Lincoln closely reviewed the dispatches and interrogated naval officers during their clash in the Battle of Hampton Roads.

Confederate Vice President Stephens led a group to meet with Lincoln, Seward, and others at Hampton Roads.

* 1838 – The Wilkes Expedition, which would explore the Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighs anchor at Hampton Roads in 1838

* Hampton Roads – New – Student housing for ~ 400 – Fall 2010

Hampton Roads is also home to the Pilot House ( open until 4am ), Mason's second on-campus late night diner.

Some of this gas was used in the world's first helium-filled airship, the U. S. Navy's C-7, which flew its maiden voyage from Hampton Roads, Virginia, to Bolling Field in Washington, D. C., on December 1, 1921.

* Hampton Roads, Norfolk, Virginia, United States

* 1862 – American Civil War: The iron-clad ( formerly ) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.

* 1862 – American Civil War: The and fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.

* 1928 – sinks approximately off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.

* 1910 – Aviator Eugene Ely performs the first take off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia.

Known as Northrop Grumman Newport News ( NGNN ), and later Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding Newport News ( NGSB-NN ), the company is located in Newport News, Virginia, and often participates in projects with the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, also located adjacent to Hampton Roads.

The shipyard is a major employer ( largest industrial employer in the state of Virginia ) not only for the lower Virginia Peninsula, but also portions of Hampton Roads south of the James River and the harbor, portions of the Middle Peninsula region, and even some northeastern counties of North Carolina.

In 1881, the Peninsula Extension of the C & O was built from Richmond down the Virginia Peninsula to reach a new coal pier on Hampton Roads in Warwick County near the small unincorporated community of Newport News Point.

Meanwhile, Lincoln sent Secretary of State Seward and his emissary Major Thomas T. Eckert to Hampton Roads to facilitate a meeting.

Virginia's economy has many sectors: agriculture in the Shenandoah Valley ; federal agencies in Northern Virginia, including the headquarters of the Department of Defense and CIA ; and military facilities in Hampton Roads, the site of the region's main seaport.

Virginia has 11 Metropolitan Statistical Areas ; Northern Virginia, Hampton Roads, and Richmond-Petersburg are the three most populous.

Norfolk forms the urban core of the Hampton Roads metropolitan area, which has a population over 1. 6 million people and is the site of the world's largest naval base, Naval Station Norfolk.

** The westbound tube AKA the first tube of the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel linking to Norfolk, Virginia and Hampton, Virginia opens at a cost of $ 44 million dollars.

* November 12 – The SS Vestris developed a severe starboard list, was abandoned and sank approximately 200 miles off Hampton Roads, Virginia, USA.

* March 8 – American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia ( formerly USS Merrimack ) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia ; the Battle of Hampton Roads starts the same day.

* 1948 – Fred Hampton, American Black Panther Party leader ( d. 1969 )

Hampton, after a strong first half in 2001, completely fell apart in 2002, going 7 – 15 with a 6. 15 ERA and demanding a trade following the season.

The Rockies went 73 – 89 in both years that Hampton and Neagle were in Colorado, and the amount of money owed them ( the Rockies paid a sizable portion of Hampton's salary even after he was traded to the Atlanta Braves ) crippled the team for the next several years.

* 1969 – Fred Hampton, American activist ( b. 1948 )

Hampton Inns & Suites ( midprice hotels ) | startup costs in 2010 $ 3, 716, 000 – $ 15, 148, 800

* 1543 – King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace.

* Hampton-on-Sea, England – A drowned and abandoned village in what is now the Hampton area of Herne Bay, Kent.

Steiner states that the sole original source to claim that he did join a church – in Hudson, New York – is Vernon B. Hampton, in Religious Background of the White House ( Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1932 ), the basis of which Steiner was unable to verify.

* December 15 – The Washington Post publishes an article about James Hampton, who had built a glittering religious throne out of recycled materials.

* April 20 – Lionel Hampton, African-American musician and bandleader ( d. 2002 )

* December 4 – Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot dead in their sleep during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers.

* December 31 – The Hampton Terrace Hotel in North Augusta, South Carolina, one of the largest and most luxurious hotels in the nation at the time, burns to the ground.

* August 29 – Danielle Hampton, Canadian actress

He was nominated Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh in 1625 and succeeded Christopher Hampton.

* All Saints ( Church of England ), Old Farm Road, Hampton

All four had been pupils together at Hampton School in south-west London.

He has played and recorded with a long list of jazz greats including Jackie McLean, Art Blakey, Chick Corea, Freddie Hubbard and The New Jazz Composers Octet, Benny Golson's New Jazztet, One for All ( Eric Alexander, Jim Rotondi, David Hazeltine, John Webber, Joe Farnsworth ), Hank Jones, Cecil Payne, Horace Silver, Cedar Walton, Harold Mabern, Larry Willis, Eddie Henderson, The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band ( featuring Slide Hampton, James Moody, Jimmy Heath, Roy Hargrove ), Avishai Cohen, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and Michael Weiss, among many others.

Neither Barrett or Hampton were members of Band of Horses when the song was recorded, but joined soon after the release of Everything All the Time.

All this convinced him to halt the landings and order the troops on the beach to return to the ships ; the entire Union fleet then returned to Hampton Roads.

In 2005 they won the Under 16 All England tournament hosted at Sunbury which included beating Warwick, Milfield and Hampton.