By her thirteenth birthday she had acquired Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, German, Latin, and was referred to as the " Walking Polyglot ".

By the late thirteenth century, Venice was the most prosperous city in all of Europe.

By the thirteenth century, the word Assassin, in variant forms, had already passed into European usage in this general sense of hired professional murderer.

By the thirteenth century BCE all of the Hurrian states had been vanquished by other peoples.

By the late thirteenth century Kilkenny was under Norman-Irish control.

By the late thirteenth century Kilkenny was under Norman-Irish control.

By population, Ashfield ranked thirteenth of the twenty-six towns in Franklin County, and 296th out of the 351 cities and towns in Massachusetts.

By the end of the thirteenth century the abbey was becoming less important.

By the thirteenth century the family was well represented in over a score of countries and several towns bear their name-Manningham, Yorkshire, and Mannington, Norfolk.

By the end of the thirteenth century most Scots Culdee houses had disappeared.

By the early thirteenth century, a regency had been established for the shogun by Hōjō Tokimasa — a member of the Hōjō clan, a branch of the Taira that had allied itself with the Minamoto in 1180.

By the thirteenth century it was part the defenses of the city.

By the end of the thirteenth century, the collection of the three texts was known as The Trotula.

By the thirteenth century more goods were being exported through Dingle than Limerick, and in 1257 an ordinance of Henry III imposed customs on the port's exports.

By the end of its thirteenth season in 1991, ratings had slipped to the extent that CBS decided to end Dallas.

By the time that the Mongols emerged in the thirteenth century, the only " Donghu people " who existed were the " Tu " in Western Xia.

By the thirteenth century Maelor had been divided into numerous parts.

By the end of the thirteenth century the monks at Melyn Mynach owned vast acreage devoted to sheep farming.

By the thirteenth century the medical school at Montpellier began to eclipse the Salernitan school.

By the late thirteenth century it had become a stronghold of the Mackenzies of Kintail ( later the Earls of Seaforth ), who were vassals of the Earls of Ross.

By the end of the thirteenth century the abbey was becoming less important.

By the thirteenth century, the castle was in the hands of the de Moravias of Petty and was where they ruled their vast tracts of land across Moray.

By the end of the thirteenth century, Islam had been established in North Sumatra ; by the fourteenth in northeast Malaya, Brunei, the southwestern Philippines and among some courtiers of East Java ; and the fifteenth in Malacca and other areas of the Malay Peninsula.

By the Muscovite period in the thirteenth century, Russian culture was recovering from the invasion of Batu Khan and subsequent domination of Russian lands by the Golden Horde.

By the end of the nineteenth century, in 1893, when the Big Three, Columbia, and Penn were populous centers of learning, Dartmouth graduated only sixty-nine.

By the end of the century the Roman Catholic Church was beginning to make itself felt, mainly through such institutions as hospitals but also through its attitude towards organized labour.

By the 27th century BC Egyptian writing had a set of some 24 hieroglyphs which are called uniliterals, to represent syllables that begin with a single consonant of their language, plus a vowel ( or no vowel ) to be supplied by the native speaker.

By the tenth century two other forms can be distinguished namely Canaanite and Aramaic.

By the end of the 14th century, most of Anatolia was controlled by various Anatolian beyliks.

By the 6th century BC, the Celtic La Tène culture was well established.

By the mid-19th century scientists began to arrive en masse to study the geology and ecology of the region.

By the late 5th century BC, philosophers might separate Aphrodite into two separate goddesses, not individuated in cult: Aphrodite Ourania, born from the sea foam after Cronus castrated Uranus, and Aphrodite Pandemos, the common Aphrodite " of all the folk ," born from Zeus and Dione.

By the beginning of the 8th century, these kingdoms had either been conquered by Nicene neighbors ( Ostrogoths, Vandals, Burgundians ) or their rulers had accepted Nicene Christianity ( Visigoths, Lombards ).

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 6th century Alexander's commentaries on Aristotle were considered so useful that he was referred to as " the commentator " ().

By the mid-4th century however the assembly's judicial functions were largely curtailed, though it always kept a role in the initiation of various kinds of political trial.

By the mid-16th century, they were in common use in most of Europe.

By the standards of 19th century tycoons, Carnegie was not a particularly ruthless man but a humanitarian with enough acquisitiveness to go in the ruthless pursuit of money ; on the other hand, the contrast between his life and the lives of many of his own workers and of the poor, in general, was stark.

By the 7th century BC, much of the Assyrian population used Akkadian influenced Eastern Aramaic and not Akkadian itself.

By the 4th century AD artists had started debating in writing over the proper goals of art as well.

By the end of the twentieth century " Negro " had come to be considered inappropriate and was rarely used and perceived as a pejorative.

By the early 5th century Britain had been Roman for over three hundred and fifty years.

By the 1st century BC, Aediles were elected in July, and took office on the first day in January.

By the 16th century, a cappella polyphony had further developed, but gradually, the cantata began to take the place of a cappella forms.

By the 19th century orchestral music in Europe had standardized the string section into the following homogeneous instrumental groups: first violins, second violins, violas, cellos, and double basses.

By the 3rd century BC, the rival armies of Carthage and Rome began to invade and fight for control of the Iberian Peninsula.

By the 5th century AD, Rome was in decline and the Roman predecessor town of Alicante, known as Lucentum ( Latin ), was more or less under the control of the Visigothic warlord Theudimer.

By the end of the 18th century there were no factories or mills and only a few small cottage industries along the border with Zurich.

By the beginning of the twentieth century, Steiner's interests turned to explicitly spiritual areas of research.