Prior to Confederation in 1867, the Royal Arms of the United Kingdom served in Canada as the symbol of royal authority.

Prior to Wodziwob's religious movement, a devastating typhoid epidemic struck in 1867.

Prior to 1867, the ( Daco -) Romanians were part of different statal entities: with the Moldavians and the Wallachians being split off and having shaped separate political identities, possessing states of their own, and with the rest of Romanians being part of other states.

Prior to 1974, Quebec had no official language and was subject only to the requirements on the use of English and French contained in Article 133 of the British North America Act, 1867.

Prior to the adoption of this resolution, members had no fixed designation Prior to Confederation members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada had been known by various titles including MPP, MLA and MHA and this confusion persisted after 1867 with members of the Ontario legislature using the titles Members of the Legislative Assembly ( MLAs ) or Members of Provincial Parliament ( MPPs ) interchangeably.

Prior to 1867, the Quebec North Shore portion of the " Labrador coast " had shuttled back and forth between the colonies of Lower Canada and Newfoundland.

Prior to the 1867 law, tenements often covered more than 90 percent of the lot, were five or six stories high, and had 18 rooms per floor of which only two received direct sunlight.

Prior to the BNA Act, 1867, the British colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island discussed the possibility of a fusion to counter the threat of American annexation and to reduce the costs of governance.

Prior to 1867, the collection of territories under the control of the Habsburg monarch in Vienna used kaiserlich und königlich or the hyphenated kaiserlich-königlich interchangeably.

Prior to the BNA Act of 1867, the British colonies of the Province of New Brunswick, Province of Nova Scotia, and Province of Prince Edward Island, discussed the possibility of a fusion to counter the threat of American annexation, and to reduce the costs of governance.

Prior to 1918, the region belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire ( more specifically, Transleithania-Kingdom of Hungary from 1867 to 1918 ), and before 1867 to the Austrian Empire.

Prior to World War I, Transylvania had been a semi-independent state under Ottoman sovereignty, province of the Habsburg Monarchy, province of the Austrian Empire and part of the Kingdom of Hungary ( from 1867 to 1918 ; within the Austro-Hungarian Empire ).

Prior to the union of the Canadas in 1867, the Fathers of Confederation unanimously chose constitutional monarchy to be the foundation of the new polity's form of government, and the elected legislatures of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Province of Canada approved.

Prior to 1867, Austria's naval forces were known simply as the Austrian navy.

Prior to 1867, the country's naval forces were those of the Austrian Empire.

Prior to Canadian Confederation in 1867, he represented Pictou County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1836 to 1847 and from 1851 to 1855.

Prior to Canadian Confederation in 1867, Wier represented Halifax township from 1851 to 1859 and Lunenburg County from 1859 to 1863 in the colonial Nova Scotia House of Assembly.

Prior to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 this role was held by the House of Lords.

Prior to the adoption of the Democratic Party label, it was known variously as the Progressive Party, Progressive Reform Party, Progressive Federal Party.

Prior to running for Governor of Nevada, Gibbons signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge ( tax pledge ) that is promoted at the national level by Americans for Tax Reform and at the state level by Citizen Outreach PAC — whose CEO is Chuck Muth.

Prior to Canadian confederation, advocates of responsible government ran under the labels " Reform " or " Liberal ", while opponents of responsible government were known as " Conservatives ".

Prior to this, he served as Minister for Europe from 2007 – 08, the Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform from 2006 – 07, and as Parliamentary Secretary at the Cabinet Office from 2005 – 06.

Prior to the passage of the McCain-Feingold law, also known as the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, it was generally accepted that 527s were not covered by campaign finance laws.

Prior to his appointment to the Rudd Ministry, Kerr was Co-Convenor of the Australian Parliamentary Group for Drug Law Reform, a cross-party group that advocates harm minimisation as being more effective, more cost-efficient and less harmful than zero-tolerance when it comes to dealing with drug use.

Prior to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, the office had had substantial legislative, executive, and judicial power ; the Act stripped the Lord Chancellor non-executive functions ( besides sitting in Parliament when held by an MP or a Peer entitled to a seat in the Lords ).

Prior to the Danish Kommunalreformen (" The Municipal Reform " of 2007 ), Denmark consisted of 270 municipalities, which were decreased in number to 98 by merging smaller municipalities into larger ones.

