The torpedo boat destroyer's first major use in combat came during the Japanese surprise attack on the Russian fleet anchored in Port Arthur at the opening of the Russo-Japanese War on 8 February 1904.

* 1904 – Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.

* 1904 – Russo – Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.

Firearm controls have been in place following the 1996 Port Arthur massacre.

* 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Russian garrison surrenders at Port Arthur, China.

* 1788 – The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson ( Sydney Harbour ) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent.

Arthur Phillip decides that Botany Bay is unsuitable for the location of a penal colony, and decides to move to Port Jackson.

Janis Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas, on, to Dorothy ( née East ) Joplin ( 1913 – 1998 ), a registrar at a business college, and her husband, Seth Joplin ( 1910 – 1987 ), an engineer at Texaco.

* 1904 – The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sank Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15, 000 tons, with 496 crew and " Yashima ".

* 1894 – Port Arthur, Manchuria falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War, after which Japanese troops massacre the remaining inhabitants of the city.

* 1904 – The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Reval, Estonia for Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.

The city of Port Arthur, Texas, sits along the western shore of Sabine Lake.

The Imperial Japanese Navy ( IJN ), like the Russians, often combined their TBs ( which possessed only hull numbers ) with their torpedo boat destroyers ( TBDs ) ( often simply referring to them as destroyers ) and launched over 270 torpedoes ( counting the opening engagement at Port Arthur on 8 February 1904 ) during the war.

* The Golden Triangle in Texas, consisting of Beaumont, Port Arthur, and Orange.

* Thunder Bay, Ontario ( Fort William and Port Arthur ).

* Main articles: Port Arthur, Tasmania, Convicts on the West Coast of Tasmania

Only the most difficult convicts ( mostly re-offenders ) were sent to the Tasman Peninsula prison known as Port Arthur.

The last penal settlement in Tasmania at Port Arthur finally closed in 1877.

* January 24 – The La Perouse expedition in the Astrolabe and Boussole arrives off Botany Bay just as Captain Arthur Phillip is attempting to move his colony from there to Sydney Cove in Port Jackson.

** Port Arthur massacre: Martin Bryant kills 35 people at the Port Arthur, Tasmania tourist site, Australia.

* New Port City, fictional megacities where the Masamune Shiro manga Ghost in the Shell and Dominion: Tank Police series are mostly set

* New Port, a fictional city where superheroes have been outlawed by its criminal ruler, Bomb Queen, in the Image Comics universe

It is said that Fitzgerald modeled West Egg — the fictional town in which Nick lives — after his own Great Neck ( specifically Kings Point ) and the atmosphere and lifestyle there ; and he modeled East Egg after Great Neck's eastern neighbor, Port Washington, or, more specifically, Sands Point.

Port Warwick in Virginia was named after the fictional city in Styron's Lie Down in Darkness.

The book is set in the fictional Ontario town of Port Ticonderoga and in the Toronto of the 1930s and 1940s.

* PCU ( film ), a 1994 film set at a fictional Port Chester University

He is the president of the Possum Lodge, a fictional men's club in the small northwestern Ontario town of Possum Lake, near the also-fictional town of Port Asbestos.

It is a spin-off of the serial General Hospital, which has been running since 1963 and takes place in the fictional city of Port Charles, New York.

Berry's fiction to date consists of eight novels and thirty-eight short stories ( twenty-three of which are collected in That Distant Land, 2004 ) which, when read as a whole, form a chronicle of the fictional small Kentucky town of Port William.

The show was created by husband-and-wife soap writers Frank and Doris Hursley, who originally set it in a general hospital ( hence the title ) in an unnamed fictional city ; this city was named Port Charles, New York in the 1970s.

Today, their union still has a presence in fictional town Port Charles.

In an odd twist of fate, FX Networks broadcast on June 7, 2005 the docudrama Oil Storm, which first depicted a fictional Category 4 hurricane named " Julia " hitting Port Fourchon in September 2005.

In the fictional account, the port was severely crippled, but in reality Port Fourchon has been up and running mere days after major storm events.

The show is set in the fictional seaside village of Portwenn and filmed on location in the village of Port Isaac, Cornwall, United Kingdom, with most interior scenes shot in a converted local barn.

Soufrière doubled as the fictional town Port Agnes, capital of the equally fictional island of Cascara in the 1985 comedy movie Water.

The film depicts college life at the fictional Port Chester University, and represents " an exaggerated view of contemporary college life ...." The film is based on the experiences of writers Adam Leff and Zak Penn at

" Cozy mysteries set in Cornwall in the 1960s, in the fictional fishing port of Port Mabyn on the North Coast.

Public Security Section 9 is located in the fictional Japanese city of Niihama-shi ( also known as New Port City ).

Nicknaming them Os Infantes, with an anthem sung by Estebes ( a fictional Porto native sports reporter with a stereotypical deep accent and fondness for Port Wine, created by Portuguese humourist Herman José ), Portuguese people had high hopes for their national team.

* Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar, a fictional character in the Gor series of novels

The " island " planet was called 50 / 50 ( halfway or " midway " between the edge of Berserker controlled space and the human base of Port Diamond ), spaceships involved were named after the U. S. ships ( Stinger for USS Hornet, Venture for USS Enterprise, etc.

The space near the planet is home to the space station Port Sesefron, a docking place for Xaxisian battleships and other spacecraft visiting the star system.

The planet Port Arthur must be taken back from the Clan Smoke Jaguar.

Set immediately after the liberation of Port Arthur, the player once again assumes command of Zulu company in a campaign to liberate the desolate planet Cermak in the Periphery, taken by a renegade Smoke Jaguar, Star Colonel Marcus Kotare ( a character that was featured briefly in MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries ), for an unknown reason that is revealed later in game.

In this war both the North and the South cooperate to fight off the Colonial Expeditionary Force, some of which is abandoned on the planet and form the Port Arthur city-state.