While the reliability of these sources has increasingly been called into question, it is known that during his brief reign, Caligula worked to increase the unconstrained personal power of the emperor ( as opposed to countervailing powers within the principate ).

While his accession is traditionally dated to 660 BC, no historically firm dates can be assigned to this early emperor's life or reign, nor to the reigns of his early successors.

While his ten-year reign was marked by various state-building accomplishments, Mindaugas's conflicts with relatives and other dukes continued, and Samogitia ( western Lithuania ) strongly resisted the alliance's rule.

While later chroniclers such as John of Fordun supplied a great deal of information on Dub's life and reign, including tales of witchcraft and treason, almost all of this is rejected by modern historians.

While his father had founded only one monastery ( Otto I later replaced the abbey with the Cathedral of Magdeburg ) during his 37 years of reign.

While Edward's early reign had been energetic and successful, his later years were marked by inertia, military failure and political strife.

While it is clear that much of this rewriting of Hatshepsut's history occurred only during the close of Thutmose III's reign, it is not clear why it happened, other than the typical pattern of self-promotion that existed among the pharaohs and their administrators, or perhaps saving money by not building new monuments for the burial of Thutmose III and instead, using the grand structures built by Hatshepsut.

While there he predicted a severe famine that the author says came under the reign of the Roman Emperor Claudius.

While the claim that he had been made a dux under the emperor Probus is probably a fabrication, he certainly attained the rank of tribunus within the army, and during the reign of Carus he was raised to the position of Praeses, or governor, of the province of Dalmatia.

While Han China was making preparations for a military confrontation from the reign of Emperor Wen, the break did not come until 133 BC, following an abortive trap to ambush the chanyu at Mayi.

While still Duke, he was involved in the plot for the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre ( but did not participate ), in which thousands of Huguenots were killed ; his reign as king, like the ones of his elder brothers Francis II and Charles IX, would see France in constant turmoil over religion.

While he has been regarded as intelligent and artistically skilled, as well as politically ambitious, early in his reign he showed signs of mental instability, a condition that eventually led to insanity.

While himself a patron of Ely and Abingdon, Ælfhere was also charged with despoiling reformed monasteries during Edward the Martyr's brief reign ( 975-978 ).

While Iturbide's reign lasted less than a year, it was the result of and further defined the struggle between republican and traditional ideals, not only in Mexico, but also in Europe.

While his reign never achieved the grandeur of his father, Louis II left an indelible imprint on the tiny principality.

While Anthony's anger grows, Dan yells for someone to kill Anthony from behind, and end his reign of terror.

While some of the Penal Laws were much older, they took their most drastic shape during the reign of Charles II.

While a dissenter from its official Church was only faced with fines and imprisonment in Protestant England, six people were executed for heresy or blasphemy during the reign of Elizabeth I, and two more in 1612 under James I.

While Asturias under Ramiro was relatively free of foreign confrontations, the latter portion of the reign saw much internal conflict.

While for the sixpence and larger silver coins an older bust of the king was used from 1743 onwards, the small silver coins continued to use a young portrait of him throughout his reign.

While there were rumours of pregnancies well into William's reign ( dismissed by the King as " damned stuff "), they seem to have been without basis.

While the silver threepence was minted as a currency coin until nearly the middle of the 20th century, it is clear that the purpose of the coin changed during the reign of King George III ( 1760 – 1820 ).

While the Turin King List length for his reign is blank, and Manetho's exaggerates his reign as 66 years, most scholars believe it was between 24 to 26 years, based upon the date of the Will of Prince Nekure which was carved on the walls of this Prince's mastaba tomb.

While he was traditionally seen as one of Akhenaten's immediate successors, today some Egyptologists such as Aidan Dodson consider him to be the immediate predecessor of Neferneferuaten and a junior co-regent of Akhenaten who did not have an independent reign.

While there, she witnessed first-hand the suffering and horrors that the beings there must endure, and was overwhelmed with grief.

While growing up, Tureaud regularly witnessed murder, rape, and other crimes, but attributes his survival and later success to his will to do well and his mother's love.

While calm in recent years, Palau witnessed several instances of political violence in the 1980s.

While his duty did not include combat, he claims to have witnessed acts of war between Chinese and Japanese soldiers.

While the 19th century had seen the success of the wave theory at describing light, it had also witnessed the rise of the atomic theory at describing matter.

While the gang goes off to search for the bird, the game warden, keeping his promise to confiscate the birds and who witnessed the Aldens practicing for the big flight, comes to the Alden barn and seizes the geese.

While earlier heads of this house " witnessed royal documents far more more frequently " than other members of the nobility.

While in London during the Second World War, his admiration for Britons grew when he witnessed their courage in the face of the German bombardments.

While in London, he witnessed important events such as the execution of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford.

While the early excitement passed, the Canterbury region has witnessed the development of Pinot noir as the dominant red variety.

While hostage on Asteroid M, Moira witnessed Fabian Cortez draining Magneto of his powers and manipulating him into placing him as his right hand.

While convincing the manager to give his uncle a bedroom on the train, Farmer witnessed his dad lie to get what he wanted.

While studying in Germany, he witnessed the coming to power of the Nazis and the initiation of anti-semitic measures.

While working as a foreign correspondent for the American journal The Living Age, Fry visited Berlin in 1935 and personally witnessed Nazi abuse against Jews on more than one occasion and wanted to help.

While the Soviet regime still put more emphasise on heavy industry over light industry, the light industry sector all witnessed good growth ratings.

While in South Carolina, Grace witnessed firsthand the suffering of black and white sharecroppers and laborers.

While at Berkley, Bhutto witnessed the public panic when the Soviet Union first exploded the bomb, codename First Lightening in 1949, prompting the U. S. government to famously launch the research on Hydrogen bombs.

While aboard the Der Grosse and the Pennsylvania, she witnessed such atrocities as stewards sexually assaulting female steerage passengers, a severe lack of medical care, and the scarcely intolerable quality of food provided to steerage passengers.

While the province hasn't witnessed the outright fighting in the last few years that has affected provinces like Helmand, there is a constant low level of tribal violence, accompanied by criminal and Taliban activity.

While Roman Lazaro witnessed 4 government transitions, Taciano Rizal and Mayor Severino J. Lajara served the longest terms as municipal mayor, although the latter served uninterruptedly for 10 years.

While searching for a cat, Ryo and Robert ( two karate experts ) witnessed a murder related to a stolen diamond.

While recuperating at his brother's house, he witnessed the second atomic blast that destroyed the city of Nagasaki.

While on a pilgrimage Tsangpa Gyare and his disciples witnessed a set of nine dragons roaring out of the earth and into the skies, as flowers rained down everywhere.

While stationed in the Far East, he witnessed the Boxer Rebellion in China.