Prior to this, in the 1980s and 1990s, the Reform Party of Canada had advocated the policy's repeal.

Prior to forming the Personal Choice Party, Larsen was known as a political activist and frequent candidate for numerous political offices in Utah under the ballot lines of several minor parties including the Libertarian Party and the Reform Party.

Prior to running for the Alliance, he was an original member of the Reform Party of Canada.

Prior to joining Reform, he was a member of the Western Canada Concept but decided not to run for the party.

Prior to her appointment to Ways and Means in 1996, Congresswoman Thurman served on both the House Agriculture Committee and the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight.

( Prior to the Great Reform Act of 1832 there was also a separate Newport parliamentary borough in Cornwall.

Prior to the formation of Bill Haley and the Saddlemen, which later became The Comets, Haley released several singles with other groups.

Prior to the 1966 season, Reds owner Bill DeWitt sent Robinson to Baltimore in exchange for pitcher Milt Pappas, pitcher Jack Baldschun and outfielder Dick Simpson.

Prior to that team's existence, other early football teams ( such as the Buffalo Bills of the AAFC ) used the nickname, solely due to name recognition, as Bill Cody had no special connection with the city.

Prior to the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco, Wallace and his aides Bill Jones and Seymore Trammell met in the Jefferson Davis Hotel in Montgomery with Alabama Republican leader James D. Martin, who had narrowly lost the U. S. Senate election in 1962 to J. Lister Hill.

Prior to the 1987 season, Bill Walsh completed a trade for Steve Young, then a quarterback with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers .< ref name = 49ersqbs >

Prior to this group's formation, another group called The Kingsmen operated in 1958 and was made up of members of Bill Haley & His Comets who were moonlighting from their regular work with Haley.

Prior to the 1966 – 67 NBA season, Auerbach announced his retirement as a coach and named his successor, Bill Russell.

Prior founding the Western Design Center in 1978, Bill Mensch held design engineering and management positions at Philco-Ford, Motorola, MOS Technology and Integrated Circuit Engineering. Bill Mensch, creator of the 65C02 and 65C816 microprocessors, and co-inventor of the Motorola 6800 | MC6800 and MOS Technology 6502 | MOS6502 microprocessors.

Prior to leaving MOS Technology in 1977, Bill Mensch became the microprocessor design manager at the company.

Prior to his appointment, Everton Chairman Bill Kenwright contacted Moyes and invited him to his home in London to discuss the available position at Everton.

Prior to Bill Clinton's presidency, she also posed nude for Penthouse magazine and was an actress in two films and one TV show.

* Tom Prior, Bill Wannan, and Harry Nunn ( 1968 ).

Prior to release of the film, Flemming registered and developed realistic web pages for a number of the subjects in the film, including http :// www. citizensfortruth. org, lamenting the assassination of Bill Gates and criticizing the LAPD for their poor investigation of the incident.

Prior to the release of his album " Chase ", Bill Chase started playing on a Schilke B6LB trumpet.

Prior to the inclusion of the Bill of Rights, this was the only mention of religious freedom in the Constitution.

Prior to the establishment of the West Tennessee Normal School pursuant to the General Education Bill, a number of higher education departments existed in Memphis under the banner of the University of Memphis.

Prior to the 1981 general election, PLAC lobbied all the major Irish political parties at the time – Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Labour Party – to urge the introduction of a Bill to allow the amendment to the constitution to prevent the Irish Supreme Court so interpreting the constitution as giving a right to abortion.

Prior to 1920 he had won a number of Canadian doubles titles, but at the U. S. National Championships in 1918 and 1919 he lost the singles final to Robert Lindley Murray and " Little Bill " Johnston respectively in straight sets.

Prior to Bill Ruger's partnership with Sturm, he had successfully duplicated two Baby Nambu pistols while working in his garage, from a U. S. Marine's captured Nambu, shortly after World War II.

Prior to the 1890s, the Bill of Rights was held only to apply to the federal government.

Prior to the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment and the development of the incorporation doctrine, the Supreme Court in 1833 held in Barron v. Baltimore that the Bill of Rights applied only to the federal, but not any state governments.

Prior to the 2008 AFC Championship game against the Chargers, New England Patriots head coach Bill Belicheck said, " I hate that song.

Prior to the enactment of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1868, the Supreme Court generally held that the substantive protections of the Bill of Rights did not apply to state governments.