When Agamemnon came home he was slain by either Aegisthus ( in the oldest versions of the story ) or Clytemnestra.

When the season ended, he posted a 1. 26 ERA, which gave him not only the lowest in his career, but also gave him a Major League record of being the oldest pitcher with 150 + innings pitched to post a season ERA under 1. 50.

When Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, the oldest animal fossils were those from the Cambrian Period, now known to be about 540 million years old.

When it was phased out in 2004, Oldsmobile was the oldest surviving American automobile marque, and one of the oldest in the world, after Daimler, Peugeot and Tatra.

When Bossuet was chosen to be the tutor of the Dauphin, oldest child of Louis XIV, he wrote several works for the edification of his pupil, one of which was Politics Derived from the Words of Holy Scripture, a discourse on the principles of royal absolutism.

When Boone's oldest brother Israel also married a " worldling " in 1747, Squire Boone stood by his son and was therefore expelled from the Quakers, although his wife continued to attend monthly meetings with her children.

When the depot was retired, it was the oldest building in the city and was donated to the Sanger Historical Society which turned it into the Sanger Depot Museum in 1977.

When he died March 18, 2008, he was the oldest living former NASCAR driver.

When West Virginia became the 35th state ( in 1863 ), these became the oldest free schoolhouses in the state.

When the mission was moved to Delafield, St. Mary's Church on highways 67 and 18 became the oldest operating church in the town, dating back to 1871.

When Vladimir died in 1015, Sviatopolk's retinue concealed his death from him due to the fact that he, being Vladimir's oldest son, could claim the Kievan throne.

When exactly the first Jews arrived in the Rhineland area cannot be established, though the Cologne community claims to be the oldest north of the Alps.

When oldest brother Harry began his song writing career he assumed the professional name, " Von Tilzer ", adding the honorific " Von " to his mother's maiden name.

When Fish celebrated his 102nd birthday in 1990, he was the oldest living American who had served in Congress.

When Hugh de Lacy died in Ireland in 1186, his oldest son, Walter, was still under age, so the castle remained in custodianship and the barony was taken into royal care.

When he died at the age of 112 years 136 days, Cole had staked his claim as being the oldest known artist ever.

When one of the students, the 18-year-old budding journalist and writer Viliam Pauliny-Tóth ( 1826 – 1877 ), wrote down the oldest known record of the poem in his school notebook in 1844, he gave it the title of Prešporskí Slováci, budúci Levočania ( Bratislava Slovaks, Future Levočians ), which reflected the motivation of its origin.

When they were together Whymper asked to see the broken rope and saw that it had been employed by mistake as it was the weakest and oldest of the three ropes they had brought.

In the oldest written account, by an Egyptian named Uha, in the 23rd century B. C, he describes a mass circumcision and boasts of his ability to stoically endure the pain: " When I was circumcised, together with one hundred and twenty men ... there was none thereof who hit out, there was none thereof who was hit, and there was none thereof who scratched and there was none thereof who was scratched.

When the 1848 Revolution began, Dupont de l ' Eure was made President of the provisional assembly, being its oldest member.

When Huhanye died in 31 BC, Wang Zhaojun requested to return to China. Emperor Cheng, however, ordered that she follow Xiongnu levirate custom and become the wife of the next shanyu, the oldest brother ( or her stepson, born by her husband's first wife ) of her husband.

When he retired from teaching at the age of 104 in 2004, he is widely believed to have been America's oldest worker at the time.

Perhaps the oldest clear example of an English protest song is the rhyme ‘ When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman ?’, used in the Peasants Revolt of 1381.

When I hold my son he stiffens his whole body in my arms until he is as straight and stiff as a board.

When Richard's parents told him they wanted to take him to an orthodontist -- a dentist who specializes in realigning teeth and jaws -- their young son was interested.

When Zeus struck down Apollo's son Asclepius with a lightning bolt for resurrecting Hippolytus from the dead ( transgressing Themis by stealing Hades's subjects ), Apollo in revenge killed the Cyclopes, who had fashioned the bolt for Zeus.

His son was born in August 1920 and in 1924 Milne produced a collection of children's poems When We Were Very Young, which were illustrated by Punch staff cartoonist E. H. Shepard.

When Othon's period of quarantine ends, he elects to stay in the camp as a volunteer because this will make him feel less separated from his dead son.

When Charlemagne sent his young son Pepin to Italy as King of the Lombards Angilbert went along as primicerius palatii, a high administrator of the satellite court.

When the presidential election of 1856 approached, Johnson and supporters harbored a vague hope for the presidency, and he gave a speech to the Tennessee Democratic delegates reiterating his views ; some county conventions designated him a favorite son and the Nashville Union and American proposed his nomination.

When King Constantine's eldest son Constans is murdered at Vortigern's instigation, the two remaining sons, Ambrosius and Uther, still very young, are quickly hustled into exile in Brittany.

When his brother and his infant son died, Andrew ascended the throne and started to grant royal domains to his partisans.

When Valdemar died in 1182, his son succeeded him as Canute VI, and Absalon served as Canute VI's counsellor.

When her husband Otto I died in 973 he was succeeded by their son Otto II, and Adelaide for some years exercised a powerful influence at court.

When Aegeus saw the black sails coming into Athens, he jumped into the sea and drowned, mistaken in his belief that his son had been slain.

When assured by Mersenne that it was, indeed, the product of the son not the father, Descartes dismissed it with a sniff: " I do not find it strange that he has offered demonstrations about conics more appropriate than those of the ancients ," adding, " but other matters related to this subject can be proposed that would scarcely occur to a sixteen-year-old child.

When their son, Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr, was born on 5 May 1925, Chaplin sent Grey and the child into hiding: it was seen as too close to their wedding, so a fake birth announcement was made to the press at the end of June.

When Chilperic II died the following year ( 720 ), Charles appointed as his successor the son of Dagobert III, Theuderic IV, who was still a minor, and who occupied the throne from 720 to 737.

When his son Chiang Ching-kuo died in 1988, he was entombed in a separate mausoleum in nearby Touliao ( 頭寮 ).

When they were together one day on the Acropolis of Athens, Perdix was asking Daedalus about his son who had died, Icarus.

When the news of the victory is brought to David, he does not rejoice, but is instead shaken with grief: " O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!

When David has become old and bedridden, Adonijah, his eldest surviving son and natural heir, declares himself king and worthy to marry Abishag.

When Danny did return to New York, his father did not pressure him to return to school or to get a job, giving his son the chance to mature and discover his own abilities.

When Aedon discovered this was indeed her sister, she chopped up Polytekhnos ' son and fed him to Polytekhnos.

When Elijah finds her and asks to be fed, she says that she does not have sufficient food to keep her and her own son alive.

When Ahab hears this he repents to such a degree that God relents in punishing Ahab but will punish Jezebel and their son — Ahaziah.