During World War I, many of the Germany possessions in the Pacific were conquered by Japan, who fought on the side of the Allies of World War I and was active in the Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I.

During its two and a half millennia of existence, the Kingdom of Sri Lanka was invaded at least eight times by neighbouring South Asian dynasties such as the Chola, Pandya, Chera, and Pallava.

During the summer of 1972, he prepared to resign and changed his mind only because of fears of a renewed wave of immigration from Uganda after the accession of Idi Amin, who had expelled Uganda's Asian residents.

During his two years in Japan, Zhou spent most of his time in the East Asian Higher Preparatory School, a language school for Chinese students.

During this period, Asian women were still wearing traditional hairstyles held up with combs, pins and sticks crafted from tortoise, metal, wood and other materials, but in the middle 1880s, upper-class Japanese women began pushing back their hair in the Western style ( known as sokuhatsu ), or adopting Westernized versions of traditional Japanese hairstyles ( these were called yakaimaki, or literally, soirée chignon ).

During the global economic crisis, the contemporary Asian art market and the contemporary Chinese art market experienced a slow down in late 2008.

During the 1960s, DIA analysts focused on: China's detonation of an atomic bomb and the launching of its Cultural Revolution ; increasing unrest among African and South Asian nations ; fighting in Cyprus and Kashmir ; and the missile gap between the US and the Soviets.

During the campaign, Fujimori was nicknamed El Chino, which roughly translates to " Chinaman "; it is common for people of any East Asian descent to be called chino in Peru, as elsewhere in Latin America, both derogatively and affectionately.

During the morning, men of South Asian descent usually wear a thawb, jubba and sherwani, and women usually wear a salwar kameez.

During the 17th-18th centuries – a part of the Kalmyks and Middle Asian Sarts.

During the Russo-Japanese War ( 1904 – 1905 ), Japan became the first modern Asian nation to win a war against a European nation.

During Satō's term, Japan participated in the creation of the Asian Development Bank in 1966 and held a ministerial level conference on Southeast Asian economic development.

During this period, many different groups outside of Korea fought for independence, the most notable being the Daehan Minguk Imsi Jeongbu (, ), literally the " Provisional government of the Great Han people's nation ", known in English as the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea ( = ‘ people ’ + country / nation ’ = ‘ republic ’ in East Asian languages ).

During the 9th century southern Central Asia was under the rule of the Samanids, while the Central Asian steppe was dominated by Turkic nomads such as the Pechenegs, the Oghuz, and the Karluks.

During the 1980s, Cabramatta was transformed into a thriving Asian community, displacing many of the previous migrant generation.

During the same period, Magdalene also admitted Catholic students such as Charles Januarius Acton, and Asian students who were excluded from many other colleges until after the First World War.

* During 1997 Asian financial crisis, Hyundai acquired Kia Motors and LG Semi-Conductor.

During the Asian financial crisis in November 1997 he returned to be Deputy Prime Minister and also became Minister of Commerce.

During the Japanese occupation of Thailand in 1942 POWs both allies and Asian laborers were ordered by the Japanese to build a Thailand-Burma railway.

During the medieval period, executions by elephants were used by several West Asian imperial powers, including the Byzantine, Sassanid, Seljuq and Timurid empires.

During the monsoon, South Asian river dolphins tend to migrate to tributaries of the main river systems.

During the last quarter of the 20th century, the Asian share of global output of synthetic fibers doubled to 65 per cent.

* During the 2007 Asian heat wave, the Indian city of Datia experienced temperatures of.

During this period, financial problems again almost forced Attlee to quit politics, as his wife was ill and there was then no separate salary for the Leader of the Opposition.

During this time, Munch received many commissions for portraits and prints which improved his usually precarious financial condition.

During this period he re-established contact with his brother Conrad for numerous practical and financial matters, disclosing some of his inner feelings in the process.

During the next few years, his financial situation remained bad.

During that period international financial institutions played a critical role in Georgia's budgetary calculations.

During Borgrán's brief time in office, he had agreed to a United States proposal to invite a United States financial adviser to Honduras.

During this time, it has grown to become one of the most significant financial and cultural capitals of the world.

During the truce of 1206 – 1208, John focused on building up his financial and military resources in preparation for another attempt to recapture Normandy.

During the first two decades of independence, Mali received major technical and financial support from the former Soviet Union, China, and their allies, especially in the area of radio and television broadcasting.

During the 1980s, Ford gained another 20-percent financial stake.

During the financial crisis of 2007 – 2010, several Keynesian economists such as James Galbraith and Joseph Stiglitz blamed the free market philosophy of Friedman and the Chicago school for the economic turmoil.

During the 1990s, Pakistan began an ongoing project to rebuild all national highways throughout the country specifically to important financial, cargo and textile centers.

During the 2007-2012 global financial crisis in the United States, the neologism " pessimism porn " was coined to describe the alleged eschatological and survivalist thrill some people derive from predicting, reading and fantasizing about the collapse of civil society through the destruction of the world's economic system.

During the economic reforms being implemented after the financial crisis, the information technology ( IT ) sector was one of several that was targeted and considered to be an important factor in the recovery of the nation ’ s economy.

During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Bankalar Caddesi ( Banks Street ) in Istanbul was the financial center of the Ottoman Empire, where the headquarters of the Ottoman Central Bank ( established as the Bank-ı Osmanî in 1856, and later reorganized as the Bank-ı Osmanî-i Şahane in 1863 ) and the Ottoman Stock Exchange ( 1866 ) were located.

During the 1930s Lucie Bigelow Rosen was also taken up with the theremin and together with her husband Walter Bigelow Rosen provided both financial and artistic support to the development and popularisation of the instrument.

During his time in North Africa, he found himself in financial difficulties and was forced to mortgage his estates to his brother.

During the war, Wilson focused on diplomacy and financial considerations, leaving the waging of the war itself primarily in the hands of the Army.

During the 1980s, Arafat received financial assistance from Libya, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, which allowed him to reconstruct the badly battered PLO.

During this era, development of the financial district stagnated, and Wall Street " paid a heavy price " and " became something of a backwater in American life.

During the recession of 2008 – 2010, many of these firms went out of business or were bought up at firesale prices by other financial firms.

During the Seventies West Germany was able to weather the global financial storm far better than almost all the other developed countries, with unemployment and inflation kept at comparatively low levels.

During the period of economic decline, smuggling had been one of the few lucrative sources of employment, and recent laws which imposed stringent financial penalties ( with hard labour for non-payment ) were unpopular.

During the 17th century, further extensive repairs were carried out, in spite of a poor financial situation following the Civil War.

During this period, Fallot offered financial assistance to Proudhon if he came to Paris to study philosophy.