During the first 20 years of his rule, Abd ar-Rahman avoided military action against the northern Christian kingdoms, Asturias and Navarre.

During the end of the 9th century, the Samanids extended its rule from Bukhara to as far south as the Indus River and west into most of Persia.

During the end of the 9th century, the Samanids extended its rule from Bukhara to as far south as the Indus River and west into most of Persia.

During the final decades of imperial rule, the troops were supplied by Germanic chieftains employed by the Roman administration.

During his rule, members of Yakoma were granted all key positions in the administration and made up a majority of the military.

During Patassé ’ s rule they were becoming increasingly marginalised, while Patassé created militias favouring his own Gbaya tribe, as well as neighbouring Sara and Kaba.

During this period, the harsh rule of the Spanish loyalists, who punished suspected rebels, drove more and more Chileans into the insurrectionary camp.

During the Han Dynasty, Confucianism developed from an ethical system into a political ideology used to legitimize the rule of the political elites.

During Chiang's rule, attacks on foreigners by Kuomintang forces flared up in several incidents.

During the rule of Mughal Emperor Akbar, it became a proper productive unit.

During the first years in power, under Lenin's rule, the Central Committee was the key decision-making body in both practice and theory, and decisions were made through majority votes.

During Stalin's rule they were specialised.

During his short rule, he replaced more than one-fifth of the Soviet ministers and regional party first secretaries and more than one-third of the department heads within the Central Committee apparatus.

During the rule of Henry VIII an Act of Parliament declared that ' this realm of England is an Empire ... governed by one Supreme Head and King having the dignity and royal estate of the imperial Crown of the same '.

During the Edo period, the shogunate appointed administrators ( machi bugyō ) with jurisdiction over the police and ( beginning with the rule of Tokugawa Yoshimune ) the fire department ( machibikeshi ).

During the Napoleonic Wars, Freikorps were formed for the purpose of shaking off French rule in Germany.

During the 17th century, the French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine ( 1621 – 1695 ) saw the soul of the fable in the moral — a rule of behavior.

During each of the next two years, he led his 8-legion army into Germany against the coalition of tribes led by Arminius, which had successfully overthrown Roman rule in a rebellion in 9.

During the 1980s, calls for greater independence from Moscow's rule grew louder.

During Franco's rule, Spain was officially neutral in World War II and remained largely economically and culturally isolated from the outside world.

During the Piast dynasty rule ( 10th – 14th century ), Poland was formed and established as a state and a nation.

During the whole interwar period, the British, appealing to the terms of the Mandate, rejected the principle of majority rule or any other measure that would give the Arab majority control over the government of Palestine.

During the first five years of Humayun's reign, these two rulers were quietly extending their rule, although Sultan Bahadur faced pressure in the east from sporadic conflicts with the Portuguese.

During the Yugoslav Wars, nearly every single nation that had ties with Serbia, had broken off diplomacy for the wars in Yugoslavia, and the rule of Slobodan Milošević.

* During the rule of Girolamo Savonarola in Florence between 1494 and 1497, the Bonfire of the Vanities took place.

During the Medieval Age, when the House of Árpád disappeared in 1301, two of the monarchs that claimed the throne and were crowned chose a different name.

During the Árpád dynasty ( 1000 – 1301 ), the coronation insignia were kept in the coronation city of Székesfehérvár.

During the reign of the last kings of the Árpád dynasty ( late 13th century ) Abaúj was de facto ruled by the Aba ( family ) ( Slovak: Omodejovci ).

During the Fragmentation of Poland, Silesia, as well as the rest of the country, was divided among many independent duchies ruled by various Silesian dukes.

During his 22-year reign, Louis successfully expanded royal power at the expense of the dukes.

During the Reformation, ownership passed to the Slavic dukes of Pomerania, who took over the island.

During the reign of the Holstein-Gottorp dynasty ( 1751-1818 ) the title heir of Norway () was added, as also other titles that were connected to the dukes of Holstein-Gottorp.

During his previous employment with the dukes of Ferrara, he had acquired numerous contacts and influential friends elsewhere in Europe, including the Sforza family in Milan ; doubtless this assisted in the spread of his reputation, and the consequent importation of musicians from foreign countries into northern Italy.

During the 15th century the Pomeranian dukes chose it as their residence.

During the period 13631477, the duchy was ruled by a succession of dukes whose extinction with the death of Charles the Bold ( or " the Brash ") in 1477 led to its absorption into the French crown by King Louis XI, while the Low Countries fell under Habsburg control, passing with the abdication of King Charles I of Spain ( Charles V as Holy Roman Emperor ) to the Spanish Empire of Philip II of Spain.

During the period of the Merovingian dynasty in Gaul, Provence was a province ruled by duces ( dukes ), military leaders and district commanders who served as defenders of the frontiers of the kingdom and ruled over vast territories as opposed to the comites ( counts ), who ruled the cities and their environs.

During the late Gothic era, the growing prosperity and position of the dukes lead to a growing need for a representative castle, and this meant architectural changes to the fortress settlement.

During the Thirty-Years War, Stettin refused to accept German imperial armies, instead the Pomeranian dukes allied with Sweden.

During the ceremony, the non-noble inhabitants swore the same oath of allegiance to the Brandenburgian electors that was previously sworn to the Pomeranian dukes, while the nobles swore a modified oath.

During the Investiture controversy with the papacy the Emperor Henry IV named other dukes of Spoleto.

During the course of the 13th century the Welf dukes created administrative units known as Verwaltungseinheiten.

During the 13th and 14th century the city was run by the dukes of Cetina, the Knights Templar of Vrana and the dukes of Bribir the Šubićes.

During the First Serbian Uprising ( 1804 ) and Karađorđe's ( Leader of the uprising in Serbia ) marched to Novi Pazar, Sanjak, and the people of this area rebelled and met the Serbian dukes Anto Bogićević and Hadži-Prodan Gligorijević.