At the zenith of prosperity of the empire, the An Lushan Rebellion was a watershed event that devastated the population and drastically weakened the central imperial government.

" For example, upon the defeat of Kasparov by Deep Blue, he commented that " It was a watershed event, but it doesn't have to do with computers becoming intelligent ".

Two of these attacks led to a watershed event in Lebanon's inchoate civil war.

In December 1952, a riot broke out in Casablanca over the murder of a Tunisian labor leader ; this event marked a watershed in relations between Moroccan political parties and French authorities.

* 1958 – Sri Lankan riots of 1958: This riot is a watershed event in the race relationship of the various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka.

Most significantly, the Giants played the Colts in the 1958 NFL Championship Game that is considered a watershed event in the history of the NFL.

World War I was a watershed event in human history.

Some consider this advertisement a " watershed event " in advertising and a " masterpiece ".

The statute is considered a " watershed event in Anglo-American copyright history ... transforming what had been the publishers ' private law copyright into a public law grant ".

Even considering this, however, the Statute of Anne was " the watershed event in Anglo-American copyright history ... transforming what had been the publishers ' private law copyright into a public law grant ".

Acquisition of CIRUS was a watershed event in nuclear proliferation, with understanding between India and the United States that the reactor would be used for research purposes only.

For example, several of the battles that Edward Shepherd Creasy listed in his famous 1851 book The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World rate hardly a mention here, and the confrontation between Muslims and Christians at Poitiers-Tours in 732, once considered a watershed event, has been downgraded to a raid in force.

* Oldsmobile Delta 88 ( 1965 – 1989 ) While the " 88 " series of Oldsmobile's date back to the 1940s, and were offered in a variety of trim levels, the introduction of the Delta 88, which superseded the Super 88 line as Olds mid-level full-sized vehicles, was a watershed event for the division.

The Tribune call for Nixon to resign made news, reflecting not only the change in the type of conservatism practiced by the paper, but as a watershed event in terms of Nixon's hopes for survival in office.

The first Persian Gulf War in 1991 was a watershed event for CNN that catapulted the channel past the " big three " American networks for the first time in its history, largely due to an unprecedented, historical scoop: CNN was the only news outlet with the ability to communicate from inside Iraq during the initial hours of the Coalition bombing campaign, with live reports from the al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad by reporters Bernard Shaw, John Holliman, and Peter Arnett.

This was a watershed event in conflicts that led to the Great Schism that ultimately produced the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church as separate ecclesiastical entities.

The watershed event in the American gay rights movement was the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City.

During the 1790s Henry Maudslay created the first screw-cutting lathe, a watershed event that signaled the start of blacksmiths being replaced by machinists in factories for the hardware needs of the populace.

Because the water is flushed out of the watershed during the storm event, little infiltrates the soil, replenishes groundwater, or supplies stream baseflow in dry weather.

She signed the manifesto Refus global, a watershed event in the Quebec cultural scene, in 1948.

This event was later marked as the watershed in the divergence between paleoconservatives, who backed Bradford, and neoconservatives, led by Irving Kristol, who supported Bennett.

One watershed event occurred during the 15th National Congress of the CCP in 1997.

“ Because of those who participated, the event has taken on the reputation of a watershed event in ‘ mixed media ’…” wrote Martin Duberman in his history of BMC.

See the approximation of the watershed divide mapped in context of mountains and valleys.

The term " watershed " is not used in this context in the United States.

1958 was a watershed year not just for the Bigfoot story itself but also for the culture that surrounds it.

The Battle of Marathon was a watershed in the Greco-Persian wars, showing the Greeks that the Persians could be beaten ; the eventual Greek triumph in these wars can be seen to begin at Marathon.

The Columbia Glaciated ecoregion, making up about a third of the total watershed, lies in the north and was covered with ice sheets during the Pleistocene.

Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed.

While several fantasy businesses had migrated to the internet in the mid-1990s, the watershed era for online fantasy sports was in 1997 when two web sites made their debut that forever changed the fantasy sports industry: Commissioner. com and RotoNews. com.

Commissioner. com was sold to SportsLine late in 1999 for $ 31 million in cash and stock in a watershed moment for the fantasy industry.

1929 was a watershed year: William Wellman with Chinatown Nights and The Man I Love, Rouben Mamoulian with Applause, Alfred Hitchcock with Blackmail ( Britain's first sound feature ), were among the directors to bring greater fluidity to talkies and experiment with the expressive use of sound ( Eyman, 1997 ).

In 1968 a bridge was built across the Demerara River at Linden, and, in 1974, it was decided that the route to Lethem would cross the Demerara River at Linden and go south, along the watershed of the Demerara and Essequibo Rivers, through Mabura, to Kurupukari.

His first biographer Jack Bracelin reports that this was a watershed in Gardner's life, and that a previous academic interest in spiritualism and life after death thereafter became a matter of firm personal belief for him.

The watershed of Lake Ontario was initially covered in temperate deciduous forest.

Because her international fame was triggered by moving images, she is a watershed figure in the history of modern celebrity and, as one of silent film's most important performers and producers, her contract demands were central to shaping the Hollywood industry.

Tourist arrivals and foreign exchange earnings derived from tourism have steadily increased since the 1987 watershed, in which there was growth from the previous year of, respectively, 30 % and 63 % ( increase in terms of U. S. dollars ).

The presidential elections held in 1988 marked a watershed in Mexican politics, as they were the first serious threat to the party in power by an opposition candidate, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, a defector from the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) and son of former President Lazaro Cardenas, who was nominated by a broad coalition of leftist parties.

The Nicaraguan Canal Commission carried out the most thorough hydrological survey yet of the San Juan river and its watershed, and in 1899 concluded that an interocean project was feasible at a total cost of US $ 138m.

This contract with IBM was the watershed in Microsoft history that led to Allen and Gates ' wealth.

Losing the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894 – 1895 was a watershed for the Qing government.

When negotiating for the possibility of annexation to the US in late 1836, the Texan government instructed its minister Wharton in Washington that if the boundary were an issue, Texas was willing to settle for a boundary at the watershed between the Nueces River and Rio Grande, and leave out New Mexico.

The Second Boer War was a watershed for the British Army in particular and for the British Empire as a whole.