Even George Washington, at the end of taking the oath of office as prescribed in the Constitution, was moved to ad-lib the phrase "So help me God," which has been added by most presidents being inaugurated since.
In the words of C. Schlumberger, his most exhaustive biographer, he inaugurated the Byzantine era in the East.
The Safavid dynasty, which established itself at Isfahan in the 16th century, inaugurated the most brilliant epoch of modern Iranian history.
Despite the multiple murders at its heart, Cocaine Nights is one of Ballard's most relaxed works, inaugurating what you might call his late period – that slight flattening of style and deceleration that mark his four last, and four longest, fictions.
In October the newest and most dramatically overhauled buildings were inaugurated by Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia.
But the day after Mr. Fox was inaugurated, the Zapatistas' most outspoken leader, Subcommander Marcos, warned the president that the rebels were prepared to keep up their armed struggle if the government did not meet certain demands.
David's "revolution" is held to underpin the development of later medieval Scotland, whereby the changes he inaugurated grew into most of the central institutions of the later medieval kingdom.
The man who was inaugurated to the most powerful office in the world on Friday won his position on a platform fueled by xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia, fear mongering, racism, and more.
It was also, and even more significantly, a measure of the degree to which he has taken personal responsibility for delivering on one of the most ambitious agendas any newly inaugurated president has ever announced.
The most recent addition in 2009 was inaugurated by Narendra Modi, then Gujarat's chief minister, now India's prime minister.
