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When and French
When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.
When they lost it, the French artillery moved in, and that was the end for Garibaldi that time, on 30 April 1849.
When Napoleon's ship had borne him to Elba, French wines had started to cross the Channel, the first shipments in a dozen war-ridden years, but the supplies had not yet reached rural hostelries where the sweet wines of the Spanish peninsula still ruled.
When this discovery was followed up in 1870, on the neighbouring Santorin ( Thera ), by representatives of the French School at Athens, much pottery of a class now known immediately to precede the typical late Aegean ware, and many stone and metal objects, were found.
When Nelson's fleet arrived off Egypt on 1 August and discovered Brueys's dispositions, he ordered an immediate attack, and his ships advanced on the French line.
When the messenger had finished, the French general reportedly announced " Nous n ' avons plus de flotte: eh bien.
When the news became certain, the French press insisted that the defeat was the result both of an overwhelmingly large British force and unspecified " traitors.
When Colonel de Gaulle did organize a counter-attack with superior French tanks, he did not have the air support to gain the upper hand and had to retreat.
When the capital was burned in 1893, the sultan sought and received protectorate status from the French.
When in 1981 François Mitterrand was elected president Denard lost the support of the French intelligence service, but he managed to strengthen the link between SA and the Comoros.
When the plane lands at Marseille, a French Gendarmerie assault team boards the aircraft and kills the hijackers.
When the French general Junot arrived in Lisbon, the Portuguese fleet had already left with all the local elite.
When the Protestant Henry IV inherited the French throne in 1589, Elizabeth sent him military support.
When the affair became public, Federalists accused him of supporting the French while Republicans such as Thomas Jefferson supported him.
When the French Constituent Assembly abolished the " feudal regime " in August 1789 this is what was meant.
When the French public were asked to select which film they wanted to see most, having been told by the Vichy government that soon no more American films would be allowed in France, the overwhelming majority chose it over all others.
When the French king Charles VIII invaded northern Italy, Piero II chose to resist his army.
When his father returned to Assisi, he took to calling him Francesco (" the Frenchman "), possibly in honour of his commercial success and enthusiasm for all things French .< ref name =" Chesterton ">
When the French forces were recalled in 1706, he accompanied the duke to Paris, where he was favourably received by Louis XIV.
When the French tried to impose the French language, German opposition grew in intensity.
When Prussia tried to put a Hohenzollern candidate, Prince Leopold, on the Spanish throne, the French angrily protested.
When the Brunswick Manifesto of July 1792 once more threatened the French population with Austrian ( Imperial ) and Prussian attacks, Louis XVI was suspected of treason and taken along with his family from the Tuileries Palace in August 1792 by insurgents supported by a new revolutionary Paris Commune.
When France was negotiating with the Netherlands about purchasing Luxembourg in 1867, the Prussian Kingdom threatened the French government with war.
When the war ended on 11 November 1918, Italy's army had occupied most of Albania ; Serbia held much of the country's northern mountains ; Greece occupied a sliver of land within Albania's 1913 borders ; and French forces occupied Korçë and Shkodër as well as other regions with sizable Albanian populations such as Kosovo.

When and Academy
When he was 15, his parents finally allowed him to attend classes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
When the art academy in Amsterdam became part of the higher professional education system in 1968 and was given the status of an Academy for Fine Arts and Design, the name was changed to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in honour of Rietveld.
When the Nazis came to power in Germany, they regarded Dix as a degenerate artist and had him sacked from his post as an art teacher at the Dresden Academy.
When her family requested she be featured in the following year's ceremony, the Academy stated they did not honor requests and Lee was omitted because her contribution to film and her legacy were not deemed significant enough, although she had been nominated for a Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Pete Kelly's Blues.
When Robert was 17 in 1824, Fitzhugh wrote to the Secretary of War, John C. Calhoun, urging that Robert be given an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point.
When Germain's correspondence with Gauss ceased, she took interest in a contest sponsored by the Paris Academy of Sciences concerning Ernst Chladni's experiments with vibrating metal plates.
When the film opened in June 1989, it was backed by the biggest marketing and merchandising campaign in film history at the time, and became one of the biggest box office hits of all time, grossing well over US $ 250 million in the US alone and $ 400 million worldwide ( numbers not adjusted for inflation ) and earning critical acclaim for the performances of both Keaton and Nicholson, as well as the film's production aspects, which won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction.
When Gibbs submitted his long paper on the equilibrium of heterogeneous substances to the Academy, both Elias Loomis and Hubert Anson Newton protested that they did not understand Gibbs's work at all, but they helped to raise the money needed to pay for the typesetting of the many equations and mathematical symbols in the paper.
When Gérôme exhibited For Sale ; Slaves at Cairo at the Royal Academy in London in 1871, it was " widely found offensive ", perhaps partly because the British liked to think they had successfully suppressed the slave trade in Egypt, also for cruelty and " representing fleshiness for its own sake ".
When Kazan received an Honorary Academy Award in 1999, the audience was noticeably divided in their reaction, with some including Nick Nolte, Ed Harris, Ian McKellen and Amy Madigan refusing to applaud, and many others, such as actors Kathy Bates, Meryl Streep and Warren Beatty and producer George Stevens, Jr. standing and applauding.
* Madison Powers and Ruth Faden ,“ Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care: An Ethical Analysis of When and How They Matter ,” in Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, 2002: 722 – 38
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.
When the young Olmsted was almost ready to enter Yale College, as a graduate of Phillips Academy in 1838, sumac poisoning weakened his eyes so he gave up college plans.
When he was eleven, his parents sent him to the Protestant Academy at Sedan, where he spent four years studying Greek under Jacques du Rondel.
When the first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929 to honor films released in 1927 / 28, there was no separate category for foreign language films.
When the first Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929, no foreign language film was honored.
When Best Animated Feature debuted, Mike and Sulley from Monsters Inc., Jimmy Neutron and Goddard from Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and Shrek and Donkey from Shrek appeared at the Academy Awards.
When The Grange suspended operations in 1856, Alger found employment managing the 1856 summer session at Deerfield Academy.
When Davis was not nominated for an Academy Award for Of Human Bondage, The Hollywood Citizen News questioned the omission and Norma Shearer, herself a nominee, joined a campaign to have Davis nominated.
When it received lukewarm reviews and failed at the box office, Hollywood columnists wrote that Davis's comeback had petered out, and an Academy Award nomination for The Star ( 1952 ) did not halt her decline.
When Davis was nominated for an Academy Award, Crawford contacted the other Best Actress nominees ( who were unable to attend the ceremonies ) and offered to accept the award on their behalf should they win.
When Redgrave was nominated for an Oscar in 1978, for her role in Julia, members of the Jewish Defense League ( JDL ), led by Rabbi Meir Kahane, burned effigies of Redgrave and picketed the Academy Awards ceremony to protest against both Redgrave and her support of the Palestinian cause.
When their father suddenly lost his job, the family moved to New York City in 1905 to launch the show business career of the children, who began training at the Alviene Master School of the Theatre and Academy of Cultural Arts.
When it was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1790 however it received critical acclaim.

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