Beginning in the 17th century, immigrants from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Germany and France began arriving in large numbers, bringing with them new styles and instruments.

Beginning with the 17th century, another form of dagger — the plug bayonet and later the socket bayonet — was used to convert muskets and other longarms into spears by mounting them on the barrel.

Beginning during the second half of the 19th century the town became home to numerous artists.

Beginning in the 19th century, the basins of the streams themselves have also been used as housing grounds, resulting in occasional floodings in the city centre.

Beginning in the middle 2nd century, the Wielbark culture shifted to the southeast, towards the Black Sea.

Beginning in the 11th century, longer scrolls and books were produced using movable type printing making books widely available during the Song dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ).

Beginning roughly in the 14th century in Florence, and later spreading through Europe with the development of printing press, a Renaissance of knowledge challenged traditional doctrines in science and theology, with the rediscovery of classical Greek and Roman knowledge.

Beginning in the nineteenth century, with the ascent of academic history, a corpus of historiographic literature developed.

Beginning in the 14th century BC, the Chinese developed a decimal, or base ten-system for recording numbers.

Beginning in the middle of the 17th century, the nobles ' democracy, subjected to devastating wars, falling into internal disorder and then anarchy, gradually declined, making the once powerful Commonwealth vulnerable to foreign intervention.

Beginning in the 16th century, this branch of the family became Protestant and decided on expansion through marriage and the purchase of surrounding lands.

Beginning in the 7th century BC, Greek colonies were established on the Illyrian coast.

Beginning in the late-14th century, the Ottomans expanded their empire from Anatolia to the Balkans ( Rumelia ).

Beginning in Renaissance Italy in the 16th century, new mathematical developments, interacting with new scientific discoveries, were made at an increasing pace that continues through the present day.

Beginning in the 4th century, churches painted their walls and made icons to reflect an authentic expression of their faith.

Beginning in the late 19th and early 20th century however, policies such as Woodrow Wilson's mission to " make the world safe for democracy " were often backed by military force, but more often effected from behind the scenes, consistent with the general notion of hegemony and imperium of historical empires ..

Beginning in the nineteenth century, more sophisticated notions of integrals began to appear, where the type of the function as well as the domain over which the integration is performed has been generalised.

Beginning in the 16th century, European countries began officially making January 1 the start of the New Year once again — sometimes called Circumcision Style because this was the date of the Feast of the Circumcision, being the seventh day after December 25.

Beginning in the early 11th century, the Qarakhanids fought constantly among themselves and with the Seljuk Turks to the south.

Beginning around the 3rd century BC, it took two centuries to become a dominant literature of Ancient Rome, with many educated Romans still reading and writing in Ancient Greek, as late as Marcus Aurelius ( 121 – 180 AD ).

Beginning in the 12th century, Livonia was an area of economic and political expansion by Danes and Germans, particularly by the Hanseatic League and the Cistercian Order.

Beginning of the Gospel of John from a pocket Wycliffe translation that may have been used by a roving Lollard preacher ( late 14th century )

Beginning in the early 19th century, most of the island was united and ruled as the Kingdom of Madagascar by a series of Merina nobles.

Beginning in the 1980s and 1990s, many governments presiding over planned economies began marketization ( or as in the Soviet Union, the system collapsed ) and moving toward market-based economies by allowing individual enterprises to make the pricing, production, and distribution decisions, granting autonomy to state enterprises and ultimately expanding the scope of the private sector through privatization.

Beginning with John the Faster, the Bishop of Constantinople ( John IV, 582-595 ) adopted as a formal title for himself the by-then-customary honorific, Ecumenical Patriarch (" pre-eminent father for the civilized world ") over the strong objections of Rome: a title based on the political prestige of Constantinople and its economic and cultural centrality in the Empire.

Beginning in mid-1918, the Bolshevik regime enacted what is known as " war communism ", an economic policy that aimed to replace the free market with state control over all means of production and distribution.

Beginning with the eighth issue, the art direction of the magazine was taken over by Michael C. Gross, who was responsible for the look of the magazine until 1974.

Beginning in August 1940, the German Luftwaffe began a series of concentrated aerial attacks ( designated Unternehmen Adlerangriff or Operation Eagle Attack ) on targets throughout the United Kingdom in an attempt to destroy the RAF ( Royal Air Force ) and establish air superiority over Great Britain.

Beginning on 22 June 1941, over 3. 9 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a front, the largest invasion in the history of warfare.

Beginning in the 8th century, as Charlemagne began to consolidate power over a large area of western Europe, scribes developed a minuscule script ( caroline minuscule ) that effectively became the standard script for manuscripts from the 9th to the 11th century.

Beginning in Florence, there was an attempt to revive the dramatic and musical forms of Ancient Greece, through the means of monody, a form of declaimed music over a simple accompaniment ; a more extreme contrast with the preceding polyphonic style would be hard to find ; this was also, at least at the outset, a secular trend.

Beginning on 10 June, all males over the age of 16 in the village of Lidice, 22 km north-west of Prague, and the village of Ležáky, were murdered.

Beginning in the late 1960s, Allman used an empty glass Coricidin medicine bottle, which he wore over his ring finger as a slide.

Beginning with the Rams appearance in Super Bowl XXXVI, 10 different NFC teams appeared in the Super Bowl over the next 10 years.

Beginning in September 1944, over 3, 000 V-2s were launched as military rockets by the German Wehrmacht against Allied targets during the war, mostly London and later Antwerp.

Beginning in 1670 and progressing over three decades, Isaac Newton developed and championed his corpuscular hypothesis, arguing that the perfectly straight lines of reflection demonstrated light's particle nature ; only particles could travel in such straight lines.

Beginning in 1989, however, television markets in rural areas began to aggregate, allowing these rural networks to broadcast over a larger area, often an entire state, and become full-time affiliates to one specific metropolitan network.

Beginning in the 1960s, Eastern European skaters started a trend to dance in more open positions, which allowed for greater speed over the ice, more upper-body involvement, and greater projection towards the audience.

* 1627 BC: Beginning of a cooling of world climate lasting several years recorded in tree-rings all over the world.

* 1627 BC — Beginning of a period of cooling of the world climate lasting several years, recorded in tree-rings all over the world.

Beginning in the 1990s, a focus of research has been the effects of Transcendental Meditation on cardiovascular disease, with over $ 20 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health.

Beginning with the thriller Play Misty for Me, Eastwood has directed over 30 films in his career, including westerns, action films, and dramas.

Beginning in the 1920s, the automobile provided faster and easier access to areas of natural beauty and old military roads into Jackson Hole over Teton and Togwotee Passes were improved to accommodate the increased vehicle traffic.

Beginning in the mid-1980s, Hughes ' health problems due to over eating, drugs and alcohol began to seriously affect his musical projects, and this contributed to very short stints with Gary Moore and Tony Iommi, as Hughes was unable to tour with them properly due to his bad health.

Beginning on July 11, the network rolled out its inaugural Saturday night schedule with a two-hour movie premiere of Werewolf, and over the next three weeks the series The New Adventures of Beans Baxter, Karen's Song and Down and Out in Beverly Hills were added.

Beginning with the 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbus, over nearly four centuries the Spanish Empire would expand across: most of present day Central America, the Caribbean islands, and Mexico ; much of the rest of North America including the Southwestern, Southern coastal, and California Pacific Coast regions of the United States ; and though inactive, with claimed territory in present day British Columbia Canada ; and U. S. states of Alaska, Washington, and Oregon ; and the western half of South America.