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 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 2009 with natural gas prices at a long-term low, Alberta's economy was in poor health compared to before, although still relatively better than many other comparable jurisdictions.

By late 2009 39 % of households had internet access Colombia had 581, 877 Internet hosts in 2006.

By July 2009, the IHF listed 166 member federations-approximately 795, 000 teams and 19 million players.

By 2009, a Taliban-led shadow government began to form in many parts of the country complete with their own version of mediation court.

By 2009, the chip was almost entirely deployed on servers made by HP, which had over 95 % of the Itanium server market share, making the main operating system for Itanium HP-UX.

By 2009 unemployment rose to 23 % and was the highest in the EU.

By August 2009, Latvia's GDP had fallen by 20 % year on year, with S & P predicting a further 16 % contraction to come.

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By 2009, 27 coffee shops selling cannabis in Rotterdam, all within 200 metres from schools, must close down.

By March 2009, Porsche SE was aiming for its first ever credit ratings from U. S. rating agencies Standard & Poor's and Moody's.

By July 2009, Porsche was faced with debts exceeding 10 billion euros.

By November 2005, Hawass was suggesting a three-month loan of the Rosetta Stone, while reiterating the eventual goal of a permanent return ; in December 2009, he proposed to drop his claim for the permanent return of the Rosetta Stone if the British Museum loaned the stone to Egypt for three months, for the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza in 2013.

By 2008, these state-owned corporations had become increasingly dynamic and generated large increases in revenue for the state, resulting in a state-sector led recovery during the 2009 financial crises while accounting for most of China's economic growth.

By January 2009, Al-Shabaab and other militias had managed to force the Ethiopian troops to retreat, leaving behind an under-equipped African Union peacekeeping force to assist the Transitional Federal Government's troops.

By 2009, the CIA estimated that the GDP had grown to $ 5. 731 billion, with a projected real growth rate of 2. 6 %.

By January 2009, Al-Shabaab and other militias had managed to force the Ethiopian troops to retreat, leaving behind an under-equipped African Union peacekeeping force to assist the Transitional Federal Government's troops.

By 2009, a rebuilding Somalia had re-established its national army and police force, with a new navy and air force also in the process of being re-constituted.

By July 2009, it had shed 1. 2 million jobs in one year.

By the end of 2009, there were 787 financial institutions, of which 170 were foreign-invested.

By 2009, The world's highest SEM resolution at high-beam energies ( 0. 4 nm at 30 kV ) is obtained with the Hitachi S-5500.

By the end of 2009, there were a total of nearly 6 billion mobile and fixed-line subscribers worldwide.

By the end of 2009, 146 Libertarians were holding elected offices.

* Fixing UNRWA: Repairing the UN's Troubled System of Aid to Palestinian Refugees ( By James G. Lindsay, Washington Institute for Near East Policy: January 2009 )