From the very early stages of his reign, Abd ar-Rahman showed a firm resolve to quash the rebels of Al-Andalus, consolidate centralized power, and reestablish internal order within the emirate.

From the outset of his reign, he stressed the reality of his autocracy.

From the start of Elizabeth's reign, it was expected that she would marry and the question arose to whom.

From well before his reign, Hadrian displayed a keen interest in architecture, but it seems that his eagerness was not always well received.

From its modest beginnings in the 14th-century principality of Moscow, Russia had become the largest state in the world by Peter's reign.

From Stephen V through the 10th and 11th centuries, the historical notes are extremely abbreviated, usually with only the pope's origin and reign duration.

From Amanullah until the reign of Mohammed Zahir Shah ( 1933 – 1973 ) and Mohammed Daoud Khan ( 1973 – 1978 ) the Jirga was recognized as a common meeting of regional Pashtun leaders.

From 1795 to 1797, he wrote his only play, The Borderers, a verse tragedy set during the reign of King Henry III of England when Englishmen of the north country were in conflict with Scottish rovers.

From the outset of the reign of Charles the Bald, the integrity of Anjou was seriously menaced by a twofold danger: from Brittany ( on the west side boundary ) and from Normandy ( on the north side boundary ).

From the reign of Emperor Wu onward, the Chinese court officially sponsored Confucianism in education and court politics, synthesized with the cosmology of later scholars such as Dong Zhongshu.

From the reign of Guangwu the capital was moved eastward to Luoyang.

From King Ping's reign onwards, the Zhou kings ruled in name only, with true power lying in the hands of regional nobles.

From 1428, Henry's tutor was Richard de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, whose father had been instrumental in the opposition to Richard II's reign.

From the 2007 season onwards the Seven Network returned as the official V8 Supercars broadcaster, after Network Ten had shown the series for almost a decade after taking the rights from Seven in 1997, ending Seven's 35 year reign as the official broadcaster of V8 Supercars.

From the reign of king Manuel I, the title of Duke of Beja was given to the second son of the monarch.

From the beginning of his reign, Alfonso employed Jewish, Christian and Muslim scholars at his court, primarily for the purpose of translating books from Arabic and Hebrew into Latin and Castilian, although he always insisted in supervising personally the translations.

From the time of his election as pope to the fall of Napoleon in 1815, Pius VII's reign was completely taken up in dealing with France.

From the time the Nephites arrived in America to the reign of King Mosiah II ( c. 592 – 91 BC ), the Nephites were ruled by kings.

From now the former Brabant and Limburg areas were placed under the reign of the generality as well as Zeeuws-Vlaanderen which had been taken from Flanders.

From the reign of Tiglath-Pileser I ( 1115 – 1077 ), Adad had a double sanctuary in Assur which he shared with Anu.

From the early part of the 17th century until after the civil wars, Mortlake was celebrated for the manufacture of tapestry, founded during the reign of James I-VI at the Mortlake Tapestry Works.

From the reign of Ramesses II.

From the Jian ' an reign period ( 196-220 CE ) onward, the five-character line became a focus for innovations in style and theme.

From this writer we learn that Saint Swithun was born in the reign of Egbert of Wessex, and was ordained priest by Helmstan, bishop of Winchester ( 838-c. 852 ).

From the American Civil War until World War II, Alabama, like many Southern states, suffered economic hardship, in part because of continued dependence on agriculture.

From there he waged an intermittent civil war against his grandfather, which first secured him recognition of his post as co-emperor, and ultimately led to the deposition of Andronikos II in 1328.

From the 980s, Gerbert of Aurillac ( later, Pope Sylvester II ) used his position to spread knowledge of the numerals in Europe.

From the end of World War II until the widespread change of regime in Eastern Europe in November 1989, the Bulgarian Communist Party ( BCP ) exerted complete economic, social and political control in Bulgaria.

From the 12th to the 15th century, Bordeaux regained importance following the marriage of Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine with the French-speaking Count Henri Plantagenet, born in Le Mans, who became, within months of their wedding, King Henry II of England.

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From the day King Leopold II established colonial authority in what is now Congo-Kinshasa to today, the country's government has been unstable.

From the beginning the Emperor had refused to accept the will of Charles II, and he did not wait for England and the Dutch Republic to begin hostilities.

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From 1438 the Habsburgs, who controlled most of the southeast of the Empire ( more or less modern-day Austria and Slovenia, and Bohemia and Moravia after the death of King Louis II in 1526 ), maintained a constant grip on the position of the Holy Roman Emperor until 1806 ( with the exception of the years between 1742 and 1745 ).

From Henry II onwards, ira et malevolentia had come to describe the right of the king to express his anger and displeasure at particular barons or clergy, building on the Norman concept of malevoncia – royal ill-will.

From 1936 to 1968, Mobil sponsored an economy run each year ( except during World War II ) in which domestic automobiles of various manufacturers in several price and size classes were driven by light-footed drivers on cross-country runs.

From the end of World War II until 1971, when John Rawls published A Theory of Justice, political philosophy declined in the Anglo-American academic world, as analytic philosophers expressed skepticism about the possibility that normative judgments had cognitive content, and political science turned toward statistical methods and behavioralism.

From the beginning, Julius II set himself with a courage and determination rarely equaled, to rid himself of the various powers under which his temporal authority was almost overwhelmed.

From 1216 to 1222 Philip also arbitrated in the War of Succession in Champagne and finally helped the military efforts of Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy and Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor to bring it to an end.

From left to right, Grand Duchess Anastasia, Grand Duchess Olga, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarevich Alexei, Grand Duchess Tatiana, and Grand Duchess Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia ( 1899 – 1918 ) | Maria, and Kuban Cossacks

From 1944 to 1946, during World War II and shortly afterward, he served in the United States Army.

From the 11th century onwards indulgences were granted: In 1064 Pope Alexander II allegedly promised the participants of an expedition against Barbastro ( Tagr al-Andalus, Aragon ) a collective indulgence 30 years before Pope Urban II called the First Crusade.

From this power base, his heir Ordoño II was able to organize attacks against Toledo and even Seville.

In May 2011, it was reported that Crow and longtime acquaintance Doyle Bramhall II ( musician, Sheryl Crow touring band member, and " 100 Miles From Memphis " producer ) had begun dating.

From 616 until 628 Syria was subjugated under the Persian Khosrau II ; from 628 to 637 it was Byzantine, when the province was conquered by the Muslims ( after the battle of the Yarmuk in 636. see Battle of Yarmuk ).

From this same 10th century on, Compostela became a politically relevant site and several kings of Galicia and of León were acclaimed by the Galician noblemen, and crowned and anointed by the local bishop at the cathedral, among them Ordoño IV in 958, Bermudo II in 982, and Alfonso VII in 1111, so Compostela becoming capital of the Kingdom of Galicia.

From 663 to 668 Syracuse was the seat of Emperor Constans II, as well as metropolis of the whole Sicilian Church.