By 431 BC Athens ' heavy-handed control of the Delian League would prompt the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War ; the League was dissolved upon the war's conclusion in 404 BC.

By October 2007 bluetongue had become a serious threat in Scandinavia and Switzerland and the first outbreak in Denmark was reported.

By this time, however, trade with the European continent had spread this outbreak of plague to France, where it died out the following winter.

By the outbreak of World War II in autumn 1939, there were six camps housing some 27, 000 inmates.

By the outbreak of World War I, one billion GM had been added to Germany's national debt because of naval expenditures.

By the end of January, 2007, some 148 people had died since the outbreak began in December.

By the outbreak of World War II, the SS had solidified into its final form.

By the outbreak of World War II, the Royal Navy had five sets for different surface ship classes, and others for submarines, incorporated into a complete anti-submarine attack system.

By comparison, during the same tornado outbreak, more than 2000 homes were completely destroyed, with another 7000 damaged, and yet only a few dozen people died in their homes.

By the late 18th century Lyme Regis had become a popular seaside resort, especially after 1792 when the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars made travel to the European mainland dangerous for the English gentry, and increasing numbers of wealthy and middle class tourists were arriving there.

By the outbreak of the Civil War, the population of Baton Rouge was 5, 500.

By the outbreak of the War of the Spanish Succession in 1701, he had developed a plan for the Wittelsbachs to supplant the Habsburgs as Holy Roman Emperors.

By chance he was in a summer camp in 1939 on the outbreak of the Second World War and was granted a regular, not wartime, commission in the British Army, in the Scots Guards, later serving in the 6th Guards Tank Brigade, a separate unit from the Guards Armoured Division.

By the outbreak of World War II, Shute was already a rising novelist.

By the outbreak of World War I in 1917, Ruston was established as a center for learning, a place of civic pride and as an area of economic prosperity throughout the region.

By the outbreak of the Second World War, MG was established as one of the most popular brands of sports car in Britain.

By the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 Denikin was a Chief of staff of the Kiev Military District.

By the end of pandemic, only one major region on the entire planet had not reported an outbreak: an isolated island called Marajo, located in Brazil's Amazon River Delta.

By May 29, more than 5000 people were quarantined in Canada by authorities seeking to control the potential spread of this new SARS outbreak.

By the time of the Civil War, tensions over race and immigration, as well as economic competition between Jews and non-Jews, combined to produce the worst outbreak of antisemitism to that date.

By August 2005, al-Sadr had adopted a more conciliatory tone, along with a much lower profile, saying " I call upon all the believers to save the blood of the Muslims and to return to their homes " after an outbreak of violence between some of his followers and those of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim.

By the outbreak of World War I in 1914, many of the older houses that had been built to house workers during the Industrial Revolution were becoming unfit for human habitation Sanitation was inadequate, decay was rife, and the homes were becoming a danger to the health and safety of their inhabitants.

By the outbreak of war in September 1939, however, the RCN still had only six River class destroyers, five minesweepers and two small training vessels, bases at Halifax and Victoria, and altogether 145 officers and 1, 674 men.

By the outbreak of war in 1939 twelve Allard Specials had been built.

By 325, the controversy had become significant enough that the Emperor Constantine called an assembly of bishops, the First Council of Nicaea, which condemned Arius ' doctrine and formulated the original Nicene Creed of 325.

By the middle of the 19th century, industrialisation swept away most of the city's medieval rules of production and commerce, although the entirely corrupt remains of the city's mediæval constitution was kept in place ( compare the famous remarks of Georg Forster in his Ansichten vom Niederrhein ) until 1801, when Aachen became the " chef-lieu du département de la Roer " in Napoléon's First French Empire.

By the 1980s, several independent publishers, such as Pacific, Eclipse, First, Comico, and Fantagraphics had started releasing a wide range of styles and formats — from color superhero, detective, and science fiction comic books to black-and-white magazine-format stories of Latin American magical realism.

By the First World War, the Liberal Party had largely abandoned classical liberal principles.

By March 1943, the first National Conference of the Communist Party elected Hoxha formally as First Secretary.

By the beginning of the First World War in 1914, Mathers had established two to three American temples.

By the end of the 19th century, it was confined mainly to Pre-Raphaelite imitators, and it could not avoid being affected by the First World War, which damaged the reputation of chivalry and thus interest in its medieval manifestations and Arthur as chivalric role model.

By the start of the First World War, the German Imperial Navy possessed 22 pre-Dreadnoughts, 19 dreadnought battleships and 7 battlecruisers.

By the time the civil conflict ended and the government of New Granada and the government of the Isthmus had negotiated the Isthmus's reincorporation to the union, Panama's First Republic had been free for 13 months.

By the time of the First World War, the mass advertising and popularity of the Victor Talking Machine Company's Victrolas ( a line of disc-playing machines characterized by their concealed horns ) was leading to widespread generic use of the word " victrola " for any machine that played discs, which were however still called " phonograph records " or simply " records ", almost never " victrola records ".

By the autumn of 1800, the United States Navy and the Royal Navy, combined with a more conciliatory diplomatic stance by the government of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte, had reduced the activity of the French privateers and warships.

By mid-November, the White Armies almost simultaneously became exhausted, and, in January 1920, Budenny's First Cavalry Army entered Rostov-on-Don.

By the 1790s, the First Party System was born.

By 1828, the First Party System had collapsed.

By the First Partition of Poland in 1772, Warmia was merged with the surrounding parts of East Prussia and annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia ; the properties of the Archbishopric of Warmia were secularized by the Prussian state.

By the time of the First World War their ranks had been expanded with the adoption of modern technology in the Navy to include telegraphists, electricians, shipwrights, artificer engineers, etc.

By the end of 1924, Warner Bros. was arguably the most successful independent studio in Hollywood, but it still competed with " The Big Three " Studios ( First National, Paramount Pictures, and MGM ).

By April 1927, the Big Five studios ( First National, Paramount, MGM, Universal, and Producers Distributing ) had put the Warner brothers in financial ruin, and Western Electric renewed Warner's Vitaphone contract with terms that allowed other film companies to test sound.

By the end of the year Serbia is acknowledged as a semi-independent state ; the ideals of the First Serbian Uprising have thus been temporarily achieved.

By the end of the year Serbia is acknowledged as a semi-independent state ; the ideals of the First Serbian Uprising have thus been temporarily achieved.

By this action, the First Punic War begins and will embroil Rome in a conflict with Carthage that will continue for 23 years.

By the end of the 1980s, the influence of the successful action film could be felt in almost every genre-hybrids were becoming the norm ; war-action hybrids ( like First Blood and Missing in Action ), science fiction action ( like The Terminator, and RoboCop ), horror-action ( like Aliens and Predator ), and even the occasional musical-action-comedy hybrid ( like The Blues Brothers ).

By 1790, on the political front, the First Polish Republic had deteriorated into such a helpless condition that it was successfully forced into an unnatural and ultimately deadly alliance with its enemy, Prussia.

By 14: 30, General Steinmetz, the commander of the First Army, unilaterally launched his VIII Corps across the Mance Ravine in which the Prussian infantry were soon pinned down by murderous rifle and mitrailleuse fire from the French positions.

By 12 November the First Battle of Ypres had failed ( at a cost of 160, 000 German casualties ) and was stopped on 18 November.