During the Pleistocene period the Himalayan mountains were under glacial cover and climate was fluctuating between glacial and interglacial phases.

During the Pleistocene ice age, which ended roughly 10, 000 – 12, 000 years ago, the Sierra Nevada ranges were much wetter.

During the Pleistocene, what would be Leon County emerged and submerged with each glacial and interglacial period.

During the Pleistocene period a snowfield covered the top of the Mount Field plateau which fed glaciers in the surrounding valleys.

During the late Pleistocene era, reindeer were found as far south as Nevada and Tennessee in North America and Spain in Europe.

During the Pleistocene it occurred in vast parts of Eurasia, North America and until the middle Pleistocene ( about 1. 5 million years ago ) even in Africa.

During Pleistocene times all these lacustrine basins were occupied by lakes of much greater depth and larger size.

During the Pleistocene, and mostly during the last 50, 000 years, tortoises of the mainland of southern Asia ( Colossochelys atlas ), North and South America, Australia ( Meiolania ), Indonesia, Madagascar ( Dipsochelys ), and even the island of Malta became extinct.

During the very cold Pleistocene climates, all of Denali was solidly frozen.

During the Pleistocene ( c. 1. 8 to 0. 01 mya ), the watershed was extensively modified by continental glaciation.

During the past several thousand years, eruptions of the volcanoes in the Ruiz – Tolima massif have mostly been small, and the pyroclastic flow deposits have been much less voluminous than during the Pleistocene.

During the Late Pleistocene ( 300, 000 years ago ) the gray wolf ( Canis lupus ) crossed into North America on the Bering Strait land bridge and competed with the dire wolf.

During the Pleistocene, the species widely occurred in continental Europe.

During the Pleistocene, 18, 000 years ago, Mount Greylock and the surrounding region were covered by ice sheets up to in thickness.

During the Pleistocene epoch, giant monitor lizards lived in Southeast Asia and Australasia, the best known fossil being the megalania ( Varanus priscus unless it falls in its own genus, in which case it is Megalania prisca ).

During the series of Pleistocene glaciations a succession of ice-sheets moved from northeast to southwest across Anglesey and neighbouring Arfon scouring the underlying rock, the grain of which also runs in this direction.

During the 19th century, villagers in the area digging in the fields discovered a number of bones and used them as " dragon bones " (), a reference to the traditional Chinese medicine practice of grinding up Pleistocene fossils into tonics or poultices.

During the Late Pleistocene, another species probably assignable to the genus, Sarcoramphus fisheri, occurred in Peru.

During the Pleistocene epoch, great continental ice sheets scoured and depressed the shield's surface, leaving a thin covering of glacial material and innumerable lakes and streams.

During warming at the end of the Pleistocene and Early Holocene, the area encompassing Raritan Bay changed from tundra to a landscape dominated by spruce and pine forests.

During the Pleistocene Epoch the Mansfield sandstone bedrock was carved into the current distinct formations by glacial meltwaters and their associated erosion.

During the Pleistocene, giant dormice the size of large rats, such as Leithia melitensis, lived on the islands of Malta and Sicily.

During the last ( Pleistocene ) Ice Age, two lobes of the glacier appear to have parted around the pre-existing plateau and further deepened the lowlands flanking the plateau.

During this period the Romanian lands were characterised by the slow disappearance of the feudal system, the distinguishment of some rulers like Vasile Lupu and Dimitrie Cantemir in Moldavia, Matei Basarab and Constantin Brâncoveanu in Wallachia, Gabriel Bethlen in Transylvania, the Phanariot Epoch, and the appearance of the Russian Empire as a political and military influence.

During the Paleocene Epoch ( about 55-65 million years ago ), a group of wolf-like artiodactyls related to Pakicetus began pursuing an amphibious lifestyle in rivers or shallow seas.

During the extremely frigid polar climate of the Last Glacial Maximum ( Late Weichselian Epoch ), 17, 000 to 24, 000 BP, small passive ice caps did form on the De Long Islands.

During the Pleistocene Epoch periglacial freezing shattered the high standing walls to form a substantial tor.

