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.

During his reign, Harald oversaw the reconstruction of the Jelling runic stones, and numerous other public works.

During his time in Constantinople, Harald amassed considerable wealth, which he shipped to Kievan Rus ' for safekeeping.

During the first four years of the reign of Byzantine Emperor Michael IV, Harald probably also fought in campaigns against the Pechenegs.

During the campaign, Harald probably also held command over a group of Norman mercenaries in addition to the Varangian Guard.

During the turmoil, Harald was arrested and imprisoned, but the sources disagree on the grounds.

During his service in the Byzantine Empire, Harald wrote a love poem addressed to Elisabeth, citing his many heroic deeds and complaining that " a golden-haired maiden of Gard does not like me ".

During their short co-rule, Harald and Magnus had separate courts and were rarely together, and their only recorded meeting less than a year later almost ended in a physical clash.

During their lifetimes these two " sons of Harald " are known to have launched at least two major expeditions against Ireland, and the latter is recorded as having won " the battle of Man " in 987.

During his time in the Varangian Guard Harald earned the titles of manglavites and spatharokandidatos.

During the 1920s she and Harald Kreutzberg successfully toured the USA.

During the Viking age, Harald Fairhair unified the Norse petty kingdoms after being victorious at the The Battle of Hafrsfjord in the 880s.

During his reign, Harald Fairhair came to power in Norway, Harald was the first of his kin to reign as a monarch in Norway.

During the investigations, a document was seized from Harald Espenhahn ( CEO of the Italian division of Thyssenkrupp ).

During his life, Víkar made Harald the King of Telemark and Neri Jarl of the Uplands.

During the following years ( 992 to 995 ), Orm prospers, and Ylva gives birth to twin girls ( Oddny and Ludmilla ), a son, Harald, and later to another son, Svarthöfde ( Blackhair in the Michael Meyer translation ).

During the same time old King Harald had a son who was named Halfdan.

The honour was approved by the King of Norway, King Harald V. During the ceremony a crowd of several hundred people joined the 130 guardsmen at the zoo to hear a citation from King Harald the Fifth of Norway read out, which described Nils as a penguin " in every way qualified to receive the honour and dignity of knighthood ".

During his career as a footballer he scored 158 goals in the top division ; only Petter Belsvik ( 159 in 2003 ), Harald Martin Brattbakk ( 166 in November 2005 ) and Sigurd Rushfeldt ( 168 in 2011 ) have scored more goals.

The honour was approved by the king of Norway, King Harald V. During the ceremony a crowd of several hundred people joined the 130 guardsmen at the zoo to hear a citation from King Harald the Fifth of Norway read out, which described Nils as a penguin " in every way qualified to receive the honour and dignity of knighthood ".