The Fourth Fitna or Great Abbasid Civil War Military_operation resulted Causation from the conflict Hostile_encounter between the brothers al-Amin and al-Ma'mun over the succession Change_of_leadership to the throne of the Abbasid Caliphate .

Russian army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in a protest Protest against Tsar Nicholas I 's assumption Earnings_and_losses of the throne after his elder brother Constantine removed Removing himself from the line of succession .

The war began Process_start when the Catholic League convinced Convincing King Henry III to issue Creating an edict outlawing Protestantism and annulling Henry of Navarre 's right to the throne ; Henry III was possibly influenced Influence by the royal favorite , Anne de Joyeuse .

Henry of Guise planned Arranging to assassinate Killing the king and seize Hold the throne , but the king struck Attack first by having Guise killed Killing by his guards , The Forty-Five .

In 1420 , the Treaty of Troyes was signed Sign_agreement , by which the English king married Forming_relationships the French princess Catherine and was made Manufacturing regent Change_of_leadership of the kingdom and heir to the throne of France .

English , and later British monarchs would continue to nominally claim Statement the French throne until 1801 , though they would never again seriously pursue it .

The Fourth Macedonian War ( 150 BC to 148 BC ) was fought Hostile_encounter between the Roman Republic and a Greek uprising led by the Macedonian pretender to the throne Andriscus .

The members of the coalition claimed Statement that Dong had the intention of usurping Change_of_leadership the throne by holding Defending Emperor Xian hostage and by establishing Creating a strong influence in the imperial court .

He sent Sending Ivan Asen III , son of the former Emperor Mitso Asen , to claim Statement the Bulgarian throne at the head of a large Byzantine army .

the wars of the roses were a series of english civil wars for control of the throne of england fought between supporters of two rival cadet branches of the royal house of plantagenet : the house of lancaster , associated with the red rose of lancaster , and the house of york , whose symbol was the white rose of york .

the power struggle ignited Process_start around social and financial troubles following the hundred years ' war , unfolding the structural problems of bastard feudalism , combined with the mental infirmity and weak rule of king henry vi which revived interest in the house of york 's claim to the throne by richard of york .

After a series of Yorkist victories from January–February 1461 , Edward claimed Statement the throne on 4 March 1461 , and the last serious Lancastrian resistance ended Process_end at the decisive Battle of Towton .

When Edward fled to Flanders in 1470 , Henry VI was re-installed Change_of_leadership as king on 3 October 1470 , but his resumption of rule was short lived , and he was deposed Change_of_leadership again following the defeat of his forces at the Battle of Tewkesbury , and on 21 May 1471 , Edward entered London unopposed , resumed Process_start the throne , and probably had Henry killed Killing that same day .

The ascension of Richard III occurred Coming_to_be under a cloud of controversy , and shortly after assuming the throne , the wars sparked Process_start anew with Buckingham 's rebellion , as many die-hard Yorkists abandoned Richard to join Lancastrians .

After Richard III was killed and his forces defeated at Bosworth Field , Henry assumed Receiving the throne as Henry VII and married Forming_relationships Elizabeth of York , the eldest daughter and heir of Edward IV , thereby uniting the two claims .

Shortly after Henry took the throne , the Earl of Lincoln , a Yorkist sympathizer , put forward Lambert Simnel as an imposter Richard of York , younger brother of Edward V. Lincoln 's forces were defeated Conquering , and he was killed Killing at the Battle of Stoke Field on 16 June 1487 , bringing a close to the Wars of the Roses .

Antigonus father , Demetrius Poliorcetes , had been driven Motion from the Macedonian throne by Pyrrhus of Epirus and Lysimachus in 288 BC .

Tired of war Demetrius surrendered Surrendering himself to Seleucus I Nicator in 285 BC , leaving Departing Antigonus as the Antigonid heir to the Macedonian throne .

In this way , Antigonus was able to inflict Causation a crushing defeat on them and claim Statement the Macedonian throne .

This is the only major war Hostile_encounter Ashoka fought Hostile_encounter after his accession to the throne .

Henry 's attempts to install Change_of_leadership his daughter , the Empress Matilda , as his successor were unsuccessful and on Henry 's death in 1135 , his nephew Stephen of Blois seized the throne with the help of Stephen 's brother , Henry of Blois , the Bishop of Winchester .

Stephen died Death the next year and Henry ascended Change_of_leadership the throne as Henry II , the first Angevin king of England , beginning Process_start a long period of reconstruction .

