When Cao Pi, King of Wei, usurped the throne from Emperor Xian, the Han Dynasty ceased to exist.

When the canal was completed it linked the river systems of the Qiantang River, the Yangtze River, the Huai River, the Yellow River, the Wei River and the Hai River.

When he dies his son Cao Pi succeeds to the throne and proclaims himself emperor of Wei.

When Wei forces encountered Song young men, the forces quickly beheaded them or cut them in half.

When Emperor Dezong died on February 25, 805, there were initially some eunuchs who suggested that someone else should succeed Emperor Dezong, but at the strong advocacy of the imperial scholar Wei Cigong ( 衛次公 ), Li Song's succession was not further questioned despite his illness.

When asked about their origins by the Wei embassy, the people of Wa claimed to be descendants of the Grand Count Tàibó of Wu, a historic figure of the Wu Kingdom around the Yangtze Delta of China.

When Liu Shan's regent Zhuge Liang had his first northern expedition in 228, Jiang Wei's commanding officer suspected him of secretly wishing to join Zhuge Liang, and once, when Jiang Wei was outside the city walls with his troops, they closed the city gates and would not allow Jiang Wei to re-enter.

When Zhuge Liang of Shu Han launched his Northern Expeditions against Wei in 227, Zhang He was recalled to his old battlefield west of Chang ' an to fend off the attack.

When Guanqiu Jian and Wen Qin rebelled against Wei, Wu promised to help the two in Shouchun.

When this alleged plot was reported to Emperor Xuanzong by Wei Zhigu, Emperor Xuanzong, who had already received advice from Wang Ju ( 王琚 ), Zhang Shuo, and Cui Riyong to act first, did so.

When Liu Bei finally annexed Hanzhong two years later, many people thought that Liu Bei would appoint Zhang Fei as Area Commander of the region, but Wei Yan was chosen instead.

When Han Xuan became suspicious of Huang Zhong's loyalty after this exchange, he ordered Huang's execution, but Huang was saved when Wei Yan killed Han Xuan.

When Zhao resisted, Zhi attacked Zhao and brought along Han and Wei as allies.

When Eastern Han started considering conquering Chengjia, Wei, apprehensive of the implications of Chengjia's fall, tried to persuade Emperor Guangwu not to carry out a campaign against Chengjia, and later refused to lead his forces south against Chengjia.

When Sima Zhao's son Sima Yan usurped the throne of Cao Wei in 265 and established the Jin Dynasty, Cao Fang and other Cao Wei princes were demoted to the status of dukes.

When Wilson studied Mandarin at the University of Hong Kong, he was given the Chinese name Wèi Déwéi (); " Wei " was short for " Wilson ", while " Dewei " is a Chinese transliteration of David.

When Cao Pi was designated Crown Prince of Wei in 216, Sima was made his secretary.

When Cao Rui became Emperor of Wei, he trusted Sima Yi greatly and appointed him Piaoqi General ( 骠骑大将军 ) and military commander of Yuzhou and Jingzhou ( 督荊豫二州諸軍事 ), placed him on the border between Wei and Wu to defend against Sun Quan's forces, and created him Marquess of Wuyang.

When Wei sent Xing Zhen as an ambassador to Jiangdong to officially grant a kingship to Sun Quan, Sun personally led his officers out to a pavilion to receive Xing, who represented the Wei emperor, Cao Pi.

When the three rode out to Wang Shuang's position, Zhang Ni challenged the Wei general to a duel.

When Sima Zhao became regent and Duke of Jin in 260, Jiang Wei seized it as an opportunity to punish Wei for deposition against its ruler, Cao Huan.

When Hudson had finished, the `` town meeting '' broke down into a general, wordy argument.

When things got a little out of hand, they very rapidly got a lot out of hand -- it seemed to be a general rule.

`` When in doubt as to two courses of action, a general should choose the bolder ''.

