In 1815 after the Napoleonic Wars, the Kingdom of Prussia took over and the city became one of its most socially and politically backward centres until the end of the 19th century.

With Parks Canada and UNESCO recognising the significance of the Burgess Shale, collecting fossils became politically more difficult from the mid-1970s.

Although Cuba remained Spanish politically, economically it became increasingly dependent on the US.

Over the course of the 20th century it became increasingly common for first ladies to select specific causes to promote, usually ones that are not politically divisive.

" " After the middle-class Revolution of 1830, Bastiat became politically active and was elected justice of the peace of Mugron in 1831 and to the Council General ( county-level assembly ) of Landes in 1832.

In 1769, he became more politically active, presenting the Virginia Assembly with legislation to ban the importation of goods from Great Britain.

Spain became culturally and politically a follower of absolutist France.

By the start of the 18th century, a political union between Scotland and England became politically and economically attractive, promising to open up the much larger markets of England, as well as those of the growing British Empire.

As they became politically interested in the former territories of Carthage, the Romans came to use Hispania Citerior and Hispania Ulterior for ' near ' and ' far Spain '.

Although she lived before left communism became a distinct tendency, Rosa Luxemburg has heavily influenced most left communists, both politically and theoretically.

From the middle of the 16th century, the papacy politically unified Lazio with the Papal States, so that these territories became provincial administrations of St. Peter's estate ; governors in Viterbo, in Marittima and Campagna, and in Frosinone administered them for the papacy.

" In terms of descent, the group that became politically dominant in Shewa – and Subsequently in Ethiopia – was a mixture of Amhara and Oromo ; in terms of language, religion and cultural practices, it was Amhara.

Although the Sovereign was not stripped of the ancient prerogative powers and legally remained the head of government, politically it gradually became necessary for him or her to govern through a Prime Minister who could command a majority in Parliament.

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.

Stockholm thus lost much of the independence it had had during the Middle Ages and became politically and financially bound to the state.

In the 1960s, Brazil became politically divided with the arrival of a military dictatorship, and the leftist musicians of bossa nova started to gather attention to the music made in the favelas.

In the British Empire ( originally in the maritime and hinterland sphere of influence of the East India Company, HEIC, later transformed into crown territories ), mainly in British India, the numbers of guns fired as a gun salute to the ruler of a so-called princely state became a politically highly significant indicator of his status, not governed by objective rules, but awarded ( and in various cases increased ) by the British paramount power, roughly reflecting his state's socio-economic, political and / or military weight, but also as a prestigious reward for loyalty to the Raj, in classes ( always odd numbers ) from three to 21 ( seven lacking ), for the " vassal " indigenous rulers ( normally hereditary with a throne, sometimes raised as a personal distinction for an individual ruling prince ).

Due to its superior location, Ayutthaya quickly became powerful, politically and economically.

In 1561 Tallinn politically became a dominion of Sweden.

The use of DU became politically and environmentally contentious after the use of DU munitions by the US, UK and other countries during wars in the Persian Gulf and the Balkans raised questions of uranium compounds left in the soil ( see Gulf War Syndrome ).

Walloons ( in fact French-speaking elites who were called Walloons ) became politically dominant.

Flanders became gradually politically and economically dominant.

Europe slowly united, economically and, in some ways, politically, into what eventually became the European Union, which consisted of 15 European countries by the end of the century.

As this region was politically connected to the Rhenish Palatinate, the name Upper Palatinate () became common from the early 16th century in contrast to the Lower Palatinate along the Rhine.

Over the 4th century Macedon became more politically involved with the south-central city-states of Ancient Greece, but it also retained more archaic features like the palace-culture, first at Aegae ( modern Vergina ) then at Pella, resembling Mycenaean culture more than classic Hellenic city-states, and other archaic customs, like Philip's multiple wives in addition to his Epirote queen Olympias, mother of Alexander.

In the summer of 1878 Doubleday lived in Mendham, New Jersey, and became a prominent member of the Theosophical Society.

However, to minimize the extent of the movement ignores the facts that at least two Roman emperors, Constantius II and Valens, became Arians, as did prominent Gothic, Vandal and Lombard warlords both before and after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

Johnson was the only Southern senator who did not resign his seat during the Civil War ; he became the most prominent War Democrat from the South and supported Lincoln's military policies.

In the 20th century it became a convenient place to house prominent members of India's independence movement.

In 1900 he moved to San Diego and became a prominent member and supporter of the Theosophical community Lomaland, which was being developed on Point Loma by Katherine Tingley.

He helped to initiate the first independent legal political organizations and became prominent in the Soviet Union's growing political opposition.

It was here that his position became more prominent amongst the Bahá ’ ís.

Toward the end of his life, he freed his slaves and became one of the most prominent abolitionists.

The trip had been a stimulating experience for Chaplin, including meetings with several prominent thinkers, and he became increasingly interested in world affairs.

" And in the words of a prominent Croatian writer, Shlegel's death became the pretext for terror in all forms.

Some bicycle clubs and national associations became prominent advocates for improvements to roads and highways.

The church became a strong and public champion of monogamy and the nuclear family, and at times played a prominent role in political matters.

He eventually became the most prominent of those reformers.

The remix featured a prominent Ofra Haza sample and many other vocal cut ups as well as a looped rhythm which, when speeded up, became a staple of the breakbeats genre.

The brewery was successful, and Lottrup became one of the most prominent people of Aarhus.

Michelle became an ever-more prominent part of the Street, with Kym Marsh receiving £ 100, 000 for another year on the soap.

His father was born into slavery in 1851 in Pittsboro, North Carolina ; after the Civil War, he graduated from St. Augustine's College and became a prominent minister and founder of St. Michael's Episcopal Church.

According to Eliade, " eschatological myths " became prominent during the Middle Ages during " certain historical movements ".

Before the RISC philosophy became prominent, many computer architects tried to bridge the so called semantic gap, i. e. to design instruction sets that directly supported high-level programming constructs such as procedure calls, loop control, and complex addressing modes, allowing data structure and array accesses to be combined into single instructions.

Summer would become the first well-known and most popular disco artist — eventually having the title " The Queen of Disco " bestowed upon her by various critics — and would also play a part in pioneering the electronic sound that later became a prominent element of disco.

The Philly Sound is typified by lavish percussion and lush strings, which became a prominent part of mid-1970s disco songs.

Deism became more prominent in the 17th and 18th centuries during the Age of Enlightenment — especially in Britain, France, Germany and America — among intellectuals raised as Christians who believed in one God, but found they could not believe in supernatural events such as miracles, the inerrancy of scriptures, or the Trinity.

He popularized the Dolchstoß terminology, and became a prominent right-wing leader in the 1920s.

Raymond became a prominent voice in the open source movement and co-founded the Open Source Initiative in 1998, taking on the self-appointed role of ambassador of open source to the press, business and public.

After experiencing problems with mold contamination in her own home in the Conejo Valley, Brockovich became a prominent activist and educator in this area as well.