During his tenure as abbot, he supported the abbey with gifts ; the medieval chronicler William of Malmesbury said that they were splendid and many.

* 1864 – During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.

During the 1960s, De Palma began making a living producing documentary films, notably The Responsive Eye, a 1966 movie about The Responsive Eye op-art exhibit curated by William Seitz for Museum of Modern Art in 1965.

During the 19th century the Liberal Party was broadly in favour of what would today be called classical liberalism: supporting laissez-faire economic policies such as free trade and minimal government interference in the economy ( this doctrine was usually termed ' Gladstonian Liberalism ' after the Victorian era Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone ).

During the absence of the Bishop of Langres, Bernard was blessed as abbot by William of Champeaux, Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne.

During the presidencies of Prieto and his two successors, Chile modernized through the construction of ports, railroads, and telegraph lines, some built by United States entrepreneur William Wheelwright.

During the early 20th century, comic strips were widely associated with publisher William Randolph Hearst, whose papers had the largest circulation of strips in the United States.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

During this period, prominent British deists included William Wollastson, Charles Blount, and

* The Historical Argument for the Resurrection of Jesus During the Deist Controversy by William Lane Craig ( Edwin Mellen, 1985 )

During the conflict which resulted from the ousting of King James II by his Protestant rival, William III, Enniskillen and Derry were the focus of Williamite resistance in Ireland, including the nearby Battle of Newtownbutler.

During this century the English scientist William Gilbert spent 17 years experimenting with magnetism and, to a lesser extent, electricity.

During the 1590s, some of the great names of English literature entered their maturity, including William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.

During the first few days of the spill, heavy sheens of oil covered large areas of the surface of Prince William Sound.

During his time as Supreme Allied Commander of the Southeast Asia Theatre, his command oversaw the recapture of Burma from the Japanese by General William Slim.

During the Second World War, Fort William was the home of HMS St Christopher which was a training base for Royal Navy Coastal Forces.

During his own reign, Frederick William I did much to centralize and improve Prussia.

During his Paris years, between 1824 and 1829, Rossini created the comic opera Le Comte Ory and Guillaume Tell ( William Tell ).

During the Thirty Years ' War, George William tried to remain neutral between the Roman Catholic forces of the Holy Roman Empire and the Protestant principalities.

During the golden age of bohemianism, Greenwich Village became famous for such eccentrics as Joe Gould ( profiled at length by Joseph Mitchell ) and Maxwell Bodenheim, dancer Isadora Duncan, writer William Faulkner, and playwright Eugene O ' Neill.

During their marriage they had three children: Mary Louise ( 4 / 21 / 1931 ), William Eugene ( 8 / 9 / 1933 ), Robert Frank ( 5 / 10 / 1935 ).

During the World War II era William E. Fairbairn and Eric A. Sykes were recruited by the Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) to teach their martial art of defendu ( itself drawing on jujutsu and Western boxing ) and pistol shooting to UK, US, and Canadian special forces.

During much of their work, William Herschel believed that these nebulae were merely unresolved clusters of stars.

During his short pontificate he played the part of a peacemaker ; he came to terms with the Emperor Frederick I in the vexing question of the appointment to the See of Magdeburg and closed the long quarrel, which had raged through four pontificates, about the appointment of William Fitzherbert ( commonly known as Saint William of York ) to the see of York by sending him the pallium in spite of the continued opposition of the powerful Cistercian order.

During the western schism he supported Antipope Benedict XIII, and was the driving force behind Antipope Clement VIII's submission to Pope Martin V in 1429.

During Henry VIII's reign, the Sovereign, on the advice of the Council, was allowed to enact laws by mere proclamation.

During this work, half the Tudor palace was replaced and Henry VIII's state rooms and private apartments were both lost ; the new wings around the Fountain Court contained new state apartments and private rooms, one set for the King and one for the Queen.

During the Tudor period, with Henry VIII's dissatisfaction with the Catholic Church, the monasteries were dissolved.

During the medieval period, both a priory ( Newbigging, now known as The Biggin ) and a friary ( now known as Hitchin Priory ) were established, both of which closed during Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries.

During the 16th century, the manor went to two of Henry VIII's wives, namely Catherine of Aragon until 1536, and Katherine Parr until 1548.

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.