Contrary to his usual practice, Conté did not appear on television to mark Tabaski earlier in December 2008, and this sparked renewed speculation, as well as concern about the possibility of violence in the event of his death.

The event that sparked the explosion of lobbying was the first direct election of the European Parliament in 1979.

Traditionally Cornish, they have even sparked local events such as the Pasty Fest, where there are eating contests ( with consumption of pasties, of course ), games, events, and even a tug of war event where the losers take a dive into an inflatable pool filled with ketchup.

On the night in question, the Station was legally required to have a sprinkler system but did not ; outcry over the event has sparked calls for a national Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act but those efforts have so far stalled.

This event sparked a major change in attitude towards TLP reports.

This event sparked the beginning of the brass industry in Torrington, which later would spread throughout the entire Naugatuck Valley.

The event sparked a series of political controversies where, in the end, the police officers were found guilty of murder and several high-ranking local government officials were accused of planning and / or covering-up the incident.

Further accusations, and hints of accusations, followed, including the suggestion that the murder of Sergey Kirov in 1934, the event that sparked of the Great Terror, could be included in the list of Stalin's crimes.

This event, coupled with the subsequent collapse of several department store chains, sparked a wave of mall renovations in many parts of the country.

This event sparked a mini-feud between Piper and The Ortons.

This event was blamed on the Jews and sparked widespread anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire which lasted for three years.

One story suggests that Comiskey's interest in the game was sparked by an event that occurred when he was 17 years old.

Erekat was also, along with Arafat and Faisal Husseini, one of the three high-ranking Palestinians who asked Ariel Sharon not to visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque in September 2000, an event which allegedly sparked off the Second Intifada. He also acted as Yasser Arafat's English interpreter.

For Matt Burden, of Blackfive. net, a specific event sparked his motivation to fill the media void.

The event was meant to foster feelings of reconciliation and cooperation between the two countries by their leaders, but it has also sparked different degrees of discontents on both sides.

However, his promising career was cut short due to his death in an apartment fire 1981 – said to have been accompanied by a suicide note – an event that sparked a progressively diminishing morale in Cziffra, Sr. Cziffra never again performed or recorded with an orchestra, and some critics have commented that the severe emotional blow had an impact on his playing quality as well.

The success of the first Clean Up event in 1989 sparked national interest in the simple but effective community-based idea.

The deciding event in precipitating the First Congo War was the Rwandan genocide, which sparked a mass exodus of refugees known as the Great Lakes refugee crisis.

The Cuban Revolution was a major event all over Latin America and sparked both great concern and a sense of possibility in Nicaragua.

This epochal event sparked a general re-evaluation and revival of Bach's works, which were then largely forgotten and regarded as old-fashioned and beyond resuscitation.

Thus, he sparked the plans to bring the Justice League, leaderless and broken after the Crisis on Infinite Earths event, under his exclusive control.

The event sparked the nationwide Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal in the dioceses of the United States.

The second season also includes an episode that follows Glasser's efforts to mount an Internet-based telethon to raise money for freedom of speech causes ; this event was in response to his nearly being jailed on obscenity charges several years ago and, according to the episode, was sparked when Glasser discovered a shipment of Seymour Butts tapes that was about to be inadvertently mailed to an American state where importation of pornography is illegal.

The event also sparked interest in the incredible fuel economy of the vehicle-a single tank lasted, even with the tough terrain.

The earliest " year names ", whereby each year of a king's reign was named after a significant event performed by that king, date from the reign of Sargon the Great.

The earliest documented event in Alaric's reign concerned providing refuge to Syagrius, the former ruler of the Domain of Soissons ( in what is now north western France ) who had been defeated by Clovis I King of the Franks.

The centrepiece of Solomon's reign is the building of the First Temple: the claim that this took place 480 years after the Exodus from Egypt marks it as a key event in Israel's history.

The earliest event recorded in the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba in Constantine's reign is an attack by Vikings and the plundering of Dunkeld " and all Albania " in his third year.

Nihonshoki explains that this move occurred in the 51st year of Keiko's reign, but shrine tradition also dates this event in the 1st year of Emperor Chūai's reign.

Murray reports that the only event of major consequence during Kenzō's reign had to do with the filial respect he showed for his murdered father.

The most noteworthy event recorded during his reign was the construction of state granaries in large numbers throughout Japan, indicating the broad reach of imperial power at the time.

The most notable event of his reign was the assault and Sack of Rome on 24 August 410 by the Visigoths under Alaric.

However the date of the Exodus is disputed, and it is not definitive whether the setting of the biblical Exodus event is prior to or following Akhenaten's reign.

The major event of his reign was the Austro-Ottoman War in Hungary ( 1593 – 1606 ).

The most remarkable event of Clement VIII's reign was the reconciliation to the Church of Henry IV of France ( 1589 – 1610 ), after long negotiations, carried on with great dexterity through Cardinal Arnaud d ' Ossat, that resolved the complicated situation in France.

It is in Cynegils ' reign that the first event in West Saxon history that can be dated with reasonable certainty occurs: the baptism of Cynegils by Birinus, which happened at the end of the 630s, perhaps in 640.

This event would have occurred during the reign of Domitian, a Roman emperor who was known for his persecution of Christians in the late 1st century.

Darius's European expedition was a major event in his reign, which began with the invasion of Thrace, after which he left Megabyzus to conquer Thrace, returning to Sardis to spend the winter.

The other notable event of his reign is the Council of Chalcedon in 451, in which Marcian endeavored to mediate between the rival schools of theology.

According to the provisions of the Belgian Constitution, in the event the King is temporarily unable to reign, the Government as a whole fulfills the role of Head of State.

The duration of the reign of Nicomedes himself, after this event, is unknown but his death is assigned to around the year 255 BC.

Josephus also related that Hiram ’ s reign began 155 years and 8 months before this event, and that construction of Solomon's Temple began in the twelfth year of Hiram's Reign, which would be 143 years before the building of Carthage.

The latest event mentioned in the Histories is the death of the Persian king Khosrau I ( r. 531-579 ); which indicates that Agathias was still alive in the reign of Tiberius II Constantine ( r. 578-582 ).

Nevertheless, Philip was back in Rome by August 247, where he poured more money into the most momentous event of his reign – the Secular Games, which coincided with the one thousandth anniversary of the foundation of Rome.

The only event reported in Kenneth's reign is the killing of Dúngal mac Cináeda by Gille Coemgáin mac Cináeda, by the Annals of the Four Masters s. a. 999.

However, the conquest of Lothian is likely to have been a process rather than a single event, and the frontier between the lands of the kings of Alba and Bernicia may have lain south and east of Edinburgh many years before Indulf's reign.