* August 25 – Battle of Alcântara: Spanish armies, led by Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, defending the claim of King Philip II of Spain to the Portuguese throne, defeat the armies of Portuguese claimant António, Prior of Crato.

For example, there is a story that at the Battle of Neville's Cross in 1346, the Prior of the Abbey at Durham received a vision of Cuthbert, ordering him to take the corporax cloth of the saint and raise it on a spear point near the battlefield as a banner.

Prior to the speech the Armada had been driven from the Strait of Dover in the Battle of Gravelines eleven days earlier, and had by now rounded Scotland on its way home, but troops were still held at ready in case the Spanish army of Alexander Farnese, the Duke of Parma, might yet attempt to invade from Dunkirk ; two days later they were discharged.

Prior to ascending the throne, he was a leader of the royal army in the French Wars of Religion against the Huguenots, and took part in the victories over them at Battle of Jarnac and Battle of Moncontour.

Prior to the Guldensporenslag ( Battle of the Golden Spurs ), in May 1302 the Flemish slaughtered every Frenchman they could find in the city of Bruges.

Prior to Battle of Borodino, Tolstoy describes Napoleon as receiving a Aide-de-camp, Fabvier, who has just arrived with news of the Battle of Salamanca.

Prior to a discussion of his raids against the Japanese positions in the Marshall Islands, Halsey told the young midshipmen before him, " Missing the Battle of Midway has been the greatest disappointment of my career, but I am going back to the Pacific where I intend personally to have a crack at those yellow bellied sons of bitches and their carriers ," to the rousing applause of the assembled midshipmen.

Prior to the 1905 Battle of Tsushima, Lieutenant Commander Kawada Isao recalled in his memoirs that:

Prior to entering the Foreign Service, Ambassador Battle worked in Uganda for 10 years, as well as in Pakistan and Libya.

Prior to the Battle of Monmouth, Hart invited Gen. George Washington and the Continental Army

Prior to the destruction of Alderaan and the Battle of Yavin, Palpatine ordered the Senate to be permanently dissolved, transferring powers to regional governors.

Prior to the " Battle of Seattle ," there was almost no mention of " anti-globalization " in the US media, while the protests were seen as having forced the media to report on why anybody would oppose the WTO.

Prior to the Battle, Chamberlain was quite ill, developing malaria and dysentery.

Prior to the development of Kirkcaldy, the Battle of Raith in 596 AD is believed to have taken place to the west of the town.

Prior to the Battle of Antietam, he was ordered to North Carolina to recruit and train new cavalry regiments.

During the 1580 Portuguese succession crisis, the people from São Miguel won the naval Battle of Vila Franca against a French squadron that supported the claims of the pretender António, Prior of Crato.

Prior to the name change, the game's working title was Battle Lord.

Anthony, Prior do Crato, was acclaimed king in several cities around the country in 1580, 20 days before Philip II of Spain invaded Portugal and defeated the supporters of Anthony in the Battle of Alcântara.

Prior to its adoption as the Privy Seal of the United Kingdom after the Act of Union 1707, its most notable appearance in Scottish history was its capture by the Scots in the aftermath of the Battle of Byland Ridge in 1322, when the Scots led by Robert the Bruce almost captured Edward II, who was forced to flee leaving behind many personal possessions including the Privy Seal.

Philip II of Spain, a maternal grandson of Manuel I of Portugal, and nearest male claimant ( being an uncle of Sebastian I ), invaded with an army of 15 000 men, defeating the troops of Anthony, Prior of Crato at the Battle of Alcântara and was crowned Philip I of Portugal by the Cortes of Tomar in 1581.

Prior to the events of Macross 7, Max is appointed commander of the 7th Macross Fleet and captain of the flagship Battle 7, with a de-micronized Exsedol Folmo as his advisor.

Engraving after Melton Prior of the Battle of Majuba Hill, for the Illustrated London News, 1881

Prior to joining SFU in 1993, he worked at Dalhousie University ( 1974 – 91 ), Carnegie-Mellon ( 1980 – 82 ) and the University of Waterloo ( 1991 – 93 ).

Prior to Northampton, he played for Preston Grasshoppers and Waterloo.

Prior to and since 1960 the rest of the support allotment is matched at rates related to the fiscal capacity of the State, with a pivot of 40% State ( or 60% Federal ) participation in total program costs.

Prior to the featured race, the stewards announced that apprentice James P. Verrone is suspended ten days for crowding horses and crossing the field sharply in two races on Wednesday.

With the Prior Analytics, Aristotle is credited with the earliest study of formal logic, and his conception of it was the dominant form of Western logic until 19th century advances in mathematical logic.

# Prior to being drawn and enabled, one is unable to believe … able only to resist.

Reference to a market at Abergavenny is found in a charter granted to the Prior by William de Braose ( d. 1211 ).

Prior to the Bronze Age, the existence of artificial island settlement in Ireland is not as clear.

Prior, whose authority is great in the origin of popular names, says " It seems probably that the name was in the first place, foxes ' glew, or music, in reference to the favourite instrument of an earlier time, a ring of bells hung on an arched support, the tintinnabulum "... we cannot quite agree with Dr.

Prior to the start of the game, a coin is tossed and the winning captain can choose a starting end or start with the ball.

Prior to version 0. 7, Freenet used a heuristic routing algorithm where each node had no fixed location, and routing was based on which node had served a key closest to the key being fetched ( in version 0. 3 ) or which is estimated to serve it faster ( in version 0. 5 ).

Prior to the suspension, Peace Corps had more than 100 volunteers throughout the country, and the program is gradually increasing its numbers again.

Prior to the 386, the difficulty of manufacturing microchips and the uncertainty of reliable supply made it desirable that any mass-market semiconductor be multi-sourced, that is, made by two or more manufacturers, the second and subsequent companies manufacturing under license from the originating company.

Prior to the Bantu expansion, it is likely that Khoisan languages, or languages like them, were spread throughout southern and eastern Africa.

Arthur Prior asserts that there is nothing paradoxical about the liar paradox.

Prior to the holiday of Eid ul-Fitr, mosques also collect a special zakat that is supposed to assist in helping poor Muslims attend the prayers and celebrations associated with the holiday.

Prior to the arrival of Europeans, Panama was widely settled by Chibchan, Chocoan, and Cueva peoples, among whom the largest group were the Cueva ( whose specific language affiliation is poorly documented ).

Prior to its creation as the Territory of the Saar Basin by the League of Nations after World War I, the Saarland ( or simply " the Saar ", as is frequently referred to ) did not exist as a unified entity.

Prior to that event, the vessel is referred to as " USS Name ," but afterward the " USS " is dropped and it is referred to as " ex-Name.

Prior to this time the word is attested in Scottish legal English to describe restraining orders against debt collection, restraint being its original Latin sense.

Prior to the arrival of the Tai people and culture into what is now Thailand, the region hosted a number of indigenous Mon-Khmer and Malay civilizations.

Prior to his graduation at the top of his class, Adorno was already swept up by the revolutionary mood of the time, as is evidenced by his reading of Georg Lukacs's The Theory of the Novel that year, as well as by his fascination with Ernst Bloch's The Spirit of Utopia, of which he would later write:

Prior to the " turn around ", each party regards the other party's clock to be recording time differently than his own, but the noted difference is symmetrical between the two parties.

Prior to the Middle Ages, the Visigoths, as well as other Germanic peoples, followed what is now referred to as Germanic paganism.

Prior to World War I, Gretzky's paternal grandfather Anton ( Tony ) Gretzky immigrated along with his family to Canada via the United States from the Russian Empire ( what is now Grodno, Belarus ).