Shortly after establishing the settlement at Port Jackson, on 15 February 1788, Phillip sent Lieutenant Philip Gidley King with 8 free men and a number of convicts to establish the second British colony in the Pacific at Norfolk Island.

* The Copeman Empire, run from a caravan park in Norfolk, England, by its founder Nick Copeman, who changed his name by deed poll to HM King Nicholas I.

On 8 January 1789, the first child was born, Norfolk King, the son of Philip Gidley King and a convict, Ann Inett.

* King Richard II of England exiles his cousin Henry Bolingbroke ( the future Henry IV of England ) for 10 years in order to end Henry's feud with Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, who is also exiled.

Sir Thomas Boleyn, being the son of the eldest daughter, felt the title belonged to him and protested to his brother-in-law, the Duke of Norfolk, who spoke to King Henry about the matter.

At the magnificent banquet to celebrate her father's elevation, Anne took precedence over the Duchesses of Suffolk and Norfolk, seated in the place of honour beside the King which was usually occupied by the Queen.

The King himself wrote to the Duke of Norfolk pressing him to make sure Latimer would ' condemn that villain Aske and submit to our clemency '.

Television roles included the recurring role of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk in five of the six episodes of The Six Wives of Henry VIII ( 1970 ), the villainous Nasca in Thames Television's Aztec-themed drama The Feathered Serpent ( 1976 – 78 ), a guest starring spot in the comedy series The Goodies in the episode " The Baddies ", as well as episodes of Paul Temple, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, Doomwatch, The Persuaders !, A Family at War, Coronation Street, Softly, Softly: Taskforce, Colditz, Play for Today, Z-Cars, Special Branch, Sutherland's Law, The Sweeney, Jason King, Survivors, Crown Court, Angels, Warship, Van der Valk, Space: 1999, The Onedin Line, All Creatures Great and Small, Only When I Laugh ( Series 2, Total Episode # 9 ), Nanny, Minder, and the first episode of Inspector Morse in January 1987.

Born in Appleton House, Flitcham, Sandringham estate, Norfolk, United Kingdom to Prince Carl of Denmark and Princess Maud of Wales, ( daughter of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom ), he was given the names and title of Alexander Edward Christian Frederik, Prince of Denmark.

She states her concerns because of what happened to Anne but Norfolk assures her if she listens to him all will be well, and stresses that she must not show fear or timidity when addressing the King.

In Buck's words, the letter asks Norfolk " to be a mediator for her to the King, in behalf of the marriage propounded between them ", who, as she wrote, was her " onely joy and maker in this world ", and that she was his in heart and thought: " withall insinuating that the better part of February was past, and that she feared the Queen would never die.

Lilias Rider Haggard, daughter of the famous novelist, edited I walked by Night, being the life and history of the King of the Norfolk Poachers, published in 1935 by Nicholson and Watson, London.

The monastery was founded in 1107 by William d ' Aubigny, Chief Butler to King Henry I. William was a prominent Norfolk landowner, with estates in Wymondham and nearby New Buckenham whose grandfather had fought for William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings.

King Philip Regional High School is located on Franklin St and is the high school for students from Wrentham, Norfolk, and Plainville.

Students in middle school attend King Philip Regional Middle School in Norfolk, MA.

For his support of King Richard III during the deposition of King Edward V in 1483, he was created The Duke of Norfolk, third creation, on 28 June 1483.

King Canute gave the village to the abbots of St. Benet's Abbey on the River Bure in the Norfolk Broads.

They had been encouraged to settle in Norfolk by King Edward III of England who had married a Flemish princess.

King on 10 January 1942 that he thought that twin-engine Army bombers could be launched from an aircraft carrier after observing several at a naval airfield in Norfolk, Virginia, where the runway was painted with the outline of a carrier deck for landing practice.

Later, in 1398, Norfolk quarrelled with Henry of Bolingbroke, 1st Duke of Hereford ( later King Henry IV ), apparently due to mutual suspicions stemming from their roles in the conspiracy against the Duke of Gloucester.

