During this period he lost his only son in 1805 and his wife in 1807.

During the Napoleonic Wars, Russia — supported by Great Britain in the Dardanelles Operation — blockaded the straits in 1807.

During Napoleon's invasion of Prussia during the War of the Fourth Coalition, the town was besieged from mid-March to July 2, 1807, by the Grande Armée and by Polish forces drawn from insurgents against Prussian rule ( a street named for the commander leading Polish soldiers is located within the present-day city ).

During the Rococo era Portraiture was an important component of painting in all countries, but especially in Great Britain, where the leaders were William Hogarth ( 1697 – 1764 ), in a blunt realist style, and Francis Hayman ( 1708 – 1776 ), Angelica Kauffman who was Swiss, ( 1741 – 1807 ), Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds ( 1723 – 1792 ), in more flattering styles influenced by Antony Van Dyck ( 1599 – 1641 ).

During the winter of 1807 / 08 Colter passed through Jackson Hole and was the first Caucasian to see the Teton Range.

During the Napoleonic Wars, in 1807 Częstochowa became part of the Duchy of Warsaw, and in 1815, Russian-controlled Congress Poland, in which it remained until World War One.

During the Napoleonic Wars, the city was taken by 1500 Polish soldiers under the leadership of general Michał Sokolnicki in 1807.

During its history, it had been part of Albany County, Rensselaerswyck, and Troy, before its incorporation in 1807.

During 1807 he entered Brasenose College, Oxford, intending at first to study for the Law.

During the Napoleonic Wars Flekkefjord found a new life as a smugglers port, exporting oak to the Napoleon-occupied Netherlands during the period prior to 1807.

During his early period in the Foreign Office ( 1807 – 9 ) Canning became deeply involved in the affairs of Spain, Portugal and Latin America.

During the reign of Domnitor Alexandru Ioan Cuza ( 1859 – 1866 ), Catargiu was one of the Opposition leaders, and received much assistance from his kinsman, Barbu Catargiu ( b. 1807 ), a noted journalist and politician, who was assassinated in Bucharest on the June 20, 1862.

During the campaign in Poland in 1807 he was taken prisoner by the Russians, but was exchanged at the Peace of Tilsit.

During the Napoleonic Wars, Piotrków became part of the Duchy of Warsaw ( 1807 – 15 ) and was a district seat in the Kalisz Department.

During the Napoleonic Wars, Neisse was taken by the French in 1807.

During the Napoleonic Wars, Prussia and the Russian Empire signed a treaty of alliance in the town on 16 April 1807.

During this time, he also served as the speaker of the House three times: in 1804, in 1805, and in 1807.

During the Napoleonic Wars, in 1801 and again in 1807, the British Navy attacked Copenhagen.

During this expedition he acquired a reputation as a leader of light troops and, in October 1807, sailed with Sir David Baird for the Iberian peninsula at the head of a light brigade.

During 1807 – 1809 Iffland put out two volumes of Neue dramatische Werke.

During the years 1801 – 1807, he studied in Italy, then returned to Vienna where he became member of the Academy on 8 February 1815 and remained till his death in 1818.

During the parallel Anglo-Turkish War in 1807, Sébastiani helped the Ottomans in the successful defense of Constantinople against the British squadron of Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth ( see Dardanelles Operation ).

During the invasion of Portugal by Napoleonic troops in 1807, the citadel of Cascais was occupied by the French, with General Junot staying some time in the village.

During the French invasion of Portugal, under he orders Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807, the Mafra Palace became headquarters and garrison.

During World War I, Poirot left Belgium for Britain as a refugee.

During the 5th century, the Anglii invaded Great Britain, after which time their name does not recur on the continent except in the title of Suevi Angili.

During the later part of first millennium BC the use of brass spread across a wide geographical area from Britain and Spain in the west to Iran, and India in the east.

During Operation Dynamo — the evacuation of 330, 000 BEF and French troops to Britain — Montgomery assumed command of the II Corps.

During World War I, the Liberals governed Britain through a coalition with the Conservatives, which ended in 1922.

During the drafting of the Indian Constitution, laws from Ireland, the United States, Britain, and France were all synthesized to get a refined set of Indian laws, as it currently stands.

During his reign the Empire conquered Thrace, Noricum, Pamphylia, Lycia and Judaea, and began the conquest of Britain.

During World War II, and for nearly a decade after the war, most milk in Britain was used for the making of one single kind of cheese nicknamed " Government Cheddar " as part of war economies and rationing.

During the Second World War the Christadelphians in Britain assisted in the Kindertransport, helping to relocate several hundred Jewish children away from Nazi persecution and founding a hostel Elpis Lodge.

During Thompson's 1811 voyage down the Columbia River he camped at the junction with the Snake River on July 9, 1811, and erected a pole and a notice claiming the country for Great Britain and stating the intention of the North West Company to build a trading post at the site.

During the Second World War nearby Thorney Island was used as a Royal Air Force base, playing a role in the Battle of Britain.

During the Battle of Britain, however, British Hurricanes and Spitfires proved roughly equal to Luftwaffe fighters.

During World War II, anthropologist Margaret Mead was working in Britain for the British Ministry of Information and later for the U. S. Office of War Information, delivering speeches and writing articles to help the American soldiers better understand the British civilians, and vice versa.

During the Battle of Britain he used to spend weekends with Warburg and his new friend Zionist Tosco Fyvel at Twyford, Berkshire.

During its 47 years of existence, the German Empire operated as an industrial, technological and scientific giant, receiving more Nobel Prizes in science than Britain, France, Russia and the United States combined.

During the later 1950s, Great Britain emerged as a producer of horror films.

During this time, the Emperor Nero considered withdrawing Roman forces from Britain altogether.

During the Roman period Britain ’ s continental trade was principally directed across the Southern North Sea and Eastern Channel, focusing on the narrow Strait of Dover, though there were also more limited links via the Atlantic seaways.

During their occupation of Britain the Romans founded a number of important settlements, many of which still survive.

During their occupation of Britain the Romans built an extensive network of roads which continued to be used in later centuries and many are still followed today.

During tenure as a member of the Congress, Middleton was not a supporter of immediate independence from Great Britain, himself remaining loyal to the crown.

Many Irish servicemen, particularly sailors, settled in Britain: During the 18th and 19th century a third of the Army and Royal Navy were Irish.

During a visit to Philadelphia in 1812 following Congress ' declaration of war with Great Britain, Audubon became an American citizen and gave up his French citizenship.

During the abdication crisis of December 1936, Ribbentrop reported to Berlin that the reason the crisis had occurred was an anti-German Jewish-Masonic-reactionary conspiracy to depose Edward ( whom Ribbentrop represented as a staunch friend of Germany ), and that civil war would soon break out in Britain between the King's supporters and those of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's.