Before the 20th century, European sources often referred to the Dalai Lama as the " Grand Lama ".

Before a new Grand Alliance could be concluded Leopold I prepared to send an expedition to seize the Spanish lands in Italy.

Before the 2005 Australian Grand Prix Stoddart initially threatened to withdraw his cars if they were made to comply with the revised regulations for 2005.

Before leaving Happy Days in 1980, Howard made his directing debut with the 1977 low-budget comedy / action film Grand Theft Auto.

Before the Russian conquest Finland had been held by the Swedish kings, first as a royal duchy, since 1581 with the King assuming the secondary title Grand Prince of Finland ( Finnish: Suomen suuriruhtinas, Swedish: Storfurste av Finland ), also often translated as Grand Duke of Finland.

Before the Grand Canal was rebuilt, grain was transferred to Beijing in two ways ; one route was simply via the East China Sea, from the port of Liujiagang ( near Suzhou ); the other was a far more laborious process of transferring the grain from large to small shallow barges ( after passing the Huai River and having to cross southwestern Shandong ), then transferred back to large river barges on the Yellow River before finally reaching Beijing.

Before the construction of Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River in 1941 and Larson Air Base in 1942 the area was largely barren.

Before the end of 1983, Phil Lynott formed a new band called Grand Slam, but they were never able to secure a contract with a record company and split by the beginning of 1985.

" Before Thalberg ," writes Vieira, " there was no Grand Hotel in the American consciousness.

Before this time, the Hohenzollern sovereign had held many titles and crowns, from Supreme Governor of the Protestant Churches ( summus episcopus ) to King, Elector, Grand Duke, Duke for the various regions and realms under his rule.

Before the wall was named it also claimed victims such as 1992 World Sportscar Champion and long time F1 driver Derek Warwick who spectacularly crashed his Arrows-Megatron during qualifying for the 1988 Canadian Grand Prix.

Before the race, he was elected as Chairman of the Grand Prix Drivers ' Association to replace the outgoing Nick Heidfeld.

He also won the Gold Dagger of the Crime Writers ' Association, and France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for Gun Before Butter.

Before the 1000 AD, Hungary wasn't yet recognized as a Kingdom and the ruler of the Hungarians was styled Grand Prince of the Hungarians.

Before human alteration, water flowed westward from LaPorte County, Indiana along the Little Calumet River, made a complete turn, and flowed east along the Grand Calumet into Lake Michigan in the Miller neighborhood of Gary, Indiana.

Before a Grand Jury, el-Hage denied knowing bin Laden and others accused of the embassy bombings.

Before devolution, for example, purely ' Scottish ' legislation was debated at Westminster in a Scottish Grand Committee composed of just those MPs representing Scottish constituencies.

Before roads, canals, and railroads, the Grand River was an important navigational route through the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, used for centuries by various Native American tribes and later by explorers, fur traders, and white settlers.

Before entering elected politics, Simms worked for The Weather Network, prior to which he had worked as a radio reporter in Gander and Grand Falls-Windsor.

Before the Grand Rapids – Benton Harbor segment was completed, the Michigan State Highway Department ( MSHD ), predecessor to the modern MDOT petitioned federal highway officials to switch the Interstate designations west of Grand Rapids.

Before being published as a book, it had been sold to the Saturday Evening Post, in which it appeared in serial form from December 23, 1933 to January 27, 1934, and in England in the Grand Magazine from April to September 1934.

Before the late 1950s and early 1960s, US 16 followed other roads between Muskegon and Grand Rapids, and then Grand River Avenue through Lansing to Detroit.

Before the Province of New York was granted county subdivisions and a greater royal presence in 1683, the early ducal colony consisted of York Shire, as well as Albany and Ulster, after the three titles held by Prince James: Duke of York, Duke of Albany, Earl of Ulster.

* June 25 – Before his coronation, King Edward V of England is deposed by his uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who becomes King as Richard III of England.

Before his royal election, he was by inheritance Duke of Swabia ( 1147 – 1152, as Frederick III ).

Before becoming king he was 4th Duke of York, 7th Earl of March, 5th Earl of Cambridge and 9th Earl of Ulster.

Before, during, and after World War II, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were suspected by many in government and society of being Nazi sympathisers.

Before Władysław took the title of Duke of Poland, probably during the 1070s, he had a relationship with certain Przecława, whose exact origins are unknown, although some sources stated that she belonged to the Prawdzic clan.

Before long a pro-French party took shape among the nobility, urging that she should be replaced by John Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, the closest male relative to the infant prince, and now third in line to the throne.

Before his death ( March 981 ), he had gained from Emperor Otto I the title of Duke of Spoleto also.

Before his accession to the Portuguese throne, John VI bore the titles of Duke of Braganza and Duke of Beja, as well as the title of Prince of Brazil.

Before ascending the throne he was Duke of Beja.

Before 30 July 1447, he married Anne of York, the second child and eldest surviving daughter of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York and Lady Cecily Neville.

Before starting on his second expedition he had published a historical romance, The History of Robert, Second Duke of Normandy, surnamed Robert the Devil ; and he left behind him for publication Catharos Diogenes in his Singularity, a discourse on the immorality of Athens ( London ).

Before the Serbian Uprising, he worked for Duke Petar in Resava, whom the dahi murdered during the Slaughter of the Knezes massacre that would spark the revolution.

Before the creation of the Dukedom of Gordon they were styled Duke of Richmond and Lennox.

Before his brief dukeship, Vladislaus was Duke of Brno and Znojmo from 1191 to 1194.

Before the 2009-10 season, additional changes were made, including installing LED ribbon boards to the front of the press table and painting the upper seats Duke blue.

Before the King married her, I thought to make her my wife, and when I saw her irremediably lost to me I was like to die .” According to the story, the Duke of Somerset retorted to this monologue with, ” You have said quite enough, Culpeper, to lose your head .”

Before his death in 1996, George Murray, 10th Duke of Atholl, placed Blair Castle and most of his estates in a charitable trust, shielding them from inheritance taxes and leaving them under Scottish control, as his heir John Murray, the 11th Duke had indicated he had no desire to leave his native South Africa.

Before the Duke of Wellington died in 1852, he had asked that all his battle trophies be carried at his funeral.