As a wedding present, King Henry VIII gave Jane and George Grimston Manor in Norfolk.

In the autumn of that year Norfolk and Surrey suppressed a rebellion against the King by the Duke of Buckingham.

The title of " Marshal " went to the husband of the oldest daughter, Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk, and later passed to the Mowbray dukes of Norfolk and then to the Howard dukes of Norfolk, becoming " Earl Marshal " along the way.

In 1700 several hundred French Huguenots went to the colony of Virginia, where the English Crown had promised them land grants in Lower Norfolk County.

Unfortunately for Claremont, the A & D decided to connect its western leg with a new eastern terminus in West Norfolk on the harbor of Hampton Roads, and the line to Claremont, which was never standard-gauged, went into semi-abandonment.

It was for his health that he went in 1751 to Lynn Regis in Norfolk, where he was elected organist, with an annual salary of £ 100, and lived for nine years.

He begged for some of the 13, 000 men he knew were idle under the control of Maj. Gen. Benjamin Huger in nearby Norfolk, Virginia, but his pleas to Huger and Benjamin went unheeded.

The museum got in contact with Edwin Rose, who was then Norfolk Landscape Archaeology's Development Control Officer, who subsequently went and met with Lorimer, who took him to see the site on 12 August 1998.

" Nolan went on to employ some local solicitors in an attempt to get the courts to intercede on the protestors ' behalf, receiving donations from the Council of British Druid Orders and from a local businessman, Mervyn Lambert, who told reporters that " The people of Norfolk should have more balls … I'm amazed they're allowing it to happen.

Sloat was not among those who perished, he went on to become the Commander of the Norfolk Navy Yard.

Since his release Martin has appeared on the platform of the United Kingdom Independence Party and was the guest-of-honour at the Traditional Britain Group's Annual Dinner at Simpson's-in-the-Strand on November 7, 2003 .. Martin said himself that he had attended meetings of the National Front in Norfolk, and later went on to endorse the British National Party.

He went on to marry Elizabeth Shaw, daughter and heiress of Charles Shaw of Besthorpe in Norfolk, on 28 March 1747.

VLS went into service, using the GWS-26 system, on the Type 23 frigate HMS Norfolk.

Later that year, Flinders returned and finished charting the islands in the Norfolk, he then went on to complete the first circumnavigation of Tasmania, accompanied by George Bass, proving Tasmania to be an island separated from the Australian mainland by Bass Strait, later named in honour of George Bass.

The Norfolk club went on to become the most successful team in the league at the box office and held several minor league attendance records throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

In August 1549 Dudley went to Norfolk with his father and his younger brother Robert to fight against the rebel peasant army of Robert Kett.

They went 34 – 34 – 9 and quietly exited the playoffs thanks to a 2 – 0 sweep at the hands of the Norfolk Admirals.

Patton went to Norfolk Island seeking a new beginning following a number of failed relationships in her homeland of Australia.

In October 1805 he visited Norfolk Island and went to Hobart at the end of November that year.

In September 1941, he was transferred to the 52nd Fighter Group, Selfridge Field, Michigan, served as squadron commander and group operations officer flying P-40 Warhawk pursuit aircraft, and went with the Group to Norfolk, Virginia, and Florence, South Carolina.

In December 1897, Bernadou went to the Norfolk Navy Yard where he put ( Torpedo Boat No. 5 ) into commission on the 29th as her first commanding officer.

Continuing roughly parallel to the old Western & Atlantic ( then Louisville & Nashville at the time ) railroad line ( which still includes CSX's Tilford Yard and Norfolk Southern's Inman Yard in northwest Atlanta ), it went just west of Vinings on South Atlanta Road, next to downtown Smyrna on Atlanta Road, and north into Marietta where it became Atlanta Street.

* A man from Norfolk who went to Iraq to act as a human shield is back, saying his mission was a success BBC News ( 18 April 2003 )

In the first four decades of the 18th century, Sir Richard Ellys of Nocton formed a collection of books which eventually went to Blickling Hall in Norfolk by inheritance in the 1740s, though most of the books were kept in London.