At the outbreak of the Civil War, Johnston was the commander of the U. S. Army Department of the Pacific in California.

* 2011 – At least 300 people killed in deadliest tornado outbreak in the Southern United States since the 1974 Super Outbreak.

At this critical moment, the Roman army was crippled by the outbreak of a second smallpox pandemic, the plague of Cyprian ( 251-70 ).

At the outbreak of war, the German army had no radically new theory of war named Blitzkrieg or otherwise.

At the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, rather than waiting for the draft, he volunteered for the U. S. Army to have some choice in assignments.

At the outbreak of World War II he volunteered for the Royal Air Force, but was unable to serve because of a childhood illness.

At first, many members of the Dublin public were simply bewildered by the outbreak of the Rising.

At the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, the Italian political left became severely split over its position on the war.

At the outbreak of World War I, Lang returned to Vienna and volunteered for military service in the Austrian army and fought in Russia and Romania, where he was wounded three times.

At about the same time, the plague outbreak tapered off.

At the outbreak of war, Italy had seized the chance to occupy the southern half of Albania, to avoid it being captured by the Austro-Hungarians.

At the outbreak of the war, Iraq had amassed an estimated 35 billion in foreign exchange reserves.

At the outbreak of World War II, IALA's research activities were moved from Liverpool to New York, where E. Clark Stillman established a new research staff.

At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, he was sent to Ruma, where he was arrested for anti-war propaganda and imprisoned in the Petrovaradin fortress.

At the outbreak of war in August 1914, the governors of British East Africa ( as the Protectorate was generally known ) and German East Africa agreed a truce in an attempt to keep the young colonies out of direct hostilities.

At the outbreak of war, German citizens in Britain were interned.

At the outbreak of World War I, Weber, aged 50, volunteered for service and was appointed as a reserve officer and put in charge of organising the army hospitals in Heidelberg, a role he fulfilled until the end of 1915.

At the outbreak of World War II he applied to become a war artist for he was keen to put his skills at the service of his country.

") At the outbreak of the Second World War, Foot volunteered for military service, but was rejected because of his chronic asthma.

At the time it was not known how cholera was transmitted, but physician John Snow suspected contaminated water and had the handle of the public pump he suspected removed ; the outbreak then subsided.

At the head of this band of dissenters was an apostate who had denied the Faith even before the outbreak of persecution.

At the height of a second outbreak, the Plague of Cyprian ( 251 – 266 ), which may have been the same disease, 5, 000 people a day were said to be dying in Rome.

At the outbreak of World War I, the country's territory included only the provinces of Walachia, Moldavia, and Dobruja.

At the outbreak of World War I, in August 1914, infantry officers in all combatant armies still carried swords as part of their field equipment.

At the outbreak of World War II virtually all artillery was still being moved around by artillery tractors or horses.

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 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 beginning of the Industrial Revolution, inland transport was by navigable rivers and roads, with coastal vessels employed to move heavy goods by sea.

At its inception during the French Revolution, the term was popularly applied to all supporters of revolutionary opinions.

The band spent the first few months of 2004 touring around the world, first with the third Projekt Revolution tour, and later several European concerts. At the same time, the band's relationship with Warner Bros. Records was deteriorating rapidly on account of several trust and financial issues.

At the same time, many Sino-Burmese were influenced by the Cultural Revolution in China and began to wear Mao badges.

At the time of the American Revolution, England was the largest manufacturer of nails in the world.

At the time of the 1789 French Revolution, only half of the French people spoke some French, and 12-13 % spoke it " fairly ", according to Hobsbawm.

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 the same time Prokofiev also composed music for children ( Three Songs for Children and Peter and the Wolf, among others ) as well as the gigantic Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, which was banned from performance and had to wait until May 1966 for a partial premiere.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution introduced an era of European world hegemony that included the domination of most of the lands of Islam.

At the beginning of the American Revolution, he served in the Continental Congress, representing Virginia and then served as a wartime Governor of Virginia ( 1779 – 1781 ).

At one sedition trial in the early 1790s, the Attorney – General tried to prohibit Thomas Cooper from publishing his response to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, arguing that " although there was no exception to be taken to his pamphlet when in the hands of the upper classes, yet the government would not allow it to appear at a price which would insure its circulation among the people.

At the time, some believed this lack of growth outside Britain was due to the ‘ Malthusian trap ’ theory ; Thomas Malthus argued before the start of the Industrial Revolution that it was the tendency of a population to expand beyond the limits of resource sustainability, at which point a crisis ( such as famine, war, or epidemic ) would reduce the population to a sustainable size.

At first, the monarchies of Europe embraced Enlightenment ideals, but with the French Revolution they feared losing their power and joined wide coalitions with the counter-revolution.

At first, the Revolution was merely a call for greater autonomy, but due to the clumsy responses of the Dutch king to the problem, and his unwillingness to meet the demands of the revolutionaries, the Revolution quickly escalated into a fight for full independence.

At the time of the overthrow of Communist party rule, Dubček described the Velvet Revolution as a victory for his humanistic socialist outlook.

At the outbreak of the French Revolution each country, and in many cases each city, had its own system of measurement.

At the Fifth Plenum held in 1980, Peng Zhen, He Long and other leaders who had been purged during the Cultural Revolution were politically rehabilitated.

At the same time, other art forms flourished in the People's Republic during the Revolution.

At the National Museum of China in Beijing, the Cultural Revolution is barely mentioned in its historical exhibits.

At the outbreak of the French Revolution, Pius VI witnessed the suppression of the old Gallican Church, the confiscation of pontifical and ecclesiastical possessions in France, and an effigy of himself burnt by the Parisians at the Palais Royal.

At a speech on 1 April 1933, Raeder expressed his support for " the government of the National Revolution " which he hoped would " lead a unified people, thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the great chancellor to new heights ".