By 926 Sihtric had evidently acknowledged Æthelstan as over-king, adopting Christianity and marrying a sister of Æthelstan at Tamworth.

By marrying Vespasia Polla he allied himself to the more prestigious patrician gens Vespasia, ensuring the elevation of his sons Titus Flavius Sabinus II and Vespasian to senatorial rank.

By marrying his son Philip the Handsome to the future Queen Joanna of Castile in 1498, Maximilian established the Habsburg dynasty in Spain and allowed his grandson Charles to hold the throne of both León-Castile and Aragon, thus making him the first de jure King of Spain.

By marrying Vespasia Polla he allied himself to the more prestigious patrician gens Vespasia, ensuring the elevation of his sons Titus Flavius Sabinus II and Vespasian to the senatorial rank.

By marrying Aspasia without obtaining the permission of the Archbishop, Alexander disobeyed the law and his attitude caused a major scandal in Greece.

By marrying her now, he would be removed from the line of succession early, and preclude the prospect of losing Natalia.

By 1840 he writes that seamen were marrying early with 86 marriages and 60 births in the parish in the space of one year.

By proceeding more quickly, Berengaria prevented the daughters of her former husband from marrying a man who could claim the throne of León.

By that time, less wealthy daughters were often marrying without any dowry.

By 1378, he owned the manor of Bodiam by virtue of marrying into a land-owning family.

By marrying Sibylla to his vassal, Philip could control the kingship of Jerusalem.

By this — so this narrative alleges — Agnes hoped to foil any attempt by Raymond III of Tripoli ( the former regent ) from marrying her daughter into the rival court faction, led by the Ibelins.

By marrying Jacob and bearing his sons, who would be raised in the tzadik's home and continue his mission into the next generation ( indeed, all 12 sons became tzadikim in their own right and formed the foundation of the Nation of Israel ), they would develop an even closer relationship to God.

By the late 1940s, Marjorie slowly matures to a young woman of marrying age.

By marrying short passing to intelligent positional play, they made the ball do all the work, and so kept their opponents on the run wrote Joy.

By marrying two daughters to Frankish kings, he may have intended to involve the Merovingians in the Visigothic succession.

By marrying a Roman Catholic, Alexander lost his place in line of succession to the British throne, which he had held as a descendant of Queen Victoria through her second son Alfred.

By marrying Vespasia Polla he allied himself to the more prestigious patrician gens Vespasia, ensuring the elevation of his sons Titus Flavius Sabinus II and Vespasian to the senatorial rank.

By now, he has added to his fortunes by marrying Héloise Plïsson, a rich socialite who has suspicions about how he makes his money, but prefers not to know.

By marrying Safiyyah, Muhammad aimed at ending the enmity and hostility between Jews and Islam.

By marrying her, Muhammad also established kinship ties with the banu Makhzum, his previous opponents.

By marrying Frederick, she became Electress of Brandenburg in 1688, and after the elevation of Brandenburg-Prussia to a kingdom in 1701, she became the first Queen in Prussia.

By then Lloyd Cotsen, had entered the Stolaroff family by marrying his daughter Joanne Stolaroff.

By the end of 1819 Calvos had a love affair with a student, Susan Fortune Rideout, but her parents did not approve, and it was considered too soon after his wife's death for them to think of marrying.

By contrast, the British press were jubilant ; many newspapers sought to portray the battle as a victory for Britain over anarchy, and the success was used to attack the supposedly pro-republican Whig politicians Charles James Fox and Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

By now he had taken over the Earl of Warwick's playing company, which may have included the famous comedian, Richard Tarleton.

By 2005, Richard Glass considered the differences to be a " serious fracture " but " vitally important to those on both sides of the fracture " and " of little importance to anyone else studying the movement from a software engineering perspective " since they have had " little effect on the field ".

By Richard Groller.

* The Luftwaffe Over Germany By Donald Caldwell, Richard Muller – Details of Goring's rant for heavy bombers.

By marching his army along the shore, Richard was regularly resupplied by ships travelling along the coast.

By the 19th century, accompagnato had gained the upper hand, the orchestra played a much bigger role, and Richard Wagner revolutionised opera by abolishing almost all distinction between aria and recitative in his quest for what he termed " endless melody ".

By 1598, they were so famous, London poet and sonneteer Richard Barnefield wrote:

By 13 March Richard had returned to England, and by 12 May he had set sail for Normandy with some 300 ships, eager to take the war to Philip.

By 1959, the death of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens in a plane crash, the departure of Elvis for the army, the retirement of Little Richard to become a preacher, prosecutions of Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, and the breaking of the payola scandal ( which implicated major figures, including Alan Freed, in bribery and corruption in promoting individual acts or songs ), gave a sense that the initial rock and roll era had come to an end.

By the age of sixteen, Richard commanded his own army, putting down rebellions in Poitou against his father, King Henry II.

By 1 June Richard had conquered the whole island.

By the beginning of 1839 Richard Wagner was employed as a conductor at the Court Theatre in Riga.

By 1970, President Richard Nixon initiated a Plan of Vietnamization, which would remove the US from the Vietnam War and return the responsibility of defense back to the South Vietnamese.

By the end of Henry VII's reign, the king's frugality, and Morton's tax policy, carried out by Edmund Dudley and Richard Empson, had replenished the treasury.

By the 1980s, Alberto Alessi took over the management of Alessi and launched the Alessi company into the design decade through collaborations with designers and architects such as Alessandro Mendini, Ettore Sottsass, Richard Sapper, and Achille Castiglioni.

* The Rambouillet Accord: A Declaration of War Disguised as a Peace Agreement, By Richard Becker, Western Regional Co-Director of the International Action Center

By claiming to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, the younger son of King Edward IV, one of the Princes in the Tower, Warbeck was a significant threat to the newly established Tudor Dynasty, and gained support outside England.

* Researcher: Mars rock varnish hints of life July 2, 2001 By Richard Stenger CNN

By contrast, Richard II had no children and Richard's heir-presumptive Edmund Mortimer was only seven years old.

By the late 1440s, two opposing factions had formed behind Edmund Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, and Richard of York.

* Private Eye On London By Private Eye Rushton with Christopher Booker and Richard Ingrams ( Weidenfeld And Nicolson 1962 )

By 1976, Richard Bonynge had become Musical Director and he led the company on its first overseas tour to New Zealand with Verdi's Rigoletto and Janáček's Jenůfa, the latter conducted by Georg Tintner.

" By 1835, little of the Mission's assets remained, though the manufacture of hides and tallow continued in full swing as described in Richard Henry Dana's classic novel Two Years Before the Mast.