During the confused and contested reign of Stephen, there was a major swing in the balance of power towards the feudal barons, as civil war and lawlessness broke out.

During the period when the papacy resided in Avignon, France ( 1309 – 1377 ), the feudal lords ' power increased due to the absence of the Pope from Rome.

During the following centuries, referred to as the " Time of Isolation ", the planet develops a feudal form of government, in which the Emperor is supported by sixty regional counts and other minor aristocrats, identified by the honorific Vor-in their names.

During the Renaissance, most of Europe was still by and large following the feudal economic model.

During the Warring States Period, the pacifist Mohist School opposed aggressive war between the feudal states.

During this period the Romanian lands were characterised by the slow disappearance of the feudal system, the distinguishment of some rulers like Vasile Lupu and Dimitrie Cantemir in Moldavia, Matei Basarab and Constantin Brâncoveanu in Wallachia, Gabriel Bethlen in Transylvania, the Phanariot Epoch, and the appearance of the Russian Empire as a political and military influence.

During this period, Malta was sold and resold to various feudal lords and barons and was dominated successively by the rulers of Swabia, Anjou, the Crown of Aragon, the Crown of Castile, and Spain.

During his very short stay ( six days ), Napoleon accomplished quite a of reforms, notably the creation of a new administration with a Government Commission, the creation of twelve municipalities, the setting up of a public finance administration, the abolition of all feudal rights and privileges, the abolition of slavery and the granting of freedom to all Turkish slaves ( 2000 in all ).

During the 10 – 11th centuries Lucca was the capital of the feudal margraviate of Tuscany, more or less independent but owing nominal allegiance to the Holy Roman Emperor.

During this time, various feudal lords, among them archbishops who held fiefs from the Holy Roman Emperor, collected tolls from passing cargo ships to bolster their finances.

During his reign, he will fight to curtail of power of the Chinese feudal princes ( d. 141 BC )

During the 17th and 18th centuries, the bourgeoisie were the politically progressive social class who supported the principles of constitutional government and of natural right, against the Law of Privilege and the claims of rule by divine right that the nobles and prelates had autonomously exercised during the feudal order.

During his reign, he will fight to curtail of power of the Chinese feudal princes ( d. 141 BC )

During the Russian Revolution of 1905, the capitalist class found it necessary to ally with reactionary elements such as the essentially feudal landlords and ultimately the existing Czarist Russian state forces.

During the Middle Ages it became the seat of a powerful feudal lordship that controlled 79 towns and villages in the vicinity.

During the Middle Ages, possession of Arras passed to a variety of feudal rulers and fiefs, including the County of Flanders, the Duchy of Burgundy, the Spanish branch of the House of Habsburg and the French crown.

During this period, powerful feudal lords encouraged the establishment of serfdom as a source of agricultural labor.

During the feudal era of Japan, from around 1600 to the Meiji Restoration in 1867, travel was regulated within the country through the use of shukuba or post stations, towns in which travelers had to present appropriate documentation.

During his reign, feudal landownership kept growing.

During the Middle Ages, parts of the territory were feudal dependencies of the Duchy of Brabant.

During the following centuries, the medieval feudal system allowed the land to be progressively parceled out to landowners from places as far as Dendermonde and Tournai.

During the Spring and Autumn period, China's feudal system of fēngjiàn became largely irrelevant.

During the Edo period, the area now known as Mie Prefecture consisted of several feudal domains, each ruled by an appointed lord.

During the Meiji period ( 1868 – 1912 ) Japan abandoned its feudal system and opened up to Western modernism.

During World War II, the 1940-1941 Franco-Thai War left the French Indochinese colonial authorities in a position of weakness.

During early colonial times there were gold exports to Perú from placer deposits which soon depleted.

During most of the colonial period, Costa Rica was the southernmost province of the Captaincy General of Guatemala, which was nominally part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain ( i. e., Mexico ), but which in practice operated as a largely autonomous entity within the Spanish Empire.

During liberation war in Algeria, the Algerian Psychiatrist Frantz Omar Fanon found his practice of treatment of native Algerians ineffective due to the continuation of the horror of a colonial war.

During the sixth and final colonial war, the French and Indian War, the military conflicts in Nova Scotia included: Battle of Fort Beauséjour ; Bay of Fundy Campaign ( 1755 ); the Battle of Petitcodiac ; the Raid on Lunenburg ( 1756 ); the Louisbourg Expedition ( 1757 ); Battle of Bloody Creek ( 1757 ); Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ), Petitcodiac River Campaign, Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign ( 1758 ), St. John River Campaign, and Battle of Restigouche.

During the time of colonial expansion in the 17th century, the true progenitors of the modern corporation emerged as the " chartered company ".

During colonial times, the Spanish decided that El Salvador would produce and export indigo, but after the invention of synthetic dyes in the 19th century, Salvadoran authorities and the newly created modern state turned to coffee as the main export of the economy.

During the rule of the Mughal administrator of Sindh, Mirza Ghazi Beg, the city was well fortified against Portuguese colonial incursions in Sindh.

During World War II, about 30, 000 Polish refugees migrated to Karachi, at that time under British colonial rule. Many of these Polish families settled permanently in the city.

During its years of colonial rule, Japan moved more than 1, 000 Japanese to the Marshall Islands although they never outnumbered the indigenous peoples as they did in the Mariana Islands and Palau.

During and after its golden age, the Dutch built up a commercial and colonial empire, which fell apart quickly after the Second World War ; the historical ties inherited from its colonial past still influence the foreign relations of the Netherlands.

During that period, the colonial regime appointed the first Puerto Rican governor, Jesús T. Piñero, until 1948 when the people elected Luis Muñoz Marín, the first elected governor.

During the 1930s Belgian colonial authorities in Rwanda used phrenology to explain the so-called superiority of Tutsis over Hutus.

During the Spanish colonial period, Spaniards developed a complex caste system based on race, which was used for social control and which also determined a person ’ s importance in society.

During the closing years of the Choson Dynasty and the first years of Japanese colonial rule, the urban population of Korea was no more than 3 % of the total.

During the 17th and 18th centuries, numerous trading posts, belonging to various colonial empires, were established along the coast.

During colonial years, the region had a fairly large minority of French settlers.

During the 1760s pre-revolutionary period, the established colonial militia was composed of colonists, which included a number who were loyal to British imperial rule.

During the five hour hearing on February 23, 1761, Otis vehemently denounced English colonial policies, including their sanction of general warrants and writs of assistance.

During the colonial period, disgruntled Yemenis from the Hadhrami wars additionally sought and received asylum in various Somali towns.

During the Battle of Dakar, which took place off the coast of Dakar on September 23 – 25, 1940, the British navy attempted to rally the colonial administration in Dakar to the Allied cause and detach it from Vichy.

During the same period, while part of the Italian Africa Police ( mainly in the late 1930s ), they were involved in atrocities in colonial Italian East Africa during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

During the colonial period it was known as " Dutch Timor " and was a centre of Dutch loyalists during the Indonesian National Revolution ( 1945 – 1949 ).