By the age of 16, Booth was interested in the theatre and in politics, becoming a delegate from Bel Air to a rally by the Know Nothing Party for Henry Winter Davis, the anti-immigrant party's candidate for Congress in the 1854 elections.

By 1854 he was able to demonstrate transmission across the Firth of Tay from Dundee to Woodhaven ( now part of Newport-on-Tay ), a distance of two miles ( three kilometers ).

By the end of 1854, Wagner had sketched out all three acts of an opera on the Tristan theme, based on Gottfried von Strassburg's telling of the story.

) By 1854 most of the Mormon towns, farms and villages were largely taken over by non-Mormons as they abandoned them or sold them for not much and continued their migration to Utah.

By 1854, Margaret had spent 14 years trying to convert Sam to the Baptist denomination.

By the spring of 1854, several members of the local Shiloh community ( Capt Thomas F. Wilson, Dr H. Mosely, and Mr Jesse Smith ) constructed a small log cabin to be used as the community's school house.

By February 1854 discussions were underway to transfer the museum to the current site and it was renamed as the South Kensington Museum.

By 1854, the spelling was officially changed to Woodbury.

By 1854, nearly 400 residents lived around the watering post, and Conyers was incorporated.

By 1854, rail service was established to Deer Grove and in 1859 the line was incorporated into the Chicago and Northwestern Railway system.

By 1854 Orangeville was in competition with the village of Oneco as a growing center of commerce.

By 1854 there was a large number of settlers who moved to the settlement and a town plat was laid out by 1855.

By December of 1854 this area that Dyer had been calling Pomfret was renamed Rushford after a vote during a Christmas dinner served at Dyer's home.

By special act passed on August 3, 1854, Congress laid out a monthly Pony Express mail route from Neosho to Albuquerque, New Mexico with an annual budget of $ 17, 000.

In 1852, sixty-three-year-old Elijah Davidson and his family set out for Oregon Territory By 1854, more than a dozen Disciples families from Monmouth, many of them related to each other or to Davidson, had joined him.

By 1854, canal transport became redundant with the completion of the Pennsylvania Railroad, which now spanned the state.

By 1854, the Texas Senate sanctioned a seven-mile ( 11 km ) channel from Corpus Christi to the Aransas Pass bar to better serve the Port of Corpus Christ.

By 1854, residents had established the Flower Mound Presbyterian Church.

By 1854, a patent medicine industry had sprung up in Brockville and in bordering Morristown, NY featuring products such as " Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills ", " Dr. McKenzie's Worm Tablets " and later, " Dr. Williams ' Pink Pills for Pale People ".

* Incorporated District, Boroughs, and Townships in the County of Philadelphia, 1854 By Rudolph J. Walther – excerpted from the book at the ushistory. org website

By 1854, Brookwood was the largest cemetery in the world ( it is no longer ).

By 1854, he had expanded to the United States where he created the North American Kerosene Gas Light Company at Long Island, New York.

By 1854, Hindman realized that he had little room to maneuver in the crowded Mississippi political arena.

By 1854 they had saved enough for the fare, departing from Liverpool in June 1854 and arriving in Melbourne in September.

By the Naturalisation Act 1870, it was made possible for British subjects to renounce their nationality and allegiance, and the ways in which that nationality is lost are defined.

But By the Way was one of the few features kept continuously running in the often seriously reduced Daily Express throughout World War II, when Morton's lampooning of Hitler, including the British invention of bracerot to make the Nazi's trousers fall down at inopportune moments, was regarded as valuable for morale.

By 16: 00, Alexander and Swiftsure were also in sight, although some distance from the main British fleet, and Brueys gave orders to abandon the plan to remain at anchor and instead for his line to set sails, although Blanquet protested the order on the grounds that there were not enough men aboard the French ships to both sail the ships and man the guns.

By 18: 00, the British fleet was again under full sail, Vanguard sixth in the line of ten ships as Culloden trailed behind to the north, and Alexander and Swiftsure hastened to catch up to the west.

By 24: 00 only Tonnant remained engaged, as Commodore Aristide Aubert Du Petit Thouars continued his fight with Majestic and fired on Swiftsure when the British ship moved within range.

By contrast, the British press were jubilant ; many newspapers sought to portray the battle as a victory for Britain over anarchy, and the success was used to attack the supposedly pro-republican Whig politicians Charles James Fox and Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

By resigning Laws became the shortest serving Minister in modern British political history with less than 18 days service as a Cabinet Minister.

By the last years of the 19th century, The British Museum's collections had increased so much that the Museum building was no longer big enough for them.

By the mid-1950s the system was being used in at least sixty British libraries and in a hundred by the 1970s.

By 1888, over 3, 000 British public houses, grocers and chemists were selling Bovril.

By the end of 1971, 29 barricades were in place to prevent access to what was known as Free Derry, 16 of them impassable even to the British Army's one-ton armoured vehicles.

By the time the inquiry had retired to write up its findings, it had interviewed over 900 witnesses, over seven years, making it the biggest investigation in British legal history.

By 1951 about 20 % of the British economy had been taken into public ownership.

By the 1870s, British physicist William Crookes and others were able to evacuate tubes to a lower pressure, below 10 < sup >− 6 </ sup > atm.

By the mid-19th century, however, the powerful British Empire gave up mercantilism and trade restrictions and introduced the principle of free trade, with few restrictions or tariffs.

By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.

By the late 1970s, two and a half million British homes received their television service via cable.

By the end of the summer however, the plan had changed ; now the British alone would impose the pliant Shuja Shah.

By the time Sher Ali had established control in Kabul in 1868, he found the British ready to support his regime with arms and funds, but nothing more.

By the end of October, Allen was again off New York, where the British, having secured the city, moved the prisoners on-shore, and, as he was considered an officer, gave Allen limited parole.

By 1949, the United States and British intelligence organizations were working with King Zog and the mountain men of his personal guard.

By the end of the week, British strength stood at over 16, 000 men.

By the end of the week, the British had taken some of the buildings in the Union, but others remained in rebel hands.

By the time British reinforcements arrived in the west, the rising there had already disintegrated.