Yahweh's war campaign in Palestine validates Israel's entitlement to the land and provides a paradigm of how Israel was to live there: twelve tribes, with a designated leader, united by covenant in warfare and in worship of Yahweh alone at single sanctuary, all in obedience to the commands of Moses as found in Deuteronomy.

Mountbatten tried to persuade Jinnah of a united India, citing the difficult task of dividing the mixed states of Punjab and Bengal, but the Muslim leader was unyielding in his goal of establishing a separate Muslim state called Pakistan.

However, former subjects soon united under Ardaric, leader of the Gepids, against the Huns at the Battle of Nedao in 454.

In 486, Clovis I, leader of the Salian Franks, defeated Syagrius at Soissons and subsequently united most of northern and central Gaul under his rule.

* Thinis, Egypt — Undiscovered city and centre of the Thinite Confederacy, the leader of which, Menes, united Upper and Lower Egypt and was the first pharaoh.

In later Jewish messianic tradition and eschatology, a messiah is a leader anointed by God, and in some cases, a future King of Israel, physically descended from the Davidic line, who will rule the united tribes of Israel and herald the Messianic Age of global peace.

The Merovingian dynasty was founded by Childeric I ( c. 457 – 481 ) the son of Merovech, leader of the Salian Franks, but it was his famous son Clovis I ( 481 – 511 ) who united all of Gaul under Merovingian rule.

* The Tocharian or Yue-Chi tribes are united under the Kushan leader Kujula Kadphises, thus creating the Kushan Empire in Afghanistan and northern India.

Notwithstanding the different political orientation of the ruling parties, the coalition stayed united until Mart Laar resigned in December 2001, after Reform Party had broken up the same coalition in Tallinn municipality, making opposition leader Edgar Savisaar new Mayor of Tallinn.

On January 2, 1492, the leader of the last Muslim stronghold in Granada surrendered to armies of a recently united Christian Spain ( after the marriage of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, the Catholic Monarchs ).

Raeder wanted to see the replacement of democracy with an authoritarian, militaristic regime that in Raeder's analogy ensure that Germany would become " one family " united behind the same goals of world power, or as Raeder put it in 1932 Germany needed a " unified Volk " led by one strong leader to win the next war.

In the 1972 presidential election, opponents of military rule united under José Napoleón Duarte, leader of the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ).

He is known to be a social leader of India who played an unparalleled role in the country's struggle for independence and guided its integration into a united, independent nation.

Thatcher also clarified that she wanted the Soviet leader to do what he could to stop it, telling Gorbachev " We do not want a united Germany ".

* Ducetius, a Hellenized leader of the Sicels and founder of a united Sicilian state

Genghis Khan, leader of the Mongols in the 13th century AD, united his people to eventually create the largest contiguous empire in human history.

Under their leader Ardaric, the Gepids united with other Germanic tribes and defeated the Huns at Battle of Nedao in 454.

Several former PSP members united in the " Left Forum " in 1992 they would leave the party to join former PSP leader Van der Spek to found the PSP ' 92.

* In southern Korean states, the word Han or Gan, meaning " leader ", possibly derived from Khan, was used for various ruling princes, until Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, united them under a now hereditary king, titled Maripgan, meaning the ' head of kings ' ( e. g. King Naemul Maripgan ).

In addition to serving as prime minister, Al-Suwaidi also held posts as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Justice, the Controller general of state accounts ; and separate from his ministerial roles, al-Suwaidi served as a member of the regency council ( performing the duties of king or regent at times in which they were absent from the country ), a leader of the Iraqui delegation to the league of nations and a leader of the delegation to the united nations.

In 1996, a year after the assassination of p. m. Yitzhak Rabin from the labor party, the Likud, headed by the opposition leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, was united with 2 parties: Gesher and Tzomet and ran in the election against the Labor party, headed by acting P. M. Shimon Peres.

Archibald himself was the leader of the government side in the election which followed ; the francophone population was mostly united in support of him, while John Christian Schultz led a group of ultra-loyalist Anglophones who opposed the conciliation policy.

As early as December 1933, a Trotskyist splinter group called the Communist League of Struggle ( CLS ), headed by former Socialist Party youth section leader Albert Weisbord and his wife Vera Buch, approached Norman Thomas of the Socialist Party of America seeking a united front hunger march of the two organizations followed by a general strike.

This leader must be a man who lives above illusions that heretofore have shaped the foreign policy of the United States, namely that Russia will agree to a reunited Germany, that the East German government does not exist, that events in Japan in June 1960 were Communist-inspired, that the true government of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil influence behind Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris in May 1960, and that either China or Russia wants or expects war.

* 1997 – Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.

In 2011, the leader of the Ainu community in Kamchatka, Alexei Vladimirovich Nakamura requested that Vladimir Ilyukhin ( Governor of Kamchatka ) and Boris Nevzorov ( Chairman of state Duma ) include the Ainu in the central list of the Indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East.

In the late summer of 1984, the Soviet Union also prevented a visit to West Germany by East German leader Erich Honecker.

The two countries exchanged permanent representatives in 1974, and, in 1987, East Germany's leader Erich Honecker paid an official state visit to West Germany.

* 1919 – At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal of Iraq signs an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.

For example, in 1984, the Soviet Union prevented a visit to West Germany by East German leader Erich Honecker.

On 1 April 1991, Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, leader of the government Treuhand organization responsible for the privatization of the East German state economy, was shot dead.

These developments greatly disturbed hardline communists such as the East German leader Erich Honecker, who condemned the end of the traditional " socialist unity " of the Soviet bloc and appealed to Moscow to rein in the Hungarians.

Twice, in 1933 and 1944, the Uyghurs successfully regained their independence ( backed by the Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin ): the First East Turkestan Republic was a short-lived attempt at independence of land around Kashghar, and it was destroyed by Chinese Muslim army under General Ma Zhancang and Ma Fuyuan at the Battle of Kashgar ( 1934 ).

The democratic socialist leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, allied with left-wing parties, participated in General elections held in December 1970 saw the far left Awami League under Mujibur Rahman win an overall majority of seats in parliament ( all but two of the 162 seats allocated to East Pakistan ).

Nasser became an influential leader in the Middle East in the 1950s, leading Arab states into war with Israel, becoming a major leader of the Non-Aligned Movement and promoting pan-Arab unification.

** Erich Honecker, East German leader ( d. 1994 )

** East Pakistan leader Sheik Mujibur Rahman accuses the central government of negligence in catastrophe relief.

** Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan ( present day-Bangladesh ), delivers his famous speech in the Racecourse Field in Dhaka, calling on the masses to be prepared to fight for national independence.

** East Pakistan ( now Bangladesh ) independence is declared by local Awami League leader Hannan Sarker on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, from Kalurghat Radio Station in Chittagong.

** East German leader Walter Ulbricht resigns as Communist Party leader but retains the position of head of state.

** Walter Ulbricht, East German leader ( b. 1893 )

** The Communist leader of East Germany, Erich Honecker, is forced to step down as leader of the country after a series of health problems, and is succeeded by Egon Krenz.

** Cold War: The Communist government of East Germany resigns, although SED leader Egon Krenz remains head of state.

* December 9 – The East German Communist Party elects the reformist Gregor Gysi as party leader.