Political dissent was also firmly controlled, most notably in his place of birth, where Charles, assisted by the Duke of Alva, personally suppressed the Revolt of Ghent in mid-February 1540.

In mid-February he was sent on an intelligence gathering mission in the Eastern Mediterranean aboard the cruiser Bacchante.

The area is the home of the Florida State Fairgrounds, which hosts the Florida State Fair in mid-February of each year.

The newly constructed James E. Plew Terminal Building of the Okaloosa Air Terminal, located on State Road 85, opened its doors in mid-February 1975, with a dedication ceremony held on Saturday, 22 February.

Crow was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer in mid-February 2006, her doctors stating that " prognosis for a full recovery is excellent.

The division of George Pickett started for the capital in mid-February, was followed by John Hood's, and then Longstreet himself was ordered to take command of the detached divisions and the Departments of North Carolina and Southern Virginia.

A proposal by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to build a multi-million dollar research installation for testing rocket fuels and components at Field 1 in early 1960 was dropped in mid-February, the chief reason for consideration being abandoned " was the possibilty the military would have other uses for the field in the near future.

Pau traditionally opened the season but mid-February for the 1933 GP meant the race took place in a snowstorm with slush.

* The Empire Winterfest, held each year in mid-February has been celebrated for the past twenty-five years.

The National Association of Broadcasters has organized to fight such proposals, and public comments are also being taken by the FCC through mid-December 2009, in preparation for a plan to be released in mid-February 2010.

* Fornacalia, a mid-February baking festival celebrated by the curiae, the 30 archaic divisions of the Roman people ; the date was announced by the curio maximus and set for each curia individually, with a general Fornacalia on February 17 for those who had missed their own or who were uncertain to which curia they belonged.

The intense blooming season for the California poppy falls usually within late winter to early spring, during the months of mid-February through mid-May.

The reservoir was brought to within three feet of the spillway in May 1927 and for the next nine months the level varied until in mid-February 1928, when the water level was brought to within one foot of the spillway.

Because Kuerten had been inactive in the Men's Tour since mid-February, he was not granted the wildcard to play, thus missing the French Open for the first time in his professional career.

It was then transferred via asset exchange to Cumulus Licensing LLC in mid-February 2009, in return for WZBN FM 105. 5 in Camilla, Georgia.

Blastocyst implantation is then delayed for 10 months until mid-February of the following year when active pregnancy begins.

The first one starts late February or early March and lasts until late June and the second starts in early August and finishes in mid-December ; also, some universities offer a summer period from early January to mid-February but just for exceptional courses.

There are breaks for Christmas and Easter and two mid-term breaks at the end of October and mid-February.

" A revival of a musical adaptation of Alice in Wonderland with music by Walter Slaughter, produced by Horace Sedger, opened for the Christmas season of 1898 and ran until mid-February 1899.

Breeding occurs between mid-February and April, and varies somewhat for each stock.

In the United States for example, the basic retail cycle begins in early January with merchandise for Valentine's Day, which is not until mid-February.

In mid-February of that aforementioned year she received an offer of a teaching assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with the primary reason being that World War II commenced and many men went off to war and the university decided to offer scholarships for women rather than shut down.

In mid-February 2011, Que posted an Internet appeal for mass demonstrations in Vietnam on the model of the Arab Spring uprisings, calling on citizens to make a " clean sweep of Communist dictatorship and build a new, free, democratic, humane and progressive Vietnam ".

The second visiting shuttle mission was STS-98, which was docked in mid-February 2001, delivered the US $ 1. 4 billion research module Destiny, which increased the mass of the station beyond that of Mir for the first time.

In the Southern Hemisphere, the tropical cyclone season runs from 1 November until the end of April with peaks in mid-February to early March.

The birds leave winter quarters to breed starting in mid-February.

As stated in the Alexiad, Isaac and Alexios left Constantinople in mid-February 1081 to raise an army against Botaneiates.

The Sun is now in Capricorn from late January through mid-February.

The third round is played on the first weekend in January, with the Fourth Round later in the month and Fifth Round in mid-February.

The Reds ( whose Guards ' total force was approximately 85, 000 troops ) carried out a general offensive from mid-February to early March ; it ended in failure.

On 5 March a German naval squadron landed in the southwestern archipelago of Finland, on the Åland Islands, which the Swedish military expedition had taken over in mid-February.

In recent years, it has usually been in mid-February and sometimes even earlier.

By mid-February to mid-March, the bulk of the population has arrived in the lagoons, filling them with nursing, calving and mating gray whales.

By mid-February the temperatures rise ; springtime weather continues until mid-April, when the summer heat sets in.

Since 1928 Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan has held an annual Winter Carnival in mid-February, during which a large Snow Sculpture Contest takes place between various clubs, fraternities, and organizations in the community and the university.

From mid-January to mid-February 1945, the mean point of V-2 impacts edged eastward at the rate of a couple of miles a week, with more and more V-2s falling short of central London.

Upon the advice of his doctor Samuel Habershon in the aftermath of an attack of facial neuralgia, Gladstone stayed at Cannes from the end of November 1897 to mid-February 1898.

The usual starting date is the second new moon after the winter solstice, i. e. between mid-January and mid-February in the Gregorian calendar.

It then announced plans to lay off 13, 000 employees in mid-February 2007, close a major assembly plant and reduce production at other plants in order to restore profitability by 2008.

Following American Beautys wins at the 57th Golden Globe Awards, DreamWorks re-expanded the theater presence from a low of 7 in mid-February, to a high of 1, 990 in March.

( He had been married to an English woman much earlier in life — primarily, it was believed as of mid-February 2011, to obtain a British passport.

Hunting is a popular winter activity, with the park open to stalking ( hunting without dogs ) of Sambar deer from mid-February to mid-December.

New inductee announcements are made in mid-February.

The first semester lasts from mid-September to mid-December and the second from mid-February to the end of May.

The start and end dates of the scheme are somewhat asymmetrical in terms of daylight hours: the vernal time of year with a similar amount of daylight to late October is mid-February, well before the start of summer time.