When Douglass was about twelve years old, Hugh Auld's wife Sophia started teaching him the alphabet despite the fact that it was against the law to teach slaves to read.

When Hugh Auld discovered her activity, he strongly disapproved, saying that if a slave learned to read, he would become dissatisfied with his condition and desire freedom.

When Conradin was executed in Sicily in 1268, there was no other Hohenstaufen heir to succeed him, and Hugh III inherited the Kingdom of Jerusalem as well in 1269.

When the Normans had control of Maine, William the Conqueror was able to invade England successfully ; however in 1069 the citizens revolted and expelled the Normans, which led to Hugh being proclaimed count of Maine.

When Hugh returned to Scotland he found out that his contract had some small print letters that his failing sight did not allow him to see.

On one memorable occasion in the fourth series, Smith was permitted to sing Nobody Loves a Fairy When She's Forty, much to Kenneth Williams's disgust and Hugh Paddick's anger (" He must have bribed the producer!

When Ronald Reagan's daughter Patti Davis posed naked for Playboy, donating half her $ 100, 000 fee to PETA, the group issued a press release saying Davis " turns the other cheek in an eye-opening spread ," then announced she had been photographed naked with Hugh Hefner's dog for an anti-fur ad.

When Rudolph died in 936, Hugh the Great organised the return of Louis d ' Outremer, son of Charles the Simple, from his exile at the court of Athelstan of England.

When Louis the Headstrong, his father, died without a son to succeed him, it was the first time since Hugh Capet that the succession from father to son the kings of France was interrupted.

When her husband died in 929, Marozia negotiated a marriage with his half-brother Hugh of Arles, who had been elected King of Italy.

When aired in its original, 2-hour format, there was a black screen in between the intro tag and the opening title, which read " In memory of Hugh O ' Connor: 1962-1995 ".

When the ' Eurosceptic ' Party Chairman, Brian Mawhinney, ( allegedly ) briefed against him, on one occasion, Clarke memorably declared: " Tell your kids to get their scooters off my lawn " – an allusion to Harold Wilson's rebuke of trade union leader Hugh Scanlon in the late 1960s.

* Kennedy, Hugh, When Baghdad Ruled The Muslim World, Cambridge, Da Capo Press, 2004

When the post office was established, it took the name Calhoun, after Hugh Calhoun, the original settler

When Louis fell into the hands of the Normans in 945, he was handed over to Hugh in exchange for their young duke Richard .. Hugh released Louis IV in 946 on condition that he should surrender the fortress of Laon.

When Hugh Peters visited John Lilburne in the Tower on 25 May 1649, Lilburne told him that he would rather have had seven years under the late king's rule than one under the present regime, and that in his opinion if the current regime remained as tyrannical as it was, then people would be prepared to fight for " Prince Charles ".

When Hugh Walpole was published in 1952, it was praised as " among the half dozen best biographies of the century ".

When Dundee went north, he was pursued by a governmental force of about 3, 500, led by General Hugh Mackay of Scourie, a Highlander who had been in Dutch service with the Scots Brigade for many years.

When Lothair II died in 869 he left no legitimate children, but one illegitimate son, Hugh.

When Spinozza became unavailable due to other session commitments, Hugh McCracken was enlisted to take his place.

When Hugh de Lacy died in Ireland in 1186, his oldest son, Walter, was still under age, so the castle remained in custodianship and the barony was taken into royal care.

When Hugh Trenchard was two, the family moved to Courtlands, a farm-cum-manor house less than three miles ( 4 km ) from the centre of Taunton.

When the Kent government collapsed, and Hugh Hoyles was invited to form a minority Conservative government in 1861, Shea was offered a cabinet post but declined.

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When his uncle Tughril died he was succeeded by Suleiman, Alp Arslan's brother.

When Darnley died in 1927 his widow presented the urn to the Marylebone Cricket Club and that was the key event in establishing the urn as the physical embodiment of the legendary ashes.

When the body died, parts of its soul known as ka ( body double ) and the ba ( personality ) would go to the Kingdom of the Dead.

When Mannerism matured after 1520 ( The year Raphael died ), all the representational problems had been solved.

When Faustina died in 141, Antoninus was greatly distressed.

When Arminius died before he could satisfy Holland's State General's request for a 14-page paper outlining his views, the Remonstrants replied in his stead crafting the Five articles of Remonstrance.

When the news spread that Agrippina had died, the Roman army, senate and various people sent him letters of congratulations that he had been saved from his mother's plots.

When King Æthelwulf died in 858, Wessex was ruled by three of Alfred's brothers in succession, Æthelbald, Æthelbert and Æthelred.

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 Valdemar died in 1182, his son succeeded him as Canute VI, and Absalon served as Canute VI's counsellor.

When Kerbogha was defeated, Adhemar organized a council in an attempt to settle the leadership disputes, but he died on 1 August 1098, probably of typhus.

When his eldest daughters died of consumption in 1825, Maria on 6 May and Elizabeth on 15 June, Charlotte and Emily were immediately brought home.

When the apostles died, they were replaced by their writings.

When Diabelli died in 1858, Spina continued to run the firm, and published much music by Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss.

When dictator Franco died in 1975, his successor Juan Carlos I played his part as the living symbol of the transition of Spain to a democratic constitutional monarchy.

When her husband Otto I died in 973 he was succeeded by their son Otto II, and Adelaide for some years exercised a powerful influence at court.

When Theophano died in 991, Adelaide was restored to the regency of her grandson.

When the peace treaty was signed in February, 1828, Abbas Mirza sought to restore order in the province of Khorasan, which was nominally under Persian supremacy, and while engaged in the task died at Mashhad in 1833.

When Afzal Khan died at the end of the year, Azam Khan became the new ruler, with Abdur Rahman as his governor in the northern province.

When Artemis and Apollo heard this impiety, Apollo killed her sons as they practiced athletics, and Artemis shot her daughters, who died instantly without a sound.

When he was about 18 years old, his parents died and left him with the care of his unmarried sister.

When he died in August 1945 he left the remainder to the National Trust.

When Stalin died of a stroke on 5 March 1953, Olga Ivinskaya was imprisoned in the Gulag, and Pasternak was in Moscow.