During Venetian rule in the early 16th century, a monastery was built on the islet and a leprosarium established later in the century, after which the island was named.

During this time, the local Greek language assimilated a large number of Italian and Venetian words, many of which are still common today.

During Venetian rule, the Corfiotes developed a fervent appreciation of Italian opera, which was the real source of the extraordinary ( given the conditions in the mainland of Greece ) musical development of the island during that era.

During the years 1714 – 18, the Ottomans had been successful against Venice in Greece and Crete, in the Ottoman – Venetian War.

During the Renaissance this early form of embroidery spread to Italy where it evolved into Italian Reticella and Venetian lacework.

During the following years Dandolo twice went as ambassador to King William II of Sicily, and then in 1183 returned to Constantinople to negotiate the restoration of the Venetian quarter in the city.

During Venetian rule the city adopted the Statutes of Scutari, a civic law written in Venetian, which also contained Albanian elements such as Besa and Gjakmarrja.

During the centuries of rule by Venice, they acquired Venetian names, by which some of them are still known in English ( and in Italian ).

During the long period of Venetian occupation, the islands were used for resupplying the Venetian fleet.

During Gardner's lifetime, she welcomed artists, performers, and scholars to Fenway Court to draw inspiration from the rich collection and dazzling Venetian setting, including John Singer Sargent, Charles Martin Loeffler, and Ruth St. Denis, among others.

During the first century BC Emperor Augustus established a Castrum Cenetense in what is now the heart of Serravalle to defend the Venetian plain.

During her reign the island was controlled by Venetian merchants.

During this period several palaces, squares and religious buildings in Venetian style were built.

During the 15th and 16th century, struggles with the Ottoman Turks led to frequent blockades of the Venetian ports, limiting the amount of available export wines from the Greek isles and abroad.

During the Venetian occupation, the town was destroyed three times: by an earthquake in 1508, by a pirate attack in 1538 and finally by the Venetians themselves in 1651.

During the 13th century the hereditary Counts of Korčula were loosely governed in turn by the Hungarian crown and by the Republic of Genoa, and also enjoyed a brief period of independence ; but, in 1255, Marsilio Zorzi conquered the island's city and razed or damaged some of its churches in the process, forcing the Counts to return to Venetian supreme rule.

During the frequent Ottoman – Venetian Wars, the Greeks sided with the Venetians against the Ottomans, with a few exceptions.

During the Ottoman – Venetian War ( 1463 – 1479 ), the Maniot Kladas brothers, Krokodelos and Epifani, were leading bands of stratioti on behalf of Venice against the Turks in Southern Peloponnese.

During the Venetian occupation the city was fortified, developed and thrived economically.

During the 1687 Venetian attack on the city of Athens ( conquered by the Ottomans ), the Ottomans turned the ancient Parthenon into an ammunitions storehouse.

During the reign of Khubilai Khan, Venetian merchant Marco Polo arrived at Dadu and Shangdu, where it is said that he served Khubilai Khan for seventeen years.

During the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern period, under Venetian domination, the town was known in Italian as Napoli di Romania, after the medieval usage of " Romania " to refer to the lands of the Byzantine Empire, and to distinguish it from Napoli ( Naples ) in Italy.

During the first 20 years of his rule, Abd ar-Rahman avoided military action against the northern Christian kingdoms, Asturias and Navarre.

During the end of the 9th century, the Samanids extended its rule from Bukhara to as far south as the Indus River and west into most of Persia.

During the end of the 9th century, the Samanids extended its rule from Bukhara to as far south as the Indus River and west into most of Persia.

During the final decades of imperial rule, the troops were supplied by Germanic chieftains employed by the Roman administration.

During his rule, members of Yakoma were granted all key positions in the administration and made up a majority of the military.

During Patassé ’ s rule they were becoming increasingly marginalised, while Patassé created militias favouring his own Gbaya tribe, as well as neighbouring Sara and Kaba.

During this period, the harsh rule of the Spanish loyalists, who punished suspected rebels, drove more and more Chileans into the insurrectionary camp.

During the Han Dynasty, Confucianism developed from an ethical system into a political ideology used to legitimize the rule of the political elites.

During Chiang's rule, attacks on foreigners by Kuomintang forces flared up in several incidents.

During the rule of Mughal Emperor Akbar, it became a proper productive unit.

During the first years in power, under Lenin's rule, the Central Committee was the key decision-making body in both practice and theory, and decisions were made through majority votes.

During Stalin's rule they were specialised.

During his short rule, he replaced more than one-fifth of the Soviet ministers and regional party first secretaries and more than one-third of the department heads within the Central Committee apparatus.

During the rule of Henry VIII an Act of Parliament declared that ' this realm of England is an Empire ... governed by one Supreme Head and King having the dignity and royal estate of the imperial Crown of the same '.

During the Edo period, the shogunate appointed administrators ( machi bugyō ) with jurisdiction over the police and ( beginning with the rule of Tokugawa Yoshimune ) the fire department ( machibikeshi ).

During the Napoleonic Wars, Freikorps were formed for the purpose of shaking off French rule in Germany.

During the 17th century, the French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine ( 1621 – 1695 ) saw the soul of the fable in the moral — a rule of behavior.

During each of the next two years, he led his 8-legion army into Germany against the coalition of tribes led by Arminius, which had successfully overthrown Roman rule in a rebellion in 9.

During the 1980s, calls for greater independence from Moscow's rule grew louder.

During Franco's rule, Spain was officially neutral in World War II and remained largely economically and culturally isolated from the outside world.

During the Piast dynasty rule ( 10th – 14th century ), Poland was formed and established as a state and a nation.

During the whole interwar period, the British, appealing to the terms of the Mandate, rejected the principle of majority rule or any other measure that would give the Arab majority control over the government of Palestine.

During the first five years of Humayun's reign, these two rulers were quietly extending their rule, although Sultan Bahadur faced pressure in the east from sporadic conflicts with the Portuguese.

During the Yugoslav Wars, nearly every single nation that had ties with Serbia, had broken off diplomacy for the wars in Yugoslavia, and the rule of Slobodan Milošević.

* During the rule of Girolamo Savonarola in Florence between 1494 and 1497, the Bonfire of the Vanities took place.