When the Ming Dynasty Chinese astronomer Xu Guangqi adapted the European southern hemisphere constellations to the Chinese system in The Southern Asterisms, he combined Apus with some of the stars in Octans to form the " Exotic Bird " ( 異雀, Yìquè ).

When the Confucian advisers pressed their point, Li Ssu had many Confucian scholars killed and their books burned — considered a huge blow to the philosophy and Chinese scholarship.

When Westerners speak of Chinese food, they usually refer to Cantonese cuisine.

When it is necessary to distinguish between native Japanese kun ' yomi and Chinese-derived on ' yomi pronunciations, for example in Kanji dictionaries, the Japanese pronunciations are written in hiragana, and the Chinese ones are written in katakana.

When Galileo was viewed as a private-sector development with public-sector financial participation, European Commission program managers sought Chinese participation in pursuit of Chinese cash in the short term and privileged access to China ’ s market for positioning and timing applications in the longer term.

When it was established, it was based entirely on the Chinese Kuomintang and was pro Chinese.

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 Portugal conquered Malacca in 1511 and committed atrocities against the Malay Sultanate, the Chinese responded with violent force against Portugal.

When Jesuit missionaries learned this standard language in the 16th century, they called it Mandarin, from its Chinese name Guānhuà ( 官话 / 官話 ), or " language of the officials ".

When the People's Republic was founded in 1949, the telecommunications systems and facilities in China first established by the Qing and Republican ITA and Ministry of Posts and Communications had been seriously damaged from over thirty years of on and off war between warlords, Japan, and the two sides of the Chinese Civil War.

When the Buddhist texts were translated into Chinese, the concubines of others were added to the list of inappropriate partners.

When enemies attempted to dig tunnels under walls for mining or entry into the city, the defenders used large bellows ( the type the Chinese commonly used in heating up a blast furnace for smelting cast iron ) to pump smoke into the tunnels in order to suffocate the intruders.

When Madame Chiang was 103 years old, she had an exhibition of her Chinese paintings in New York.

When the Chinese begin losing the war, U. S. forces begin to target their strategic assets.

When the government official Dan Song proposed the Chinese calendar should be reformed in 123 to adopt certain apocryphal teachings, Zhang opposed the idea.

Jurchen script | Jurchen translation of the Chinese couplet, Ming wang shen de, si yi xian bin (" 明王慎德. 四夷咸宾 ": " When a wise king is heedful of virtue, foreigners from all quarters come as guests ")

* When the Chinese prefectural government officials travel to the Tang Dynasty's capital of Chang ' an in this year to give the annual report of the affairs in their districts, Emperor Taizong of Tang discovers that many have no proper quarters to rest in, and are renting rooms with merchants.

* When a Chinese prince ( later to be Emperor Zhongzong of Tang ) is made crown prince, his lavish palatial mansion in Chang ' an is converted into a Daoist abbey.

When the Chinese communists took over Tibet in 1951, Bhutan closed its frontier with Tibet and sided with its powerful neighbor to the south.

When a house accidentally burnt down, military and impoverished citizens started slaughtering and pillaging the Chinese community.

When the Chinese prefectural government officials traveled to the capital in the year 643 to give the annual report of the affairs in their districts, Emperor Taizong discovered that many had no proper quarters to rest in, and were renting rooms with merchants.

When the Khitans began raiding northeast China in 605, a Chinese general led 20, 000 Turks against them, distributing Khitan livestock and women to the Turks as a reward.

* SVO — Save opportunity: When a pitcher 1 ) enters the game with a lead of three or fewer runs and pitches at least one inning, 2 ) enters the game with the potential tying run on base, at bat, or on deck, or 3 ) pitches three or more innings with a lead and is credited with a save by the official scorer

" When administration of the prize was transferred to the Booker Prize Foundation in 2002, the title sponsor became the investment company Man Group, which opted to retain " Booker " as part of the official title of the prize.

When he openly left Octavian's sister, Octavia Minor, and moved to Alexandria to become Cleopatra's official partner, he led many Roman politicians to believe that he was trying to become the unchecked ruler of Egypt and of other eastern kingdoms, while still maintaining his command over the many Roman legions in the East.

When conspiracy theories are offered as official claims ( for example, originating from a governmental authority, such as an intelligence agency ) they are not usually considered as conspiracy theories.

Mencius says: " When being a child, yearn for and love your parents ; when growing mature, yearn for and love your lassie ; when having wife and child ( ren ), yearn for and love your wife and child ( ren ); when being an official ( or a staffer ), yearn for and love your sovereign ( and / or boss ).

When Beaux arrived in Paris, the Impressionists, a group of artists who had begun their own series of independent exhibitions from the official Salon in 1874, were beginning to lose their solidarity.

When the Fujiko Fujio duo broke up in 1987, the very idea of an official ending to the series was never discussed.

When the Nazis came to power in 1933 they made the legend an integral part of their official history of the 1920s, portraying the Weimar Republic as the work of the " November criminals " who used the stab in the back to seize power while betraying the nation.

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 client doesn't show up, K. explores the cathedral which is empty except for an old woman and a church official.

When a Governor-General is overseas on official duties or unable to perform official functions, or the office is vacant, the senior state governor is appointed as Administrator of the Commonwealth, and is effectively acting Governor-General.

When a company official comes to his door asking for the report on the savages, written by Kurtz, Marlow gives him the report.

When he died of canine distemper, his older brother, Kenzan-go, was presented to her as an official gift from the Japanese government in July 1938.

When he was two years old, his father was killed in a railway accident, and his name was changed to Karl Friedrich Benz in remembrance of his father .< ref > Karl Benz family gravestone Karl is the spelling of his first name on all of his official personal and municipal documents throughout his life, such as birth, school, honorary doctorate, the Baden State Metal certificate, and on his family grave marker as displayed to the right.

When last seen she had become a highly ranked official in MI-6.

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 ".

The team was named for the great jazz song most identified with New Orleans – " When the Saints Go Marching In ", and it was no coincidence that the franchise's official birth was announced on November 1, which is the Catholic All Saints ' Day.

Trumpeter Al Hirt was part owner of the team, and his rendition of " When the Saints Go Marching In " was made the official fight song.

When the prisoners were interrogated, it became clear that the information possessed by the guerrillas, who had planned to assassinate Stroessner, could have come only from a high Colorado official.

When Mussolini learned of the warnings and the telegrams of sympathy, he took them as a personal affront and had his ambassador to the Vatican file an official protest, charging that Pius XII had taken sides against Italy's ally Germany.

When Pervez Musharraf was returning from an official visit to Colombo his flight was denied landing permissions to Karachi International Airport after orders were issued from the Prime Minister's office.

When the Court met for its initial session, opened on 30 January 1922 to allow for the establishment of procedure and the appointment of Court officials, the Secretary-General of the League of Nations passed an emergency resolution through the Assembly which designated an official of the League and his staff as the Registrar and Registry respectively, with the first Registrar being Åke Hammarskjöld.

When any six ( or more ) members vote in favor of a position, that position becomes an official position of the Rabbinical Assembly.

When the centre of the Empire was moved to the Greek East in the 4th century, many legal concepts of Greek origin appeared in the official Roman legislation.