Towards the close of the 5th century a great company of monks known as the Nine Saints are believed to have established themselves in the country.

Towards the end, the alternates were very distant cousins counted in degrees of male descent ( but all that time, intermarriages occurred within the imperial house, thus they were close cousins if female ties are counted ).

Towards the north of the constellation are globular clusters NGC 5824 and NGC 5986, and close by the dark nebula B 228.

Towards the close of the millennium, the Han Dynasty extends Chinese power towards Central Asia, where it borders on Indo-Greek and Iranian states.

Towards the close of the millennium, Egypt became the stage of the first popular revolution recorded in history.

Towards the close of the 11th century crusading knights came from every part of Europe to aid the kings of León, Castile and Aragon in fighting the Moors.

Towards the close of his reign he became embroiled in a dispute with Pope Innocent III.

Towards the close of 1803 Arago entered the École Polytechnique, Paris, but apparently found the professors there incapable of imparting knowledge or maintaining discipline.

Towards the close of the 2nd century BC, when the Ptolemaic and Seleucid kingdoms were equally depressed, the Nabataean kingdom came to the front.

Towards the close of its career, the atmospheric engine was much improved in its mechanical details and its proportions by John Smeaton, who built many large engines of this type during the 1770s.

) Towards the close of the century, ships were built with more than 100 guns, and they too were classed as first rates.

Towards the close of the eleventh century the popes found it necessary to restrict episcopal authority on this point, and decreed that the virtues and miracles of persons proposed for public veneration should be examined in councils, more particularly in general councils.

Towards the close of his life Burney was paid £ 1000 for contributing to Rees's Cyclopaedia all the musical articles not belonging to the department of natural philosophy and mathematics: the latter being written by John Farey, Sr.

Towards the close of 1804, Napoleon entrusted to Fesch the difficult task of securing the presence of Pope Pius VII at the forthcoming coronation of the emperor at Notre Dame, Paris ( December 2, 1804 ).

Towards the close of his episcopate, Nectarius abolished the office of presbyter penitentiary, whose duty appears to have been to receive confessions before communion.

Towards the close of 1785, he decided to leave Norwich-principally because his post as headmaster did not pay well but required a great deal of his time.

Towards the close of the year 1837 he returned to France, and on 21 December married Mlle Agathe Delamalle ( Garches, Hauts-de-Seine, 15 October 1819 – Paris, 13 July 1853 ), daughter of the government prosecuting attorney at the court of Angers.

Towards the end of the nineteenth century several parcels of land were held by the parish as charitable lands namely ; Town land meadow, Town Land close, the Barn Close ( near Hill Top ), the Old Close and part of Breach Field.

Towards the end of the both the Nickelodeon and Disney series, they become close friends and reciprocate romantic feelings for each other.

Towards the close of his career he played two new characters of quite different types with great success, Shakespeare's Caliban and Gritzenko, the Kalmuck, in Scribe's and Meyerbeer's L ' étoile du nord.

Towards the close of 1875 the first volume of his Life of Swift was published ; and he had made some progress in the preparation of the second at the time of his death.

Towards the close he incurred the hostility of some of the nobility, especially, it is said, of the Metelli, by the attacks which he made upon them on the stage, and at their insistence he was imprisoned.

Towards the close of his speech, Rush stated that the troop surge would only serve to make the Iraqi situation more volatile.

Towards the close of her life, the Legislature of Nova Scotia granted her a small pension.

Towards the latter end of the year he paid his annual visit to the place of his birth, when he experienced a relapse.

Towards the end of the year, Bowie performed the song for Marc Bolan's television show Marc, and again two days later for Bing Crosby's televised Christmas special, when he joined Crosby in " Peace on Earth / Little Drummer Boy ", a version of " The Little Drummer Boy " with a new, contrapuntal verse.

Towards the end of the year, Bowie and Angela initiated divorce proceedings, and after months of court battles the marriage was ended in early 1980.

Towards the end of the year, the label released the ' It's a Cool Cool Christmas ' compilation in association with XFM, with proceeds going to The Big Issue charity.

Towards the end of the year the Forbes Expedition seized the site of Fort Duquesne and began constructing a British settlement that would become known as Pittsburgh.

Towards the end of the year he dissolved his sexteto and continued playing solo with classical string quartets and symphonic orchestras.

Towards the year 1803, father and son finally adopted the name Gay-Lussac.

Towards the end of that year, Thomas Merton learned that his father was ill and living in Ealing.

Towards the end of 1954 Finch's contract with Laurence Olivier was about to expire and he instead signed a seven-year contract with the Rank Organisation worth £ 87, 500 to make one movie a year for them.

Towards the end of the year, Pastorius began working on his long-delayed second solo album ( Word of Mouth ) in New York, while Zawinul worked on new Weather Report material in California.

Towards the end of the year, the group were offered a deal with Warwick Records to make an album of cover versions.

Towards the end of the year, American glam metal band Quiet Riot released a cover version of " Cum On Feel the Noize " on CBS Records.

Towards the end of 1918 he was elected by Parliament to be the Swiss President for 1919, but retired from the Federal Executive at the end of his year of office, on December 31, 1919.

Towards the end of his reign, Mircea signed a treaty with the Ottomans ; in return for a tribute of 3, 000 gold pieces per year, the Ottomans desisted from making Wallachia a province (" pashalik "). Giurescu, p. 370.

Towards the end of the year he made a voyage to Tasmania arriving at Hobart on 2 January 1819.

Towards the end of the 70s the race again became a home to returning European based antipodeans like Alan Jones and Larry Perkins with Warwick Brown winning the 1977 race, while the previous year touring car racer John Goss completed a remarkable double, becoming the only driver to win the Grand Prix and the Bathurst 1000.

Towards the year 846, a group of Mozarabs ( Christians who did not flee from the Muslims and lived under the Muslim regime ) tried to repopulate the city, but a Muslim attack prevented that initiative.

Towards the end of the season, his form faded owing to the lingering effects of his illness and operation the previous year.

Towards the 16th century, five poets emerged, though there are hundreds year gap in between them.

Towards the end of the year, Happy Feet 3-D Experience was replaced with SpongeBob SquarePants 3-D. Sesame Street Beach was replaced with Beach Break Bay.

Towards the end of the year it assumed a disastrous rapidity.

Towards the end of the year, the line-up changed yet again, with the bassist, Ronny, leaving the band and guitarist Jakke taking over from him.

Towards the end of his life he fell ill, signing his will on 13 February 1631, to which he signed a codicil on 18 May, and taking the waters at Bath in April of that year.