During the years of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( 1569 – 1795 ), official documents were written in Polish, Ruthenian and Latin, with Lithuanian being mostly an oral language, with small quantities of written documents.

During the Polish – Muscovite War ( 1605 – 1618 ), Polish – Lithuanian forces reached Moscow and installed the impostor False Dmitriy I in 1605, then supported False Dmitry II in 1607.

During the 11th century, Lithuanian territories were included in the list of lands paying tribute to Kievan Rus ', but by the 12th century, the Lithuanians were invading neighboring territories themselves.

During his reign Lithuania reached the peak of its territorial expansion, centralization of the state had begun, and the Lithuanian nobility became increasingly prominent in state politics.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, in particular at the height of its power under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire was one of the most powerful states in the world – a multinational, multilingual empire that stretched from the southern borders of the Holy Roman Empire to the outskirts of Vienna, Royal Hungary ( modern Slovakia ) and the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth in the north to Yemen and Eritrea in the south ; from Algeria in the west to Azerbaijan in the east ; controlling much of southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa.

During the Lithuanian Civil War of 1389 – 1392, Vytautas besieged and razed the city in an attempt to wrest control from Jogaila.

During the Holocaust, about 95 % of the 265, 000-strong Jewish population of Lithuania was murdered by the German units and Lithuanian Nazi collaborators, many of them in Paneriai, about 10 km west of the old town centre ( see the Ponary massacre ).

During the time of the incorporation of Ruthenia ( Ukraine and Belarus ) into the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, Ukrainian and Belarusian diverged into identifiably separate languages.

During this campaign he bought captured Lithuanian princes and then apparently took them back to England.

During this period, her father also served as the publisher of the newspaper Vilniaus Žodis and the cultural magazine Vilniaus Šviesa and was an outspoken proponent of Lithuanian independence during the war against Poland.

During the 1950s and early 1960s, Gimbutas earned a reputation as a world-class specialist on the Indo-European Bronze Age, as well as on Lithuanian folk art and the prehistory of the Balts and Slavs, partly summed up in her definitive opus, Bronze Age Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe ( 1965 ).

During the Soviet occupation ( see History of Lithuania ), it was used in official discourse along with Russian which, as the official language of the USSR, took precedence over Lithuanian.

During the period of the union of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden under king Sigismund III Vasa ( Polish – Swedish union ), diets were held there ; and in 1594 and 1596 it was the meeting-place of two remarkable councils of the Roman-Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church bishops of the region ; the 1596 council establishing the Uniate Church ( known also as the Belarusian Greek Catholic Church in Belarus and Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine ).

During the battles with the Red Army, Lithuanian rebels secured government offices, police stations, shops, warehouses, and attempted to re-establish order in the city.

During most of his adult life, he held a captain's commission in the Free Lithuanian Army.

During his 30-year reign, he spent less than a total of three years in Poland, where the struggle between the House of Czartoryski and the Potocki paralysed the Sejm ( Liberum Veto ), fostering internal political anarchy and further weakening the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth.

During 1896 – 1910, famous Lithuanian composer and painter Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis lived and worked in the city.

During this period, he competed in aerobatics competitions, participating in both Soviet and Lithuanian teams and winning several championships.

During 1560s, upon the family's last member passing away, the town became one of the most favorite properties for Polish king and Lithuanian Grand Prince Sigismund II Augustus who had a Renaissance castle built there instead of the medieval one.

During the First World War, he was the 1st Vice-Chairman, and later Chairman, of the Central Committee of the Lithuanian Relief Society for helping victims of the war.

During following centuries Lithuanian nobility began to merge into Polish nobility.

During the 19th century a Latin formula gente Lithuanus, natione Polonus ( Lithuanian people, Polish nation ) was common in the Lithuania Proper and former Samogitian Eldership.

During the Time of Troubles, it was occupied by Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1610 and remained at Polish hands as part of Smolensk Voivodeship until the Truce of Deulino in 1634.

During this period they became the main ware, in which traditional Lithuanian ornaments still were used.

During the period of Lithuanian rule the town began to prosper.

During her tenure as state attorney, Reno began what the PBS series Frontline described as a " crusade " against accused child abusers.

During his first crusade in 1248, Louis was approached by envoys from Eljigidei, the Mongol ruler of Armenia and Persia.

During his second crusade, Louis died at Tunis, 25 August 1270.

During the St. Louis crusade, dismounted French knights formed a tight lance-and-shield phalanx to repel Egyptian cavalry.

During the next ' turn ,' he drowns in the sea and because of his death the crusade is canceled.

During the crusade, knights and peasants from many nations of Western Europe travelled over land and by sea, first to Constantinople and then on towards Jerusalem, as crusaders ; the peasants greatly outnumbered the knights.

During the July 1203 siege, Henry was one of eight division generals, the others including Boniface of Montferrat ( the crusade leader ), Doge Enrico Dandolo ( leader of the Venetians ), Louis of Blois ( one of the first nobles to take the cross ), and Henry's own brother, Baldwin of Flanders, who controlled the largest division.

During the crusade, the southern ports of Latakia and Baniyas were handed over to Byzantine officials by Robert of Normandy and Raymond of St. Gills.

During the Second Crusade it was the site of a major defeat, which effectively ended the German contribution to the crusade.

During this period he probably wrote his mass based on L ' homme armé, as well as the chanson on the same song ; the latter composition may have been inspired by Philip the Good's call for a new crusade against the Turks, who had recently captured Constantinople.

During the crusade he may have reached Jaffa and was probably a witness of the conclusion of the peace treaty with Sultan Al-Kamil on 18 February 1229 at Jerusalem and Frederick's self-coronation as King of Jerusalem.

During the preparation of the Second Crusade to the Holy Land, however, a papal bull was issued which supported a crusade against these Slavs.

During numerous promos, Mordecai claimed to be on a crusade to rid the world of sin.

During this crusade, he moved past the 200-wicket mark, becoming the first man from his country ever to do so.

During these " SOMs " one of the days of the conferences he would preach in an open air crusade, or a large theater / arena, and lead people in a commitment to Jesus Christ and then would pray for healings to happen in the crowd.

During the Livonian crusade in 1218 Pope Honorius III gave Valdemar II free hands to annex as much land as he could conquer in Estonia, additionally Albert of Riga, the leader of the Teutonic crusaders fighting the Estonians from the south visited the king and asked him to attack the Estonians from the North.

During the first crusade Ramla was abandoned by its Muslim inhabitants, as it lacked the defenses necessary to withstand a siege.

During his crusade, Houyi happened to come upon a river that had burst its banks.