take place

verb4

1. •
   To happen or to occur.

   • Unfortunately, the meeting never took place.
   • The wedding was to take place in the rose garden.
2. •
   (no longer used) To sit in a particular location, take one's place.

   • King Henry VIII takes place under the cloth of state; Cardinal Wolsey and Cardinal Campeius sit under him as judges. Queen Katharine takes place some distance from King Henry VIII. — 1613
3. •
   (no longer used) To take effect; to prevail.

   • […] the moderate advice took place, and the people, upon the Kings engagement of soon remedying their miseries, return’d with blessings for him […] — 1676
4. •
   (no longer used) To take precedence or priority.