The First Colonial Conference in 1887 was followed by periodic meetings, known as Imperial Conferences from 1911, of government leaders of the Empire.

The 1907 conference changed the name of future meetings to Imperial Conferences and agreed that the meetings should henceforth be regular rather than taking place while overseas statesmen were visiting London for royal occasions ( e. g. jubilees and coronations ).

The Statute gave effect to certain political resolutions passed by the Imperial Conferences of 1926 and 1930, in particular the Balfour Declaration of 1926.

While serving in this position he represented Ireland at Imperial Conferences and League of Nations meetings.

The Liaison Conferences were intended to assist in integrating the decisions and needs of the two military sections of Imperial General Headquarters with the resources and policies of the rest of the government.

The final decisions of Liaison Conferences were formally disclosed and approved at Imperial Conferences over which Emperor Hirohito presided in person at the Tokyo Imperial Palace.

Toyoda participated in numerous Imperial Conferences concerning the surrender of Japan.

He represented the new state at the League of Nations and at Imperial Conferences.

The crisis came to redefine the role of governor general, not only in Canada but throughout the Dominions, becoming a major impetus in negotiations at Imperial Conferences held in the late 1920s that led to the adoption of the Statute of Westminster in 1931.

Many in the Japanese military ( both Army and Navy ) had disagreed with Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's idea of attacking the U. S. Fleet at Pearl Harbor when it was first proposed in early 1941, and remained reluctant after the Navy approved planning and training for an attack beginning in spring 1941, and through the highest level Imperial Conferences in September and November which first approved it as policy ( allocation of resources, preparation for execution ), and then authorized the attack.

During his long tenure he would also often serve as British Secretary to many international conferences and Secretary-General of many Imperial Conferences.

The Liaison Conferences were intended by the emperor to bring the chiefs of Army and Navy General Staff into closer consultation with his government and to assist in integrating the decisions and needs of the two military sections of Imperial General Headquarters with the resources and policies of the rest of the government.

The final decisions of Liaison Conferences were formally disclosed and approved at Imperial Conferences over which the emperor presided in person at the Kyūden of the Tokyo Imperial Palace.

The Statute of Westminster 1931 gave legal effect to the Balfour Declaration and other decisions made at the Imperial Conferences.

* Percox, David A. Britain, Kenya and the Cold War: Imperial Defence, Colonial Security and Decolonisation.

* September 14 – Joseph Chamberlain resigns as British Colonial Secretary, in order to campaign publicly for Imperial Preference.

The Statute of Westminster 1931 passed by the Imperial Parliament in December 1931, which repealed the Colonial Laws Validity Act and implemented the Balfour Declaration 1926, had a profound impact on the constitutional structure and status of the Union.

The Korean side of the river was heavily industrialized during Colonial Korea ( 1910 – 1945 ), and by 1945 almost 20 % of Imperial Japan's total industrial output originated in Korea.

In July, the Colonial Conference was convened in London, and though it rejected Chamberlain's suggestion that an Imperial Council should be established, it passed a resolution endorsing Imperial Preference.

* His / Her Excellency ( abbreviation HE, oral address Your Excellency ) — Governors-General and British Colonial Governors, state officials and generals of Imperial Russia.

* Thomas, Robert P. " A Quantitative Approach to the Study of the Effects of British Imperial Policy of Colonial Welfare: Some Preliminary Findings ," Journal of Economic History 1964 25 ( 4 ): 615 – 638.

Governor Grey persuaded the Colonial Office in London to send a this number of Imperial troops to New Zealand and General Sir Duncan Cameron was appointed to lead the campaign.

Cameron, who viewed the war as a form of land plunder, had urged the Colonial Office to withdraw British troops from New Zealand and from the end of 1865 the Imperial forces began to leave, replaced by an expanding New Zealand military force.

The British Imperial Troops and the Colonial Government had been denied a decisive victory over the Māori but the last Taranaki conflict had resulted in a defeat for the Ngāti Maniapoto toa.

Outside of Britain and India the British Imperial Army amounted to only about forty thousand men and by pointing out the history of the warlike Maori, such as the stealing of gunpowder from his home on Kawau Island, Governor Grey persuaded the Colonial Office in London to send a quarter of them to New Zealand.

The other result from this delay was a very serious breakdown in the relationship between the Colonial Government that demanded a quick victory, and the British Imperial Troops fighting on their behalf.

Identified by the German authorities as a strategically important port, Qingdao was administered by the Imperial Department of the Navy ( Reichsmarineamt ) rather than the Imperial Colonial Office ( Reichskolonialamt ).

This campaign started as a side show to the Invasion of the Waikato, where British Imperial Troops, on behalf of the New Zealand Colonial Government, were fighting a confederation of Māori tribes known as the King Movement.

