`` Before then, my sales during much of the year had lagged behind 1960 by 20% '', he says.

In his Rudolphine Tables ( 1627 ), Johannes Kepler used a prototype of year zero which he labeled Christi ( Christ ) between years labeled Ante Christum ( Before Christ ) and Post Christum ( After Christ ) on the mean motion tables for the Sun, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury.

Before the end of the year, Charles Martel had escaped from prison and been acclaimed mayor by the nobles of that kingdom.

Before Kaye had been on the air a year, he tied with Jimmy Durante for fifth place in the Radio Daily popularity poll.

Before the year 1830 drew to a close, both Marshal Sucre and Simón Bolívar would be dead ; the former, murdered ( on orders from a jealous General Flores, according to some historians ), and the latter, from tuberculosis.

Before becoming member a party needs to have been observer of the EFA for at least one year.

Before the military buildup began in fiscal year ( FY ) 1980, United States military assistance to Honduras was less than US $ 4 million.

Before the adoption of the current year numbering system, other systems were in use.

Before the year was over, Brown, who had immediately returned to work with his band following his release, organized a pay-per-view concert following a show at Los Angeles ' Wiltern Theatre, that was well received.

Before long, scientific inquiries provoked by his claims had pushed back the age of the earth into the millions of yearsstill too short when compared with the accepted 4. 6 billion year age in the 21st century, but a distinct improvement.

These were interrupted by service in the U. S. Army Signal Corps during World War II, where he worked as a codebreaker and participated in the landing at Casablanca. Before leaving for Europe in 1943, Greenberg married Selma Berkowitz, whom he had met during his first year at Columbia.

Before the sale was announced, Anthony Bamford, chairman of British excavators manufacturer JCB, had expressed interest in purchasing Jaguar Cars in August, the year previously ; only to back out when told the sale would also involve Land Rover, which he did not wish to buy.

Later that year, the live album Before the Flood was released, which documents the tour.

The year before 1 AD or CE is designated 1 Before Christ ( BC ) or Before the Common Era ( BCE ), the year before that 2 BC / BCE, etc.

* The Chinese Buddhist monk Huiyuan, who founded the Pure Land Buddhism sect and the monastery on Mount Lushan, writes the book On Why Monks Do Not Bow Down Before Kings in this year.

* Before this year – Textile with elephants and camels, known today as the Suaire de St-Josse, from Khurasan or Central Asia, is made.

Before that, the earliest known proto-frog was Triadobatrachus massinoti, from the 250 million year old early Triassic of Madagascar.

Before the rule of Claudius Gothicus, there had only been two emperors from the Balkans, but after, there would only be one emperor who did not hail from the provinces of Pannonia, Moesia or Illyricum until the year 378, when Theodosius I from Hispania would take the throne.

Before his death in January 2006, Rawls ' last performance was a taping for the 2006 telethon that honored Wonder, months before entering the hospital after being diagnosed with cancer earlier in the year.

Before printer's magenta was invented in the 1890s for CMYK printing, and electric magenta was invented in the 1980s for computer displays, these two artificially engineered colors were preceded by the color displayed at right, which is the color originally called fuchsine made from coal tar dyes in the year 1859.

Before the end of the year, Psyche had been back to Poland, played as part of the Endless Danse Macabre Festivals in the Netherlands, and Belgium as well as played for the first time ever in Australia.

Before the 1900s, the following tangos were being played: " El queco " ( anonymous, attributed to clarinetist Lino Galeano in 1885 ), " Señora casera " ( anonymous 1880 ), " Andate a la recoleta " ( anonymous 1880 ), " El Porteñito " ( by the Spaniard Gabriel Diez in 1880 ), " Tango Nº1 " ( Jose Machado-1883 ), " Dame la lata " ( Juan Perez, 1888 ), " Que polvo con tanto viento " ( anonymous 1890 ), " No me tires con la tapa de la olla " ( A. A. 1893 ), " El Talar " ( Prudencio Aragon-1895 ).

Before 1880, the family had changed its surname to Powell when they moved to Kanawha County, West Virginia.

Before the First World War, the PRCUA often found itself at odds with the Polish National Alliance, a fraternal organization founded in 1880.

Image: Before 1880. PNG | Illustration of the Yarra before the creation of Victoria Docks

Before 1880 all the administrative works in Bihar was done in this Persian script and possibly all the educated Muslims in the Bhojpuri speaking region wrote unofficial works in Nastaʿlīq script.

Before 1880 the United States was Russia's teacher in most aspects of the oil business.

Before World War II, Croatia's industry was not significant, with the vast majority of the people employed in agriculture.

Before independence, most Hindus did not have the right to cast votes and were not eligible to contest elections although were the majority ethnic group of the population.

Before the partition, the majority of Vietnam's Catholic population lived in the north.

Before the colonial period about 15-16 % of the population was Tutsi ; many of these were poor peasants, but the majority of the ruling elite and monarchy were Tutsi.

Before Asimov began writing, the majority of artificial intelligence in fiction followed the Frankenstein pattern.

Before the end of World War II, the vast majority of the town's population was composed of Protestants.

Before the near universal exodus of the Mormons to Utah in 1852 ( many left beginning in 1847, but they were the majority of the population until 1852 ) the area was known as Brownell's Grove and Farmersville.

Before the partition of India in 1947, the Sikhs were not in majority in any of the pre-partition Punjab districts.

Before this reform, article 49, 3 was frequently used, especially when the government had short majority in the Assemblée nationale to support the text but still enough to avoid a non-confidence vote ).

Before he died, Liberty had amassed a small fortune as a majority shareholder in Liberty & Co. ( It had become a public limited liability company in 1890.

Before Wisconsin became a state in 1848, the majority of commerce had to do with fur trading.

Before 1939, most health care had to be paid for through non government organisations – through a vast network of friendly societies, trade unions and other insurance companies which counted the vast majority of the UK working population as members.

Before the Polish victory at the Vistula, both the Bolsheviks and the majority of foreign experts considered Poland to be on the verge of defeat.

Before age 15, a majority of first-intercourse experiences among females are reported to be non-voluntary ; the Guttmacher Institute found that 60 % of girls who had sex before age 15 were coerced by males who on average were six years their senior.

Before 1918, the town had a German-speaking majority ( in the last Austrian census of 1910, 57. 7 % of the inhabitants declared German as their language of daily communication ), while the surroundings were almost exclusively Slovene-speaking.

Before long, Minamoto had developed the “ Wakayama Manor ” into the biggest Manor in all of Noto, expanding territory to take over the majority of land in Suzu.

Before American missionaries came to the area comprising the modern Kachin state, the majority of the Kachin were Animists.

Before World War II, it was home to a large Jewish community but during the Nazi occupation, in the winter of 1942, the majority of the Jewish community were transported to the Red Forest north of the town and murdered by gunfire.

Before this, Alawi Arabs and Armenians composed an overwhelming majority of the province's population, with Arabs representing about two thirds of the population.

Before the election, the Labour Party ( in government ) held 56 seats, giving it an absolute majority in Parliament.

Before the election, the National Party governed with 47 seats, a small majority.

Before leaving the United States, the storm had claimed 95 lives, of which the majority were drowning casualties.

Before the Remington Company was formed, American sportsmen relied upon foreign sources for the majority of the sporting guns they used.

Before that, the majority of the area was taken over by Polish local authorities.