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 World War 2,, doctors in The Netherlands and Scandinavia noted a curious fact: despite the stresses of Nazi occupation, the death rate from coronary artery disease was slowly dropping.

During the Japanese occupation, the Dayaks played a role in guerilla warfare against the occupying forces, particularly in the Kapit Division, where headhunting was temporarily revived towards the end of the war.

During the German occupation of France he joined the Maquis ( FTP ), a part of the French Resistance.

During the medieval period and prior to the Ottoman occupation of Debarewa in 1557, Eritrea ’ s historical name was Bahre-Negash ( Kingdom of the Sea ).

During the South African occupation of Namibia, Ethiopia was one of the country's leading proponents abroad ; Ethiopia and Liberia were the first two states to bring the question of independence for then South West Africa to the United Nations.

During the French occupation, Eindhoven suffered again with many of its houses destroyed by the invading forces.

During the War of the Polish Succession in 1734, Elbląg and Danzig ( Gdańsk ) were placed under military occupation by Russia and Saxony.

During their occupation of the town, they made such gestures as flying the tricolour over the Atheneum theatre, which they had made their headquarters, and parading uniformed in the streets.

During World War II the city experienced a year-long German occupation ( 1943 – 1944 ) and was declared an open city.

During their occupation of Britain the Romans founded a number of important settlements, many of which still survive.

During their occupation of Britain the Romans built an extensive network of roads which continued to be used in later centuries and many are still followed today.

During the Italian occupation, Albania's population was subject to a policy of forced Italianization by the kingdom's Italian governors, in which the use of the Albanian language was discouraged in schools while the Italian language was promoted.

During and after the German occupation Hergé was accused of being a collaborator because of the Nazi control of the paper (), and he was briefly taken in for interrogation after the war.

During the French occupation of Algeria in the 1830s five manuscripts were discovered in Constantine, including two that contained more complete versions of the text.

During the early Iron Age Brythonic culture held sway, there being no evidence that the Roman occupation of southern Scotland extended to these islands.

During this time, Jews have experienced slavery, anarchic and theocratic self-government, conquest, occupation, and exile ; in the Diasporas, they have been in contact with and have been influenced by ancient Egyptian, Babylonian, Persian, and Hellenic cultures, as well as modern movements such as the Enlightenment ( see Haskalah ) and the rise of nationalism, which would bear fruit in the form of a Jewish state in the Levant.

During the German military occupation 1940-1945, light railways were re-established by the Germans for the purpose of supplying coastal fortifications.

" During the Nazi occupation of France, Cocteau's friend Arno Breker convinced him that Adolf Hitler was a pacifist and patron of the arts with France's best interests in mind.

During the German occupation of Denmark, Fritz Michael Hartmann worked as a civil servant and joined a resistance group ( Frit Danmark ), actively counteracting any pro-German and pro-Nazi colleagues in his department.

During the Japanese occupation of Hainan ( 1939 – 1945 ), the Li suffered heavily.

During this period, Beria supervised deportations of people identified as political enemies from Poland and the Baltic states after Soviet occupation of those regions.

During the first three years of occupation of Germany the UK and US vigorously pursued an industrial disarmament program in Germany, partly by removal of equipment but mainly through an import embargo on raw materials and deliberate economic neglect.

During British occupation, Burma was the wealthiest country in Southeast Asia.

During World War II under German occupation, militia usually called the French Resistance emerged to conduct a guerrilla war of attrition against German forces and prepare the way for the D-Day Allied Invasion of France.

During the previous pontificate the Jesuits had been expelled from Portugal and from all the Bourbon courts: France, Spain, Naples, and Parma ; now the general suppression of the order was urged by the faction called the " court cardinals ", who were opposed by the diminished pro-Jesuit faction, the Zelanti (" zealous "), who were generally opposed to the encroaching secularism of the Enlightenment.

During the 8th century BC, people from Euboea in Greece known as Cumaeans began to establish colonies in the area roughly around the modern day province of Naples.

During this period much Gothic architecture sprang up around Naples, including the Naples Cathedral, which is the main church of the city.

During 1501 Naples became under direct rule from France at the time of Louis XII, as Neapolitan king Frederick was taken as a prisoner to France ; this lasted only four years.

During this period Naples became Europe's second largest city after only Paris.

During the time of Ferdinand IV, the French Revolution made its way to Naples: Horatio Nelson, an ally of the Bourbons, even arrived in the city in 1798 to warn against it.

During the Neapolitan War of 1815, Naples strongly promoted Italian unification.

During production of her second sound film, The Lady Lies ( also in 1929 ), Colbert was appearing nightly in the play See Naples and Die.

During Philibert's reign, his first cousin Charles VIII of France died, and the next king, Louis XII of France, invaded Italy, where he conquered most of the Kingdom of Naples.

During this period at Naples, Statius maintained his relations with the court and his patrons, earning himself another invitation to a palace banquet ( Silv.

During the Sicilian Vespers, he had been captured by Roger of Lauria in the naval battle at Naples in 1284.

During his years in Italy Meyerbeer became acquainted with, and impressed by, the works of his contemporary Gioachino Rossini who by 1816, at the age of 24, was already director of both major opera houses in Naples and in the same year premiered his operas The Barber of Seville and Otello.

During the 1720s he lived mostly in Naples, dwelling there for six or seven years.

During the 1740s Jommelli wrote operas for many Italian cities: Bologna, Venice, Turin, Padua, Ferrara, Lucca, Parma, along with Naples and Rome.

During the 10th century, Naples maintained a clear organization of notaries ( curiali ) in a collegio under a primarius aided by a tabularius.

During the travel from Benevento to Naples, Constans II was defeated by Mitolas, Count of Capua, near Pugna.

During the mid-13th century, Charles I of Anjou, King of Naples and Sicily, and brother of King Louis IX of France built his residence near the current n ° 7 rue de Sévigné.

During the Hundred Days, he realized that the European powers, meeting as the Congress of Vienna, had the intention to remove him and return the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily to their pre-Napoleonic rulers.

During an attempt to regain Naples through an insurrection in Calabria by announcing a rebellion at the town square, he was attacked by an old woman blaming him for the loss of her son, the incident sparking attention.

During the years 1813 ( when Rossini composed Tancredi ) until 1822 he wrote a considerable series of them, mostly for the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples.

During 1860 and 1861 " Sardinian " stamps supplanted those in use in each of the territories that joined Italy, with Modena, Parma, and Romagna changing over on 1 February 1860, and Naples not converting until 15 September 1862 ( although the local authorities had earlier printed stamps featuring the arms of Savoy ).

* During the time of the Habsburgs ( until 1700 ), the Spanish kingdoms were also in personal union with the Kingdoms of Naples, Sicily, and Sardinia and the Duchy of Milan in Italy, as well as the Spanish Netherlands and other Burgundian territories in France and the Low Countries.

During the attack by carrier-borne aircraft, in one night, the Italian fleet lost around half its strength ; the next day, their undamaged ships were transferred from Taranto to Naples to try to protect them from similar attacks.