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During the four years of his reign disaster followed on disaster, and in 1695 Ahmed II died at Edirne Palace, worn out by disease and sorrow.
During the reign of Caligula, coins like the one pictured here were issued depicting his three sisters, Drusilla, Livilla and Agrippina the Younger.
During the remainder of Nero's reign, Agrippina's grave was not covered or enclosed.
During his reign the Lombards ended their migrations by settling in Italy, the northern part of which Alboin conquered between 569 and 572.
During his reign, Poland suffered much humiliation at the hands of her subject principality, Moldavia.
During Alexius II's reign, the Byzantine Empire was invaded by King Bela III losing Syrmia and Bosnia to the Kingdom of Hungary in AD 1181, later even Dalmatia was lost to the Venetians.
During his short reign, peace was established both at home and abroad, finances were well regulated, and the various administrative services were placed on a basis that afterwards enabled Spain to pass through the disastrous war with the United States without the threat of a revolution.
During his reign, Spain lost its last colonies in the Americas ( Cuba and Puerto Rico ) and the Philippines ; fought and, after several setbacks, won a war in Morocco ; witnessed the start of the Spanish Generation of 1927, and endured the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera.
During his brother's reign, he participated in the taking of Huesca ( the Battle of Alcoraz, 1096 ), which became the largest city in the kingdom and the new capital.
During the reign of his father, he was the procurator general of the Crown.
During his long reign, the central power and royal authority potentially weakened.
During the first years of his reign, Andrew was occupied with the discords within the Principality of Halych.
During his reign, Jerusalem became more closely allied with the Byzantine Empire, and the two states launched an unsuccessful invasion of Egypt.
During Baldwin III's reign, the County of Edessa, the first crusader state established during the First Crusade, was conquered by Zengi, the Turkic emir of Aleppo.
During the English Reformation the Church of England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church, at first temporarily under Henry VIII and Edward VI and later permanently during the reign of Elizabeth I.
During the Bourbon Restoration, construction was halted and it would not be completed until the reign of King Louis-Philippe, between 1833 and 1836, by the architects Goust, then Huyot, under the direction of Héricart de Thury.
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During his reign, Bayezid II consolidated the Ottoman Empire and thwarted a Safavid rebellion soon before abdicating his throne to his son, Selim I.
During the 17th century, under the reign of Christian IV, it became a significant regional centre.
During Justinian I's reign, the city's population reached about 500, 000 people.
During his reign the Empire conquered Thrace, Noricum, Pamphylia, Lycia and Judaea, and began the conquest of Britain.
During his reign, Claudius revived the rumor that his father Drusus was actually the illegitimate son of Augustus, to give the false appearance that Augustus was Claudius ' paternal grandfather.
During his reign, Saladin also constructed the Cairo Citadel, which served as the seat of the Egyptian government until the mid-19th century.
During his reign as king of Aquilonia, Conan was "... a tall man, mightily shouldered and deep of chest, with a massive corded neck and heavily muscled limbs.
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During this time, repression of Catholics intensified, and Elizabeth authorised commissions in 1591 to interrogate and monitor Catholic householders.
During his minority as her ward, one third of his estate had already reverted to the Crown, much of which Elizabeth had long since settled on Robert Dudley.
During the reign of Elizabeth and shortly afterward, the population grew significantly: from three million in 1564 to nearly five million in 1616.
During the Kansas campaign, organization founders Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony had accepted the help of a known racist, alienating abolitionist members as well as AERA president Lucretia Mott.
During the ten years of their marriage, Martha bore six children: Martha, called Patsy, ( 1772 – 1836 ); Jane ( 1774 – 1775 ); an unnamed son ( 1777 ); Mary Wayles, called Polly, ( 1778 – 1804 ); Lucy Elizabeth ( 1780 – 1781 ); and Lucy Elizabeth ( 1782 – 1785 ).
During the reign of Elizabeth I, the college also acquired the area formerly known as Volney's Croft, which today is the area of St Peter's Terrace, the William Stone Building and the Scholars ' Garden.
During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, Archbishop Matthew Parker saw the Conquest as having corrupted a purer English Church, which Parker attempted to restore.
During the reign of her cousin Anna ( 1730 – 1740 ), Elizabeth was gathering support in the background ; but after the death of Empress Anna, the regency of Anna Leopoldovna with infant Ivan VI was marked by high taxes and economic problems.
During the course of the Union the Royal Styles of the Monarch were modified, with Elizabeth II being the last reigning Queen of South Africa.
During the filming, Burton met and fell in love with Elizabeth Taylor, who was married to Eddie Fisher.
During her daughter's extensive tour of the Commonwealth over 1953 – 54, Elizabeth acted as a Counsellor of State and looked after her grandchildren, Charles and Anne.
During the war with Spain, Newport seized fortunes of Spanish and Portuguese treasure in fierce sea battles in the West Indies as a privateer for Queen Elizabeth I.
During 1945 he was assigned to the Indian Fleet and served on HMS Queen Elizabeth in the Indian Ocean.
During the 16th century, Queen Elizabeth received a carved and bejeweled narwhal tusk for £ 10, 000 — the cost of a castle ( approximately £ 1. 5 — 2. 5 Million in 2007, using the retail price index ).
During the Wars of Religion in the 16th century between the Catholic Habsburg Dynasty and the newly Protestant states, England under Elizabeth I built up a strong naval force, designed to carry out long range privateering or piracy missions against the Spanish Empire, exemplified by the exploits of Francis Drake.
During the shooting of The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ( 1939 ), Flynn and co-star Bette Davis quarrelled off-screen, causing Davis to allegedly strike him harder than necessary while filming a scene.
During the early 19th century the prison attracted the attention of the social reformer Elizabeth Fry.
During the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I of England, William Shakespeare wrote his plays and performed with his theatre company the Lord Chamberlain's Men ( later called the King's Men ).
During the European Renaissance, Astraea became associated with the general spirit of renewal of culture occurring at that time, particularly in England, where she became poetically identified in literature with the figure of Queen Elizabeth I as the virgin Queen reigning over a new Golden Age.
During the years 1890 – 1893 when he was most engaged with the theatre, James wrote a good deal of theatrical criticism and assisted Elizabeth Robins and others in translating and producing Henrik Ibsen for the first time on the London stage.
During her reign Queen Elizabeth I made at least five visits to the area.
During the 1980s a number of official events in Cathedral life took place: in 1981, the Prince of Wales visited to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the Consecration of the Cathedral ; and on Maundy Thursday 1982, Queen Elizabeth II distributed the Royal Maundy at the Cathedral.
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