When other states call the head of state of a particular state a dictator, that state is called a dictatorship.

When the border between Spain and Gibraltar was eventually closed by the Spanish dictator in 1969, the newspaper changed its ownership and begun to be published in English.

When Caesar became dictator for a second time, Antony was made Master of the Horse, and in this capacity he remained in Italy as the peninsula's administrator in 47 BC, while Caesar was fighting the last Pompeians, who had taken refuge in the province of Africa.

When Lucius Cornelius Sulla was dictator he severely curtailed the tribunes of the plebeians by invalidating their power of veto and making it illegal for them to bring laws before the Concilium Plebis without the Senate's consent.

When oil was discovered at the Maracaibo strike in 1922, Venezuela's dictator, Juan Vicente Gómez, allowed US oil companies to write Venezuela's petroleum law.

When Rome suffered severe defeats in 396, the tenth year of this war, the Romans resorted again to Camillus, who was named dictator once more.

When his son was convicted and condemned to death, Cincinnatus was forced to live in humble circumstances, working on his own small farm, until an invasion caused him to be called to serve Rome as dictator, an office which he immediately resigned after completing his task of defeating the rivaling tribes of the Aequians, Sabines, and Volscians.

When he put on his toga, the senatorial delegation hailed him as dictator, and told him to come to the city.

When Mexican president Santa Anna shifted alliances and joined the conservative Centralist party, he declared himself dictator and ordered soldiers into Texas to curtail new immigration and unrest.

When dictator Juan Vicente Gómez died in 1935, Nueva Valencia del Rey was a small city.

When Caesar returned to Rome as dictator after the final defeat of the Republican faction in the Battle of Munda ( 45 BC ), Marcus Brutus joined the conspiracy against Caesar, after being convinced by Cassius and Decimus Brutus.

When the unit captures Yakov Dzhugashvili, the son of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, they declare " Jupp " to be their " good-luck charm ", and adopt him as an auxiliary.

When Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared war against France and Britain in June 1940, Italian forces became a potential threat to British supply routes in the Red Sea and the Suez Canal.

When Hussein sent a note to Wilson ( along with other embassy heads in Baghdad ) threatening to execute anyone sheltering foreigners in Iraq, Wilson publicly repudiated the dictator by appearing at a press conference wearing a homemade noose around his neck and declaring, " If the choice is to allow American citizens to be taken hostage or to be executed, I will bring my own fucking rope.

When on the outbreak of the war of 1859 Francis V, duke of Modena, was expelled and a provisional government set up, Farini was sent as Piedmontese commissioner to that city ; but, although recalled after the peace of Villafranca which ended the Second Italian War of Independence, he was determined on the annexation of central Italy to Sardinia / Piedmont and remained behind, becoming a Modenese citizen and dictator of the state.

When Ivor is overthrown it becomes the core of the anti-Tugar resistance, with Keane filling as a military dictator.

When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American.

After electoral losses in 1994, Wałęsa issued a statement that invoked comparisons with Piłsudski, who had become dictator of Poland: " When the time comes to introduce a dictatorship, the people will force me to accept this role, and I shall not refuse.

: When he declared himself dictator of the Roman Republic, Julius Caesar was bound to be assassinated.

: When the senior People's Commissioner assigned to a backwater sector of the People's Republic of Haven is found murdered, Oscar Saint-Just, now the dictator of Haven, sends a young and idealistic StateSec officer by the name of Victor Cachat to investigate.

When German dictator Adolf Hitler received word that Hungary's Regent, Admiral Miklós Horthy, was secretly negotiating his country's surrender to the advancing Red Army, he sent commando leader Waffen-SS Lieutenant-Colonel Otto Skorzeny to Hungary.

When Aquaman leaves his throne to search for his then-missing wife Mera, Narkran takes over Atlantis as a dictator.

When Santa Anna usurped power and appointed himself a dictator, suspending the Mexican Constitution of 1824, the people of Texas rebelled, wanting their civil liberties.

