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 the fall of that year, their benefactor Haines died suddenly and the Alcotts again suffered financial difficulty.

By 1987 Ethernet was clearly winning the standards battle over Token Ring, and in the middle of that year Apple introduced EtherTalk 1. 0 for the newly released Macintosh II computer.

By working with Motorola, AMD was able to refine copper interconnect manufacturing to the production stage about one year before Intel.

By 1559 the Germany city of Aachen alone was capable of producing 300, 000 cwt of brass per year.

By the following year their ranks had grown to include German painter, sculptor and designer Oskar Schlemmer who headed the theater workshop, and Swiss painter Paul Klee, joined in 1922 by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky.

By 1704, the War of the Spanish Succession was in its fourth year.

The money was devoted largely to developing “ technical advice on the conduct of defoliation and anti-crop activities in Southeast Asia .” By the end of fiscal year 1962, the Chemical Corps had let or were negotiating contracts for over one thousand chemical defoliants.

By the age of four, he was able to play 40 pieces on the piano ; his mother began formally teaching him the next year.

By the end of the year, all French and Zairian troops were withdrawn.

By 1972, the economic progress of Allende's first year had been reversed, and the economy was in crisis.

By convention, a calendar year consists of a natural number of days.

By the early 2000s, the CD largely replaced the audio cassette player as standard equipment in new automobiles, with 2010 being the final model year for any car in the US to have a factory-equipped cassette player.

By 1968, the design had reached the one known today, and has been used continuously from this year, apart from a period in the 1970s when the just the letters CAFC appeared on the team's shirts.

By the end of the year, 365 Uyezd-level Chekas were established.

By January 1934, the second year of the CCC program, 300, 000 men were enrolled.

By the end of the year Mobutu had created a rival government with its own prime minister.

By 1959 more than 1, 000 homes a year were being constructed.

" By the end of the following year he had taken up the ukelele and tea-chest bass and begun to participate in skiffle sessions with friends, and had started to play the piano ; meanwhile his stage presentation of numbers by both Presley and Chuck Berry — complete with gyrations in tribute to the original artists — to his local Wolf Cub group was described as " mesmerizing ... like someone from another planet.

By the year 2010 there were 5, 906 Dominican friars, including 4, 456 priests.

By 2010, the market for Ethernet equipment amounted to over $ 16 billion per year.

By the end of the year he had founded the ( the Metropolitan Church of Art of the Leading Christ ).

By mistake, the year of his birth was given as 1848, not the correct 1845.

By the end of the year, it had surpassed competitor Ultima Online in number of subscriptions.

By the 6th year, peasants abandoning fields and rebellion became rampant.

By 1969 West German cinema attendance at 172. 2 million visits per year was less than a quarter of its 1956 post-war peak.