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.

During the siege, Gibraltar played a key role as the supply base of the besieged.

* 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 Franco-Prussian War, at the Battle of Mars-la-Tour in 1870, a Prussian cavalry brigade decisively smashed the centre of the French battle line, after skilfully concealing their approach.

During the 19th century criminal law reform incrementally reduced the number of capital offences to five ( see Capital punishment in the United Kingdom ), and forfeiture for felony was abolished by the Forfeiture Act 1870.

During November 1870 the four southern states joined the North German Confederation by treaty.

During the war against Austria in 1866 as well as in the wars against France in 1870 and 1871, Abeken stayed in the Prussian headquarters.

During the Second French Empire, between 1852 and 1870, the French economy grew ; by 1870 the museum had added 20, 000 new pieces to its collections, and the Pavillon de Flore and the Grande Galérie were remodelled under architects Louis Visconti and Hector Lefuel.

During the 5 years of Italian rule over the whole Horn of Africa ( a colony in Eritrea was set by Rome in 1870 and Ethiopia occupied in 1936 ), Italian geographers accurately mapped the population of their colony and eventually referred to the Oromos preferably as Gallas in all the official maps as well as in a guide-book still available nowadays called " Guida all Africa Orientale Italiana " (" A Guide-Book to Italian Eastern Africa ").

During the Ottoman Tanzimat ( 1839 – 76 ) reforms, nationalism arose in the Empire and in 1870 a new Bulgarian Orthodox Church was established and its separate diocese was created, based on ethnic identity rather than religious principles.

During Reconstruction, Wilson lived in Columbia, South Carolina, the state capital, from 1870 – 1874, where his father was professor at the Columbia Theological Seminary.

During his administration ( 1870 – 1882 ), the College achieved higher academic standing and established an ideal model for intellectual honesty and sound scholarship that gained national recognition.

During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, Rouen was occupied by the Prussians.

During this golden era of Galveston's history, the city was home to a number of state firsts that include among others the first post office ( 1836 ), the first naval base ( 1836 ), the first Texas chapter of a Masonic order ( 1840 ); the first cotton compress ( 1842 ), the first parochial school ( Ursuline Academy ) ( 1847 ), the first insurance company ( 1854 ), the first gas lights ( 1856 ), the first opera house ( 1870 ), the first orphanage ( 1876 ), the first telephone ( 1878 ) and the first electric lights ( 1883 ).

During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 – 1871, Metz was the headquarters of the army under the command of General Bazaine.

During the construction of the San Francisco Mint in 1870 – 1872, Muybridge made a sequence of images of the building's progress, using the power of time-lapse photography to document changes over time.

During the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ) it was moved from the Louvre to the Brest Arsenal.

During Clay's administration, the Press also undertook a sizable co-publishing venture with Oxford: the Revised Version of the Bible, which was begun in 1870 and completed in 1885.

During the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, Somme was invaded by Prussian forces and Amiens was occupied.

During the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ) the château was used as a field hospital.

During the Civil War, the town saw brief military action as a column of troops under U. S. General Gordon Granger reached the town as a preliminary move in the siege of Mobile. In 1870 the United States Postal Service established a Post Office at a location near the center of the current community.

During November 1870 the four southern states joined the North German Confederation by treaty.

During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, the Germans took as hostages the prominent people or officials from towns or districts when making requisitions and also when foraging, and it was a general practice for the mayor and adjoint of a town which failed to pay a fine imposed upon it to be seized as hostages and retained till the money was paid.

During the Franco – Prussian war of 1870 it became clear that, due to innovations in the weaponsindustry, German artillery was able to bombard the city of Paris from a distance as close as 7 km.

During this period, between the 1815 Congress of Vienna ( after the defeat of Napoleonic France ) and the end of the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), Britain reaped the benefits of being the world's sole modern, industrial power.

During a visit to Europe in 1870, Burnside attempted to mediate between the French and the Germans in the Franco-Prussian War.