When the Klingons attempt to respond, the dictator destroys their fleet with planet-based weapons that were secretly provided to Tezwa by the Federation President, as a last resort during the Dominion War.

When the frontier with Spain was re-opened, telephone and telex circuits cut by General Franco were re-established.

When Franco ordered Paraguayan troops to abandon the advanced positions in the Chaco that they had held since the 1935 truce, the army revolted in August 1937 and returned the Liberals to power.

When Otto II sent an imperial representative, Count Sicco, to secure his release, Crescentius I and Cardinal-Deacon Franco Ferrucci, who would subsequently become Boniface VII, an antipope, had Benedict murdered while still in prison.

When Otto the Great died and Otto II took over, Crescentius led the rebellion against the imperial regime which would eventually lead to the installment of Franco to the papacy.

When Otto II sent an imperial representative, Count Sicco, to secure his release, Crescentius I and Cardinal-Deacon Franco Ferrucci, who would subsequently become Boniface VII, an antipope, had Benedict murdered while still in prison.

When Otto II sent an imperial representative, Count Sicco, to secure his release, Crescentius I and Cardinal Franco Ferrucci had Benedict VI murdered while still in prison in 974.

When Franco died on 20 November 1975 a Bourbon monarch was restored to the throne of Spain two days later as Juan Carlos I.

When they reached Spain, they were arrested and detained by the Franco regime ; they arrived finally in London on 22 October.

When the Spanish Civil War broke out, he traveled to Spain to join the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in fighting against Francisco Franco.

When Daniel Amos heard it they enlisted Franco to play the pedal steel and Mike and Ed to add the CB radio voices on the recording.

When General Francisco Franco declared Spain to be a kingdom in 1947, he characterised it as a reinstitution.

When the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, Biscay supported the Republican side against the army of Francisco Franco, of fascist ideology.

When the indictment was read out, Yucef Franco shouted out that it was the biggest falsehood in the world.

* When Io, Caligola was released on video, the distributor put back in some of the hardcore material shot by Guccione ( it was deleted by Franco Rossellini ) in order to boost the sales.

When Súñer met Hitler on September 16, Hitler did not press very hard for Spanish involvement in the war, perhaps because he planned to meet Franco himself very soon.

When Franco died, González became the prominent head of the opposing movement to the remnants of the dictatorship, and was capital, along with then serving prime minister Adolfo Suárez, in the Spanish transition to democracy.

When the United States decided to back Franco in 1952 Aguirre went to France anew where the Basque Government in exile was established.

When Sousa Franco and his SPD-inspired social democrats started their break with the rest of the party he referred to a division between " a rural wing, led by Sá Carneiro, and an urban wing, more moderate and truly social democratic, close to the positions of Helmut Schmidt " Due to the electoral influence of ruralism on the PSD's politics they may be seen inside of or influencing most factions.

When in 1941 the fascist armies entered into Barcelona, they closed " El Diluvio ", because Franco considered Federalism to be an offense.

When the Civil War broke out in Spain, Franco sent a call for help to Germany and asked for support, particularly in the air.

Writing in the Democracy ( 1975 – 1999 ) When Franco at last died in November 1975, the important work of establishing democracy had an immediate impact on Spanish letters.

" When the weight started to roll ," Franco said, " I said, ' Uh-oh.

When Alcalá-Zamora was ousted as President on May 10, 1936 and replaced by the left-wing Manuel Azaña, Queipo de Llano, along with Generals Emilio Mola, Francisco Franco, and José Sanjurjo, started plotting to overthrow the Popular Front government.

When on May 10, 1936, Niceto Alcalá-Zamora was replaced as President of the Republic by Azaña, Sanjurjo joined with Generals Emilio Mola, Francisco Franco and Gonzalo Queipo de Llano in a plot to overthrow the leftist Popular Front government.