However, the Canal du Midi was built using concrete in 1670, and there are concrete structures in Finland that date from the 16th century.

However, during the 16th and 17th centuries, Cairo remained an important economic and cultural centre.

However, after the death of the 16th Earl, the indenture was allowed to lapse.

However, Macau did not develop as a major settlement until the Portuguese arrived in the 16th century.

However, a pocket remained behind in the Crimea when the bulk of them moved to central Europe, and these Crimean Ostrogoths existed until at least the 16th century.

However, after his death, Moldavia would also come under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century.

However, during the 16th century the stories become fixed to the 1190s, the period in which King Richard was absent from his throne, fighting in the crusades.

However, in its proper sense it should be used only to refer to the very large swords of the 16th century.

However, the Medici remained masters of Italy through their two famous 16th century popes, Leo X and Clement VII, who were de facto rulers of both Rome and Florence.

However, the story may well be apocryphal, as it can only be traced to the 16th century, and, in the time of Edward I, the English aristocracy spoke Norman French, not English ( some versions of the legend include lack of knowledge in both languages as a requirement, and one reported version has the very specific phrase " born on Welsh soil and speaking no other language ").

However there is no historical evidence to support Benedict's claim, nor is there even any evidence that anyone prior to the 16th century suggested this might be the case ; the Catholic Encyclopedia concludes that there are no historical grounds for the supposition.

However, panel painting remained more common until the 16th century in Italy and the 17th century in Northern Europe.

However, this left a large area as a Diocese to govern, and St David's began to deteriorate as the centre of the diocese, being nowhere near the centre – the Bishop ’ s residence had been at Carmarthen since the 16th century, but administration and the focus moved from the Cathedral to the Diocese ’ s now largest town.

However, there are some classical features — for example, since the 16th century, the palace has been linked to the prison by the Bridge of Sighs.

However, the Old Salt Route attained its peak of success between the 12th and the 16th century.

However, it remains unclear whether these city rights have really been assigned to Gennep, as the supposed documents burned during a fire in the townhall of Gennep at the end of the 16th decade.

However, by the late 16th century, the fishing industry had begun to decline and for the next 300 years there was practically no further growth.

However, by the late 16th century, domestic architecture had evolved further than the " one room deep " ranges of the earlier " H " plan houses, such as Montacute House.

However, their 16th roller coaster will open in 2013, GateKeeper.

However, when Castellano announced a dinner meeting on December 16th, Gotti and the other conspirators decided to kill him then.

However, a major storm in the 16th century broke through the bar at its western end, creating a new river mouth close to the village then called Meeching but renamed Newhaven.

However, during the period of religious strife during the 16th century, the merchants and cloth makers withdrew to safer locations.

However, Thomas A. Emmert considers it more likely that the interpretation of events in the Serbian tradition, which was to enter further stages of development in the 16th century, had influenced the Ottoman accounts.

However, the isolated British Infantry — reinforced from the sea by a third brigade — had held out long enough against the tanks of 16th Panzer Division ( 16.

However, a dozen Ugaritic tablets from the fourteenth century BC preserve the alphabet in two sequences.

However, the various preconditions for the development at Ford stretched far back into the 19th century, from the gradual realization of the dream of interchangeability, to the concept of reinventing workflow and job descriptions using analytical methods ( the most famous example being scientific management ).

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, footy or Aussie rules However, late in the century the code began to decline in New South Wales and Queensland largely due to competition with other more popular football codes, as well as interstate rivalries and the lack of strong local governing bodies.

However neither the Romans nor the Goths put up much resistance to the Arab conquest of Medina Laqant in the 8th century.

However, in the 17th and 18th centuries Bern encouraged industrial development in Unteraargau and by the late 18th century it was the most industrialized region in the city-state.

However, sometimes in the first half of the 20th century hardcopy artillery fire plans and map traces were distributed.

However, other scholars have argued that though 80 % of al-Andalus converted to Islam, it did not truly occur until near the 10th century.

However it is now thought this was probably a deliberate change in composition and overall the use of brass increases over this period making up around 40 % of all copper alloys used in the Roman world by the 4th century AD.

However the cementation process was not abandoned and as late as the early 19th century there are descriptions of solid state cementation in a domed furnace at around 900 – 950 ° C and lasting up to 10 hours.

However, for at least a century, some scholars have maintained that the description of Grendel ’ s lake in Beowulf was borrowed from St. Paul ’ s vision of Hell in Homily 16 of the Blickling homilies.

However, during the Battle of Megiddo, the first reliably documented battle in the fifteenth century BC, actual discipline was instilled in both armies.

However, after a gap of 150 years, there is a final mention of Bastarnae in the mid 5th century.

However, other ancient witnesses ( such as the Old Syriac Version, 2nd century ) put John's time on Patmos during the reign of Nero.

However, this chapter does appear in all copies of the Septuagint, as well as in texts from as early as the 3rd century BC.

However, economic recovery had been observed in the beginning of the 14th century.

However, 18th century theatrical dance had at least two other styles: comic or grotesque, and semi-serious.

However enough had been taken to England, Scandinavia, Western Europe, and America in the late 19th century for the breed to establish itself outside its native country.

However, since the 19th century his reputation has been dramatically rehabilitated by archaeological finds which have repeatedly confirmed his version of events.

However, mendicant friars travelled around a lot and needed a shortened, or abbreviated, daily office contained in one portable book, and single-volume breviaries flourished from the thirteenth century onwards.

However, the term classical music is used colloquially to describe a variety of Western musical styles from the ninth century to the present, and especially from the sixteenth or seventeenth to the nineteenth.

However, in the nineteenth century, cuisine became a defining symbol of national identity.

However, the first modern studies of magnetism only started with the development of electrodynamics by Faraday, Maxwell and others in the nineteenth century, which included the classification of materials as ferromagnetic, paramagnetic and diamagnetic based on their response to magnetization.

However, restrictive Spanish trade laws made it difficult for Cubans to keep up with the 17th and 18th century advances in processing sugar cane pioneered in British Barbados and French Saint Domingue ( Haiti ).

However, the instability in the ratio between the two grew over the course of the 19th century, with the increase both in supply of these metals, particularly silver, and of trade.