When Louis died in 840, the Carolingians adhered to the custom of partible inheritance, and after a brief civil war between the three sons, they made an agreement in 843, the Treaty of Verdun, which divided the empire in three:

When he acceded as King, he gained the royal arms undifferenced.

When Trajan acceded to the purple he chose to follow his predecessor's example, adopting Hadrian as his own heir, and the practice then became the customary manner of imperial succession for the next century, producing the " Five Good Emperors " and the Empire's period of greatest stability.

When he acceded to the English throne in 1603 many followed him to the new court, but without a centre of royal patronage the tradition of Scots poetry subsided.

When the three texts were found to completely summarize all of the Tripitaka and match in every respect, the monks acceded to his request and provided Buddhaghosa with the full body of their commentaries.

When James II acceded to the throne in 1685, he had Oates retried and sentenced for perjury to be stripped of clerical dress, imprisoned for life and to be " whipped through the streets of London five days a year for the remainder of his life.

When instead the name Pakal I is used, this serves to distinguish him from two later known successors to the Palenque rulership, Upakal K ' inich Janaab ' Pakal ( ruled c. 742, aka " Janaab ' Pakal II ") and Wak Kimi Janaab ' Pakal ( aka Pakal III ), the last-known Palenque ruler who acceded in 799.

When Mary I of England acceded to the throne, Turner went into exile once again.

When George VI acceded to the throne, his image was placed to face left, implying that, had any coins been minted with Edward's portrait the obverses would have depicted Edward facing right and maintained the tradition.

When the young king acceded to the throne in January 1515, Montmorency became an influential member of his court.

When Paul acceded to the throne in 1796, he immediately declared his son tsesarevich, and the title was confirmed by law in 1797 as the official title for the heir to the throne ( incorporated into Article 145 of the Fundamental Laws ).

When Charlemagne acceded to the throne in 768, Himiltrude remained unnamed in official sources – contrary to the example set by Charlemagne's mother, Bertrada.

When Minalcar acceded to the throne of Gondor as Rómendacil II, Valacar became the heir to the throne.

When James II acceded to the throne in 1685 he had Oates retried for perjury.

When Philip V, from the French Bourbon acceded to the Spanish throne in the Spanish War of Succession, he brought with him the Salic Law, which restricted succession to the throne to the direct male line.

When McElroy acceded to Eisenhower's request in 1957 that he become secretary of defense, he limited his availability to about two years.

When William Ewart Gladstone acceded to power in 1868, Baring was again appointed Under-Secretary of State for War, and this office he held until February 1872, when he was appointed Viceroy of India.

When King John III died in 1592 his son Sigismund, King of Poland since 1587, acceded to the Swedish throne.

When Stanisław II acceded to the throne of Poland, he took Boruwlaski under his protection.

When Allen Ginsberg asked if he could sing a song in praise of Krishna, Buckley acceded and the poet chanted " Hare Krishna " repeatedly as he played dolefully on a harmonium.

When Ahmet I died in 1617, his eldest son was only 13 years old, and for the first time in 14 generations, the Imperial Council altered succession so that the late sultan's brother acceded to the throne as Mustafa I, aged 25 years.

When Muhammad died, Umar denied his death stating rather that he would return back, and threatening to behead anyone who acceded to his death.

When Innocent acceded to the papal throne, he shunned Bernini ’ s artistic services ; the sculptor had been the favorite artist of the previous and profligate Barberini pope.

When Gwalior acceded to the Government of India after Indian Independence in 1947, Shajapur District, along with the rest of Gwalior State, became part of Madhya Bharat.

When in a second session of the 1789 convention, Bishop Seabury was seated and the New England churches acceded to the constitution.

" When the Frankish bishops still insisted the abbot was wrong in obedience to St. Patrick's canon, he laid the question before the Pope St. Gregory I.

* When Flandria appeared in the 8th century, it was a Frankish fief centred on Bruges.

When the Frankish Empire was divided among Charlemagne's heirs in 843, the eastern part became East Francia.

When the siege had started, Saladin was unwilling to promise terms of quarter to the Frankish inhabitants of Jerusalem until Balian of Ibelin threatened to kill every Muslim hostage, estimated at 5000, and to destroy Islam's holy shrines of the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque if quarter was not given.

When the Frankish Carolingian Empire broke up in 888, Wiesbaden was in the eastern half, called East Francia ( which would evolve into the Holy Roman Empire ).

When the Frankish rulers established the system of feudalism, the Bishops of Utrecht came to exercise worldly power as prince-bishops.

When in the 10th century Saxon kings ( of the Ottonian dynasty ) replaced the Frankish kings in East Francia ( the later Holy Roman Empire ), these kings proudly claimed descent from Widukind: Matilda, the wife of King Henry I, was apparently a great-great-great-granddaughter of Widukind.

When the popes switched to the Frankish support, Viterbo became part of the Papal States, but this status was to be highly contested by the emperors in the following centuries, until in 1095 it is known it was a free comune.

When in November 887 Arnulf of Carinthia called a council of the East Frankish nobility to depose Charles the Fat, who had succeeded to all the kingdoms of the Empire by 884, the Lotharingians were one of those who joined him.

When Saladin arrived from the taking of Tiberias, and after the Frankish army left Turan, the Muslims began their attack in earnest.

When the Frankish Empire was divided up among the three sons of Louis the Pious in 843, Speyer fell under the reign of Louis the German who was given the eastern Frankish territories, East Francia, which was to become the Kingdom of Germany.

When Pepin died in 714, however, the Frankish realm plunged into civil war and the dukes of the outlying provinces became de facto independent.

When Clotaire I died in 561, his kingdom was divided, in accordance with Frankish custom, among his four sons: Sigebert became king of the northeastern portion, known as Austrasia, with its capital at Rheims, to which he added further territory on the death of his brother, Charibert, in 567 or 568 ; Charibert himself had received the kingdom centred on Paris ; Guntram received the Kingdom of Burgundy with its capital at Orléans ; and the youngest son, the aforementiond Chilperic, received Soissons, which became Neustria when he received his share of Charibert's kingdom.

When Rigunth was sent off to her Visigothic fiancé in Spain Reccared, son of Liuvigild, her entourage was so laden with rich gifts that the Frankish nobles objected, that the royal fisc had been depleted.

When the Frankish kingdom in the west was divided along the boundary of the Saône and Meuse ( neatly dividing geographical Burgundy in the process ), Guerin was rewarded for his services by the king by being granted the administration of the Counties of Chalon and Nevers, in which he was by custom expected to appoint Viscounts to rule as his deputies.

When the County formed the border with the Muslim Kingdom, the Frankish title Marquis was chosen.

When Dagobert II died in 679, he received Austrasia as well and became king of the whole Frankish realm.

When the Roman generals Magnus Maximus, Nanninus and Quintinus heard the news in Trier, they attacked those remaining Frankish forces and killed many of them.

When he died, the Frankish realm was divided into four kingdoms, one for each of his sons.

When Clotaire died in 561, the Frankish realm was divided into three kingdoms, one for each son.

When Caesarea was captured by the crusaders from the Muslims in 1101, the Frankish community vastly increased in size and a Latin archbishop was established.

When that monarch attempted to assassinate him, Pronimius then fled back to Gaul, and eventually made his way to the court of the Frankish king Childebert, who then appointed Pronimius bishop of Vence.