During the persecutions of emperor Maximinus Thrax he is martyred.

During his reign the Catholics are free from persecutions and he stabilishes the kingdom's economy.

During the persecutions of 1391 many of them were killed, while others accepted Christianity in order to save their lives.

During the persecutions of the early Christians it sometimes happened that apostates denounced their fellow-Christians.

During the Edo ( 1600 – 1868 ) this power was constricted, to be followed by persecutions at the beginning of the Meiji-restoration ( 1868 – 1912 ).

During both the January and November Uprising against Russia, the area was witness to battles against Russian forces, and as a result of persecutions by the Tsarist regime, the city was deprived of its city rights in 1870, and two Russian regiments of infantry were stationed in the town.

During religious persecutions, such as in Communist Romania, some believers would hide the gesture by moving their tongues in a cross pattern inside their mouths.

During the war it suffered from several persecutions from the government and the paper was confiscated 24 times.

During the persecutions several Christians suffered martyrdom at Milan ; among them Saints Gervasius and Protasius ( first persecution of Diocletian ), Sts.

During that time there were many persecutions in the form of police searches and arrests of employees of the centre.

During the Second Punic War ( 218 – 202 BC ), the Veneti even sent a contingent of soldiers to fight alongside the Romans against Hannibal and the invading Carthaginians and Venetians were among those slaughtered at the Battle of Cannae ( 216 BC ).

During the reign of the Emperor Severus ( 193 – 211 ), relations with the young Christian Church deteriorated, and in 202 or 203 the edict of persecution appeared which forbade conversion to Christianity under the severest penalties.

During 1813, a House of Commons Committee recommended excluding foreign-grown corn until the price of corn grown domestically increased to 80 shillings (£ 4 ) ( 2010 equivalent: £ 202. 25 ) per quarter ( 1 quarter = 480 lb / 218. 8 kg ).

During the census of 2000, there were 7, 226 people, 3, 202 households, and 1, 959 families residing in the city.

During the Han Dynasty ( 202 BC – 220 AD ) the xiaolian system of recommendation by superiors for appointments to office was established.

During the Second Punic War in 218 – 202 BC, the Carthaginians used this method while storming through Italy.

During the Western Han Dynasty ( 202 BCE-9 CE ) additional developments made by the astronomers Luoxia Hong ( 落下閎 ), Xiangyu Wangren, and Geng Shouchang ( 耿壽昌 ) advanced the use of the armillary in its early stage of evolution.

During the Han Dynasty ( 202 BC-AD 220 ), the Chinese discovered the use of the stern-mounted steering rudder, as well as designed a new ship type, the junk.

During the Second World War, 202 Squadron flew anti-submarine patrols from Gibraltar with Saro London, Consolidated Catalina and Short Sunderland flying boats and some Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers until 1944, when it moved with their Catalinas to RAF Castle Archdale, Northern Ireland, disbanding there on 12 June 1945.

During the Han Dynasty ( 202 BCE – 220 CE ) of China, Sima Qian ( 145 – 86 BC ) was the first Chinese historian to attempt a universal history — from the earliest mythological origins of his civilization to his present day — in his Records of the Grand Historian.

In the famous long scroll Along the River During the Qingming Festival painted by Zhang Zeduan ( 1085 – 1145 AD ) during the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1297 AD ), a suanpan is clearly seen lying beside an account book and doctor's prescriptions on the counter of an apothecary's ( Feibao ).

During the period of the Iberian Union ( 1580 – 1640 ), Portugal lost influence and power and made new enemies.

* 1793 – During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.

* 1911 – During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti ( Skenderbeg ).

During January – February 2007, Armenia ’ s trade with the European Union totaled $ 200 million.

During January – February 2007, Armenia ’ s trade with Russia and other former Soviet republics was $ 205. 6 million ( double the amount from the same period the previous year ), making them the country ’ s number one trading partner.

* 1925 – During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.

During the Tokugawa period ( 1600 – 1868 ) the Ainu became increasingly involved in trade with Japanese who controlled the southern portion of the island that is now called Hokkaido.

During the Invasion of the Kuril Islands, Akira Nakamura ( b. 1897 ) was captured by the Soviet army and his elder son Takeshi Nakamura ( 1925 – 1945 ) was killed in the battle.

* 1958 – During the Cold War, American Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

During his 72 years of Imamat ( 1885 – 1957 ), the community celebrated his Golden ( 1937 ), Diamond ( 1946 ) and Platinum ( 1954 ) Jubilees.

* 1864 – During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.

During the 4th century BC, there may well have been some 250, 000 – 300, 000 people in Attica.

During the turn of the 20th century British Israelites carried out some excavations of the Hill of Tara in Ireland looking for the Ark of the Covenant – the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland campaigned successfully to have them stopped before they destroyed the hill.

* 1242 – During a battle on the ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.

During the Helvetic Republic ( 1798 – 1803 ), the county of Baden, the Freie Ämter and the region known as the Kelleramt were combined into the Canton of Baden.

During 1823 – 1931 the grown settlement was known as Ust-Abakanskoye, 1914 – 1925: Abakan, 1925 – 1931: Khakassk.

* Mann, Horace, K. The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages, Vol III: The Popes During the Carolingian Empire, 858 – 891.

During the summer months ( April – September ), dogs are banned from the Silver Sands but they are allowed all year round at the Black Sands.

During the period 1825 – 1863 a sheep market was held at a site in Castle Street, to stop the sale of sheep on the streets of the town.

* 1983 – During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk.

" During 1903 – 1930, he published his critical edition of Manilius's Astronomicon in five volumes.