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 First World War, in August 1914, the RNAS had more aircraft under its control than the remaining RFC.

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

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 June 19, 1788, he had presented himself to its Commander in Chief, the Governor of the Southern Provinces, the Director of the War College -- The Prince.

By 1865, following the American Civil War, stocks in small industrial companies, such as iron and steel, textiles and chemicals were first sold by curbstone brokers.

By 454, the Delian League could be fairly characterized as an Athenian Empire ; at the start of the Peloponnesian War, only Chios and Lesbos were left to contribute ships, and these states were by now far too weak to secede without support.

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

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 1704, the War of the Spanish Succession was in its fourth year.

By World War II, the use of the smaller divisions, platoons and companies, became much more important as precise operations became vital.

By the time World War I began, attempts to use anthrax were directed at animal populations.

By the end of World War 2, Canadians communicated by telephone, more than any other country.

By 1949, the CPC had established control over most of the country ( see Chinese Civil War ).

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

By the end of World War II, Chiang had come to believe that democracy was impossible for China to achieve.

By World War II, control theory was an important part of fire-control systems, guidance systems and electronics.

By 1991 the communist governments of Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania, all of which had been imposed after World War II, were brought down as revolution swept Eastern Europe.

By the 1860 census on the verge of the Civil War, 91. 7 percent of the black population, or nearly 20, 000 people, were free.

By the time of the Vietnam War, IDs spelled out the broad religious choices such as PROTESTANT and CATHOLIC, rather than using initials, and also began to show individual denominations such as " METHODIST " or " BAPTIST.

By World War II, only Dwight was still called " Ike ".

By mid-1947, as East-West tensions over economic recovery in Germany and the Greek Civil War escalated, Eisenhower gave up his hopes for cooperation with the Soviets and agreed with a containment policy to stop Soviet expansion.

By the dawn of World War II, many of the European Dadaists had emigrated to the United States.

By the time of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, TBDs were " large, swift, and powerfully armed torpedo boats designed to destroy other torpedo boats.

By World War II the threat had evolved once again.

By World War I drum kits were characterized by very large bold marching bass drums and many percussion items suspended on and around them, and they became a central part of jazz music, specifically ( but not limited to ) dixieland.

By the 2005 series, the Daleks and the Time Lords had engaged in a mutually destructive Time War.

By the end of World War II eugenics had been largely abandoned.