During the 2009 New York City Comptroller elections, the Epoch Times alleged that Taiwan-born Democratic nominee John Liu is part of a " United Front " by the Chinese Communist Party to infiltrate the United States and subvert its government, democracy, and human rights in general.

During Hu Jintao's visit to Canada in June 2010, the Toronto Star noted that the Epoch Times had published several " hard-hitting " critical stories on Hu's visit, such as allegations of the local Chinese embassy's orchestration of welcome parades, as well as an alleged recording of a speech by the first secretary of education Liu Shaohua, in which Liu stated that embassy would provide accommodation and transport for over 3, 000 participants in the welcome parade.

During that time he took a great part in the campaigns and negotiations which led to the Treaty of Paris in 1259, under which King Henry III of England recognized his loss of continental territory to France ( including Normandy, Maine, Anjou, and Poitou ) in exchange for France withdrawing support from English rebels.

During the rainy season, winds from the southwest push the moister maritime system north over the African continent where it meets and slips under the continental mass along a front called the " intertropical convergence zone ".

During the twenty year period following the reversion of the frontier to Hadrian's Wall, Rome was concerned with continental issues, primarily problems in the Danube provinces.

During the Roman period Britain ’ s continental trade was principally directed across the Southern North Sea and Eastern Channel, focusing on the narrow Strait of Dover, though there were also more limited links via the Atlantic seaways.

During the Late Roman period it is likely that the shore forts played some role in continental trade alongside their defensive functions.

During the latter part of the Roman period British agricultural products, paid for by both the Roman state and by private consumers, clearly played an important role in supporting the military garrisons and urban centres of the northwestern continental Empire.

During the 20th century, certain Irish intellectuals made their homes in continental Europe, particularly James Joyce, and later Samuel Beckett ( who became a courier for the French Resistance ).

During World War II, continental Norway was invaded and occupied by Germany in spring 1940.

During World War II, continental knitting fell out of style due to its relationship with Germany.

During the Second World War, following the armistice of 22 June 1940, continental Normandy was part of the German occupied zone of France.

During the period covered, continents drifted about, eventually collecting into a single landmass known as Pangaea and then splitting up into the current continental landmasses.

During the Napoleonic Wars, sugar beet production increased in continental Europe because of the difficulty of importing sugar at times in which shipping was subject to blockade.

During the Cenozoic ( Tertiary about 65 to 1. 6 million years ) folding, faulting and uplifting, accompanied by volcanic activity and intrusion of igneous rocks was related to major continental collision between the larger Arabian and Eurasian plates ( e. g. Robertson & Dixon, 1984 ).

During the Holocene glacial retreat the sand dunes, which had been deposited in their current location by the vast continental glaciers, were exposed and grasses eventually took over.

During WWII Japan experimented with " Balloon Bombs " that floated across the pacific to the U. S. One of these bombs dropped and exploded near Timnath, Colorado making it the only continental U. S. town to bombed by a foreign country.

During the American Revolution the Articles of Confederation stipulated that state legislatures might recall delegates from the continental congress.

During the Saalian Stage ( 230, 000 – 130, 000 years ago ) the area of the present-day Lüneburg Heath was covered three times by a continental ice sheet.

During the 19th century in much of continental Europe the canal systems of many countries such as France, Germany and the Netherlands were drastically modernised and widened to take much larger boats, often able to transport up to two thousand tonnes, compared to the thirty to one hundred tonnes that was possible on the much narrower British canals.

During the last ice age, the Snow Bunting was widespread throughout continental Europe.

During the late-nineteenth century, and increasingly during Salazar's fascist Estado Novo regime, the upbringing of most Macanese fell along the lines of the continental Portuguese-attending Portuguese schools, participating in mandatory military service ( some fought in Africa ) and practising the Catholic faith.

During collisions between two continental plates, large mountain ranges, such as the Himalayas are formed.

During World War II, the need for efficient transportation of bulk materials within the continental United States was well demonstrated after German submarines sank numerous merchant ships off the East Coast.