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* 1800 – Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
Patrick Henry is best known for the speech he made in the House of Burgesses on March 23, 1775, in Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia.
The island is divided into four of Nova Scotia's eighteen counties: Cape Breton, Inverness, Richmond, and Victoria.
Cape Breton Island is divided into four counties: Cape Breton, Inverness, Richmond, and Victoria.
This occurred in 1880, when Lee Richmond and John Montgomery Ward pitched perfect games within five days of each other, although under somewhat different rules: the front edge of the pitcher's box was only from home base ( the modern release point is about farther away ); walks required eight balls ; and pitchers were obliged to throw side-armed.
Current League Champions and the first Irish side to reach the group stages of a European competition: 2011 – 12 UEFA Europa League group stage Shamrock Rovers play at Tallaght Stadium in South Dublin, play at Richmond Park, and play their home games at the UCD Bowl in Dún Laoghaire – Rathdown, while is based at Tolka Park.
The oldest standing home in Richmond, the Old Stone House, is in use as the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, though Poe never lived there.
* 1862 – Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia.
* Brendon Gale – former Australian Rules Footballer and is the current CEO of the Richmond Football Club
In 1965, Lewis directed and ( along with Bill Richmond ) wrote the comedy film The Family Jewels about a young heiress who must choose among six uncles, one of whom is up to no good and out to harm the girl's beloved bodyguard who practically raised her.
* 1510 – Henry VIII of England, then 18 years old, appears incognito in the lists at Richmond, and is applauded for his jousting before he reveals his identity.
* 1861 – American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is named the capital of the Confederate States of America.
* 1861 – American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is declared the new capital of the Confederate States of America.
The MCG is within walking distance of the city centre and is serviced by the Richmond railway station, Richmond and the Jolimont railway station, East Melbourne.
That ground was located where the Richmond, or outer, end of the current MCG is now.
This is because the founder of this seaside community, which is today part of the municipality of Richmond, British Columbia, was Manoah Steves, originally from Moncton.
* 1901 – Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.
Moog's stepdaughter, Miranda Richmond, is Grams's daughter from a previous marriage.
As of 2012, the most notable Green elected official in the United States is Gayle McLaughlin, serving her second term as mayor of Richmond, California.
Richmond, with a population of over 100, 000 people, is the largest city in the country with a Green mayor.

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Governor La Trobe offered the MCC a choice of three sites ; an area adjacent to the existing ground, a site at the junction of Flinders and Spring Streets or a ten-acre ( about 4 hectares ) section of the Government Paddock at Richmond next to Richmond Park.
In 1878, his birthplace was still of note: " The site of Cromwell's birthplace is still pointed out by tradition, and is in some measure confirmed by the survey of Wimbledon Manor, quoted above, for it describes on that spot ' an ancient cottage called the smith's shop, lying west of the highway from Richmond to Wandsworth, being the sign of the Anchor.
The site of Richmond, at the fall line of the James River, had been an important village of the Powhatan Confederacy, and was briefly settled by English colonists from Jamestown in 1609, and in 1610 – 1611.
Richmond emerged from the smoldering rubble of the Civil War as an economic powerhouse, with iron front buildings and massive brick factories. Canal traffic peaked in the 1860s and slowly gave way to railroads, allowing Richmond to become a major railroad crossroads, eventually including the site of the world's first triple railroad crossing.
Henry made Peter Earl of Richmond in 1241 and gave him the land between the Strand and the Thames, where Peter built the Savoy Palace in 1263, on the site of the present Savoy Hotel.
In 1634, it became part of the first eight shires of Virginia, as Charles City County, one of the oldest in the United States, and is located along Virginia State Route 5, which runs parallel to the river's northern borders past sites of many of the James River Plantations between the colonial capital city of Williamsburg ( now the site of Colonial Williamsburg ) and the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia at Richmond.
The county itself was the site of only one significant skirmish during the war, the “ Battle of the Grove ,” which was fought near Blackstone ( then known as Blacks and Whites ) for control of the rail line that supplied General Robert E. Lee ’ s Army of Northern Virginia then entrenched around Petersburg and Richmond.
Henrico County is the site of Richmond International Airport.
A group of Stephen F. Austin's colonists, headed by William Little, built a fort at the present site of Richmond around 1822.
However, in 1789 the eastern half of Surry County became Stokes County, thus making the Richmond site unusable for either county.
It is on the line from Richmond in the West to Stratford Station on the Olympic site in the East.
Ford's dwelling was built on the site of Richmond Plantation, which was burned by elements of General William T. Sherman's army at the conclusion of the " March to the Sea ".
When it was suggested that the town be renamed with " Ford ", Mr. Ford declined and instead Ways Station was renamed " Richmond Hill " after the site of Ford's home on the banks of the Ogeechee River.
A map from the 1840s-1850s in the Quaker Collection of Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, clearly shows a county named Richardville, and a town Richardville, at the site of present-day Russiaville.
Ralph R. Mann, who had been hired by Allen to direct improvements at Richmond, in 1844 moved to a location to the south of the first site and built a water-powered sawmill on the river.
With the coming of the railroad, H. F. Marsh laid out a new village of Richmond near the older site, which prospered and after a time supplanted Manlius.
* Richmond Civic and Commerce Association -- Business and Community Information site
In 1655, Port Richmond West Plantation, the home of John West, was developed to incorporate the former site of Cinquetock.
Travelers leaving the Charlottesville of Thomas Jefferson's day followed the " Fredericksburgh Great road " northward which, at the site of the present traffic circle in Gordonsville, crossed the road from Richmond leading west over the Blue Ridge Mountains into the Shenandoah Valley.
Richmond is the location of Vancouver International Airport on Sea Island, and the Richmond Olympic Oval was the site for speed-skating events during the 2010 Winter Olympics.
In September 2007, the Starr-Gennett Foundation began to recognize the most important Gennett artists on a Walk of Fame near the site of Gennett's Richmond, Indiana recording studio.
The Gennett Walk of Fame is located along South 1st Street in Richmond at the site of the Starr Piano Company and embedded in the Whitewater Gorge Trail, which connects to the longer Cardinal Greenway Trail.

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