Upon his accession he reduced the silver purity of the denarius from 46. 5 % to 43 % — the actual silver weight dropping from 1. 41 grams to 1. 30 grams ; however, in 229 he revalued the denarius, increasing the silver purity and weight to 45 % and 1. 46 grams respectively.

Upon Ahmad Shah's death, the Durrani chieftains only reluctantly accepted Timur's accession.

Upon his accession he revalued the Roman currency dramatically.

Upon his accession, Domitian revalued the Roman currency by increasing the silver content of the denarius by 12 %.

Upon his accession to the throne, Hadrian withdrew from Trajan's conquests in Mesopotamia and Armenia, and even considered abandoning Dacia.

Upon his accession as Padishah ( Emperor ), he began to re-organise the administration upon mystically determined principles.

Upon his accession to power, Shaka was confronted by two potent threats, the Ndwandwes under Zwide, and the Qwabes.

Upon his accession at age 54, he was the youngest member of the Politburo.

Upon his accession as pope, Gregory immediately appealed to the Byzantine Emperor Leo III to moderate his position on the iconoclastic controversy.

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 his accession he converted from Roman Catholicism to the Lutheranism of the Swedish court.

Upon his accession as Count of Provence and Forcalquier in 1246, Charles rapidly found himself in difficulties.

Upon his accession Commodus devalued the Roman currency.

Upon his accession as king, Henry updated the arms of the kingdom to match an update in those of royal France – from a field of fleur-de-lys to just three.

Upon Frederick's accession in 1740 Emanuel became a member of the royal orchestra.

Upon the accession of the crown prince Frederick William IV in June 1840, Humboldt's favour at court increased.

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 his father's accession to the throne in 1872, Gustaf became crown prince of both Sweden and Norway.

Upon his accession to the throne, he assumed the Arms of Dominion of Sweden.

Upon his accession, Julianus immediately devalued the Roman currency, decreasing the silver purity of the denarius from 87 % to 81. 5 % — the actual silver weight dropping from 2. 75 grams to 2. 40 grams.

Upon accession to the crown and being proclaimed before the Cortes Generales, the king swears an oath to faithfully carry out his constitutional duties and to abide by the constitution and laws of the state.

Upon the accession to France's throne of Henry IV of Bourbon in 1589, his first cousin-once-removed Henry, Prince of Condé ( 1588 – 1646 ), was heir presumptive to the crown until 1601.

Upon the accession of Prince Faisal's elder brother, King Saud, to the throne in 1953, Prince Faisal was appointed Crown Prince.

Upon the accession of King Edward VII, the basic maple leaf was retained but updated with a portrait of Edward wearing the ermine Robes of State.

Upon arriving at Baltimore, Selkirk on December 22 wrote to John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State at Washington, inquiring about laws covering trade with `` Missouri and Illinois Territories ''.

Jo Walton wrote: " Any one of the ideas in A Fire Upon the Deep would have kept an ordinary writer going for years.

In 1983 political satirist / novelist Richard Condon (" The Manchurian Candidate ") wrote " A Trembling Upon Rome ," a novel of historical fiction about the life of Baldassare Cossa.

Upon his return at imperial behest to Vienna in 1780, he wrote one German singspiel Der Rauchfangkehrer or ( The Chimney Sweep ) which premiered in 1781.

Upon recently completing a journey to Crete and the establishment of new churches there, he wrote to instruct the church leaders ( i. e., Titus ).

Upon moving to become Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Munich in 1903, Kraepelin increasingly wrote on social policy issues.

Upon hearing of the death of Petrarch ( July 19, 1374 ), Boccaccio wrote a commemorative poem, including it in his collection of lyric poems, the Rime.

) Upon learning that his father-in-law, Col. Cooke, would remain in the U. S. Army during the coming war, Stuart wrote to his brother-in-law ( future Confederate Brig.

Upon his election, Zeno, the Venetian envoy, wrote the following description of him:

Upon his return to Frankfurt, events prevented his concentrating upon the book on aesthetics he wished to write: " Valid student claims and dubious actions ," he wrote to Marcuse, " are all so mixed up together that all productive work and even sensible thought are scarcely possibly any more.

Upon his return, Patton wrote a report that was revised for the Army and Navy Journal.

" Upon its release, The New Yorker wrote of the " hopeless miscasting of Mr. Tracy ".

Upon seeing the film, Mann wrote to Tracy: " Every writer ought to have the experience of having Spencer Tracy do his lines.

Rodgers wrote the music for musicals and revues including Once Upon a Mattress ( 1959 ), From A to Z ( 1960 ), Hot Spot ( 1963 ), The Mad Show ( 1966 ), Working ( 1978 ), and Phyllis Newman's one-woman show The Madwoman of Central Park West ( 1979 ).

Upon his return, Krusenstern wrote a detailed report, Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1803, 1804, 1805 und 1806 auf Befehl Seiner Kaiserliche Majestät Alexanders des Ersten auf den Schiffen Nadeschda und Newa ( Journey around the World in the Years 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806 at the Command of his Imperial Majesty Alexander I in the Ships Nadezhda and Neva ) published in Saint Petersburg in 1810.

At some point in 1961 he wrote his first all-original melody, loosely based on a Dion and the Belmonts version of " When You Wish Upon a Star ".

Upon his return to the United States, Kempner wrote to J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI, that Irving expressed many " anti-American and anti-Jewish statements ".

Upon visiting the establishment, Amos Kendall wrote to President Van Buren that he found Johnson " happy in the inglorious pursuit of tavern keeping – even giving his personal superintendence to the chicken and egg purchasing and water-melon selling department ".

Upon the release of the 2010 remake, Dana Stevens wrote, " The 1984 original ... may have seemed like a standard-issue inspirational sports picture at the time, but ( as with another box-office hit of the same year, The Terminator ) a generation of remove reveals what a well-crafted movie it actually was.

* Edmund Sears, 1800s Unitarian parish minister, author who wrote a number of theological works influential to his contemporary liberal Protestants, famous for penning the words to " It Came Upon the Midnight Clear ".

Upon its release, the feature received mixed reviews ; The Los Angeles Times wrote that Hawke's directorial debut " has brought Nicolette Burdette's play to the screen with fluid grace and a perfect blend of dreaminess and grit ", while The Boston Globe stated that his direction is not apparent in Chelsea Walls.

Upon return, Cronkite and Leiser wrote separate editorial reports based on that trip.

Upon her death film reviewer Charles Champlin wrote the following in the Los Angeles Times:

Upon his father's death later in 1880, he wrote to Parnell asking for adoption as the Nationalist Party ( from 1882 the Irish Parliamentary Party ) candidate in the by-election to fill the open seat, but was disappointed to learn that Parnell had already promised the next vacancy to his secretary Timothy Healy.