During the struggle of the Aetolians against Rome, it stood a stubborn siege, including the first known use of poison gas against the Romans ' siege tunnels.

During the Civil War, prior to the siege of Raglan Castle in 1645, King Charles I visited Abergavenny and presided in person over the trial of Sir Trefor Williams, 1st Baronet of Llangibby, a Royalist who changed sides, and other Parliamentarians.

During a siege by Parthian troops in A. D. 257, the buildings in the outermost blocks of the city grid were partially destroyed and filled with rubble to reinforce the city wall.

During the siege of February 1945 the city infrastructure was 65 % destroyed, including most of the historical city center.

During the first siege, Ephrem credits Bishop Jacob as defending the city with his prayers.

* 1704 1 August ( NS ): ( 21 July ( OS )) – During the War of the Spanish Succession, and when returning from a failed expedition to Barcelona, an Anglo-Dutch fleet, under the command of Sir George Rooke, chief commander of the Alliance Navy, began a new siege ( the eleventh siege of the town ).

During the siege, on 8 February 1913, the Russian pilot N. de Sackoff, flying for the Greeks, became the first pilot ever shot down in combat, when his biplane was hit by ground fire following a bomb run on the walls of Fort Bizani.

During the siege, he purchased a captaincy in the grenadier company of the 40th Regiment of Foot.

During the lengthy siege, which lasted until 1191, Patriarch Heraclius, Queen Sibylla and her daughters, and many others died of disease.

During this period of French rule, the defences of the fortress were strengthened by the famous siege engineer Vauban.

During this siege, Vauban, the famous French military engineer, developed a new strategy in order to break down the strong fortifications surrounding Maastricht.

During this millennium, fortifications changed warfare, and in turn were modified to suit new tactics, weapons and siege techniques.

During the War of 1812, Nova Scotia ’ s contribution to the war effort was communities either purchasing or building various privateer ships to lay siege to American vessels.

During a summer-long siege which was later to be known as the Siege of Malta, the Ottoman forces which numbered around 50, 000 fought the Knights of St. John and the Maltese garrison which in total numbered around 6, 000.

During the siege of Nagashima, Nobunaga suffered tremendous losses, including the death of a couple of his brothers, to the Ikkō-ikki resistance, a coalition of peasant farmers, monks, Shinto priests and local nobles that opposed samurai rule.

During Childeric's siege and blockade of Paris in 464, the nun Geneviève ( later canonised as the city's Patron Saint ) pleaded with the Frankish King for the welfare of prisoners of war and met with a favourable response.

During the Warring States era of ancient China, there is both textual and archaeological evidence of prolonged sieges and siege machinery used against the defenders of city walls.

During the Renaissance and the Early Modern period, siege warfare dominated the conduct of war in Europe.

During a siege a surrounding army would build earthworks ( a line of circumvallation ) to completely encircle their target, preventing food, water, and other supplies from reaching the besieged city.

During the Renaissance and the Early Modern period, siege warfare continued to dominate the conduct of the European wars.

During the summer of 1172, a Nubian army along with a contingent of Armenian refugees were reported on the Egyptian border, preparing for a siege against Aswan.

During the siege of the Stonewall, Craig Rodwell called The New York Times, The New York Post, and The New York Daily News to inform them what was happening.

During the period January 1, 1980, to December 31, 1996, spending a total time of three months or more in the Channel Islands, England, the Falkland Islands, the Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales precludes individuals from donating.

* 1607 25 April – During the Eighty Years ' War between the United Provinces and the King of Spain, a Dutch fleet surprised and engaged a Spanish fleet anchored at the Bay of Gibraltar ( Battle of Gibraltar ).

* During the Peninsular War, contingents from the Gibraltar Garrison were sent to aid Spanish resistance to the French at Cádiz and Tarifa.

During World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ) the Rock was again turned into a fortress and the civilian residents of Gibraltar were evacuated.

During the 1960s, Spain began imposing restrictions on Gibraltar, culminating in the closure of the border in 1969.

During the Falklands War against Great Britain, the Argentine military conceived the aborted Operation Algeciras, a covert plan to support and convince some Montoneros, by appealing to their patriotism, to sabotage British military facilities in Gibraltar.

During the voyage the ship began to leak and stopped in Gibraltar for repairs.

During the summer of 1779 the Monarch was attached to the Channel fleet under Sir Charles Hardy ; in December was one of the squadron with which Rodney sailed for the relief of Gibraltar, and had a prominent share in the action off St. Vincent on 16 January 1780.

* During the 1982 Falklands War, the Argentine government used a diplomatic bag to smuggle several Limpet mines to their embassy in Spain, to be used in the covert Operation Algeciras, in which Argentine agents were to blow up a British warship in the Royal Navy Dockyard at Gibraltar.

During his editorship, the newspaper lost a libel case over claims it had made concerning a witness interviewed in the Death on the Rock documentary on the Gibraltar shootings.

During the 1982 war he devised and commanded Operation Algeciras, in which Argentine commandos were to sabotage a Royal Navy warship harboured in Gibraltar ; the plan was thwarted at the last minute when communications were intercepted.

During the inter-war period, Roupell served in Gibraltar, the Regimental Depot, India and the Sudan.

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 1960s, Hassan addressed the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization twice, opposing Spain's claim for Gibraltar and insisting that the vast majority of Gibraltarians wanted to remain British.

During 2009, environmental organizations, both Spanish and Gibraltarian, have called the Tripartite Forum to implement measures to protect the Bay of Gibraltar.

During the Second World War, Italy launched human torpedoes from Algeciras on several occasions in attempts to sink British ships moored in the Gibraltar harbour, with mixed success due to the work of Commander Crabbe.

During the 19th Century, via the British Empire, the Order spread throughout the British Commonwealth and Lodges now exist in Britain, Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Middle East, India, Africa, Gibraltar and Cyprus.

During the war he was ADC to his father in Gibraltar.

During the Anglo-Spanish War of 1727, the regiment formed part of the garrison of Gibraltar which withheld the Spanish during the four-month long siege.

During the Second World War he was a conscientious objector, working at the Meteorological Office in Northern Ireland and Gibraltar.