By the 1860s, there were around 5, 000 residents, and the population grew to around 10, 000 by the late 1880s.

By the 1880s, Pissarro began to explore new themes and methods of painting in order to break out of what he felt was an artistic “ mire ”.

By the 1880s, these had evolved into small ships of 50-100 tons, fast enough to evade enemy picket boats.

By the early 1880s, Impressionist methods were affecting, at least superficially, the art of the Salon.

By the late 19th century ( 1880s ) the machine gun had become an effective battlefield weapon.

By the late 1880s, Davis began to encourage reconciliation, telling Southerners to be loyal to the Union.

By the middle of the 1880s, Masoch abandoned the Legacy of Cain.

By the 1880s the tradition of England-Australia cricket tours was well established, with a total of eight Tests having been played, five of them at the MCG, two at the Sydney Cricket Ground and one at The Oval in London.

By the 1880s, Sahle Selassie, king of Shewa ( the later Emperor Menelik II ) allied with Ras Gobena's Shewan Oromo militia to expand his kingdom to the South and East, expanding into areas that hadn't been held together since the invasion of Ahmed Gragn.

By the 1880s, Anthony had become agnostic.

By the 1880s, Toledo expanded over the vacant streets of Manhattan and Tremainsville, a small town to the west.

By the 1880s, the French brandy industry was devastated by the phylloxera pest that ruined much of the grape crop ; as a result, whisky became the primary liquor in many markets.

By the end of the 1880s, France had established what passed for effective control over the coastal regions of Côte d ' Ivoire, and in 1889 Britain recognized French sovereignty in the area.

By the 1880s, Gathmann's patents were in such demand that he had to form a company to help track and produce his designs.

By the 1880s, Gathmann had made enough money to have his family moved to the United States from Prussia.

By the late 1880s, pressure from the new Afro-Guyanese middle class was building for constitutional reform.

By around 1870, palm oil constituted the primary export of some West African countries, such as Ghana and Nigeria, although this was overtaken by cocoa in the 1880s.

By the 1880s, Hoen was working on halftone methods that could be used in conjunction with either hand-worked or photolithographic stones.

By the 1880s homesteaders competed with ranchers for land.

By the 1880s, however, the power and range of rifles had advanced to the extent that shooting in an increasingly populated area was no longer considered safe.

By the late 1880s, the terms " symbolism " and " decadence " were understood to be almost synonymous.

By the 1880s, the community at the lick was called Manitou.

By the 1880s, 18 large distilleries operated in Daviess County at the same time.

By the 1880s the area became noted for its mining ecnonomy.

By 1850, Luanda was one of the greatest and most developed Portuguese cities in the vast Portuguese Empire outside Mainland Portugal, full of trading companies, exporting ( together with Benguela ) palm and peanut oil, wax, copal, timber, ivory, cotton, coffee, and cocoa, among many other products.

By the time of Mesalim, whichever dynasty controlled the city of Kish was recognised as šar kiššati (= king of Kish ), and was considered preeminent in Sumer, possibly because this was where the two rivers approached, and whoever controlled Kish ultimately controlled the irrigation systems of the other cities downstream.

By the beginning of World War II, many towns and cities had built space, and there were numerous qualified pilots available.

By the end of Judges the Israelites are in a worse condition than they were at the beginning, with Yahweh's treasures used to make idolatrous images, the Levites ( priests ) corrupted, the tribe of Dan conquering a remote village instead of the Canaanite cities, and the tribes of Israel making war on the Benjamites, their own brothers.

Boroughs proliferated in the suburban areas of the larger cities: By the 1980s there were 19 boroughs and three cities in the area that is now the City of Auckland.

By 1920, Cambridge was one of the main industrial cities of New England, with nearly 120, 000 residents.

By late 1918, hundreds of Cheka committees had been created in various cities, at multiple levels including: oblast, guberniya (" Gubcheks "), raion, uyezd, and volost Chekas, with Raion and Volost Extraordinary Commissioners.

By then Delft was one of the leading cities of Holland and it was equipped with the necessary city walls to serve as a headquarters.

By virtue of National roads linking major cities in the country, they sometimes double as Regional and Inter-Regional roads.

By July, Goebbels was lamenting that Hitler had cut himself off from the people – it was noted, for example, that he never visited the bomb-ravaged cities of the Ruhr.

By mid-1860, he was playing in such cities as New York ; Boston ; Chicago ; Cleveland ; St. Louis ; Columbus, Georgia ; Montgomery, Alabama ; and New Orleans.

By the turn of the 19th century, the company had become the largest of the ‘’ hongs ’’ or foreign trading conglomerates with offices in all the important Chinese cities as well as Yokohama, Japan.

By this time, the Mamluks under Baibars were taking advantage of the kingdom's constant disputes, and began conquering the remaining crusader cities along the coast.

By the 9th century public libraries started to appear in many Islamic cities.

By late 569 they had conquered all the principal cities north of the Po River except Pavia, which fell in 572.

By 1850, Luanda was one of the greatest and most developed Portuguese cities in the vast Portuguese Empire outside Mainland Portugal, full of trading companies, exporting ( together with Benguela ) palm and peanut oil, wax, copal, timber, ivory, cotton, coffee, and cocoa, among many other products.

By the mid 1970s, Sweden experienced a recession that struck especially hard on the industrial sector ; shipyards and manufacturing industries were hard hit, which led to high unemployment in many cities of Scania.

By 1519, the Aztec capital, Mexico-Tenochtitlan, the site of modern-day Mexico City, was one of the largest cities in the world, with a population of 30, 000 ( estimates range as high as 60, 000 ).

By 1921, small groups of Marxists existed in six Chinese cities: Shanghai, Peking, Changsha, Wuhan, Canton and Tsinan, with a further group having been founded by Chinese students in Paris.

By 1985, Mecca, like other Saudi cities, possessed the most modern telephone, telex, radio and TV communications.

By the middle of the 19th century, Rotterdam was already one of the largest port cities in the world, mainly because of transshipment of goods from Germany to Great Britain.

By the 14th century the Ottoman Empire's prosperity made manuscript works available to merchants and craftsmen, and produced a flowering of miniatures that depicted pagentry, daily life, commerce, cities and stories, and chronicled events.

By the end of 2012, 8 of the 10 largest Polish cities ( Gdańsk, Poznań, Wrocław, Łódź, Warsaw, Kraków, Katowice, Szczecin ) will have a motorway connecting them with the motorway network of Europe.

By 1952 the principal telecommunications network centered on Beijing, and links to all large cities had finally been established.