During its second Golden Age, the Sassanid Empire reached the peak of its power under Khosrau I in the 6th century.

During the reign of the later Sassanid king Khosrau I ( 531 – 579 ), a gift from an Indian king ( possibly a Maukhari Dynasty king of Kannauj ) included a chess game with sixteen pieces of emerald and sixteen of ruby ( green vs. red ).

During his last years his favourite son Khosrau I had had great influence over him and had been proclaimed successor over his older brothers, Kawus ( Caoses ) and Zames.

During the truce which Tiberius concluded with Khosrau, he busily enhanced the army of the east, not only with transfers from his western armies, but also through barbarian recruits, which he formed into a new Foederati unit, which amounted to some 15, 000 troops by the end of his reign.

During Justinian I's reign, the city's population reached about 500, 000 people.

During Baldwin I's reign the kingdom expanded even further.

During this campaign Poland re-annexed the Red Strongholds, later called Red Ruthenia, lost by Bolesław I's father in 981.

During Napoleon I's reign, Veillons au Salut de l ' Empire was the unofficial anthem of the regime, and in Napoleon III's reign, it was Partant pour la Syrie.

During the remainder of George I's reign, Walpole's ascendancy continued ; the political power of the monarch was gradually diminishing and that of his ministers gradually increasing.

During Napoleon I's reign, Louis-Napoléon's parents had been made king and queen of a French puppet state, the Kingdom of Holland.

During Mary I's brief reign the Abbey was reinstated as a Roman Catholic monastery.

During the flood and the years after it subsided, it became the subject of numerous Delta blues songs, including " When the Levee Breaks ", hence the lyrics, " I works on the levee, mama both night and day, I works so hard, to keep the water away " and " I's a mean old levee, cause me to weep and moan, gonna leave my baby, and my happy home ".

During the same year in Lisbon, Maria II's throne was usurped by Prince Miguel, Pedro I's younger brother.

During Henry I's lifetime William was invested as Duke of Normandy, a title he held more in name than practice.

During the remainder of Alexander I's reign, several ancient structures were renovated in a fanciful neo-Gothic style, but many others were condemned as " disused " or " dilapidated " ( including all the buildings of the Trinity metochion ) and simply torn down.

During the Conclave following John Paul I's death, Cardinal Gantin was thought to be one of the papabili, those cardinals who are considered favorites to be elected pope.

During the latter part of James I's reign Saye was one of the most prominent opponents of the court.

During the alphabet reforms of Peter I, all diacritic marks were removed from the Russian writing system, but shortly after Peter I's death in 1735, the distinction between ⟨ И ⟩ and ⟨ Й ⟩ was restored.

During Ahmad Shah I's period the region was annexed to Bahmani kingdom.

During the surrender of Visborg, Norby was double crossed by Frederick I's advisor Otte Krumpen and left for capture by Lübeck.

During his return from the southwest, Ivan Asen I was murdered by Ivanko, one of his military commanders, who was threatened with punishment for an affair with the sister of Ivan Asen I's wife.

During the English Civil War the bridge was partially blown up by the troops of Oliver Cromwell to prevent King Charles I's troops approaching London from the Royalist base in Lincolnshire.

During the chaotic years preceding George Terter I's accession Bulgaria had lost all of Thrace to the Byzantine Empire, and under his reign its remaining possessions in Macedonia were divided between the Serbians and the Byzantines in 1282 – 1284.

During the XII and XIII centuries many encyclopedic works have been written. Among them De proprietatibus rerum by Bartholomeus Anglicus ' ( 1240 ) was the most widely read and quoted encyclopedia in the High Middle Ages while Vincent of Beauvais's Speculum Majus ( 1260 ) was the most ambitious encyclopedia in the late-medieval period at over 3 million words.

During 1925, however, Scott, like many of his contemporaries / competitors, began an ambitious expansion program designed to make the company more competitive with other automobile manufacturers by offering cars in different price ranges.

During the Middle Ages of Europe, theologian Peter Lombard's Sentences ( 1150 ) had become a standard work of theology, and many ambitious theological scholars wrote commentaries on it.

During this era some of the most renowned city managers of Tampere were Erkki Napoleon Lindfors ( who was responsible for many ambitious construction projects such as the Näsinneula tower and the construction of the suburb of Hervanta, Tampere's " daughter town "), Pekka Paavola ( who gained some notoriety in corruption scandals ) and Jarmo Rantanen.

During most of the union the navy was subjected to low funding, even though there were ambitious plans to expand it.

During this time, McCarty became acquainted with an ambitious local bartender and former buffalo hunter named Pat Garrett.

During the summer of 1750, he fell in love with a cousin, Sophie Gutermann, and this love affair inspired him to plan his first ambitious work, Die Natur der Dinge ( The Nature of Things, 1752 ), a didactic poem in six books.

During the late 1740s, to try to combat local poverty, Sir Francis Dashwood commissioned an ambitious project to supply chalk for a straight three mile ( 5 km ) road between West Wycombe and High Wycombe ( then on the busy London-Oxford road, now the A40 ).

During these years he managed to successfully outmanoeuvre the Duke of Bedford, engineering his resignation and the dismissal of Lord Sandwich who Newcastle had now begun to consider a dangerously ambitious rival.

During his terms of office he executed ambitious construction plans resulting in burdensome borrowings.

During this period she became the centre of a large group of ambitious German animators, such as Bartosch, Hans Richter, Walter Ruttmann, and Oskar Fischinger.

During the 1960s, the Walker organized increasingly ambitious exhibitions that circulated to museums in the United States and abroad.

During his ambitious attempt to unify Japan, Nobunaga attempted to take the autonomy privilege from Sakai.

During the ambitious mission 89 experiments were performed in many disciplines such as materials processing, life sciences, robotics, technology, astronomy, and Earth mapping.

During the ambitious mission 89 experiments were performed in many disciplines such as materials processing, life sciences, robotics, technology, astronomy and earth mapping.

Heartburst was straightforward science fiction, while The One was an ambitious and bizarre fantasy-adventure involving monstrous superheroes, the Cold War, and spiritual evolution ; During this period Veitch also contributed numerous self-contained comics short stories to Epic Illustrated.

During the early 1960s, Randolph Quirk and colleagues, among them Valerie Adams, Derek Davy and David Crystal, conducted an ambitious project known as the Survey of English Usage.

During these formative years OMA also realized ambitious projects, ranging from private residences to large scale urban plans: Villa dall ’ Ava, Paris, France ( 1991 ), Nexus Housing, Fukuoka, Japan ( 1991 ), the Kunsthal, Rotterdam ( 1992 ).

During his later life, he played an important roll as an administrator and he also produced ambitious city plans for Stockholm in connection to his work for the royal palace.

During this time, Bhabha played a key role in convincing the Congress Party's senior leaders, most notable Jawaharlal Nehru who later served as India's first Premier, to start the ambitious nuclear programme.

During that time the very ambitious, John III of Portugal had ascended the throne of Portugal.

During this period he expanded the firm and shown himself to be an astute, ambitious and experienced brewer.

During his six-year hiatus from Sun Dial, Ramon embarked on an ambitious solo project, Quad, which combined ambient electronica with kraut rock.

During its term of office ( until the end of 1992 ), his government managed to make the new democratic institutions work and started an ambitious set of democratic political and economic reforms.