During the 8th through the 9th centuries, many inhabitants of what is present-day Afghanistan and western Pakistan were converted to Sunni Islam.

During the first American League season in 1901, they finished last ( 8th place ) with a record of 48 – 89.

During this time, Shambhuvarman son of Pushkaraksha controlled most of water Chenla until the 8th century which the Malayans and Javanese dominated over many Khmer principalities.

During the time of Solomon and through the 8th century, matres lectionis were not used inside words ( except maybe in ' ir ( city ) in the Lachish letters ), and there is no evidence for early orthography.

During the 8th century, the Khazar royalty and much of the aristocracy converted to a form of Judaism .< ref > Abraham Firkovich, a leader of the Karaims in the 19th century, argued that the Khazars converted to Karaimism ( not to be confused with Karaite Judaism ).

During the 8th and 7th centuries BC, Babylonian astronomers developed a new approach to astronomy.

During the reign of Pepin the Short, in the 8th Century, Othmar founded the Carolingian style Abbey of St. Gall, where arts, letters and sciences flourished.

During their long reign in Spain, the Visigoths were responsible for the only new cities founded in Western Europe between the 5th and 8th centuries.

During the 8th century, as the hegemony of Mercia grew, the kings of Wessex were largely able to maintain their independence.

During the 8th century Wessex was overshadowed by Mercia, whose power was then at its height, and the West Saxon kings may at times have acknowledged Mercian overlordship.

( 8th government ; During Atatürk's presidency, İnönü had served seven times as a prime minister )

During the 4th and 5th centuries, the Roman practice of coopting Germanic tribes to provide military and defense services along the route from Boulogne to Cologne created a Germanic-Romance linguistic border in the region that persisted until the 8th century.

During a trip from Dublin, Ní Mháille attempted to pay a courtesy visit to Howth Castle, home of Christopher St Lawrence, 8th Baron Howth ( d. 1589 ) However, she was informed that the family was at dinner and the castle gates were closed against her.

During the 8th century BC, people from Euboea in Greece known as Cumaeans began to establish colonies in the area roughly around the modern day province of Naples.

* 1952: During the 8th IJK in Ry, Denmark, TJO became TEJO ( the World Esperanto Youth Organization ).

During the 8th and 7th centuries BC, Babylonian astronomers developed a new approach to astronomy.

During the 4th and 5th centuries, the Roman practice of coopting Germanic tribes to provide military and defense services along the route from Boulogne to Cologne created a Germanic-Romance linguistic border in the region that persisted until the 8th century.

Four terracotta lamps of Phoenician origin dated to the 8th century BCE were discovered in Ain Jenin by archaeologist G. I. Harding, and are interpreted as attesting to some form of contact and exchange between the residents of Jenin at that time and those of Phoenicia. During the Roman era, Jenin was called " Ginae.

During the 8th and 7th centuries BC, Naxos dominated commerce in the Cyclades.

The Yongzheng Emperor Enjoying Himself During the 8th Lunar Month, by anonymous court artists, 1723 – 1735 AD, Palace Museum, Beijing, showing the use of linear perspective.

During the 8th and 7th centuries BC, Babylonian astronomers began studying philosophy dealing with the ideal nature of the early universe and began employing an internal logic within their predictive planetary systems.

During the 8th century Bourges lay on the northern fringes of the Duchy of Aquitaine and was therefore the first town to come under Frankish attacks when they crossed the Loire.

During the 8th and 9th centuries, Vic sat in the Spanish Marches that separated Frankish and Islamic forces.

During the late 8th and 9th centuries Harran was a centre for translating works of astronomy, philosophy, natural sciences, and medicine from Greek to Syriac by Assyrians, and thence to Arabic, bringing the knowledge of the classical world to the emerging Arabic-speaking civilization in the south.

During the 8th century, Charles Martel kept king Theuderic IV prisoner in the castle of Otmus.

During Mbeki's presidency, the government took a more pro-capitalist stance, often running counter to the demands of the South African Communist Party and COSATU.

During the Mau Mau Uprising in 1952, the poisonous latex of the African milk bush was used to kill cattle.

During the rainy season, winds from the southwest push the moister maritime system north over the African continent where it meets and slips under the continental mass along a front called the " intertropical convergence zone ".

During the mid-1970s, Hip-hop music and culture began to emerge, originating among urban African Americans and Latinos in New York City.

During the South African occupation of Namibia, Ethiopia was one of the country's leading proponents abroad ; Ethiopia and Liberia were the first two states to bring the question of independence for then South West Africa to the United Nations.

During his tenure, he sponsored more African American players than any other major league executive.

During that season he scored his maiden century for South African Universities against Mike Gatting's rebels.

During his second innings of 67, he passed 3, 000 runs-only the second South African to do so.

During his career he was nominated for several awards including the BAFTA award for best foreign actor in 1952 for The African Queen and three Academy Awards.

During the 2009 Malagasy political crisis, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that Russia is " concerned by the increased frequency of attempts on the African continent to resort to non-constitutional methods of solving internal political problems.

During his rule, Banda was one of the very few post-colonial African leaders to maintain diplomatic relations with apartheid South Africa.

* Walker, Clarence E. ( 1982 ) A Rock in a Weary Land: The African Methodist Episcopal Church During the Civil War and Reconstruction, Louisiana State University Press, ISBN 0-8071-0883-9

During the period of Sultan Said ibn Sultan Al Said's rule ( 1806 – 1856 ), Oman cultivated its East African colonies, profiting from the slave trade.

During the late 19th century and early 20th century, Italian Americans were the second minority group ( next to African Americans ) most likely to be lynched.

During an effort to delay immediate transition to indigenous African rule, Rhodesia's white residents of European descent issued their government ’ s own Unilateral Declaration of Independence from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965.

During the South African Border War, the Soviet RPGs used by SWAPO guerilllas and their Angolan supporters posed a serious threat to South Africa's lightly armored APCs, which could be easily targeted as soon as they stopped to disembark troops.

During the Second World War, he became a lieutenant in the South African Army in an entertainment unit, and subsequently took up acting as a career.

During the Apartheid era, the Rhodesian and South African governments supplied some citizens with modified submachine guns which were known as Land Defence Pistols ( LDP ) such as the Kommando LDP or Sanna 77, loosely based on the Czech CZ Model 25.

During World War II, he served as a signaller in the 56th Heavy Regiment Royal Artillery, D Battery, as Gunner Milligan, 954024 with the First Army in the North African campaign and then in the succeeding Italian campaign.

During the next decade, it actively supported movements such as the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) under the independence war and under the subsequent civil war, the Zimbabwe African People's Union ( ZAPU ) and in Southern Rhodesia, the African National Congress ( ANC ) in their struggle against apartheid in South African Republic, and the South-West Africa People's Organization ( SWAPO ) in their struggle for independence for Namibia.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the European cultural elite were discovering African, Micronesian and Native American art for the first time.

During hearings in the South regarding the Voting Rights Act, Washington asked questions that shed light on tactics used to prevent African Americans from voting ( among them, closing registration early, literacy tests, and gerrymandering ).

During the history of Portugal between 1415 and 1578, Portugal explored the Atlantic Ocean, discovering several Atlantic archipelagos like the Azores, Madeira, or Cape Verde, explored the African coast as well as colonizing selected areas of Africa, discovered an eastern route to India that rounded the Cape of Good Hope, discovered Brazil, explored the Indian Ocean and established trading routes throughout most of southern Asia, and sent the first direct European maritime trade and diplomatic missions to China and Japan.