Prior to 1754, grants of mission lands were made directly by the Spanish Crown.

From 1749 to 1753 he was Prior of St. Edmund's, Paris and in 1754 was sent to Rome as procurator general of the English Benedictine Congregation.

Prior to and immediately after European settlement, the land today comprising Lancaster and Fairfield County, Ohio was inhabited variously by the Shawnee, Iroquois, Wyandot, and other Native American tribes.

Prior to the arrival of European settlers around 1740, Greenbrier County, like most of West Virginia, was used as a hunting grounds by the Shawnee and Cherokee Nations.

Prior to European settlement, Iroquoian people lived around Lakes Erie and Ontario, Algonquian peoples around most of the rest, and a variety of other indigenous nation-peoples including the Lakotan, Ojibwa, Illinois, Pottawatmie, Huron, Shawnee, Erie, Fox, Crow and Ho-Chunk ( Winnebago ).

Prior to European exploration and settlement, trails through the Alleghenies had been transited for many generations by American Indian tribes such as the Iroquois, Shawnee, Delaware, Catawba and others, for purposes of trade, hunting and, especially, warfare.

Prior to 1728, Cresaptown was the site of a former Shawnee Indian village along the Potomac River.

Prior to running for public office, McCarthy taught English at Shawnee Mission South High School and the Sunset Hill School.

Prior to 1960, in order to provide matching for the minimum ( base ) allotment, State funds had to equal 1954 State funds.

Prior to meeting Mallowan, Christie had not had any extensive brushes with archaeology, but once the two married they made sure to only go to sites where they could work together.

Prior to the Akkadian period the progressive salinisation of the soils, produced by poorly drained irrigation, had been reducing yields of wheat in the southern part of the country, leading to the conversion to more salt-tolerant barley growing.

Prior to his death, according to the Book of Jubilees, Amram was among those who went to Egypt and recovered the bones of the sons of his grandfather and great uncles ( excluding those of Joseph which had already been brought to Canaan ), so that they could be reburied in the cave of Machpelah.

Prior to the flood, speculators had purchased the abandoned reservoir, made less than well-engineered repairs to the old dam, raised the lake level, built cottages and a clubhouse, and created the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club.

Prior to creating the Asterix series, Goscinny and Uderzo had previously had success with their series Oumpah-pah, which was published in the Tintin magazine.

Prior to 2006, in common with many other Caribbean countries, Cable & Wireless ( Caribbean ) had a statutory monopoly on telephone and other electronic communications services.

Prior to the 1867 Reform Bill the working class did not possess the vote and therefore had little tangible political power.

Prior to this time, Judah had been a vassal of the Assyrian empire, but the rapid decline of Assyria after c. 630 led Josiah to assert his independence and institute a religious reform stressing loyalty to Yahweh, the national God.

Prior to the period of these scriptures, Mahāyāna metaphysics had been dominated by teachings on emptiness in the form of Madhyamaka philosophy.

Prior movements had all originated in cities which were home to at least two teams.

Prior to this, his political views had been conservative.

Prior to this event, the technique had been published in an issue of 391 in the poem by Tzara, dada manifesto on feeble love and bitter love under the sub-title, TO MAKE A DADAIST POEM

Prior to his death, he had, at his wife Plectrude's urging, designated Theudoald, his grandson by their son Grimoald, his heir in the entire realm.

Prior to the 1995 season, the Rockies acquired free-agent outfielder Larry Walker, previously of the Montreal Expos, who replaced Kingery as the 4th member of the " Blake Street Bombers "— named after the street on which the new ballpark ( Coors Field ) was located — along with Galarraga, Bichette, and third baseman Vinny Castilla, who had played sparingly with the major-league club during the previous season.

Prior to partition, both regions had cholera pathogens with similar characteristics.

Prior to the hiatus, the strip ’ s characters had aged at the tectonically slow rate standard for comic strips.

