When Snodgrass and Heller visited Clipperton in 1898, they reported that " no land plant is native to the island ".

When the British attempted to take control of the New Territories in 1898 they were resisted by the local militias which had been formed for mutual defence against pirate raids.

When he was rejected by the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in 1898, he spent the next three years taking private painting classes, visiting Paris, and becoming familiar with the contemporary impressionist scene that was popular at this time.

The novel of When Knighthood Was in Flower, by Edwin Caskoden ( the pen name of Charles Major ) was published in 1898, and was the source material for both the Davies and the Disney films.

When the Football League was first expanded to two divisions in 1892, test matches were employed to decide relegation and promotion between them, but the practice was scrapped in favour of automatic relegation and promotion in 1898.

When the issue was put before the cabinet early in 1898, Salisbury hoped to keep Port Arthur open to trade by cooperating with the Russians in granting a loan to the Chinese government.

When work on the line started in June 1898, it had been financed by the mining entrepreneur and company promoter Whitaker Wright, who fell foul of the law over the financial proceedings involved and dramatically committed suicide at the Royal Courts of Justice, after being convicted in 1904.

When the Silver Valley population rose dramatically in the 1880s, the seat was moved to Murray in 1884 ( and to Wallace in 1898 ) to better serve the majority of the county's population.

When the Silver Valley population rose dramatically in the 1880s, the seat was moved to Murray in 1884 ( and to Wallace in 1898 ) to better serve the majority of the county's population.

When a new post office opened in 1898, the community was renamed Dewey, probably to honor Admiral Dewey's great victory that year at the Battle of Manila -- this was the height of the Spanish-American War.

When natural gas was discovered in Elm Township in the summer of 1898 E. K.

When Philippine independence was declared on June 12, 1898, the Philippine Revolutionary Army was renamed the Philippine Republican Army.

When America declared war against Spain in 1898, President William McKinley appointed the 62-year-old brigadier general of volunteers and asked him to oversee a military post in Florida.

When an 1898 play's portrayal of Texans outraged Adams, he started writing plays, short stories, and novels drawn from his own experiences.

When he died without sons in 1898 the viscounty became extinct, but the barony descended to his brother Debonnaire John ( 1830 – 1900 ), whose son Augustus Debonnaire John ( b. 1868 ) became 9th Baron Monson in 1900.

When Gladstone died in 1898, Grosvenor presided over a Gladstone National Memorial committee that commissioned statues of him, and rebuilt Gladstone's St Deiniol's Library at Hawarden in north Wales.

When Funston returned to the United States, he was commissioned as a colonel of the 20th Kansas Infantry in the United States Army on May 13, 1898, in the early days of the Spanish-American War.

When Messager became chief conductor of the Opéra-Comique theatre in 1898, his enthusiastic recommendations prompted Albert Carré, the head of the opera house, to visit Debussy and hear the work played on the piano at two sessions, in May 1898 and April 1901.

When the Spanish-American War of 1898 began, he was named a Lieutenant-Colonel, and in 1901 a Brevet ( honorary or acting ) Brigadier-General.

When Baron Ferdinand died in 1898, the house passed to his sister Alice de Rothschild, who further developed the collections.

When Cushing became ill, Culin continued the work and eventually published three inter-related papers: American Indian Games ( 1898 ), Hawaiian Games ( 1899 ) and Philippine Games ( 1900 ).

When Paul Höfer carried out extensive excavations in the years from 1898 to 1901, he assumed he had discovered the long sought after palace ( Pfalz ) of Bodfeld and produced several publications about it, although this has been subsequently questioned by later researchers like Paul Grimm and Carl Erdmann.

When Constantin Stanislavski, the seminal Russian theatre practitioner of the time, directed it in 1898 for his Moscow Art Theatre, the play was a triumph.

When one attempts to solve problems in this class, it makes no difference whether ZF or ZFC is employed if the only question is the existence of a proof.

When Ewen rejected these attempts, Alexander sailed forth to compel him, but on the way he suffered a fever at the Isle of Kerrera in the Inner Hebrides.

When he was drafted into the army in 1894, his gift for turning notions upside down defeated attempts to instill military discipline.

When the colonists came to America, their initial attempts at survival included planting crops familiar to them from back home in England.

When Bragi's wife Iðunn attempts to calm Bragi, Loki accuses her of embracing her brother's slayer, a reference to matters that have not survived.

When he determines that Mohiam inflicted him with the disease, he attempts to coerce her into revealing the cure, but soon discovers that there is none.

When he failed in his attempts to meet General Yahya Khan, Masud too resigned from his position as Commander of Eastern Air Command, and took retirement from Air Force.

" When the conservative web site the Drudge Report published this message, many Bush supporters viewed it as " smoking gun " evidence that Halperin was using ABC to propagandize against Bush to Kerry's benefit, by interfering with reporters ' attempts to avoid bias.

When they are adopted by a state, they typically result in tensions, and actual attempts at annexation are always considered a casus belli, a cause for war.

When a person attempts to climb objects coated with the paint, it rubs off onto the climber, as well as making it hard for them to climb.

When steels with less than 0. 8 % carbon, known as a hypoeutectoid steel, are cooled from an austenitic phase the mixture attempts to revert to the ferrite phase, resulting in an excess of carbon.

When traveling through the turns at racing speed, which may exceed 85 km / h ( about 52 mph ), the banking attempts to match the natural lean of a bicycle moving through that curve.

When approaching Rome ( where Tarquin was heading to try his luck in politics after unsuccessful attempts in his native Tarquinii ), an eagle swooped down, removed his hat, flew screaming in circles, replaced the hat on his head and flew away.

When Mathilda returns home from grocery shopping, an NYPD ESU team sent by Stansfield takes her hostage and attempts to infiltrate Léon's apartment.

When a user attempts to make a telephone call, the routing equipment handling the call has to determine whether to accept the call, reroute the call to alternative equipment, or reject the call entirely.

When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, Prewitt, still weak from his unhealed wound, finds out about the attack, and attempts to return to camp under cover of darkness, but is shot dead by a sentry.

When the first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid in 1858 by businessman Cyrus West Field, it operated for only a month ; subsequent attempts in 1865 and 1866 were more successful.

* Chirping: When a cheetah attempts to find another, or a mother tries to locate her cubs, it uses a high-pitched barking called chirping.

When the king dies the Countess attempts to raise their son, Adrian, to reclaim the throne, but Adrian opposes his mother and refuses to take the throne.

When the Los Angeles attempts to arrest di Gorgonzola afterwords, he fakes his own death by allowing a motorboat which he steers from his yacht to the cruiser to sink while he escapes in an inbuilt mini-submarine.

When Luke Skywalker attempts escape, R2-D2 tosses him his lightsaber, with which he attacks Jabba's guards.

When Darius tries to assert his independence from Bagoas ' control, Bagoas attempts to poison him, but the king is warned and forces Bagoas to drink the poison himself.

When Nelson almost drops out of school to spend more time on the company, Lisa is saddened and attempts to stop him from doing so, but eventually respects his decision after realising he won't change despite the money used to fund it.

When the Battle of Attu was lost, attempts were made to make the more than two thousand Japanese deaths an inspirational epic for the fighting spirit of the nation.