During the short reigns of the older two of his three elder brothers, Æthelbald of Wessex and Æthelberht of Wessex, Alfred is not mentioned.

During the reigns of the Norman monarchs, the English Crown was advised by a royal court or Curia Regis, which consisted of magnates, ecclesiastics and high officials.

During the period of the reigns from Egbert to Alfred the Great, the kings of Wessex emerged as Bretwalda, unifying the country and eventually forging it into the kingdom of England in the face of Viking invasions.

During the reigns of Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling, leading officials ' dissatisfaction with the eunuchs ' usurpations of power reached a peak, and many began to openly protest against them.

During the subsequent reigns of Christian I ( 1450 – 1481 ) and Hans ( 1481 – 1513 ), tensions grew, and several wars between Sweden and Denmark erupted.

During the reigns of the Yongzheng Emperor and the Qianlong Emperor, the restriction began to be relaxed.

During the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV, the cathedral underwent major alterations as part of an ongoing attempt to modernize cathedrals throughout Europe.

During the reigns of Malcolm III and his sons, Edinburgh Castle became one of the most significant royal centres in Scotland.

During the disturbed reigns of Basil's seven immediate successors, Isaac by his prudent conduct won the confidence of the army.

During the reigns of Joan herself, and her three sons ( 1284 – 1328 ), these lands belonged to the person of the king ; but by 1328 they had become so entrenched in the royal domain that king Philip VI of France ( who was not an heir of Joan ) switched lands with the then rightful heiress, Joan II of Navarre, with the effect that Champagne and Brie remained part of the royal demesne and Joan received compensation with lands in western Normandy.

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 reigns of Julian and Jovian, Eunomius resided in Constantinople in close intercourse with Aetius, consolidating a dissenting party and consecrating bishops.

During certain reigns of weak emperors, powerful eunuchs, such as Liu Jin and Wei Zhongxian, circumvented this restriction by styling themselves with jiǔ qiān suì ( 九千歲, literally " 9000 years ") so as to display their high positions, which were close to or even exceeded the emperor's, while still remaining reverent to the title of the emperor.

During the reigns of Louis XVIII, Charles X and Louis Philippe, the Chancellor of France presided over the Chamber of Peers, the upper house of the royal French parliament.

During their reigns, the Thuringii ( 532 ), Burgundes ( 534 ), and Saxons and Frisians ( c. 560 ) were incorporated into the Frankish kingdom.

During their reigns, Theudebert and Theuderic campaigned successfully in Gascony, where they had established the Duchy of Vasconia and brought the Basques to submission ( 602 ).

During the reigns of Huan-di ( 147-168 ) and Ling-di ( 168-189 ), the country of Wa was in a state of great confusion, war and conflict raging on all sides.

During the reigns of the Emperors Huan and Ling, that country was in great disorder, and there was no ruler for a period of years.

During one period, 1484 – 1537, power reverted back and forth continually between the two families, so much so that Muhammad Shah ( a Sayyid ) had five different reigns and Fath Shah ( a Chak ) had three.

During the reigns of Louis XV ( 1715 – 1774 ) and Louis XVI ( 1774 – 1792 ), several ministers, most notably Turgot and Necker, proposed revisions to the French tax system so as to include the nobles as taxpayers, but these proposals were not adopted because of resistance from the parlements ( provincial courts of appeal ).

During the Empire of Japan period, and the establishment of State Shinto, the position of high priest of the Ise Shrine was fulfilled by the reigning Emperor, and Emperors Meiji, Taisho and Showa all played the role of high priest during their reigns.

During the reigns of William III, Anne, George I and George II the sovereign remained responsible for the maintenance of the civil government and for the support of the royal household and dignity, being allowed for these purposes the hereditary revenues and certain taxes.

During the reigns of Asa king of Judah and Baasha king of Israel, Geba was one of two cities that Asa built up from the stones Baasha meant for Ramah ( 1 Kings 15: 22 ; 2 Chron 16: 6 ).

During the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius and Claudius, and particularly when Drusus and Germanicus were active in Gaul, Augusta Treverorum rose to considerable importance as a base and supply centre for campaigns in Germany.

During the reign of Umar bin Abdul Aziz ( 717 – 720 A. D .), it is reported that no one in Medina needed the zakat.

During the time of Umar I the famous companion of the Prophet, Abu Hurayrah, was the governor of Bahrain.

During the reign of Umar, Uthman remained at Medina as his adviser, and a member of his advisory council.

During the reign of Umar, considerable wealth flowed into the public treasury.

During a famine, Umar ibn al-Khattab ordered the construction of a canal in Egypt connecting the Nile with the sea.

