With Zaifeng gone, Yuan Shikai and his Beiyang commanders effectively dominated Qing politics.

With permission from Empress Dowager Longyu, Yuan Shikai began negotiating with Sun Yat-sen, who decided that his goal had been achieved in forming a republic, and that therefore he could allow Yuan to step into the position of President of the Republic of China.

* West, Stephen H. " Playing With Food: Performance, Food, and The Aesthetics of Artificiality in The Sung and Yuan ", Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies ( Volume 57, Number 1, 1997 ): 67 – 106.

With the death of Yuan, the parliament of 1913 was reconvened to give legitimacy to a new government.

* The Battle of Ningyuan in Xingcheng, Liaoning, China: With a much smaller force, the Ming Dynasty commander Yuan Chonghuan defeats the Manchu tribal leader Nurhaci, who dies soon after and is succeeded by Huang Taiji.

With the news of Emperor Yang's murder by his general Yuwen Huaji ( d. 619 ), on June 18, 618, Li Yuan declared himself the emperor of a new dynasty, the Tang.

With his power secure, many of Yuan's supporters, notably monarchist Yang Du, advocated for a revival of the monarchy, asking Yuan to take on the title of Emperor.

With Yuan Shikai's death the Warlord Era began.

With the fall of the Song dynasty in 1279, and the subsequent dislocation caused by the establishment of the Yuan dynasty by the Mongol conquerors, many court and literary artists retreated from social life, and returned to nature, through landscape paintings, and by renewing the " blue and green " style of the Tang era.

With their focus on the history of Han Chinese, the stories grew in popularity during the reign of the Mongol emperors of the Yuan Dynasty.

With his seizure of the Yuan capital ( present-day Beijing ), he claimed the Mandate of Heaven and established the Ming Dynasty in 1368. Most of the historical sites related to Zhu Yuanzhang are located in Nanjing, the capital of his dynasty.

With the Mongol invasion of China in the early 13th century and the formation of the Yuan dynasty, the curved steppe curved saber became a greater influence on Chinese sword designs.

With defeats of Iburai and Ismayil, Dayan and Mandukhai could remove the power of descendants of the Alans, the Kypchaks and the Hami Muslim warlords from the Northern Yuan court in Mongolia.

With his domestic situation settled, Cao Cao turned his attention to his last great rival in the north, Yuan Shao.

With the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty in the Xinhai Revolution, and the establishment of the new Republic of China under General Yuan Shikai, Japan saw an opportunity to expand its position in China.

With Han Sui removed, Xiahou Yuan went on to put down other oppositions in the region, he forced the Di ruler to flee to Hanzhong, and incorporated surrendered forces into his own.

With the disintegration of Yuan, which had influenced the Korean peninsula since the Mongol invasions of Korea of 1238, Gongmin began efforts to reform Goryeo government.

With the short-term help from Lü Bu, Yuan Shao managed to defeat numerous units of the bandits, yet heavy casualties were incurred on both sides.

With the fall of Wuchao, Yuan Shao's positions collapsed and a number of his commanders, such as Gao Lan and Zhang He, defected to Cao Cao.

With the formation broken, Guo Yuan was vulnerable, and was killed by Pang De in the chaos.

With this learning, Yuan An established a reputation for himself in his native commandery.

With the Grand Commandant Su You, Minister of Works Ren Wei ( 任隗 ) and the Nine Ministers, Yuan An marched on the court hall and submitted memorials condemning a campaign in the north.

With the support of the Yuan clan, particularly Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, the succession dispute was resolved in favour of Liu Bian, the son of Empress He, who ascended the throne in the fifth month of that year.

* 221 BC: With the conquest of the State of Qi, Qin Shihuang unifies the whole of China into one empire that also included northern Vietnam, forming the Qin Dynasty.

* With the permission of the Ming Dynasty government of China and the benefit of both Western and Eastern merchants, the Portuguese settle in Macau ( retroceded in 1999 ).

With the loss of the Babenbergs Austria continued within the Holy Roman Empire becoming progressively distinct from neighbouring Bavaria under the Hapsburg Dynasty to the dissolution of the empire in 1806 in the Napoleonic Wars.

With the abdication of Napoleon on 11 April 1814 the Bourbon Dynasty was restored to the kingdom of France in the person of Louis XVIII, brother of Louis XVI.

With the Song Dynasty to the south, the Khitan people of Western Manchuria created the Liao Empire in the region, which went on to control adjacent parts of Northern China as well.

With Dynasty at the height of its success, Collins began producing and starred in the 1986 CBS miniseries Sins and Monte Carlo.

With the protection of the powerful Khitan Liao empire, the Northern Han maintained nominal independence until the Song Dynasty wrested it from the Khitan in 979.

With the 19th Dynasty the seat of government moved to the Delta.

With the collapse of the Qin Dynasty and the subsequent civil war ( 206 – 202 BC ), the Xiongnu, under Chanyu Toumen, were able to migrate back to the border with China.

With the Nineteenth Dynasty, his cult grew and he became one of the four great gods of the empire of Ramses.

With Peter's death, the direct male line of the Romanov Dynasty ended.

With the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty in the 4th and 5th century, nomadic peoples from the north invaded northern China and established many successive regimes in northern China, including Henan.

With the rise of the Chakri Dynasty and General Chakri ( who would later become King Rama I ) Kanchanaburi certainly played a distinctive strategical point as defense against the invading Burmese.

With The Colbys cancelled, Jeff and Fallon return for Dynasty eighth season, their marriage now falling apart again.

With the assistance of the Song Dynasty, the Mongols finished off the Jin in 1234.

With the Joseon Dynasty surrendered in 1637, Hong Taiji succeeded in making them cut off relations with the Ming Dynasty and force them to submit as protectorate of the Qing Empire.

With these words, Nüwa would bring destined chaos to the Shang Dynasty, " The luck Cheng Tang won six hundred years ago is dimming.

With its newfound preeminence over the waning and weak Qing Dynasty, Japan had delegates negotiate the Treaty of Shimonoseki with the Qing emissaries, through which Japan wrested control over the Liaodong Peninsula from the Qing ( a move designed to prevent the southern expansion of Japan's new rival, Russia ), and, more importantly over Korea.

With the success of the three-country intervention, Russia emerged as another major power in East Asia, replacing the Qing Dynasty as the entity that the Joseon court's many government officials advocated close ties with to prevent more Japanese meddling in Korean politics.