The supremacy of the 1867 Act had originally been established by virtue of s. 2 of the Colonial Laws Validity Act, a British Imperial statute declaring that no colonial law that violated an Imperial statute extending to a colony was valid.

Like his famous father, Tennyson was an ardent imperialist, and in 1883 he had become a council member of the Imperial Federation League, a lobby group set up to support the imperialist ideas of the Colonial Secretary, Joseph Chamberlain.

Parliament received progressively more control over New Zealand affairs, through the passage of Imperial laws such as the Colonial Laws Validity Act, constitutional amendments, and an increasingly hands-off approach by the British government.

During Colonial Korea, Imperial Japan enforced its own era system version for colonial Korea.

He also instructed the London Agent for Queensland to urge the Imperial Colonial Office to an act of annexation.

Both manuscripts are in the handwriting of Bak Changhwa 朴昌和 ( 1889 – 1962 ), who was skilled in literary Chinese and also worked for the Imperial Library in Tokyo during the Colonial period.

As he had done on his first Imperial sortie a year and a half before, Lewis trekked southeast through Red Russia to Kamieniec.

In that year he became Kappellmeister of the Imperial Chapel upon the death of Giuseppe Bonno ; as Kappellmeister he conducted the music and musical school connected with the chapel until shortly before his death, being official retired from the post in 1824.

Arnulf spent his childhood on the Mosaburch or Mosapurc, which is widely believed to be Moosburg in Carinthia, only a few miles away from one of the Imperial residences, the Carolingian Kaiserpfalz at Karnburg, which before as Krnski grad had been the residence of the Carantanian princes.

It was late in the day before the Imperial army struck.

* Imperial Princess Asahara ( 朝原内親王 ) ( 779 – 817 ), 12th Saiō in Ise Grand Shrine ( 782 – before 796 ), and married to Heizei

Though present and allowed to speak before the council, members of the Imperial Roman / Byzantine court, abbots, priests, monks and laymen were not allowed to vote.

Finland's foreign politics before this deal had been varied: independence from Imperial Russia with support of Imperial Germany in 1917 ; participation in the Russian Civil War ( without official declaration of war ) alongside the Triple Entente 1918 – 1920 ; a non-ratified alliance with Poland in 1922 ; association with the neutralist and democratic Scandinavian countries in the 1930s ended by the Winter War ( 1939 ); and finally in 1940, a rapprochement with Nazi Germany, the only power able to protect Finland against the expansionist Soviet Union, leading to the Continuation War in 1941.

Even before Christianisation, the Imperial Roman government had suppressed many pagan, Christian, philosophical and divinatory texts that it viewed as threats to Roman authority, including those of the Greek mystic and mathematician Pythagoras.

Nothing is known about Frederick's life before this event, but he proved to be Imperial ally throughout Henry's struggles against other Swabian lords, namely Rudolf of Rheinfelden, Frederick's predecessor, and the Zähringen and Welf lords.

He started his career in the German Navy ( Kaiserliche Marine, or " Imperial Navy ") before World War I.

The style was immediately popular, and Okuni was asked to perform before the Imperial Court.

In Imperial Chinese protocol, the kowtow was performed before the Emperor of China.

Under German Imperial control, and even before then, Japanese traders and fishermen from time to time visited the Marshall Islands, although contact with the islanders was irregular.

In 973, shortly before the death of emperor Otto I the Great, a Reichstag ( Imperial Convention ) was held at the imperial court in which Mieszko, duke of Poland, and Boleslav, duke of Bohemia, as well as numerous other nobles from as far away as Byzantium and Bulgaria, gathered to pay homage to the emperor.

Princess Catherine who was 90 years old at the time, and died in Montevideo Uruguay the following year, was the last member of the Imperial Family to be born before the fall of the dynasty, and was ultimately to become the last surviving uncontested dynast of the Imperial House of Russia.

However, his homosexuality had been well known long before he was invited into the Imperial Theatres and so it could not be the real reason for his being discharged.

The D20 system version is set at the time of the Solomani Rim War around year Imperial year 990, about a century before the era depicted in the original game.

* Chinese poet Li Po is presented before the emperor and given a position in the Imperial court ( approximate date ).

* May 8 – Otto von Guericke demonstrates the power of atmospheric pressure and the effectiveness of his vacuum pump using the Magdeburg hemispheres before Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, and the Imperial Diet in Regensburg.

During his time in Hawaii, Patton was part of the military units responsible for the defense of the islands, and specifically wrote a defense plan, called " Surprise ", anticipating an air raid against Pearl Harbor – 10 years before the attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy on December 7, 1941.

Isabel, Princess Imperial, the declared heiress and thrice-regent of the now-defunct Empire of Brazil, married twenty years before their deposition Prince Gaston, Count of Eu, their descendants, known as the Orléans and Braganza, would have ascended to that throne had the empire not ended in 1889.