At the peak of its efficiency in the early 16th century, the Venetian Arsenal employed some 16, 000 people who apparently were able to produce nearly one ship each day, and could fit out, arm, and provision a newly-built galley with standardized parts on an assembly-line basis not seen again until the Industrial Revolution.

At the age of 16 he apprenticed as a stonemason and by the age of 20 he had reached journeyman status in this field.

At age 16 or 17, Johnson left his apprenticeship and ran away with his brother William.

At the end of day two, Apollo 16 was about away from Earth.

At just over 74 hours into the mission, Apollo 16 spacecraft passed behind the Moon, losing direct contact with mission control.

At the end of the Apollo 16 crew's final full day in space, the spacecraft was approximately from Earth and closing at a rate of about.

At 265 hours and 37 minutes into the mission, at a velocity of about, Apollo 16 began atmospheric reentry.

At the time, the age of consent for sexual acts between men in the UK was 21 ( compared with 16 for heterosexual acts ).

At 14: 00 on 1 August, lookouts on HMS Zealous reported the French anchored in Aboukir Bay, its signal lieutenant just beating the lieutenant on HMS Goliath with the signal, but inaccurately describing 16 French ships of the line instead of 13.

At the age of 16 Wills left the family and hopped a freight train.

At the end of the opening round, the top 16 competitors move on to the playoffs.

At age 16, Beaux began art lessons with a relative, Catharine Ann Drinker, an accomplished artist who had her own studio and a going clientele.

At 16 he was mostly self-taught but at this point he decided to take some lessons through correspondence.

At the time of their arrests, Jessie Misskelley, Jr. was 17 years old, Jason Baldwin was 16 years old, and Damien Echols was 18 years old.

At age 16 he helped found and became secretary of the Students Society of Gjirokastër, which protested against the monarchist government.

At each end is a goal 2. 14 m ( 7 feet ) high and 3. 66 m ( 12 ft ) wide measured from the inner sides of the posts and crossbar, and an approximately semi-circular area 14. 63 m ( 16 yd ) from the goal known as the shooting circle ( or D or arc ), bounded by a solid line, with a dotted line 5 m ( 5 yd 6 in — this marking was not established until after metric conversion ) from that, as well as lines across the field 22. 90 m ( 25 yd ) from each end-line ( generally referred to as the 23 m lines ) and in the center of the field.

At present Gernika-Lumo has 16, 244 ( 2009 ) inhabitants.

At Jupiter, the outboard ( 11 m ) set of sensors could measure magnetic field strengths in the range from ± 32 to ± 512 nT, while the inboard ( 6. 7 m ) set was active in the range from ± 512 to ± 16, 384 nT.

At the beginning of the 19th century Scottish universities had no entrance exam, students typically entered at ages of 15 or 16, attended for as little as two years, chose which lectures to attend and left without qualifications.

At the end of 1905, only 16, 000 Herero were alive, out of a previous population of 80, 000.

At sunrise on 16 May 218, Publius Valerius Comazon Eutychianus, commander of the legion, declared him emperor.

At 16, he entered the Russian Orthodox monastic life at the Trinity-St. Sergius Hermitage near St. Petersburg.

At 16: 00, Ben-Gurion opened the ceremony by banging his gavel on the table, prompting a spontaneous rendition of Hatikvah, soon to be Israel's national anthem, from the 250 guests.

At the age of 23 he learned about his biological parents, contacted his mother, and met her and his then 16 year old sister for the first time.

* 2006 – Lebanon War: At least 28 civilians, including 16 children are killed by the Israeli Air Force in what Lebanese call the Second Qana massacre and what Israel considers to be an attempt to stop rockets ' being fired, from Lebanon, at Israeli civilian targets.

* 1780 – American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Waxhaws, the British continue attacking after the Continentals lay down their arms, killing 113 and critically wounding all but 53 that remained.

At the beginning of the solar system, there were several relatively short-lived radionuclides like < sup > 26 </ sup > Al, < sup > 60 </ sup > Fe, < sup > 53 </ sup > Mn, and < sup > 129 </ sup > I present within the solar nebula.

At the next Presidential election in July 2006, James Michel polled 53. 7 % of valid votes, Wavel Ramkalawan 45. 7 % and Phillip Boulle 0. 6 %.

At the time of the OAU's disbanding, 53 out of the 54 African states were members ; Morocco left on 12 November 1984 following the admission of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic as the government of Western Sahara in 1982.

At the time it was extinguished, the Commission consisted of representatives drawn from 53 member states, elected by the members of ECOSOC.

At the eve of the Protestant Reformation, the Imperial states comprised 53 ecclesistical principalities.

At the time of her death, many of her books had been published in 53 countries and in 14 languages.

At the beginning of the war the NKVD formed 15 rifle divisions, which had expanded by 1945 to 53 divisions and 28 brigades.

At ( 53. 704 °, − 2. 199 °), north-northeast of Manchester city centre and north-northwest of central London, Bacup stands on the western slopes of the South Pennines, amongst the upper-Irwell Valley.

At the 2007 election to the Sejm, the party ran as part of the Left and Democrats ( LiD ) list, and won three of the alliance's 53 seats.

At the beginning of 2011, there were 608, 493 people residing in Genoa, of whom 47 % were male and 53 % were female.

At the turn of the 20th century the total population was only 53, 000.

At the time of his death, Patroclus had killed 53 enemy soldiers.

At 53 feet ( 16. 2 m ), it is the shortest covered bridge in the county.

At the time his father was age 53, while his mother was 38 years old.

At the time of the 2001 census, Acton, comprising the wards of East Acton, Acton Central, South Acton and Southfield, had a population of 53, 689 people.

At approximately 2: 53 AM, Amtrak's Sunset Limited train, powered by three locomotives, and en route from Los Angeles, California to Miami, Florida with 220 passengers and crew aboard, crossed the Bayou Canot bridge at high speed and derailed at a kink in the track caused by a barge captain who rammed the bridge by making a wrong turn in the waterway, and failed to report the accident.

At 1: 53 p. m. on June 16, 2005, Yucaipa experienced a magnitude 4. 9 earthquake centered four miles ( 6 km ) north of the center of town.

At the 2000 census, the median income for a household in the CDP was $ 53, 424, and the median income for a family was $ 61, 079.

At a referendum held on January 14, 1895, 46 of 53 voters approved incorporation as a Borough.

At 124 degrees, 29 minutes, 53 seconds west longitude, Port Orford is the westernmost city in the contiguous United States.

At the 2000 census the median income for a household in the city was $ 49, 156, and the median income for a family was $ 53, 545.

At the northern end, closest to the coast, was the Left Division of 53 galleys, mainly Venetian, led by Agostino Barbarigo ( admiral ), with Marco Querini and Antonio da Canale in support.

At first the operation was successful, opening 53 other stores around the country.

At 53. 4 ° N, it is also the most northerly.