When the Thirty Years ' War concluded with the Treaty of Münster ( also called the Peace of Westphalia ) in 1648, a new electorate was created for the Count Palatine of the Rhine.

When the French Revolutionary Army of the Rhine was victorious, tens of thousands fled east before it.

When the main flow of the Rhine moved south, the old bed, which still flowed through the heart of the town became evermore canalized ; and a very rare wharf system was built as an inner city harbour system.

When the Interregnum ended, the new Emperor Rudolf of Habsburg applied the lessons learned by the Rhine League to the destruction of the highway robbers at Sooneck, torching their castles and hanging them.

When the Nazis were defeated and Allied forces crossed the Rhine into Germany along with photo journalists, Fanon's regiment was ' bleached ' of all non-white soldiers and Fanon and his fellow Caribbean soldiers were sent to Toulon ( Provence ) instead.

When Jourdan heard of French successes against the Army of the Upper Rhine, he went over to the offensive.

When the Holy Roman Emperor Francis II conveyed the left bank of the river Rhine to France with the Treaty of Lunéville in 1801, Gladbach fell under French religion laws.

When the Prussian Rhine Province was dissolved after World War II, the city became part of the new state North Rhine-Westphalia.

When the war was renewed in 1799, Jourdan was at the head of the army on the Rhine, but again underwent defeat at the hands of the Archduke Charles at the battles of Ostrach and Stockach in late March.

When Tiberius returned to Italy in 13 AD, Augustus appointed Drusus ' son, Germanicus, commander of the eight legions on the Rhine.

When Moreau, in 1800, was appointed to the command of the army of the Rhine, Gouvion Saint-Cyr was named his principal lieutenant, and on 9 May gained a victory over General Kray at Biberach.

When in May 1921 the Allied ultimatum on reparation was presented to Germany and the sanctions enforced on the Rhine, the Fehrenbach-Simons ministry, which had rejected the London terms, resigned, and Wirth was called upon to form a new cabinet.

When the Second World War started, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the then-neutral United States, asked the major belligerents to confine their air raids to military targets ; however following the German Rotterdam Blitz of 14 May 1940, RAF Bomber Command was authorised to attack German targets east of the Rhine.

When France defeated the Second Coalition, made up of Russian, Austrian and German forces, and annexed territories up to the Rhine, there was a general consolidation of the myriad of tiny states in Germany in the Mediatization of 1803, also called Principal Conclusion of the Extraordinary Imperial Delegation ( or, in German, Hauptschluss der außerordentlichen Reichsdeputation, usually called the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss ).

When looking at its geological structure, the city lies on the border region, known as the Marl border, of three regions – the Mittelgebirge of the Bergisches Land, the Lower Rhine Plain and the Westphalian Lowland.

When France annexed the Rhine ’ s left bank in 1797, Saint George ’ s Chapel passed to the state.

When the Tencteri and Usipetes, who were Germanic tribes, crossed the Rhine from Germania ( 55 BCE ), they first fell on the Menapii, and then advanced into the territories of the Eburones and Condrusi, who were both " under the protection of " the Treveri to the south.

When released, he settled at Passy and published Origines gauloises, but in 1797, on the appeal of an old friend whose son had been taken as a conscript, he volunteered as the youth's substitute, and served on the Rhine ( 1797 ) and in Switzerland ( 1798 – 1799 ) as a captain.

When that was over, he went back to writing sagas about the Rhine.

When the crossing of the Rhine on 24 March 1945 finally succeeded, the Second World War was over for Xanten.

When Prince William I of the Netherlands refused to join the Confederation of the Rhine, founded by Napoleon, he found himself unseated by the French leader and the Siegerland passed to the Grand Duchy of Berg.

When the Americans were able to advance, some two weeks later, there were few reserves left to face them and they made rapid progress until they encountered the German rearguard near the Rhine.

When the son of his brother Lothair, Lothair II of Lotharingia died in 869, he also received large parts of his kingdom ( Lotharii ) west of the Rhine by the 870 Treaty of Meerssen.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.

When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.

`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.

When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

When he was eight he began violin lessons.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.

When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.