When voicing was lost in all dialects except the Wu group, this distinction became phonemic, and the system of initials and tones was rearranged differently in each of the major groups.

When, despite the treaty, the Xiongnu continued to raid Han borders, Emperor Wu of Han ( r. 141 – 87 BCE ) launched several military campaigns against them.

When this plot failed in 133 BCE, Emperor Wu launched a series of massive military invasions into Xiongnu territory.

When the retainers gradually deserted Dou Wu, he was forced to commit suicide.

When King Wu became king, three gods appeared to him in a dream, telling him that they had drowned Shang Zhou in wine and that King Wu was to attack him.

When Emperor Wu of Liu Song subdued Guanzhong he obtained the south-pointing carriage of Yao Xing, but it was only the shell with no machinery inside.

When asked about their origins by the Wei embassy, the people of Wa claimed to be descendants of the Grand Count Tàibó of Wu, a historic figure of the Wu Kingdom around the Yangtze Delta of China.

When another civil war broke out in 1917, Peng's regiment split from the rest of its army and joined the forces of Tang Shengzhi, who was aligned with Tan Yankai and Sun Yat-sen, against those aligned with the northern warlord Wu Peifu.

When Sun Quan declared himself the first emperor of the state of Eastern Wu in 222, he bestowed upon Sun Ce the posthumous title of Prince Huan of Changsha ( 長沙桓王 ).

When Guanqiu Jian and Wen Qin rebelled against Wei, Wu promised to help the two in Shouchun.

When Zhuge Dan launched a massive full-scale rebellion, the Wu forces suffered a great defeat as they lent a great quantity of manpower to Zhuge Dan's cause.

When Cao Pi's successor Cao Rui took over in 227, he sent Xu to defend Xiangyang against the Eastern Wu invasion.

When the Wu dynasty ended, the original words were recovered because people eventually forgot how to write the characters themselves.

When Prince Wu sought permission to build a highway directly from his capital Suiyang to Chang ' an, the same officials, fearing that the highway might be used for military purposes if Liang rebelled, opposed it.

When Emperor Wu died, Prince He was supposed to be in a period of mourning, but he continued to hunt incessantly.

When Prince He's uncle Emperor Zhao died in 74 BC without a son, the regent Huo Guang rejected Liu Xu ( 劉胥 ), the Prince of Guangling and the only surviving son of Emperor Wu, from succession, because Emperor Wu himself did not favor Prince Xu, who was known for being compulsive in his actions.

When Emperor Wu ascended the throne in 265, he honored his mother Wang Yuanji as empress dowager.

* September 27, 2006 Epoch Times Editorial on Harry Wu ( quotation referring to Jan Karski and Felix Frankfurter: When Jan Karski disclosed the message of Nazis ' slaughtering of the Jews, the U. S. Supreme Court judge Felix Frankfurter's response to a Polish diplomat was, " Mr. Ambassador, I did not say this young man is lying.

When Emperor Jing became emperor in 157 BC, the rich Principality of Wu was especially domineering.

When King Wu of Zhou established the Zhou Dynasty, he gave the Land of Chen to Shun's descendants to establish their own state.

When I go to battle in the West against Shu, I'll entrust you with defense against Wu in the East.

When hostilities finally broke out in July 1920, Wu Peifu took the prominent role as commander-in-chief of the anti-Anhui army.

When war broke out afresh with Thebes the king twice invaded Boeotia ( in 378 BC and 377 BC ), although he spent the next five years largely out of action due to an unspecified but apparently grave illness.

When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Western journalists adopted the term blitzkrieg to describe this form of armoured warfare.

When Estonia was invaded and occupied by the Soviet Union in World War II, the status of the Estonian language changed to the first of two official languages ( Russian being the other one ).

When the French king Charles VIII invaded northern Italy, Piero II chose to resist his army.

When the Nazis invaded, the family fled, Singer leaving on a children's transport train with other Jewish children.

When the Franks invaded the Roman territories ( from the end of the 4th century and well into the 5th century ) they brought their language with them and Celtic and Latin were replaced by Old Dutch.

When Claudius successfully invaded in 43, it was in aid of another fugitive British ruler, this time Verica of the Atrebates.

When Belgium faced a food crisis after being invaded by Germany, Hoover undertook an unprecedented relief effort with the Commission for Relief in Belgium ( CRB ).

When they arrived, they were confronted with Chinese assertions that the Japanese had invaded unlawfully, while the Japanese claimed they were acting to keep peace in the area.

When Julius Caesar invaded Gaul, there were nine different Gallic tribes in Normandy.

When Denmark refused, Austria and Prussia invaded, commencing the Second war of Schleswig and Denmark was forced to cede both duchies.

When Rudolph III, King of Burgundy died on 2 February 1032, Conrad II successfully claimed also this Kingship on the basis of an inheritance Emperor Henry II had extorted from the former in 1006, after having invaded Burgundy to enforce his claim after Rudolph attempted to renounce it in 1016.

When King Aistulf of the Lombards availed himself of the Italian dissent and invaded the Exarchate of Ravenna in 751, one of his first acts was to institute a crushing poll tax of one gold solidus per head on every Roman citizen.

When in 1494 Charles VIII of France invaded the Italian states to claim the Kingdom of Naples, Pisa grabbed the opportunity to reclaim its independence as the Second Pisan Republic.

When word reached Philip that Richard had finished crusading and had been captured on his way back from Holy Land, he promptly invaded the Vexin.

When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, in Operation Barbarossa, the Red Army's ground forces had 303 divisions and 22 separate brigades ( 4. 8 million soldiers ), including 166 divisions and 9 brigades ( 2. 9 million soldiers ) garrisoned in the western military districts.

When the Empress and Robert invaded in 1139, however, Stephen was unable to rapidly crush the revolt, which took hold in the south-west of England.

When negotiations failed, China invaded.

When later asked why he invaded Kuwait, Saddam first claimed that it was because Kuwait was rightfully Iraq's 19th province and then said " When I get something into my head I act.

When Wessex was invaded by the Danes in 871, Alfred was compelled to pay them to leave the kingdom.

When he was seven years old, Israel invaded southern Lebanon, a fact he referred to later in life.

When Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands in April 1982, Powell was given secret briefings on Privy Councillor terms on behalf of his party.

When World War I began, Germany invaded neutral Belgium and Luxembourg as part of the Schlieffen Plan, trying to take Paris quickly and catch the French off guard by invading through neutral countries.

When the Druk Desi invaded Sikkim in 1770, Cooch Behari forces joined their Bhutanese counterparts in the offensive.