At the end of the 17th century, new scientific concepts in astronomy ( such as heliocentrism ) called astrology into question, and subsequent controlled studies failed to confirm its predictive value.

At the end of the 17th century, the margraves ' palace at Ansbach was rebuilt in Baroque style.

At the end of the 17th century, English country dances were taken up by French dancers ; hybrid choreographies exist from this period using the steps from French court dance in English dances.

At the end of the 17th century ( 1697 ) the Shihabs succeeded the Ma ' ans in the feudal leadership of Druze southern Lebanon, although they reportedly professed Sunni Islam, they showed sympathy with Druzism, the religion of the majority of their subjects.

At the 17th Central American Summit in 1995, hosted by Honduras in the northern city of San Pedro Sula, the region's six countries ( excluding Belize ) signed treaties creating confidence-and security-building measures and combating the smuggling of stolen automobiles in the isthmus.

At the beginning of the 17th century the empire contained 32 provinces and numerous vassal states, some of which were later absorbed into the empire, while others were granted various types of autonomy during the course of centuries.

At the end of the 17th century opera flourished in England under Henry Purcell, and in France under Lully, who with the collaboration of Molière also greatly raised the status of the entertainments known as ballets, interspersed with instrumental and vocal music.

At the end of the 17th century, after the defeat of Pallavicini ( 1588 ) and Landi ( 1682 ) the Farnese duke could finally hold with firm hand all Parmense territories.

At the end of the 17th century, two influential military engineers, the French Marshal Vauban and the Dutch military engineer Menno van Coehoorn, developed modern fortification to its pinnacle, refining siege warfare without fundamentally altering it: ditches would be dug ; walls would be protected by glacis ; and bastions would enfilade an attacker.

At the time, the Rhode Island constitution was the old royal charter established in the 17th century, under which most free white males in the state were disenfranchised.

At the beginning of the 17th century, the garrison consisted of 350-400 people.

At the Austrian Court in Vienna in the late 17th century ( 1698 ) ladies were conducted around the room to the tune of a 2-beat measure, which then became the 3 / 4 of the Nach Tanz ( After Dance ), upon which couples got into the position for the Weller and waltzed around the room with gliding steps as in an engraving of the Wirtschaft ( Inn Festival ) given for Peter the Great.

At the beginning of the 17th century witchcraft was prosecuted by James I of England, who regarded " warwoolfes " as victims of delusion induced by " a natural superabundance of melancholic ".

At the top of this hill is the Abbey of Sacromonte and the College of Sacromonte, founded in the 17th century by the then Archbishop of Granada Pedro de Castro.

At first Anjou was included in the gouvernement ( or military command ) of Orléanais, but in the 17th century was made into a separate one.

At the end of the 17th century, whites, whether free or enslaved, composed the majority of Bermuda's population.

At about this time the entire region began to fragment into a number of feudal secular and ecclesiastical lordships, a situation which lasted into the 17th century and was a common process in the Empire.

At the time of European contact in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Native American inhabitants of what would become Westchester County were part of one of the Algonquian peoples whose name for themselves was Lenape (" the people ").

At the beginning of the 17th century Provence had a population of about 450, 000 people.

At the end of what is referred to as the Middle Kingdom era of Egypt, there was a breakdown in centralised power, the assertion of independence by various nomarchs and the assumption of power in the Delta by Pharaohs of the 17th Dynasty.

At the time of its release, the film ranked 17th highest grossing film ( unadjusted ) in domestic money, and worldwide it was the 21st highest grossing film.

At the same time, French officials realized that the Habsburg empire of Austria was no more the danger it had been in the heyday of the Habsburgs, back in the 16th and 17th centuries, when they controlled Spain and most of Europe and presented a formidable challenge to France.

At the time of the Ottoman invasions in the 16th and 17th centuries the land suffered severely and was depopulated.

At a minimum, transitional dialects existed until the 14th or 15th century, and perhaps as late as the 17th century.

On the very day that the parliamentary session began, another `` Infamous Libel '' appeared, entitled A Letter From The Facetious Dr. Andrew Tripe, At Bath, To The Venerable Nestor Ironside.

At the last session of the General Assembly, the town was authorized to adopt such an ordinance as a means of making enforcement of minor offenses more effective.

At a closed-door session on Capitol Hill last week, Secretary of State Christian Herter made his final report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on U.S. affairs abroad.

At the end of the session, each voter tossed one of these into a large clay jar which was afterwards cracked open for the counting of the ballots.

At the start of the next session, affairs were handled by a triumvirate of Granby, Disraeli, and John Charles Herries – indicative of the tension between Disraeli and the rest of the party, who needed his talents but mistrusted the man.

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 the very end of the show, in " Court Charades ", the Inquisitors are caught by surprise when a defendant ( who is also a judge from another court ) in session at the Old Bailey says: " Blimey, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!

* 451 – At Chalcedon, a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor, the first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins ( ends on November 1 ).

At the June 1987 plenary session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ), Gorbachev presented his " basic theses ," which laid the political foundation of economic reform for the remainder of the existence of the Soviet Union.

At the fifteenth session, 5 June 1409, the Council of Pisa deposed the two pontiffs as schismatical, heretical, perjured, and scandalous ; they elected Alexander V ( 1409 – 10 ) later that month.

At the congregational level, the governing body is called the session, from the Latin word sessio, meaning " a sitting ".

At the end of a practice session, there is a Tibetan Buddhist tradition of dedicating any accumulated merits that one may have gathered during practice to the benefit of all sentient beings.

At the end of the session, Colossus throws Wolverine at the robot and he beheads it.

At the beginning of each session, Gladstone would passionately urge the Cabinet to adopt new policies, while Palmerston would fixedly stare at a paper before him.

At some, a shortened summer session, sometimes considered part of the regular academic year, is attended by students on a voluntary or elective basis.

* April 22 – At a special session of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Director-General Jose Bustani is fired.

* July 2 – At the International Olympic Committee session in Prague, Vancouver, British Columbia is declared the host city for the XXI Olympic Winter Games in 2010.

Manzanar At Dusk: In a small group session, former Manzanar incarceree Wilbur Sato ( far right ) relates his experiences behind the barbed wire.

At the fourth session, Cyril and Memnon presented a formal protest against John of Antioch for convening a separate conciliabulum.

At this session, the bishops approved Canon 7 which condemned any departure from the creed established by the First Council of Nicaea, in particular an exposition by the priest Charisius.

At this session, the council approved the claim of the bishops of Cyprus that their see had been anciently and rightly exempt from the jurisdiction of Antioch.

At the meeting, the proposed policies are presented during the appropriate SIG session.

At their home in Waterloo on Sunday, July 16, the M ' Clintocks hosted a smaller planning session for the convention.

At the afternoon session, the eleven resolutions were read again, and each one was voted on individually.