In 1700, Charles II of Spain died and was succeeded by Philip V, marking the start of the War of Spanish Succession.
It was not smart for me to oppose the war at the start of this war, but I did so because it was the right thing to do.
For the anniversary of the start of the war the city of Sarajevo decided to memorialize the occasion by lining up 11, 541 red chairs in rows, filling the main street in the city center.
It is reckoned that a total of 520, 000 Tamil refugees have left the country since the start of the war, 60, 000 of them to India and most of the rest to Europe, North America or Australia.
At least 161 media workers have been killed in Iraq since the start of the war, according to the International Federation of Journalists which reports 60 deaths this year alone.
None of this was clear to most people at the start of the war.
The project is part of plans to mark the centenary of the start of the war.
At the start of World War II, after war was declared, very little happened for half a year.
The start of the war was originally designed to be an air campaign, followed quickly by a ground assault.
Since the start of the war, 255 U.S. troops have been killed -- 170 hostile deaths and 85 non-hostile.
But since the start of the war, Iraqis every year brace for an uptick in violence during the holy month.
No-one can view the start of a war - especially a war with fearsome weaponry - with anything other than horror.
Mr Berlusconi has been one of George W Bush's staunchest allies since the start of the war against Saddam Hussein in 2003.
And 90-year-old Victor Borge left his native Denmark at the start of World War II and arrived in New York in 1940 not knowing a word of English.
At least in the short term, all the region's leaders feel their bargaining power with the West has palpably risen since the start of the war in Afghanistan.
In that year 23, 000 British soldiers were hospitalised for treatment and the French government reported over a million cases of syphilis or gonorrhoea since the start of the war.
At the start of the war, the stud moved east toward Russia to escape the advancing Germans, all the horses trotting under cover of night to escape the strafing aircraft.
She's as American as my grandfather, who grew up on Missouri farmland in the early 1900s, and who spoke nothing but German at home until the start of World War I.
British troops, with the support of coalition air power, have been pushing steadily into Basra since shortly after the start of the war, facing fierce resistance from Iraqi regular and irregular troops.
U.S. officials said Tuesday Farouk Hijazi, ex-head of Saddam's Mukhabarat intelligence service, had arrived in Syria from Tunisia where he had been serving as Iraq's ambassador at the start of the war.
In fact, even though they were forced to sell their family-named company off before the start of World War II, after the guns stopped firing they found themselves missing the smell of burnt rubber and racetracks.
The defense secretary refused to comment about another New York Times story, which said that an Iraqi scientist had told an American military team that Iraqis destroyed chemical and biological weapons equipment days before the start of the war in Iraq.
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Bill Nelson, D-Florida, who was among those briefed, told CNN there has been no evidence discovered since the start of the war in Iraq that suggests Speicher is still alive, but that he believes Speicher may be alive based on intelligence gathered before the war.
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Little progress was said to have been made before the start of the Gulf war.
Along with most Americans he was expelled in 1950 at the start of the Korean war.
They say it is simply harder to get disability benefits since the start of the Iraq war.
Flaherty says that since the start of the Iraq war, doctors have learned key lessons in trauma care.
In return, South Korea cancelled a veterans parade which would have commemorated the 50th anniversary of the start of the Korean war.
The latest move comes as Kuwait prepares to mark the 10th anniversary of the start of the Gulf War, which convulsed the region.
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