In 1577 Oxford invested £ 25 in the second of Martin Frobisher ’ s expeditions in search of the Northwest Passage.

* 1576-Englishman Martin Frobisher sails into Frobisher Bay believing he has found the route to China.

* 1576 – Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.

In 1577 the Company of Cathay was formed to support Martin Frobisher ’ s hunt for the Northwest Passage, although Frobisher and his investors quickly became distracted by reports of gold at Hall ’ s Island.

* November 22 – Sir Martin Frobisher, British explorer ( b. 1535 )

* May 31 – Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine fool's gold, used to pave streets in London.

* March 17 – The Cathay Company is formed to send Martin Frobisher back to the New World for more gold.

* August 11 – English navigator Martin Frobisher, on his search for the Northwest Passage, enters the bay now named after him.

Elizabeth I of England kept a " unicorn horn " in her cabinet of curiosities, brought back by Arctic explorer Martin Frobisher on his return from Labrador in 1577.

Martin Frobisher landed at Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island in August 1576 ; He returned in 1577, claiming it in Queen Elizabeth's name, and in a third voyage tried but failed to found a settlement in Frobisher Bay.

Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe between 1577 and 1581, and Martin Frobisher explored the Arctic.

Herman Melville wrote a section on the narwhal in Moby Dick, in which he claims a narwhal tusk hung for " a long period " in Windsor Castle after Sir Martin Frobisher had given it to Queen Elizabeth.

British claims on the islands were based on the explorations in the 1570s by Martin Frobisher.

Sir Martin Frobisher ( c. 1535 or 1539 – 15 November 1594 ) was an English seaman who made three voyages to the New World to look for the Northwest Passage.

* Neatby, L. H., Martin Frobisher ( ca.

* The Canadian Museum of Civilization-The Nunavut Voyages of Martin Frobisher

On one side of the coin is the customary portrait of Queen Elizabeth ; on the other, 16th-century British explorer Martin Frobisher and a compass rose from his era, along with images of the ship he sailed in search of the fabled Northwest Passage and an Inuit man paddling his kayak in ice-choked waters.

This inspired Martin Frobisher to sail to Baffin Island, and he returned with a mysterious black rock.

NVSL-Dive annually holds the Wally Martin 3-Meter Championship and concludes the season with its Individual All Stars Championship.

* 1966 – The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois.

Martin Noth holds that two different groups experienced the Exodus and Sinai events, and each group transmitted its own stories independently of the other one, writing that " The biblical story tracing the Hebrews from Egypt to Canaan resulted from an editor's weaving separate themes and traditions around a main character Moses, actually an obscure person from Moab.

Tradition holds that Ninian was a Briton who had studied in Rome, that he established an episcopal see at the Candida Casa in Whithorn, that he named the see for Saint Martin of Tours, that he converted the southern Picts to Christianity, and that he is buried at Whithorn.

The term " Skunk Works " is a registered trademark of Lockheed Martin ; the company also holds several registrations of it with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

* Tchéky Karyo as Major Jean Villeneuve: A French soldier who trains Martin's militia, he holds a grudge against Martin for his part in the French and Indian War, but they become close friends by the war's end.

Martin holds a record of 49 wins, 5 losses and 3 draws with 31 wins by knockout.

Martin Scorsese has stated that this was the first film he ever saw and holds it in high regard.

Martin Stadium, the Cougars ' football stadium since 1972, holds more than 35, 000 spectators, which makes it the smallest stadium in the Pac-12 conference, but still allows it to hold 125 percent of Pullman's population, including the nearly 20, 000 student population.

Recent speculation by Professor Martin Jarvis of Charles Darwin University School of Music, in Darwin, Australia, holds that Anna Magdalena may have been the composer of several musical pieces attributed to her husband.

The number gained a degree of popular attention when Martin Gardner described it in the " Mathematical Games " section of Scientific American in November 1977, writing that, " In an unpublished proof, Graham has recently established ... a bound so vast that it holds the record for the largest number ever used in a serious mathematical proof.

According to creator Martin Hollis: " We ended up with innovative gameplay, in part because we had Virtua Cop features in a FPS: A gun that only holds 7 bullets and a reload button, lots of position dependant hit animations, innocents you shouldn ’ t kill, and an aiming mode.

( The next highest are 15 and 14, which he also holds, in matches v Tony O ' Shea in the final and Martin Adams in the semi-finals respectively, both in 2009.

In Europe, Magna Steyr holds contracts for the assembly of the Peugeot RCZ, Aston Martin Rapide and Mini Countryman.

Martin holds honorary doctorate degrees from five Canadian universities.

Martin Caton MP for Gower, has his office in Pontarddulais Road, Gorseinon and holds regular surgeries for his constituents.

According to creator Martin Hollis: " We ended up with innovative gameplay, in part because we had Virtua Cop features in a FPS: A gun that only holds 7 bullets and a reload button, lots of position dependant hit animations, innocents you shouldn ’ t kill, and an aiming mode.

A number of Martin ’ s works survive in public collections: the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle-which also holds his famous ‘ black cabinet ’ of projects in progress ; Tate Britain, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Louvre, the National Gallery of Art Washington DC, Yale Center for British Art, St. Louis Art Museum and elsewhere in the USA.

FCC chief Kevin Martin said that BPL " holds great promise as a ubiquitous broadband solution that would offer a viable alternative to cable, digital subscriber line, fiber, and wireless broadband solutions ".

Springfield Elementary holds a casino night as a fundraiser, the brainchild of student body president Martin Prince ( elected such in " Lisa's Substitute ") was responsible for organizing it.

Each January, the school holds a weekend of Martin Luther King, Jr. events as its major annual event and invite provocative and sometimes controversial key-note speakers.

As of 23 July 2009, the most successful drivers in terms of individual victories are Roy Lane and Martin Groves, each with 90, while Tony Marsh holds the record for the most championships, with six.

* President George W. Bush holds talks with Canada's Prime Minister Paul Martin in his first official visit to the country and agrees to work together to combat terrorism.

Paul is shown to be significantly better than Martin at many things, most notably cricket, where Paul joins the local team and promptly smashes all the records that Martin proudly holds.