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.

At extremely rare intervals the thermometer has fallen below zero (- 18 ° C ), as was the case in the remarkable cold wave of the 12th-13 February 1899, when an absolute minimum of-17 ° F (- 29 ° C ) was registered at Valley Head.

At the 18th Party Conference ( 15 – 20 February 1941 ) it was concluded that the abolition of the Central Committee Department on Industry had led to the neglect of industry.

At the 23rd Congress ( 29 March – 8 April 1966 ) the survival ratio was 79. 4 percent, it decreased to 76. 5 percent at the 24th Congress ( 30 March – 9 April 1971 ), increased to 83. 4 percent at the 25th Congress ( 24 February – 5 March 1976 ) and at its peak, at the 26th Congress ( 23 February – 3 March 1981 ), it reached 89 percent.

At the 2001 Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 18, 2001, Earnhardt was involved in a car accident after the final lap, in which Earnhardt's car was pushed into the wall nose-first by Ken Schrader's car at an estimated speed of.

At a February 2, 2010 congressional hearing, Senator John McCain read from a letter signed by " over one thousand former general and flag officers ".

At the Eighth Plenum of the Central Committee of the Party which lasted from 26 February – 8 March 1948, Xoxe was implicated in a plot to isolate Hoxha and consolidate his own power.

At certain intervals February was truncated to 23 or 24 days ; and a 27-day intercalary month, Intercalaris, was inserted immediately after February to realign the year with the seasons.

At an exclusive Milan screening on February 5, 1960, one outraged patron spat on Fellini while others hurled insults.

At Maastricht, 14 February 1499, Albert settled the succession to his possessions, and endeavoured by this arrangement to prevent further partition of his domain.

At the same time, a series of deaths left the Greek political scene in disarray: Kondylis died in February, Venizelos in March, Demertzis in April and Tsaldaris in May.

At the end of February, General Motors announced it would begin dismantling the Hummer brand.

At the 17th session ( February 1978 ), the related UN / ECE Group of Experts agreed that the three-letter alphabetic codes for International Standard ISO 4217, " Codes for the representation of currencies and funds ", would be suitable for use in international trade.

He has appeared in thirteen episodes since the show's inception in 1989, the most recent being " At Long Last Leave " that aired in February 2012, in which his character makes a cameo speaking appearance.

At the beginning of February, Grammer and Walsh booked the ballroom at the Plaza Hotel for their wedding, at a cost of more than $ 100, 000 for the reception, despite rumors of Grammer's divorce not being finalized.

At 34, Carson married his third wife, 14-year-old Josefa, on February 6, 1843.

At the Central Committee plenary session on 13 February 1984, four days after Andropov's death, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Premier, and Politburo member Nikolai Tikhonov moved that Chernenko be elected general secretary, and the Committee duly voted him in.

At its greatest extent from 28 September 1934 to 23 February 1935, it had 58 members.

At the news of Russian Revolution of February 1917, Bukharin returned to Russia by way of Japan and at once became one of the leading Bolsheviks in Moscow, being elected to the Central Committee.

At a joint meeting of Bolsheviks and Left Socialist-Revolutionaries held on 22 February 1918, Krylenko remarked: " We have no army.

At the same time rising prices led to demands for higher wages in the factories, and in January and February 1916 revolutionary propaganda, aided by German funds, lead to widespread strikes.

At the 24 February 1968 election, Askin increased his majority by six seats against Labor's Renshaw and an overall majority of 12 over the Labor Party and the two Independents.

At the end of Estonian War of Independence following World War I, a peace treaty between the Bolsheviks and Estonia was signed on 2 February 1920 in Tartu.

At the end of 1944 an additional 30, 000-60, 000 Poles were moved into the city after Nazis crushed the Warsaw Uprising In February 1945 the Soviet Red Army approached the city.