During these early years the repair of watches and clocks and the building of special clocks for church steeples formed an important part of the young man's occupation.

During the early part of this century, the Brown & Sharpe works in Providence were unchallenged as the largest single manufacturing facility devoted exclusively to precision machinery and tool manufacture anywhere in the world.

During early childhood, children are more interested in the approval of their parents and teachers than they are in the approval of other children ; ;

During early childhood boys tease and bully, on the average, more than girls ; ;

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, physicists discovered subatomic components and structure inside the atom, thereby demonstrating that the ' atom ' was divisible.

During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.

During the early 1950s the board was divided on whether to defend communists persecuted under McCarthyism.

During the early 20th century, Alicante was a minor capital that enjoyed the benefit of Spain's neutrality during World War I, and that provided new opportunities for the local industry and agriculture.

During the Neolithic Revolution, which occurred during the early Holocene, there were at least two aurochs domestication events: one related to the Indian subspecies, leading to Zebu cattle ; the other one related to the Eurasian subspecies, leading to taurine cattle.

During the early 1960s, while also active in ASCII standardization, IBM simultaneously introduced in its product line of System / 360 the 8-bit Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code ( EBCDIC ), an expansion of their 6-bit binary-coded decimal ( BCDIC ) representation used in earlier card punches.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, most BBSes used ANSI to make elaborate welcome screens, and colorized menus, and thus, ANSI support was a sought-after feature in terminal client programs.

During the same period, Ahl was involved in the creation of a small computer for education use, an early personal computer.

During the early 1990s Borland's implementation of C and C ++ outsold Microsoft's.

During the early 1920s, he and his father-in-law developed the Stockade Building System for producing light-weight, weatherproof, and fireproof housing — although the company would ultimately fail.

During the early years of his career he produced several drawings and additional contributions for Target: The Political Cartoon Quarterly.

During the early centuries of Christianity the title " pope " was applied generally to all bishops ; it now has more specific meanings that vary between churches.

During the early 1970s, Manchester United were no longer competing among the top teams in England, and at several stages were battling against relegation.

During the early eighties, nearly all BASE jumps were made using standard skydiving equipment, including two parachutes ( main and reserve ), and deployment components.

During 1971 and 1972 B evolved into " New B " and then C, with the preprocessor being added in 1972 and early 1973 at the urging of Alan Snyder.

During the early settlement of Australia by Europeans, the notion that the bunyip was an actual unknown animal that awaited discovery became common.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the site hosted Creative Time's landmark Art on the Beach sculpture exhibitions.

During a rise of " retro " games in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Steve Jackson Games entered negotiations with Dennis Sustare and Scott Robinson, the current owners of the Bunnies & Burrows copyright, to publish an official GURPS supplement.

During the early 20th century in America, gambling became outlawed and banned by state legislation and social reformers of the time.

During the early twentieth century, electro-mechanical machines were invented to do encryption and decryption using transposition, polyalphabetic substitution, and a kind of " additive " substitution.

During the 7th millennium BC, the northern half of Chad was part of a broad expanse of land, stretching from the Indus River in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, in which ecological conditions favored early human settlement.

During the Musket Wars Te Mamaku was sometimes allied with Te Rauparaha and sometimes fought against him.

During the Musket wars in late September 1821, Mokaia Pa was the scene of severe fighting and was sacked by 4000 musket carrying warriors such as Nga Puhi from the north led by Hongi Hika.

During the attacks by Ngapuhi in the Musket wars in late September 1820, most of the population were killed, eaten, taken prisoner or fled south to the Waikato.

During the First and Second World Wars, Inchcolm was occupied by the army as part of the defences of the Firth of Forth.

During the first and second World Wars, several battleships and aircraft carriers were built with a " clipper bow " for improved hydrodynamic efficiency.

During the Napoleonic Wars, Russia — supported by Great Britain in the Dardanelles Operation — blockaded the straits in 1807.

During the Napoleonic Wars, dragoons generally assumed a cavalry role, though remaining a lighter class of mounted troops than the armored cuirassiers.

During the Napoleonic Wars, Freikorps were formed for the purpose of shaking off French rule in Germany.

During the Civil Wars that led to the Principate, Octavian ( later Augustus ) acquired the personal gladiator troop of his erstwhile opponent, Mark Antony.

During the Greco-Persian Wars ( 499 – 448 BC ), alliances between groups of cities ( whose composition varied over time ) fought against the Persians.

During the course of these " Bishops ' Wars " Charles tried to raise an army of Irish Catholics, but was forced to back down after a storm of protest in Scotland and England.

During the Middle Ages, Muslims were in conflict with Zoroastrians during the Islamic conquest of Persia ; Christians were in conflict with Muslims during the Byzantine-Arab Wars, Crusades, Reconquista and Ottoman wars in Europe ; Christians were in conflict with Muslims during the Crusades, Reconquista and Inquisition ; Shamans were in conflict with Buddhists, Taoists, Muslims and Christians during the Mongol invasions ; and Muslims were in conflict with Hindus and Sikhs during Muslim conquest in the Indian subcontinent.

During the Wars of the Roses two battles were fought in and around St Albans.

During the Yugoslav Wars, nearly every single nation that had ties with Serbia, had broken off diplomacy for the wars in Yugoslavia, and the rule of Slobodan Milošević.

During this period between the two World Wars France and Germany worked to help develop the country in both the technical and educational spheres.

During the Napoleonic Wars the regiment saw action in the Peninsular War.

During the 1990s, Charles Taylor's presidency and the First and Second Liberian Civil Wars underscored Liberian relations with the Western world, the People's Republic of China, and its neighboring countries in Western Africa.

During the Napoleonic Wars, the city's status changed.

During the Napoleonic Wars ( 1800 – 1815 ), Malta's economy prospered and became the focal point of a major trading system.

During the nineteenth century, American militia saw action in the various Indian Wars and the War of 1812, the American Civil War and the Spanish-American War.

During the Napoleonic Wars ( 1802 – 1814 ), Parma was part of the Taro Département.

During the Wars of Castro, Taddeo was also appointed Commander of the Papal Army.

During the " War of the Holy League " and the " Italian Wars ", alliances and participants changed dramatically.

During the Napoleonic Wars the British army created several experimental units known as " Rifles ", armed with the Baker rifle.

During the Punic Wars between Rome and the great Mediterranean empire of Carthage, Rome's stature increased further as it became the capital of an overseas empire for the first time.

During the First ( 1994 – 1996 ) and Second Chechen Wars ( 1999 – 2009 ), Chechen rebels used RPGs to attack Russian tanks from basements and high rooftops.

During the Yugoslav Wars ( 1991-1995 ), RPGs were used by all sides with great effect.

During the Napoleonic Wars, fearing that French control of the Netherlands might deliver Sri Lanka to the French, Great Britain occupied the coastal areas of the island ( which they called Ceylon ) with little difficulty in 1796.