* When 2000 was approaching, at least three large Swedish magazines ranked penicillin as the most important discovery of the millennium.

When Allen and his men landed above St. John and scouted the situation, they learned that a column of 200 or more regulars was approaching.

When approaching a man's home in those early frontier days, one shouted from afar, " Hello, the cabin!

When a person is aware of approaching death, and feels that s / he has completed all duties, s / he willingly ceases to eat or drink gradually.

When the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was approaching completion, the directors of the railway ran a competition to decide whether stationary steam engines or locomotives would be used to pull the trains.

When victory looked near, Gallienus made the mistake of approaching the city walls too closely and was gravely injured, compelling him to withdraw the campaign.

When at Ecbatana, Darius learned of Alexander's approaching army, he decided to retreat to Bactria where he could better use his cavalry and mercenary forces on the more even ground of the plains of Asia.

When the clouds deepen and spread, especially when they are of the cirrus radiatus variety or cirrus fibratus species, this usually indicates an approaching weather front.

When approaching the Imperial throne, one was expected to kowtow before the Emperor.

When a revolutionary gives a speech to try to drum up support for the army approaching despite rain in the north, Wang Lung and O-Lan realize the drought is over.

When Cyrus learned that his elder brother, the Great King, was approaching with his army, he drew up his army in battle array.

When approaching the first hurdle, athletes try to avoid Stutter stepping ( a term used to refer to the cutting of stride length before reaching a hurdle ).

When Abram was ninety-nine, God declared Abram's new name: “ Abraham, a father of many nations .” Abram then received the instructions to circumcise every male in his household for the inauguration rite into God's covenant because the time was approaching for him to have a son by his wife, Sarai.

When used for casual portable use they block out sounds which can be important for safety ( e. g., approaching vehicles ).

When seen from high altitude s, the gradient in the sky's color varies from pale to dark at Horizontal coordinate system | elevations approaching the zenith

When he felt that pressure of working under him had become too great, he would announce that his birthday was approaching, and his staff would have several days free from work in order to celebrate it.

When Doe finds the detectives approaching his apartment, he opens fire on them and flees, chased by Mills.

When the Baltic Fleet was approaching Umeå, news came that the Treaty of Åbo () had been finalized, with Sweden ceding to Russia the towns of Lappeenranta and Hamina and a strip of Finland to the northwest of Saint Petersburg.

When, on September 14, 1714, he suddenly returned to his dominions, Stralsund and Wismar were all that remained to him of his continental possessions ; while by the end of 1715 Sweden, now fast approaching the last stage of exhaustion, was at open war with Great Britain, Hanover, Russia, Prussia, Saxony and Denmark, who had formed a coalition to partition her continental territory between them.

When either of them spots a threat, they give a warning sound to let their partner know that danger is approaching.

When approaching the European coast, the larvae metamorphose into a transparent larval stage called " glass eel ", enter estuaries and start migrating upstream.

When the Persians heard that the Allied fleet was approaching, they set sail from Samos towards the Ionian mainland.

When they arrived in St. Louis it was said that the settlers were covered with mosquito bites and very nearly approaching starvation.

When headlights approach a nocturnal animal, this makes it hard for the creature to see the approaching car ( nocturnal animals see better in low than in bright light ).

When back in Rome, Caesar deposited a new will with the Vestal Virgins, naming Octavius as the prime beneficiary.

" When I am at Rome, I fast on a Saturday ; when I am at Milan, I do not.

His advice has remained in the English language as the saying, " When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

When Dido learned of this, Dido uttered a curse that would forever pit Carthage against Rome, an enmity that would culminate in the Punic Wars.

When the Sequani, their hereditary rivals, with the assistance of a Germanic chieftain named Ariovistus defeated and massacred the Aedui at the Battle of Magetobriga, the Aedui sent Diviciacus, the druid, to Rome to appeal to the senate for help.

* Rubenstein, Richard E., When Jesus Became God: The Epic Fight over Christ ’ s Divinity in the Last Days of Rome ( New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999 ).

When the Dictator was away from Rome, the magister equitum usually remained behind to administer the city.

When Germanicus died at Antioch in 19 AD, his wife Agrippina the Elder returned to Rome with her six children where she became entangled in an increasingly bitter feud with Tiberius.

Ancient resources as well as recent archaeological evidence suggest that, at one point, Caligula had the palace extended to annex this structure. When several kings came to Rome to pay their respects to him and argued about their nobility of descent, he cried out " Let there be one Lord, one King ".

* When in Rome ( 1952 )

When Nero came to Greece in AD 66, he took away over 500 of the best statues from Delphi to Rome.

When Republican Rome turned into a de facto monarchy in the second half of the 1st century BC, at first there was no name for the title of the new type of monarch.

When the Consul Gaius Flaminius was killed during the disastrous Roman defeat at the Battle of Lake Trasimene, panic swept Rome.

When word reached Rome of the disastrous Roman defeat under Varro and Paullus at the Battle of Cannae, the Senate and the People of Rome turned to Fabius for guidance.

When Peter died a martyr, Mark left Rome and went to Alexandria.

When invaders reached the outskirts of Rome, they were repelled by an improvised army assembled by the Senate.

When Henry VIII broke from Rome an era of religious repression began.

He returned to work for the Florentine government in 1365, undertaking a mission to Pope Urban V. When the papacy returned to Rome from Avignon in 1367, Boccaccio was again sent to Urban, offering congratulations.

When Claudius arrived he led the final march on the Catuvellauni capital at Camulodunum, before returning to Rome again for his triumph.

When his will was enforced, Rome responded by violently seizing the tribe's lands in full.

When the Roman Empire was divided into eastern and western halves in AD 395, Illyria east of the Drinus River ( Drina between Bosnia and Serbia ), including the lands that now form Albania, were administered by the Eastern Empire but were ecclesiastically dependent on Rome.

When the Christian church split in 1054 between the East and Rome, the region of southern Albania retained its ties to Constantinople while the north reverted to the jurisdiction of Rome.

When the entourage reached Rome in the autumn of 219, Comazon and other allies of Julia Maesa and Elagabalus were given powerful and lucrative positions, to the outrage of many senators who did not consider them worthy of such privileges.