By this time the torpedo boat, the first of which had been built at the shipyards of Sir John Thornycroft in 1877, had gained recognition for its effectiveness, and the first torpedo boat destroyers ( later simply destroyers ) were built to counter it.

By 1875 the conservative white Southern opposition regained control of every state in the South and as he left the White House in March 1877 his policies were being undone.

By 23 February 1877 he had completed a second and more extensive prose draft of the work, and by 19 April of the same year he had transformed this into a verse libretto ( or “ poem ”, as Wagner liked to call his libretti ).

By 1877, he had resumed work for Leland Stanford, as described above.

By 1876 Rangers had their first international player, with Moses McNeil representing Scotland in a match against Wales, and by 1877 Rangers had reached a Scottish Cup final.

By the end of Reconstruction in 1877, with fraud, intimidation and violence at the polls, white Democrats regained nearly total control of the state legislatures across the South.

By 1877, the village population was up to 300 and in 1883 the Orangeville Alert, the first village newspaper, was established.

By 1877 a steam locomotive replaced the horse cars.

By 1877 Independence Township's swampland was converted to agricultural use.

By 1877 Pollock included two general stores, a drug store, blacksmith shop, one hotel, a schoolhouse and a small depot for the Burlington & Southwestern Railroad with a town population of one hundred, and a United States Post Office was established in Pollock in 1879.

By 1877, the village had three church societies, a union schoolhouse, a hotel, a steam-stave mill and a number of shops and stores.

By George P. Monagon and George M. Liscombe published in 1877

By 1877 the town was large enough to make its first city map.

By 1877 there were also several farmers in the area and an LDS ward was organized.

By 1877, for example, the superintendent of an asylum for men in New York reported that in his institution this disorder accounted for more than twelve percent of the admissions and more than two percent of the deaths.

By 1877, Sir Theophilus Shepstone, the British Secretary for Native Affairs in Natal, annexed the Transvaal Republic, for Britain using a special warrant.

By lecture and book, and with the aid of the memorable exhibition at the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1877, he tried to give a true reflection of Rembrandt's work, giving a nobler idea of the master's mind by taking away from the list of his works many dull and unseemly plates that had long been included in the lists.

By the year 1877 ( possibly beginning with Powers ), the use of Pomo had been extended in English to mean the entire people known today as the Pomo.

By 1877 there were enough business opportunities in the area for the Bank of New Zealand to establish a branch in Gore.

By 1850 the surrounding area had become a centre for mercantile activity, with the Merchants House moving to the square in 1877, and the square itself, which had been developed into a private garden for the surrounding townhouses, became an established public space, after frequent disturbances and pulling down of railings by a disgruntled mob.

By 1877, when the Borough Council came into existence, Palmerston North was an isolated village in the midst of the native forest that covered inland Manawatu.

By July 1877, Gilbert and Sullivan were under contract to produce a two-act opera.

By 1877, Nelson had a major effect on state politics, even before his election to the United States Congress.

The Desert Land Act of 1877 allowed individuals to acquire more area, up to < span style =" white-space: nowrap "></ span >, in hopes of drawing more settlers by giving them enough land to make their settlement and land expenses worthwhile, but “ included no residency requirements .” By 1866, rapid acquisition of land had begun and by the mid 1890s most of the land in the Owens Valley had been claimed.

By that time, perhaps something better can be done ''.

By 1914, there were several hundred members, perhaps as many as 2500.

By the early 940s Constantine was an old man, perhaps more than 70 years of age.

By 1990, an estimated 50 % of islanders had some degree of proficiency in Corsican, and a small minority, perhaps 10 %, used Corsican as a first language.

By the 1980s, widely popular drummers like Billy Cobham, Carl Palmer, Nicko McBrain, Phil Collins, Stewart Copeland and perhaps most notably Neil Peart were using large numbers of drums and cymbals and had also begun using electronic drums.

By a process of folk etymology, the Romans could have confused the phones of her foreign name with those of the root men-in Latin words such as mens meaning " mind ", perhaps because one of her aspects as goddess pertained to the intellectual.

By 1975 both Number 96 and The Box, perhaps as a reaction to declining ratings for both shows, de-emphasised the sex and nudity moving more in the direction of comedy.

By comparison, in a general topological space, given sets A, B it is meaningful to say that a point x is arbitrarily close to A ( i. e., in the closure of A ), or perhaps that A is a smaller neighborhood of x than B, but notions of closeness of points and relative closeness are not described well by topological structure alone.

By 989, and perhaps as early as 987, Bolesław I married Emnilda, daughter of Dobromir, a Slavic prince of Lusatia.

By reference to " resolutions of Arab Summits " and " UN resolutions since 1947 " ( like SC 242 ) it implicitly and perhaps ambiguously restricted its immediate claims to the Palestinian territories and Jerusalem.

By the Early Iron Age, the Hurrians had been assimilated with other peoples, except perhaps in the kingdom of Urartu.

By the time it arrives at the water mill the difference in levels between the leat and the main stream is great enough to provide a useful head of water – several metres ( perhaps 5 to 15 feet ) for a watermill, or a metre or less ( perhaps one to four feet ) for a water-meadow.

By his unnamed wife, Theodosius III was the father of at least one son, Theodosius ( monastic name ), perhaps the bishop of Ephesus in 729 – after 754.

Jacques Derrida, in " The Purveyor of Truth ," his response to Jacques Lacan's seminar on " The Purloined Letter " ( 1956 ), applies the metaphor to the structural analysis of texts: " By framing in this violent way, by cutting the narrated figure itself from a fourth side in order to see only triangles, one evades perhaps a certain complication.

By the time of the Civil War, album quilt inscriptions had become shorter and were more likely to include only the block maker's name, and perhaps his or her hometown or date.

By the end of the period, many of the painters were women, perhaps especially in Paris.

By the middle of the 20th century, the sphere of direct action had undoubtedly expanded, though the meaning of the term had perhaps contracted.

By selling out to the foreign investors, former owners had the choice of pocketing a huge profit and perhaps staying on as consultant or manager, or simply taking the cash and leaving the impending problems of modernization to the new owners.

By 1779, there were sixteen families recorded within the bounds of the Alexandria Addition, and they petitioned the General Court to incorporate as the town of " New London " -- officially named after London, England, but perhaps also an acknowledgement of the Londonderry-based proprietors.

By the end of Bérénice, all three major characters have threatened to commit suicide ; perhaps the three characters in Play are being punished because they have committed suicide.

By definition, committing " venal " acts does not indicate " stealing " or " lying ", but rather suggests a consensual arrangement, perhaps without conscience or regard for consequences, but is not synonymous with stealing.

By 2000, speed dating had really taken off, perhaps boosted by its portrayal in shows such as Sex and the City as something that glamorous people did.

By the later part of the decade, though, King Tubby had mostly retired from music, still occasionally mixing dubs and tutoring a new generation of artists, including King Jammy and perhaps his greatest protege: Hopeton Brown aka Scientist.