Prior to this period, the College had clung to traditional methods of instruction and was relatively poorly funded.

Prior to this assignment, no women had lived on island since those on the plantation in 1971.

Prior to this, most music heard on radio was live ; most radio stations had an orchestra or band on the payroll.

As time passed, Prior Diego sanctioned the building of a monastery for girls whose parents had sent them to the care of the Albigensians because their families were too poor to fulfill their basic needs.

" Prior to Draper, Beauchamp & Davidson had also offered a definition which includes these elements, although they offered a somewhat longer account, and one that specifically discounts fetuses in order to distinguish between abortions and euthanasia:

Prior to 1986, the Australian banks organized a widespread uniform credit card, called Bankcard, which had been in existence since 1974.

Prior to its takeover the company was headquartered in a facility in Northwest unincorporated Harris County, Texas, United States that now serves as HP's United States headquarters.

Prior to the start of the Civil War, Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood declared Davenport to be Iowa's first military headquarters and five camps were set up in the city to aid the Union.

Prior to this — before the Second World War — he was content with the role of an apolitical liberal intellectual: " Now teaching at a lycée in Laon [...] Sartre made his headquarters the Dome café at the crossing of Montparnasse and Raspail boulevards.

Prior to the 1990s there was a wide cooperation between pioneer and similar movements of about 30 countries, coordinated by the international organization, International Committee of Children's and Adolescents ' Movements (, CIMEA ), founded in 1958, with headquarters in Budapest.

Prior to its merger with Standard Oil of California, Gulf was one of the chief instruments of the legendary Mellon family fortune ; both Gulf and Mellon Financial had their headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Prior to the merger, Texaco's headquarters, a building, were in Harrison, New York, near White Plains.

Prior to the completion of the current Air France head office in Tremblay-en-France in December 1995, Air France was headquartered in a tower located next to the Gare Montparnasse rail station in Montparnasse and in the 15th arrondissement ; Air France had its headquarters in the tower for about 30 years.

Prior to that, the headquarters was in Philadelphia, within a few miles of three member schools ( Temple, Saint Joseph's, and La Salle ).

Prior to its dissolution, MidAtlantic Airways had its headquarters on the grounds of Pittsburgh International Airport in Findlay.

Prior to its dissolution, Maersk Air had its headquarters in Dragør in the municipality.

Prior to its disestablishment, Republic Airlines ( 1979-1986 ) had its headquarters in Building C. At one time Mesaba Airlines had its headquarters in the Fort Snelling UT.

Prior to its disestablishment, Midway Airlines had its headquarters in Morrisville.

Prior to its dissolution, Phillips Petroleum Company had its headquarters in Bartlesville.

Prior to the moving to its current headquarters in 2002, Burger King had considered moving away from the Miami area ; Miami-Dade County politicians and leaders lobbied against this, and Burger King stayed.

Prior to the choice of New York City, Navy Island near Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada was proposed as an alternative headquarters for the United Nations.

Prior to its dissolution, Pacific Air Lines had its corporate headquarters on the grounds of the airport.

Prior to its dissolution, Hughes Airwest had its headquarters on the grounds of San Francisco International.

Prior to its merger with SBC Communications, Ameritech's corporate headquarters were in a leased space above the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on floors 34 through 39 of 30 S Wacker Dr, Chicago IL.

Prior to the merger with Japan Airlines, Japan Air System had its headquarters by Tokyo International Airport in Ōta.

Prior to its disestablishment, Data East had its headquarters in Suginami.

Prior to the move to the Forest Hills Tower, the airline headquarters were across the street, at 80 – 02 Kew Gardens Rd.

Prior to its disestablishment, Air Aruba had its headquarters in the Brown Invest Building in Oranjestad.

Prior to 2011, the International headquarters were located in Joplin, Missouri where a college and a publishing house operated.

Prior to the September 11 attacks, One World Trade Center served as the headquarters of Cantor Fitzgerald.