By the charter renewal in 1781 it was also the bankers ' bank – keeping enough gold to pay its notes on demand until 26 February 1797 when war had so diminished gold reserves that the government prohibited the Bank from paying out in gold.

By late February 1896, supplies on both sides were running low.

By February 1948, because of massive post-war military cuts, the entire United States army had been reduced to 552, 000 men.

By February 2006, six hundred remained in custody, facing trial in March.

By February 2006, hundreds remained in custody, facing trial in March.

By Roman custom, February 24 is the day added to a leap year in the Julian calendar.

By February 1945 David Astor had invited Orwell to become a war correspondent for the Observer.

By late autumn, the death toll began to slow until, in February 1666, it was considered safe enough for the King and his entourage to return to the city.

By threatening to withdraw his troops, William in February 1689 convinced a newly chosen Convention Parliament to make him and his wife joint monarchs.

By this time Himmler, who had been under the care of his doctor since 18 February, had fled to a sanatorium at Hohenlychen.

By early February Adenauer finally realized that all talk and all attempts at compromise with the Nazis were futile.

* The BYTE 6809 Articles ( Jan – February 1979 ) ( PDF ) – By Terry Ritter and Joel Boney, co-designers of the 6809 ; BYTE magazine reproductions by tim lindner

By 19 February 1938, when the group was picked up by the ice breakers Taimyr and Murman, their station had drifted 2850 km to the eastern coast of Greenland.

By the third week in February 1941, 680, 000 German troops were stationed on the Romanian-Soviet border.

By February 2004, a full tour was announced, and tickets for nearly all the initial tour dates sold out within minutes.

By Executive Order of the President of the United States, the Purple Heart was revived on the 200th Anniversary of George Washington's birth, out of respect to his memory and military achievements, by War Department General Orders No. 3, dated February 22, 1932.

By February 2009, there were more than 4. 8 million broadband users in Singapore.

By 1977 the band were performing their own three-chord pop punk material, which was performed alongside cover versions at concerts, primarily at The Casbah, where the band began to perform in February.

By February 1945, 73 % of children received milk in school, compared with 50 % in July 1940.

By 9 February 1942, Peenemünde engineer de Beek had documented the radio interference area of a V-2 as 10, 000 meters around the “ Firing Point ”, and the first successful A-4 flight on 3 October 1943, used radio control for Brennschluss.

" By February 1926, the studio suffered a reported net loss of $ 333, 413.

By 1986, outside organizations had begun asking for X. X10R2 was released in January 1986, then X10R3 in February 1986.

By February 2007, over 80 % of U. S. Internet users were connected via broadband and broadband internet has been almost a required standard for quality internet browsing.

By 23 February 1877 he had completed a second and more extensive prose draft of the work, and by 19 April of the same year he had transformed this into a verse libretto ( or “ poem ”, as Wagner liked to call his libretti ).

By adding a second leap day ( Friday, February 30 ) Sweden reverted to the Julian calendar and the rest of the year ( from Saturday, March 1 ) was in sync with the Julian calendar.

By 1982, the perceived passivity of the FARC, together with the relative success of the government's efforts against the M-19 and ELN, enabled the administration of the Liberal Party's Julio César Turbay ( 1978 – 1982 ) to lift a state-of-siege decree that had been in effect, on and off, for most of the previous 30 years.

By 1978, it was widely practiced by members of the group.

By contrast, the water level of the Caspian Sea has been rising steadily since 1978 for reasons that scientists have not been able to explain fully.

By 1978 most of the country's wealth and power was in the hands of the organisation which grouped these three tribes: the Gikuyu-Embu-Meru Association ( GEMA ), together comprising 30 % of the population.

By the end of his first season with Liverpool, Dalglish had played 62 times and scored 31 goals, including the winning goal in the 1978 European Cup Final final at Wembley against Bruges.

By early 1978, the D. C. jazz-fusion group Mind Power had transformed into Bad Brains, one of the first bands to be identified with hardcore punk.

By 1978 Parr had realized that Density Functional Theory ( DFT ) would be extremely useful in quantitative calculations of chemical and biological systems, especially those with high molecular weights.

By the 1970s, critics within the field such as Terry Carr and Damon Knight were using sci-fi to distinguish hack-work from serious science fiction, and around 1978, Susan Wood and others introduced the pronunciation " skiffy ".

By 1978, the Somali troops were ultimately pushed out of the Ogaden.

By 1978, the Somali troops were ultimately pushed out of the Ogaden.

By September 1978, the agency believed Skylab was safe for crews, with all major systems intact and operational.

By 2008, the economy was 16. 7 times the size it was in 1978, and 12. 1 times its previous per capita levels.

" Lipstick ", the B-side to " Promises ," shared the same ascending progression of notes in its chorus as Magazine's first single, " Shot By Both Sides ," also released in 1978.

By 1978, Nicks had amassed a large backlog of songs dating back to her Buckingham Nicks days that she had been unable to record and release with Fleetwood Mac because of the constraint of having to accommodate three songwriters on each album.

By 1978 more than 300 men had joined the protest.

* Japanese — Alcoholic Kidz: " Pierrot " ( 2009 ); Aya Kamiki: " Pierrot " ( 2006 ); Berryz Kobo: " Kokuhaku no Funsui Hiroba " (" Fountain Plaza of My Confession " ; contains lyric " I am Pierrot "); Tanaka Koki of pop group KAT-TUN: " Pierrot ", from Break the Records: By You & For You ( 2009 ); Yellow Magic Orchestra: " Mad Pierrot ", from Yellow Magic Orchestra ( 1978 ).

By early 1978, Volkswagen had reported 90, 000 Rabbits sold with automatic seat belts.

By 1978, Matsushita alone produced just over half of all Japanese VCRs.

By July 1978, a personal computer project was under way.

By 1978, Brzezinski and Vance were more and more at odds over the direction of Carter's foreign policy.

Other known singles were " Tell It Like It Is " ( 1975 ), Dusty Springfield's " Little By Little " ( 1976 ), and " Too Young " ( 1978 ).

By 1978 he was earning up to $ 50, 000 ($ today ) annually from appearances at Star Trek conventions attended by Trekkies.

By 1978 the Duck family were ingrained sufficiently in popular culture that a character in the movie Corvette Summer quips " Just call me Gladstone Duck ‏" after being lucky.

By August 1978, this had evolved to the final configuration of one aft port and five ports in a spherical compartment at the forward end of the station.

By 1978, Holmes was reputed to be earning as much as $ 3, 000 a day as a porn actor.