During the 1870s, the Philological Society was concerned with the process of publishing a dictionary with such an immense scope.

During the 1870s and 1890s, Puerto Rico did not have a national railroad system, but the city of Mayagüez did have a small passenger rail system for transporting its residents mainly along the Mendez Vigo Avenue.

During the 1860s and 1870s, pioneering stellar spectroscopist Father Angelo Secchi created the Secchi classes in order to classify observed spectra.

During the late 1860s and early 1870s, from within his father's firm in Charing Cross and, by late 1874, from a nearby address in Craig's Court, Carte began to build an operatic, concert and lecture management agency.

During the Second Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion, piratical junks were again destroyed in large numbers by British naval forces but ultimately it wasn't until the 1860s and 1870s that fleets of pirate junks ceased to exist.

During the 1870s, there was some talk of a marriage between him and Queen Victoria's youngest daughter, Princess Beatrice.

During the 1870s, muskeg in Northern Ontario was reported to have swallowed a railroad engine whole when a track was laid on muskeg instead of clearing down to bedrock.

During the 1870s and much of the 1880s, he lived with his model-mistress Maud Franklin.

During the period known as Blackbirding, in the 1870s and 1880s, hundreds of thousands of Pacific islanders ( many of them from the New Hebrides ( now Vanuatu ) archipelago ) were enslaved and forced to work on plantations, mainly in Queensland, Australia and Fiji.

During the 1870s, Kingman County abounded with bison.

During the 1870s, Appling suffered severe damage during a tornado.

During the 1870s, there were regular outbreaks of violence in Louisiana, despite the presence of two thousand federal troops stationed there.

During the 1870s, Melbourne fielded teams in the Seven Twenties and South Yarra Cup competitions.

During restoration work in the 1870s, the crypt which had been closed since the Reformation was refurbished and opened as a chapel, and Saint Canute once more went on display.

During the heyday of mining in the area ( the 1870s ), Cartago was a steamboat port for shipment of wood and ore.

During the 1870s, a small community named Arch Beach had been started at the mouth of Bluebird Canyon.

During the 1870s, writer Charles Nordhoff promoted the town as a health resort and destination for well-to-do travelers from other parts of the U. S .; many of them came, and many stayed.

During the 1870s, Hamilton Disston of Philadelphia took an interest in developing the region while on fishing trips with Henry Shelton Sanford, founder of the city of Sanford.

During the 1870s and 1880s German, Swedish, and Polish immigrants came to work in the factories.

During the 1870s, the population of McGregor exploded to over 5, 500 as the city became the busiest shipping port west of Chicago.

During the 1870s, many of the historic business structures seen today were erected.

During the 1870s, groups of developers began to promote a residential community with large lots and a grid pattern of streets, stating the advantages of the community.

During the 1870s the Commercial Hotel, south of the railroad depot, was one of the largest in Nebraska west of Lincoln.

During the 1870s the mills were enormously profitable because of the Erie Canal, which flowed past them at that time.

During the 1880s, Peirce's indifference to bureaucratic detail waxed while his Survey work's quality and timeliness waned.

During the early 1880s, Monet painted several groups of landscapes and seascapes in what he considered to be campaigns to document the French countryside.

During the 1880s, five foreign editions contained two revelations to John Taylor that were received in 1882 and 1883 ; these revelations " set in order " the priesthood, gave more clarification about the roles of priesthood offices — especially the Seventy — and required Priesthood leaders to live plural marriage in order to qualify to hold their church positions.

During the late 1880s, the strong influence of Spanish style is evident in Albéniz's music.

During the " eclipse of Darwinism " from the 1880s to the 1930s, various other mechanisms of evolution were given more credit.

During the same period London's water supply network was expanded and improved, and a gas network for lighting and heating was introduced in the 1880s.

During the 1880s, when both the old cast-iron and modern forged-steel shrapnel shell designs were in British service, British ordnance manuals referred to the older cast-iron design as " Boxer shrapnel ", apparently to differentiate it from the modern steel design.

During this conflict and others during the 1880s, Carte and Helen Lenoir frequently worked to smooth over the partners ' differences using a mixture of friendship and business acumen.

During this period, Asian women were still wearing traditional hairstyles held up with combs, pins and sticks crafted from tortoise, metal, wood and other materials, but in the middle 1880s, upper-class Japanese women began pushing back their hair in the Western style ( known as sokuhatsu ), or adopting Westernized versions of traditional Japanese hairstyles ( these were called yakaimaki, or literally, soirée chignon ).

During the 1880s, Flagstaff began to grow, opening its first post office and attracting the railroad industry.

During the 1880s, living at the Goulden cottage with her parents in Seedley, Emmeline Pankhurst tended to her husband and children, but still devoted time to political activities.

During the 1880s, investment began to show some diversification as capital began to flow from other countries such as France, Germany and Belgium, though British investment still accounted for two thirds of total foreign capital.

During the 1880s, a vigilante mob, organized like a fraternal lodge, killed a number of San Saba County settlers.

During the latter 1880s, the Texas surveyor and civil engineer W. D. Twichell lived in Tascosa, now a ghost town in Oldham County, prior to his relocating in 1890 to Amarillo

During the 1880s and 1890s, there were a series of unsuccessful efforts to move the county seat to nearby Independence.

During the 1880s it was the largest town between Bismarck, North Dakota and Pierre, South Dakota.

During the late 1880s, the VFA expanded rapidly.

During the 1880s Dr. Geo W. Westbrook joined them and the area grew into a small community.

During the 1880s the town of Batesville started its first form of government appointed by the community.

During the mid to late 1880s, Manchester was the home of Michigan Lutheran Seminary.

During the 1880s Benson sold portions of his original tract to incoming settlers, many of whom were farmers.