arcade game.

Upon matching the record of 26 kills held by America's top World War I ace, Eddie Rickenbacker, Foss was accorded the honor of becoming America's first " ace-of-aces " in World War II.

Upon the accession of Claudius as emperor in 41, Vespasian was appointed legate of Legio II Augusta, stationed in Germania, thanks to the influence of the Imperial freedman Narcissus.

Upon the advent of the second Jin emperor, Emperor Hui, various imperial princes tried to grab power in the devastating War of the Eight Princes.

Upon capturing it, he declared himself emperor of the Daxi Dynasty ( 大西王朝 ).

Upon the death of Valentinian in 375, Gratian's brother Valentinian II was declared emperor by his father's soldiers.

Upon the accession of Titus as emperor in 79, she returned to Rome, but was quickly dismissed amidst a number of popular measures of Titus to restore his reputation with the populace.

Upon the death of Augustus, the emperor Tiberius established an altar to Providentia Augusta in recognition of " the godhead manifested in his father's provisions for the Roman state.

Upon the death of emperor Julian during his campaign against the Sassanid Persians, Jovian was hastily declared emperor by his soldiers.

Upon the suicide of Emperor Nero in 68, the Guard prefect Gaius Nymphidius Sabinus attempted to have himself declared emperor, on the pretence that he was the illegitimate son of Caligula.

Upon death, the emperor is thereafter referred to by the era of his reign.

Upon this marriage Leo created the title of basileopatōr (" father of the emperor ") for his father-in-law.

Upon his brother's death on May 11, 912 Alexander succeeded as senior emperor alongside Leo's young son Constantine VII.

Upon learning that the Wei emperor Cao Rui dispatched Zhang He as reinforcement, Zhuge Liang promoted Ma Su over more experienced generals such as Wei Yan and Wu Yi ( 吳懿 ) to the commander of the vanguard in order to fend off Zhang He at Jieting.

Upon the death of their father on 27 February 1712, he and his brother Azim-ush-Shan both declared themselves emperor and conducted a struggle for the succession.

Upon the death of Langdarma, the last emperor of a unified Tibetan empire, there was a controversy over whether he would be succeeded by his alleged heir Yumtän ( Yum brtan ), or by another son ( or nephew ) Ösung (’ Od-srung ) ( either 843 – 905 or 847 – 885 ).

Upon hearing this, Jiang Wei advised Liu Shan to execute Huang Hao, but the emperor denied the request, saying that the eunuch was but a servant who ran errands.

Upon his father's death, he inherited the titles of his grandfather and father and was awarded the title of Arif Jung by the emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar.

General Xue drew aside the curtains to reveal the ocean and confessed that they had already crossed the sea: Upon discovering this, the emperor decided to carry on and later completed the successful campaign.

Upon his return, Zhang Qian informed the Chinese emperor Han Wudi of the level of sophistication of the urban civilizations of Ferghana, Bactria and Parthia, who became interested in developing commercial relationship them:

Upon arrival to Russia he presented Peter I plans for the fortification of Kronstadt fortress, with which pleasantly surprised the Russian emperor.

Upon annexation of the province, Bostra gained the appellative “ Traiane ” when Trajan declared it the capital while Hadrian performed the same ceremonial act for Petra when he became emperor.

Upon his victory over the leader of the remnants of Yuan Shu's forces, Liu Xun, as well as Huang Zu and Liu Biao at Sha County, Sun Ce submitted a memorial to the emperor, naming Lü Fan as designated Grand Administrator of Guiyang ( an area within Liu Biao's jurisdiction ) among other things.

Upon the extinction of the Ascanian dynasty, the town was one of the favourite places of the Luxembourg emperor Charles IV, who had purchased the Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1373 and had Tangermünde Castle rebuilt as a Kaiserpfalz, including a chapter of Canons Regular.