When drunk, Jahangir swore to Sir Thomas Roe, England's first ambassador to the Mughal court, that he would protect all the peoples of the book.

When Henry's revolt failed, Mieszko I swore loyalty to Otto III.

When the bosses rejected his bid to become the mayoral candidate, Cermak swore revenge.

When Ní Mháille heard of this, she swore she'd never speak to Murrough again for the rest of her life, though she would often insult him.

When his brother Filippo Emanuele, Prince of Piedmont died, he became legitimate heir to the duchy and received the loyalty swore of the court at Racconigi on 21 January 1607.

When it came to swearing an oath to respect the treaty, Sparta swore on behalf of herself and her allies.

When the assembly baulked, Canute swore he would forbid them to fish in the Øresund.

When Otto the Great said anything serious, he swore by his beard, which covered his breast.

When the wealthy father-in-law learned of this secret betrothal, he drove his daughter from his house, and swore that he would never help her while Akiva remained her husband.

When Tsar Alexander I died on, the royal guards swore allegiance to the presumed heir, Alexander's brother Constantine.

When questioned about the actions of Aristagoras, his deputy, Histiaeus claimed no prior knowledge of the plans and swore to put down the rebellion if Darius allowed him to return to Ionia.

When he discovered the truth, Zoram was frightened so Nephi promised to spare his life if Zoram swore allegiance to them (), and was permitted to accompany Nephi and his brethren.

When the Tribunal was examined before the House of Lords, " all the court martial seemed terrified .... except old Admiral Holbourne, who cursed and swore at the bar of the House, because Byng was not shot out of the way, without giving him the trouble of coming from Portsmouth ".

When a commune was formed, all participating members gathered and swore an oath in a public ceremony, promising to defend each other in times of trouble, and to maintain the peace within the city proper.

When Park called Sallis six years later to explain he had completed his film, Sallis swore in surprise.

When she found out who Valentine was, and swore revenge, Shrike forbade her from going.

When he spoke to Professor Presbury, his master swore at him and scuttled off to the stairway.

When he reaches the plain of the River Liffey near Kildare, the forces of nature on which he swore kill him: the wind leaves his lungs, the sun scorches him, the earth entombs him.

When Egwene was raised Amyrlin for the rebels, she immediately decreed that Theodrin, Faolain, Nynaeve and Elayne be similarly promoted to Aes Sedai ( though they never swore the Three Oaths on the Oath Rod ).

When the newly elected Peruvian members of parliament Hilaria Supa Huamán and María Sumire swore their oath of office in Quechua — for the first time in the history of Peru in an indigenous language — the Peruvian parliamentary president Martha Hildebrandt and the parliamentary officer Carlos Torres Caro refused their acceptance.

When Wolverine asks her why she chose Silver Samurai, she said that she swore an oath of loyalty to him or else the Yakuza would've killed both of them.

When the tanks rolled on to Athens streets on 21 April, the legitimate National Radical Union government, of which Rallis was a member, asked King Constantine to immediately mobilise the state against the coup ; he declined to do so, and swore in the dictators as the legitimate government of Greece, while asserting that he was " certain they had acted in order to save the country ".

When Mexico achieved independence from Spain he endorsed the Plan of Iguala and swore allegiance to the Republic of Mexico on July 3, 1821.

When later Harold allegedly swore an oath to William agreeing to become his vassal and to support his succession to the English crown, one of the promises made by William in return, according to Eadmer, was that Wulfnoth would be returned safe and sound when William had become king.

When the oath of his priest appeases, they pray and with a song they call their own god, the beautiful Paean.

When the Domain of Biscay was incorporated into the kingdom of Castile it became customary for the king of Castile to visit Guernica and swear an oath under the Tree promising to uphold the fueros or local laws of Biscay.

When Louis the Stammerer receives news of the death of his father, Charles the Bald, he makes plans to go into West Francia to receive the oath of fidelity from his new subjects.

When Styrbjörn brought this fleet to Uppsala to claim the throne of Sweden, Harald broke his oath and fled with his Danes in order to avoid facing the Swedish army at the Battle of Fýrisvellir.

When the King failed to come, Paul allied himself with the insurgents in Bohemia and released the King's subjects from their oath of allegiance.

When she disappeared to Troy, Menelaus invoked this oath.

When recharging their rings, some Corps members recite an oath.

When Dawn learns of her origin, she resorts to self-harm and runs away from home, until Buffy assures her they are real sisters no matter what, securing it with a blood oath.

When Jomo Kenyatta died on 22 August 1978, Moi became president and took the oath of office.

When it became apparent that this was not going to happen before the deadline, James sent orders back to Scotland authorising the chiefs to take the oath.

When Saladin accused Raynald of being an oath breaker, Raynald replied " kings have always acted thus.

When taking office the president must take an oath to uphold the Constitution.

When the young Dax is murdered by an alien known as " The Albino ", Curzon joins Kang, Kor and Koloth ( whose firstborns have also been murdered by Albino ) in their oath of blood vengeance.

When John Paul II issued the apostolic letter Ad Tuendam Fidem on ecclesiastical discipline, it provoked dissenters into claiming that the letter was a second oath against modernist thought.

When Sam Houston refused to take an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy, Clark became governor.

When Clinton made his claim about his relationship with Lewinsky to the public, however, he was not under oath and thus it legally was not a felony.

When it seemed probable that both Ginger and his wife might be subpoenaed by the Massachusetts equivalent of the infamous House Committee on Unamerican Activities, university officials demanded ( on June 16, 1954 ) that he sign an oath declaring that he was not a member of the Communist Party, and that his wife ( who had no university connection ) sign a similar oath.

When Washington, elected president, took the oath of office in New York City, Humphreys accompanied him on the trip from Virginia and stood beside him during the ceremony.

When taking the oath of office, Kérékou left out a portion that referred to the " spirits of the ancestors " because he had become a born-again Christian after his defeat by Soglo.

When this information was presented in a UK court, Michael Mead of the United States Postal Service contradicted his US testimony under oath regarding several details relating to the investigation.

When Gorlois suspects that Igraine has an affair with Uther, he turns on her, accuses her of being a whore and a witch, and even breaks his oath to Uther.

When deprived of his see by William and Mary in 1691 after he refused to transfer his oath of allegiance from James, on the grounds that once given, it could not be forsworn, he was given lodgings at Longleat and an £ 80 annuity by Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth, a friend since Oxford days.