At about the age of eighteen, he went to Athens to continue his education at Plato's Academy.

At the first public meeting on August 15, 1636, eighteen men signed the town covenant.

At the start of 1986, Essendon were considered unbackable for three successive flags, but a succession of injuries to key players Paul Van der Haar ( only fifteen games from 1986 to 1988 ), Tim Watson, Darren Williams, Roger Merrett and Simon Madden led the club to win only eight of its last eighteen games in 1986 and only nine games ( plus a draw with Geelong ) in 1987.

He recalled later, " At eighteen, war was great stuff.

At age twelve, Bradbury began writing traditional horror stories and said he tried to imitate Poe until he was about eighteen.

for being " the most amiable and beautiful person that ever eye beheld ; a person also of innate modesty, virtue and courtly deportment, which made him then, but especially after, when he retired to the great city, much admired and adored by the female sex " At the age of eighteen, during a three-week celebration at Oxford, he was granted the degree of Master of Arts.

At age 74 Eastwood became the oldest of eighteen directors to have directed two or more Best Picture winners.

At the age of eighteen, Thurman worked on a land survey, and at twenty-one became private secretary to the Governor of Ohio, Robert Lucas.

At eighteen months, the mother leaves the cubs, who then form a sibling (" sib ") group that will stay together for another six months.

At eighteen, Prince Edward was no stranger to battlefields, having been given by his mother the task of condemning to death Yorkist prisoners taken at the Second Battle of St Albans, but he lacked experience of actual command.

At the outbreak of the Second World War, Hartnell served in the Tank Corps, but was invalided out after eighteen months as the result of suffering a nervous breakdown, and he returned to acting.

At the end of 1872, Sophus Lie proposed to Anna Birch, then eighteen years old, and they were married in 1874.

At the age of eighteen she eloped with the actor Robert Baddeley, then on the stage at Drury Lane.

At age eighteen, Ensslin spent a year in the United States of America, where she attended high school in Warren, Pennsylvania.

At eighteen he went to London and soon established his reputation as a portrait painter in oils, receiving his first royal commission, a portrait of Queen Charlotte, in 1790.

At age eighteen in 1963, Fassbinder returned to Munich.

At the age of twenty-eight he renounced the ministry, and for eighteen months led a life of traveling, visiting Austria, Hungary, Italy, France and Belgium.

At the age of eighteen, Fanon fled the island as a " dissident " ( the coined word for French West Indians joining Gaullist forces ) and travelled to British-controlled Dominica to join the Free French Forces.

At the age of eighteen, Fessenden left Bishop's without having been awarded a degree, even though he had " done substantially all the work necessary.

At the age of eighteen Dale became the youngest professional comedian in Britain, touring all the variety music halls.

At the age of eighteen he was driven to leave Toulouse for Padua by the poor fortunes of the family patron.

At the age of eighteen he attracted the notice of the elder Scaliger, and was invited to lecture in the archiepiscopal college at Auch.

At the age of eighteen, Siqueiros and several of his colleagues from the School of Fine Arts joined Venustiano Carranza ’ s Constitutional Army fighting the Huerta government.

At the age of ten he was sent to the local grammar school, the Lycée Charlemagne, where he studied until he was eighteen.

At eighteen, the small, wiry, pale Carmichael was living in Indianapolis, trying to help his family ’ s income working in manual jobs in construction, a bicycle chain factory, and a slaughterhouse.

At first it had been just a romantic dream of his, the same as the idea of finishing Oxford after the war.

At this time Harriet wrote in a letter which after their finally landing in India was sent to her mother:

Having hedged its bets in this way, PHS apparently decided it would be possible to make some sort of determination after all: `` At present radiation levels, and even at somewhat higher levels, the additional risk is slight and very few people will be affected ''.

At the time Alex arrived he was engaged in some sort of intimate communication with the hen, who had settled herself on the nest most peacefully after the occurrences of the morning.

At the age of 17 he became an apprentice machinist at the shop of Walcott & Harris in Valley Falls, Rhode Island, and following two or three other jobs in quick succession after graduation, he went into business for himself in 1831, making lathes and small tools.

At twelve minutes after five on the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906, San Francisco was shaken by a severe earthquake.

At 7:30 a.m., more than three hours after landing, the Beardens gave an ultimatum:

At the time I was filled with self-pity at this separation, but in the years since I have come to understand that the sight of me was painful to them after that outcry.

At least, we were together and we had Mrs. Hodges, bless her, to look after us -- no mother could be fonder of Gladdy than Mrs. Hodges was.

At the same time, after initial setbacks, Grant laid siege to Vicksburg and the Union navy attained some success in Charleston harbor.

At the time, in the 1890s, the issue of land ownership in Ireland was politically charged, and after the events at the Valley House in 1894 Lynchehaun was to claim that his actions were motivated by politics.

At first he regarded his new life as a renunciation of his art, and fell out of practise: but after some time he resolved to study and learn by heart the works of Bach, Mendelssohn, Widor, César Franck, and Max Reger systematically.

At Old Trafford, Australia won by just 3 runs after Victor Trumper had scored 104 on a " bad wicket ", reaching his hundred before lunch on the first day.

At the First Synod of Tyre in AD 335, they brought accusations against Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, the primary opponent of Arius ; after this, Constantine had Athanasius banished, since he considered him an impediment to reconciliation.

* At birth he was named Gaius Octavius after his biological father.

At a meeting of the U. S. House Committee on Science and Astronautics one day after Gagarin's flight, many congressmen pledged their support for a crash program aimed at ensuring that America would catch up.

At the time of his appointment, his destination Nashville had been evacuated by the Confederates after the fall of Ft. Donelson, and the government which he was displacing had fled to Memphis.

At the First Buddhist Council, convened shortly after the Buddha died, Ananda was called upon to recite many of the discourses that later became the Sutta Pitaka of the Pāli Canon.

* 2012 – At least 26 miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua in Sichuan Province, China.

At the height of the French Revolution, he was accused by Jean-Paul Marat of selling adulterated tobacco, and of other crimes and was eventually guillotined a year after Marat's death.

At the time, only the dress rehearsal and opening night performance were held, and the play was not revived until after Jarry's death.

At age 14, he passed the Preliminary Examination of the University of Copenhagen with distinction, after receiving dispensation to take it because he was younger than the usual minimum age.

At this time, Lerner was hired by film producer Arthur P. Jacobs to write a treatment for an upcoming film project, Doctor Dolittle, but Lerner abrogated his contract after several non-productive months of non-communicative procrastination and was replaced with Leslie Bricusse.

At about 08: 00, after Cadogan had just passed Merdorp, his force made brief contact with a party of French hussars gathering forage on the edge of the plateau of Jandrenouille.

At last, however, Marlborough called a halt to the pursuit shortly after midnight near Meldert, from the field.