When the plague takes a grip on the town, Grand joins the team of volunteers, acting as general secretary, recording all the statistics.

* In linear algebra, an endomorphism of a vector space V is a linear operator V → V. An automorphism is an invertible linear operator on V. When the vector space is finite-dimensional, the automorphism group of V is the same as the general linear group, GL ( V ).

When the Roman Empire turned Christian during the following century, this imagery came to be used in a more metaphysical sense, and removed legal impediments to the development and public use of the Anno Domini dating system, which came into general use during the reign of Charlemagne.

: When, after the action had thus occurred, his own men returned to each general, Scipio could adopt no fixed plan of proceeding, except that he should form his measures from the plans and undertakings of the enemy: and Hannibal, uncertain whether he should pursue the march he had commenced into Italy, or fight with the Roman army which had first presented itself, the arrival of ambassadors from the Boii, and of a petty prince called Magalus, diverted from an immediate engagement ; who, declaring that they would be the guides of his journey and the companions of his dangers, gave it as their opinion, that Italy ought to be attacked with the entire force of the war, his strength having been nowhere previously impaired.

When the messenger had finished, the French general reportedly announced " Nous n ' avons plus de flotte: eh bien.

When prophets and general authorities of the church speak as " moved upon by the Holy Ghost ", it " shall be scripture, shall be the will of the Lord, shall be the mind of the Lord, shall be the word of the Lord, shall be the voice of the Lord, and the power of God unto salvation.

When the British general Caractacus was captured in 50, Claudius granted him clemency.

When the conservative party was beaten by the opposition party in the general election, it changed its form again to follow the party members ' demand for reforms.

When sold in another country, Canadian whisky is typically also required to conform to the local product requirements that apply to whisky in general when sold in that country, which may in some aspects involve stricter standards than the Canadian law.

When the earlier disputes broke out into the so-called Mormon War of 1838, Atchison was appointed a major general in the state militia and took part in suppression of the violence by both sides.

When the French general Junot arrived in Lisbon, the Portuguese fleet had already left with all the local elite.

Lord Mountbatten with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru the first Prime Minister of sovereign India in Government House, Lady Mountbatten standing to their left. When India and Pakistan attained independence on 15 August 1947, Mountbatten remained in New Delhi for ten months, serving as India's first governor general until June 1948.

When a general said in a meeting " We should throw in a nuke once in a while to keep the other side guessing ," Dyson became alarmed and obtained permission to write an objective report discussing the pros and cons of using such weapons from a purely military point of view.

When a diffusion process does not follow Fick's laws ( which does happen ), we refer to such processes as non-Fickian, in that they are exceptions that " prove " the importance of the general rules that Fick outlined in 1855.

When describing graviton interactions, the classical theory ( i. e., the tree diagrams ) and semiclassical corrections ( one-loop diagrams ) behave normally, but Feynman diagrams with two ( or more ) loops lead to ultraviolet divergences ; that is, infinite results that cannot be removed because the quantized general relativity is not renormalizable, unlike quantum electrodynamics.

When general health is good, the symptoms are not severe, and the person can fast normally through the night, experimentation with diet ( extra snacks with fat or protein, reduced sugar ) may be enough to solve the problem.

" When Veeck sold his interest, Greenberg remained as general manager and part-owner until 1957.

When an IQ test is constructed, a standardization sample representative of the general population takes the test.

When at last he reappeared in the field it was as general of cavalry in the imperial and Bavarian and Cologne services.

When a person's actions are completely virtuous in all matters in relation to others, Aristotle calls her " just " in the sense of " general justice ;" as such this idea of justice is more or less coextensive with virtue.

When used as a general concept, " language " may refer to the cognitive ability to learn and use systems of complex communication, or to describe the set of rules that makes up these systems, or the set of utterances that can be produced from those rules.

When speaking of language as a general concept, some different definitions can be used that stress different aspects of the phenomenon.