When Magnus Maximus usurped the supreme power in Gaul, and was meditating a descent upon Italy, Valentinian sent Ambrose to dissuade him from the undertaking, and the embassy was successful.

When Cao Pi, King of Wei, usurped the throne from Emperor Xian, the Han Dynasty ceased to exist.

When his father was murdered by his finance minister Heliodorus in 175 BC., his uncle Antiochus IV Epiphanes killed the usurper, but usurped the throne himself.

When the emirs died, they first became stadtholders for the emirs ' descendants, and then usurped the throne of their masters.

When he grew up, Ericthonius drove out Amphictyon, who had usurped the throne from Cranaus twelve years earlier, and became king of Athens.

When Sima Zhao's son Sima Yan usurped the throne of Cao Wei in 265 and established the Jin Dynasty, Cao Fang and other Cao Wei princes were demoted to the status of dukes.

When Ozma rescues them from the underground kingdoms, he recounts his story of becoming the ruler of Oz, and Ozma explains that before the witches usurped her grandfather's throne ( an occurrence happening long before the wizard arrived ), the ruler of Oz had always been known as Oz or ( if female ) Ozma.

When Lon Nol usurped power from Sihanouk in 1970 during a bloodless coup, Hun Nal gave up his education to join the Khmer Rouge.

When she died, the throne should have gone to their son, Tar-Alcarin, but Herucalmo usurped the throne and ruled under the name Tar-Anducal (" Light of the West ") from S. A. 2637 to 2657.

When Dong Zhuo usurped state power and caused the government to sink into corruption, Lu Su sold his land and used the money to help his relatives and townsfolk, while spending his time befriending and acquainting himself with people.

When his close friend Fred is murdered and her body usurped by the Old One known as Illyria, Lorne becomes filled with despair which he keeps secret from the rest of his equally heartbroken friends.

When Gaunt's son Henry of Bolingbroke usurped the crown in 1399 and became Henry IV, the vast Lancaster inheritance, including the Lordship of Bowland, was merged with the crown as the Duchy of Lancaster.

When Samoothiri of Calicut became a major force on the western coast, they captured a large portion of Valluvanad and the right of Mamankam was usurped by Samoothiri, when he captured the town in the latter half of the 13th century by Thirunavaya Wars.

When she died in 2637 of the Second Age at the age of 360 years, the Kingship should have gone to her son, Tar-Alcarin, but Herucalmo usurped the throne and ruled for twenty years as King Tar-Anducal.

When it was introduced in fall 2008, the Versa's base price of US $ 9, 990 made it the least expensive new car available in the United States, but a price cut to the Hyundai Accent usurped that distinction by $ 20.

When the British usurped the vast holdings of Raja Dayal Singh Gurjar in 1813, a local uprising of the Gurjars took place, but the British suppressed it with a heavy hand.

When the warlord Dong Zhuo usurped power in 189, placing on the throne the puppet rulerEmperor Xian, Wang Can was merely thirteen years of age.

When she sneaks to meet him, he says his mother usurped his rightful lands and pleads for her to help.

When Santa Anna usurped power and appointed himself a dictator, suspending the Mexican Constitution of 1824, the people of Texas rebelled, wanting their civil liberties.

When Wang Mang usurped the Han throne and established the Xin Dynasty in 8, the march was abolished.

When Wang Mang usurped the Han throne, he was demoted to duke, and the following year demoted to a commoner.

When the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed on 14 April 1931, he fled and left Spain, but did not abdicate the throne.

When his brother and his infant son died, Andrew ascended the throne and started to grant royal domains to his partisans.

When the Emperor Henry I died on 11 July 1216, Andrew was planning to acquire the imperial throne, but the barons of the Latin Empire proclaimed his father-in-law, Peter of Courtenay their emperor.

When in December 1978 there was media speculation that Prince Charles might marry a Roman Catholic, Powell defended the provision that excludes Roman Catholics from ascending the throne, claiming his objection was not rooted in religious bigotry but in political considerations.

When Abdülhamid came to the throne the army asked for gratuities and the sultan claimed that: " There are, no longer, gratuities in our treasury, all of our soldier sons should learn ".

When David ascended the throne of Judah, Abiathar was appointed High Priest ( 1 Chr.

When Macbeth kills the king and takes the throne, Banquo — the only one aware of this encounter with the witches — reserves judgment for God.

When Chilperic II died the following year ( 720 ), Charles appointed as his successor the son of Dagobert III, Theuderic IV, who was still a minor, and who occupied the throne from 720 to 737.

When, after the death of Emperor Otto I in 973, a struggle for the supremacy in Germany began, both Dobrawa's husband and brother Boleslav II the Pious, Duke of Bohemia, supported the same candidate for the German throne, Duke Henry II of Bavaria.

When his father died in 1272, Edward felt in a safe enough position to wait until 1274 before returning home to claim the throne.

When the Protestant Henry IV inherited the French throne in 1589, Elizabeth sent him military support.

When asked to accede to the throne to fill the power vacuum that subsequently developed, Suiko became the first of what would be several examples in Japanese history where a woman was chosen to accede to the throne to avert a power struggle.

When Buretsu died, Kanamura recommended Keitai at his age of 58 as a possible heir to the Yamato throne.

When Theodosius ascended to the imperial throne in 380, he began on a campaign to bring the Eastern Church back to Nicene Christianity.

When the King Frederick Augustus I died ( 1827 ) and Anton succeeded him as King, Frederick Augustus became second in line to the throne, preceded only by his father Maximilian.

When James inherited the English throne in 1685, he had much support in the ' Loyal Parliament ', which was composed mostly of Tories.

When William of Orange, ruler of the Dutch Republic, occupied the British throne with his wife Mary in what has become known as the Glorious Revolution, gin became vastly more popular, particularly in crude, inferior forms, where it was more likely to be flavoured with turpentine as an alternative to juniper.

When Prussia tried to put a Hohenzollern candidate, Prince Leopold, on the Spanish throne, the French angrily protested.

When Alexander II came to the throne in 1855, desire for reform was widespread.

When Louis died in 1382, the Hungarian throne was inherited by his eldest surviving daughter Mary, under the regency of their Bosnian mother.

When Karađorđe was killed by Miloš Obrenović, a feud between the two houses of Karađorđević and the Obrenović developed which lasted until the Obrenović King Alexander I was killed in 1903 with his family and the Karadjordjević returned to the throne.

When Asterion died, his throne was claimed by Minos who banished Sarpedon and, according to some sources, Rhadamanthys too.

When Mary ascended the throne, she was proclaimed under the same official style as Henry VIII and Edward VI: " Mary, by the Grace of God, Queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and of the Church of England and of Ireland on Earth Supreme Head ".

When King Frederick III of Sicily attained his throne after the death of Pedro III, Boniface tried to dissuade him from accepting the throne of Sicily.