Early sketches for the Fifth Symphony, for instance, date originally from 1804, although the finished work did not appear until 1808.
There are still traces of buildings dating from that time, some of the nearby hangars for instance, date from 1913 and are thought to be the oldest in the world.
Its ban on the export of crude oil, for instance, dating from the 1970s, was intended to secure supplies for American consumers.
The other instance dates back to 1980, when Henry C. Wallich, a Fed governor, dissented nine times because he felt that the central bank under Chairman Paul Volcker was not moving fast enough to bring inflation under control.
In a letter to Bregy, for instance, dated 15 January 1650, Descartes expresses reservations about his decision to come to Sweden.
In the Adriatic Sea, sperm whale mass strandings have occurred five times since historical times, with the oldest known instance dating back to 1584.
In one instance, dating back to the mid-1980s, hundreds of Canadian geese were found dead on the Seaway Harbor fairways in Hempstead, New York apparently poisoned by diazinon, an organophosphate insecticide that was subsequently banned from golf course applications in 1990 and from all residential uses in 2005.
In some cases, the instances date back several years.
The gold background, signifying divine light, probably originated in Roman mosaic art, but the first preserved instances date from the advanced 4th century.
Instances date back as far as Robin Hood and stretch forwards in time to 20th-century villains such as Bonnie and Clyde and The Great Train Robbers – and over the centuries their exploits have been celebrated and pored over in the media of the day, from ballads and broadsheet newspapers to big screen movie epics.
Mostly megalithic, the earliest instances date to within a few centuries of each other, yet show a wide diversity of form and purpose.