The murder Killing of Comyn in 1306 had set off Causation a bloody civil war for the throne of Scotland which King Robert had all but won at Bannockburn and was now attempting to finish Process_end by capturing Conquering their last remaining stronghold .

In 1808 , King Ferdinand VII of Spain abdicated Change_of_leadership in favor of Napoleon , who granted Giving the throne to his brother , Joseph Bonaparte .

James Scott , 1st Duke of Monmouth , the eldest illegitimate son of Charles II , claimed Statement to be rightful heir to the throne and attempted to displace Change James II .

The groom , Prince William , is second in the line of succession to the British throne .

As Prince William was not the heir apparent to the throne , the wedding Social_event was not a full state occasion and many details were left to the couple to decide Deciding , such as much of the guest list of about 1,900 .

Piłsudski , however , remained Presence the most influential politician in Poland , and became Becoming the `` power behind the throne '' until his death Death in 1935 .

In 272 BC , Pyrrhus agreed to assist Assistance the disgruntled Spartan prince , Cleonymus , who requested Request his assistance in securing the Spartan throne .

As a direct consequence of these events , the Holy Roman Empire ceased Process_end to exist when , in 1806 , Holy Roman Emperor Francis II abdicated Change_of_leadership the Imperial throne , emerging Coming_to_be as Francis I , Emperor of Austria .

The background to the battle Hostile_encounter was the death of the childless King Edward the Confessor in January 1066 , which set up a succession struggle between several claimants to his throne .

The conflict arose Coming_to_be from a dynastic succession struggle between two groups of cousins , the Kauravas and Pandavas , for the throne of Hastinapura in an Indian kingdom called Kuru .

The First Javanese War Hostile_encounter of Succession was a struggle Hostile_encounter between Sultan Amangkurat III of Mataram and the Dutch East India Company who supported Supporting the claim Statement of the Sultan 's uncle , Pangeran Puger to the throne .

The military conspirators brought Bringing to power the 17-year-old King Peter II , whom they declared Expressing_publicly to be of age to assume the throne , and a weak and divided government of national unity was formed Creating with Simović as prime minister and Vladko Maček and Slobodan Jovanović as his vice-premiers .

They were related through their paternal grandfather Ferdinand I. Ferdinand of Styria , or Ferdinand II as he was to become Becoming known , was an ardent follower of Catholicism and the counter-reformation and not likely to be as willing to compromise as his two cousins and predecessors on the Bohemian throne were or had been forced Hostile_encounter to do by circumstance .

Ferdinand had not received Receiving his Bohemian throne in a weak position , as Mathias or Rudolf had .

Napoleon Bonaparte 's invasion of Spain in 1808 touched Connect off a crisis of legitimacy of crown rule , since he had placed Placing his brother Joseph on the Spanish throne after forcing Request the abdication of the Spanish monarch Charles IV .

it also involved Cause_to_be_included a dynastic power struggle Hostile_encounter between powerful noble families in the line for succession to the french throne : the wealthy , ambitious , and fervently catholic ducal house of guise ( a cadet branch of the house of lorraine , who claimed Statement descent from charlemagne ) and their ally anne de montmorency , constable of france ( i.e. , commander in chief of the french armed Bearing_arms forces Hostile_encounter ) versus the less wealthy house of UNK ( a branch of the house of bourbon ) , princes of the blood in the line of succession to the throne who were sympathetic to calvinism .

it also involved Cause_to_be_included a dynastic power struggle Hostile_encounter between powerful noble families in the line for succession to the french throne : the wealthy , ambitious , and fervently catholic ducal house of guise ( a cadet branch of the house of lorraine , who claimed Statement descent from charlemagne ) and their ally anne de montmorency , constable of france ( i.e. , commander in chief of the french armed Bearing_arms forces Hostile_encounter ) versus the less wealthy house of UNK ( a branch of the house of bourbon ) , princes of the blood in the line of succession to the throne who were sympathetic to calvinism .

at the conclusion of the conflict Hostile_encounter in 1598 , the protestant henry of navarre , heir to the french throne , converted Change to catholicism and was crowned Change_of_leadership henry iv of france .

The group , calling themselves the `` Royal Security Forces of the Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo '' , was sent Sending by Jamalul Kiram III , one of the claimants to the throne of the Sultanate of Sulu .

The victorious Barjik mounted Connect his head on top of the throne from which he commanded Control the battles of his Middle Eastern campaign .

Isabella 's daughter Joanna succeeded to the throne .

Among those killed in the crash Catastrophe were Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden ( at the time of his death Death , second in line to the Swedish throne ) , U.S. opera singer Grace Moore , and Danish actress Gerda Neumann .