During the reign of Umar, the Muslim army found it a suitable place to construct a base.

During the time of Ibrahim Lodhi, Muhammad, son of ' Umar, was the governor of Kol.

During the two years of reign al-Mundhir continued the fight against the rebel Umar ibn Hafsun.

During his rule, one of his closest advisers was El Hadj Umar Tall, future founder of the Toucouleur empire, who settled in Sokoto on his return from Mecca in 1822.

During the time when Umar was the caliph, he reinstated the praying of Tarawih in congregation since Muhammad had died and as such there was no longer any misapprehension of it being made mandatory.

During the reign of the Ummayad Caliph Umar bin Abdul Aziz, a delegation from Tibet and China requested him to send Islamic missionaries to their countries, and Salah bin Abdullah Hanafi was sent to Tibet.

During the Han dynasty period, the important Confucian text Lessons for Women ( Nüjie ), was written by Ban Zhao ( 45-114 CE ): by a woman, for women.

During the period of the Tannaim ( rabbis cited in the Mishna ), the spoken vernacular of Jews in Judaea was a late form of Hebrew known as Rabbinic or Mishnaic Hebrew, whereas during the period of the Amoraim ( rabbis cited in the Gemara ), which began around 200 CE, the spoken vernacular was Aramaic.

During the 3rd century CE, the South Arabian kingdoms were in continuous conflict with one another.

During the widespread rebellion against Wang Mang, the Korean state of Goguryeo was free to raid Han's Korean commanderies ; Han did not reaffirm its control over the region until 30 CE.

During the turbulent reign of Wang Mang, Han lost control over the Tarim Basin, which was conquered by the Northern Xiongnu in 63 CE and used as a base to invade Han's Hexi Corridor in Gansu.

During the Mississippian Culture-period ( 800 to 1500 CE ), local women developed a new variety of maize ( corn ) called eastern flint.

During the great migrations, various Germanic tribes settled and / or traversed the region using the river valleys and low passes, but about 600 CE the Slavs took possession of the area and settled assimilating the remaining autochthonous romanized population.

During the rebellion of Hou Jing, Jiankang was captured in 549 CE after a year-long siege that devastated the city, with most of the population killed or starved to death.

During the Renaissance it was accepted that Hermes Trismegistus was a contemporary of Moses, however after Casaubon ’ s dating of the Hermetic writings as no earlier than the second or third century CE, the whole of Renaissance Hermeticism collapsed.

During the Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 CE ) paper was folded and sewn into square bags to preserve the flavor of tea, while the later Song Dynasty ( 960-1279 CE ) was the first government on Earth to issue paper-printed money.

During the greater part of China's first great period of unification, begun with the short-lived Qin Dynasty ( 221 BCE-206 BCE ) and followed by the centuries-long Han Dynasty ( 206 BCE-220 CE ), the shi form of poetry underwent little innovation.

During the Western Han Dynasty ( 202 BCE-9 CE ) additional developments made by the astronomers Luoxia Hong ( 落下閎 ), Xiangyu Wangren, and Geng Shouchang ( 耿壽昌 ) advanced the use of the armillary in its early stage of evolution.

During the 12th century CE, Bodh Gaya and the nearby regions were invaded by Muslim Turk armies.

During his stay in India up to 411 CE, he went on a pilgrimage to Mathura, Kanauj, Kapilavastu, Kushinagar, Vaishali, Pataliputra, Kashi and Rajgriha and made careful observations about the empire's conditions.

During the reign of Harshavardhana ( 590 – 647 CE ), the Kannauj empire reached its zenith.

During the following Jin ( 265 – 420 CE ) and Southern and Northern Dynasties ( 420 – 589 CE ), the number of administrative districts greatly increased thereby establishing the three tier province / commandery / county system ( 州 / 郡 / 县 ) with the whole of China divided into more than 200 provinces, 600 commanderies and 1000 counties.

During Emperor Xuanzong of Tang's reign ( 685 – 762 CE ), Indian monks came to discuss and lecture on Buddhism at the temple.

During the 16th century CE, settlement seems to have shifted to the northwest at Islin.

During the Northern Song ( 960 – 1126 CE ), a new class of scholar-artists emerged who did not possess the tromp l ' oiel skills of the academy painters nor even the proficiency of common marketplace painters.

During the Little Ice Age, which lasted from about 1600 to 1900 CE, the ice cap covered approximately.

During the 6th century CE, the Indian monk and translator Paramārtha widely propagated Yogācāra teachings in China.

During 940-1212 CE, it was the capital of the Shilahara dynasty of Kolhapur.