7 sentences with “reigned”

England began the conquest of Ireland in 1169, when Henry II reigned.

A week later, he introduced her to the F&S company as his special advisor. From that day on, confusion reigned.

Solomon reigned for 40 years. Under his empire, Israel became rich and powerful, and "the wisdom of Solomon" was legendary.

In 918, Chosen came under the rule of a local dynasty of emperors called the Koryu, who reigned until the arrival of the Mongols four centuries later.

After the death of Ivan IV the Terrible in 1584, Russia was plunged into a thirty-year period of anarchy called the Time of Troubles in which no one reigned as a recognised ruler.

A written constitution reigned in anything that smacked of "tyranny" and wistful continental philosophers like Voltaire often looked to Britain as the model of a more rational and just political system against which to contrast the abuses they perceived in their own political environments.

Almost two kilometres from this site is the tomb of Emperor Shilh-huang-ti, creator of the Ching dynasty, who reigned between 259 and 210 B.C. Unifying China into a powerful state, the famous sovereign must have been the protagonist - directly or indirectly - of this extraordinary terracotta work, as is shown by some inscriptions similar to those on the tomb of Shih-huang-ti.