When he turned the telescope toward some of the nebulous patches recorded by Ptolemy, he found they were not a single star, but groupings of many stars.

When he returned to the west in 205 BC, Antiochus found that with the death of Ptolemy IV, the situation now looked propitious for another western campaign.

When the Seleucid ruler captures the important eastern Mediterranean sea ports of Seleucia-in-Pieria, Tyre, and Ptolemais, Ptolemy IV's advisor, Sosibius, and the Ptolemaic court enter into delaying negotiations with the enemy, while the Ptolemaic army is reorganized and intensively drilled.

When Ptolemy went to Rome with Cleopatra, Cleopatra VI Tryphaena seized the crown but died shortly afterwards in suspicious circumstances.

When Caesar arrived in Egypt two days later, Ptolemy presented him with Pompey's severed head ; Caesar was enraged.

When Octavian conquered Egypt, he spared Alexander, but took him, his sister and his brother Ptolemy Philadelphus from Egypt to Rome.

When Juba died in 23 AD, his Roman-educated son Ptolemy of Mauretania succeeded him on the throne.

When Antigonus Gonatas, the son of the latter, besieged and captured Athens ( 261 ), Philochorus was put to death for having supported Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt, who had encouraged the Athenians in their resistance to Macedonia.

When Alexander died in 323 BC, Ptolemy is said to have instigated the resettlement of the empire made at Babylon.

When Antigonus One-Eye, master of Asia in 315, showed dangerous ambitions, Ptolemy joined the coalition against him, and on the outbreak of war, evacuated Syria.

When Ptolemy returned to Egypt, Seleucus recovered Northern Syria and the nearer provinces of Iran.

When the guardians of King Ptolemy VI of Egypt demanded the return of Coele-Syria in 170 BC, Antiochus launched a preemptive strike against Egypt, conquering all but Alexandria and capturing King Ptolemy.

When Ptolemy XI died without a male heir, the only available male descendents of the Ptolemy I lineage were the illegitimate sons of Ptolemy IX by an unknown Greek concubine.

When he became king, Ptolemy succeeded without any political opposition.

When the Gauls defeated Ptolemy Ceraunus and the Macedonian throne became vacant, Pyrrhus was occupied in his campaigns overseas.

When Philometor died on campaign in 145 BC, Cleopatra II had her son proclaimed Ptolemy VII, but Physcon returned, proposed joint rule and marriage to Cleopatra II, his sister.

When in Nonnus ' fourth-or fifth-century CE Dionysiaca the vast monster Typhon boasts that he will bathe in " starry Eridanus ", it is hyperbole, for the constellation Eridanus, represented as a river, was one of the 48 constellations listed by the second-century astronomer Ptolemy ; it remains one of the 88 modern constellations.

When Antigonus rose in rebellion against Perdiccas and Eumenes, Craterus joined him, alongside Antipater and Ptolemy.

When their father died, he left Ptolemy and Cleopatra as joint rulers of Egypt, but Ptolemy soon dethroned Cleopatra and forced her to flee Alexandria.

When he died, Ptolemy IX regained the throne.

When Louis XIV learnt of the disaster he recalled Marshal Vendôme from northern Italy to take command in Flanders ; but it would be weeks before the command changed hands.

When the French forces were recalled in 1706, he accompanied the duke to Paris, where he was favourably received by Louis XIV.

When Louis XIV succeeded his father he was only four years old ; he would become the most powerful king in French history.

When Philippe, grandson of Louis XIV, became King of Spain as Philip V, he gave up his French titles.

When Bossuet was chosen to be the tutor of the Dauphin, oldest child of Louis XIV, he wrote several works for the edification of his pupil, one of which was Politics Derived from the Words of Holy Scripture, a discourse on the principles of royal absolutism.

When Philippe was born, his uncle Louis XIV was at the height of his power.

When the Society of Jesus was suppressed by Pope Clement XIV in 1773, the Bollandists moved from Antwerp to Brussels, where they continued their work in the monastery of the Coudenberg until 1788, when the Bollandist Society was suppressed by the Austrian government of the Low Countries.

When the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell formed an alliance with France's Louis XIV, the exiled Charles II of England allied himself with Philip IV of Spain.

When Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685, the Church began a campaign to send the greatest orators in the country into the regions of France with the highest concentration of Huguenots to persuade them of the errors of Protestantism.

When Louise XIV ordered the court to be moved to Montauban ( some 60km south of Cahors over difficult roads ), during the presidency of Jacques Lefranc in the early years of the 18th century, the family built a town house in Montauban as their local residence.

When the Turks besieged Vienna in the spring of 1683 Louis XIV did nothing to help the defenders.

When the Elector died on 3 June 1688 Louis XIV pressed for the pro-French Bishop of Strasbourg, William Egon of Fürstenberg, to succeed him.

When King Louis XIV of France wanted to instruct his six-year-old son, he incorporated the series of hydraulic statues representing 38 chosen fables in the labyrinth of Versailles in the 1670s.

When the XXIst legion was lost, in 92, XIV Gemina was sent in Pannonia to substitute it, camping in Vindobona ( Vienna ).

When Tallinn capitulated to Eric XIV of Sweden in 1561, the king decided not to change the status quo in the relations between Toompea and Lower Town.

When it was first published in 1830 by Lars Johan Hierta, it was a tabloid that reported news and also criticised the new Swedish king Charles XIV John.

When Eric became King Eric XIV, the imbalance of power his father had created became destructive.

When Louis XIV ( 1643 – 1715 ) was in power, the Marquis of Louvois, War Secretary between 1677 and 1691, further expanded the power of the provincial intendants.

When little more than twenty-one years of age he was, through his father's influence with Louis XIV, appointed one of the three advocates-general to the parlement of Paris ; and the eloquence and learning which he displayed in his first speech gained him a very high reputation.

When the Legion XIV first settled at Letocetum they would have used existing trackways.

When Dunkirk surrendered to Turenne on 14 June, Cardinal Mazarin honoured the terms of the treaty with Cromwell and handed the port over to the Commonwealth, despite the protests of Louis XIV.

When the palace of Versailles was built, Louis XIV of France also erected a menagerie within the palace ’ s park.

When Rosecrans assumed command, the army and the XIV Corps were the same unit, divided into three wings commanded by Alexander McCook ( Right Wing ), George H. Thomas ( Center ), and Thomas L. Crittenden ( Left ).

When James was deposed and fled to France, King Louis XIV of France ( already at war with William of Orange ) supported him with troops and money to help him regain his crown, though he stipulated that the French troops he sent to Ireland would have to be made good by the sending of the same number of Irish recruits to France.