* 1813 – War of 1812: United States troops capture the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York ( present day Toronto, Canada ).

Four schools have been named for Heschel, in the Upper West Side of New York City, Northridge, California, Agoura Hills, California, and Toronto, Canada.

When Quebec was divided into the two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada by the Constitutional Act of 1791, the first Act passed by the Legislature of Upper Canada was to adopt the law of England for all purposes, replacing the civil law.

* Upper Becker Creek Cone, a volcanic cone in the Upper Becker Creek area of Carbon Hill, Yukon Territory, Canada

The Rideau Canal was built as a result of the War of 1812 to provide military transportation between the British colonies of Upper Canada and Lower Canada as an alternative to part of the St. Lawrence River, which was susceptible to blockade by the United States.

The languages of Aboriginal peoples in Canada started to influence European languages used in Canada even before widespread settlement took place, and the French of Lower Canada provided vocabulary to the English of Upper Canada.

In 1784, the two provinces were divided ; Nova Scotia was split into Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island ( rejoined to Nova Scotia in 1820 ), Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick, while Quebec was split into Lower Canada ( southern Quebec ) and Upper Canada ( southern through lower northern Ontario ).

Initially, on 1 July 1867, there were four provinces in confederation as " One dominion under the name of Canada ": Canada West ( former Upper Canada, now Ontario ), Canada East ( former Lower Canada, now Quebec ), Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick.

* 1795 – Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada ( present-day Toronto, Ontario ).

During the War of 1812, the Detroit River served as a major barrier between the American Michigan Territory and British Upper Canada, especially during the Battle of Fort Detroit in August 1812, when Detroit briefly fell to the British.

* 1796 – The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.

In the Upper Xingu region was a highly self-organized pre-Columbian anthropogenic landscape, including deposits of agricultural terra preta, with a network of polities each of which covered about 250 square kilometers.

During the late Roman Empire, several Roman provinces covered the territory that comprises present-day Bulgaria: Scythia ( Scythia Minor ), Moesia ( Upper and Lower ), Thrace, Macedonia ( First and Second ), Dacia ( Coastal and Inner, both south of Danube ), Dardania, Rhodope ( Roman province ) and Haemismontus, and had a mixed population of Byzantine Greeks, Thracians and Dacians, most of whom spoke either Greek or variants of Vulgar Latin.

The Calabrian area shows basement ( crystalline and metamorphic rocks ) of Paleozoic and younger ages, covered by ( mostly Upper ) Neogene sediments.

The course of the river ran to the east of Upper Street, and much of its course is now covered and forms a linear park through the area.

The Upper Ammonoosuc River runs through town in a southwesterly direction to the Connecticut and is crossed by a covered bridge at Groveton.

It covered two parishes: Lower and Upper Kalix ( Swedish: Nederkalix and Överkalix, respectively ).

The township is covered by two ZIP Codes: 19014 ( Aston Post Office, which also covers parts of Upper Chichester and Bethel Townships not covered under the current Boothwyn, Pennsylvania and the new Garnet Valley post offices ) and 19063 ( Media ).

By the mid 19th century the demand for lumber reached Upper Pine Bottom area, where White pine and hemlock covered the surrounding mountainsides.

Drainage of the marshland which covered much of the Upper Calder Valley prior to the Industrial Revolution enabled construction of the road which runs through the valley.

His left lay at Poperinge, covered by Ypres, his right lay at Houtkerque on the Upper Yser.

At the end of his reign in 1257, the Sukhothai kingdom covered the entire Upper Chao Phraya valley.

The mare material, which make up the floor of the mare, is a high aluminous basalt, and consists of Upper Imbrian basalt covered by Eratosthenian basalt.

Most of Europe was covered by shallow seas during the Upper Cretaceous, which makes remains of terrestrial animals extremely rare.

In 1795, he and 5 associates began a tour which covered much of the northern United States and Upper Canada.

French, language, mathematics, science, outdoor education, physical education, the arts, and more are covered during a boy's years in the Prep School and, once boys move to the Upper School in Year One ( Grade Eight ), they begin university preparation through a liberal arts program.

At the height of the Wisconsin Episode glaciation, the ice sheet covered most of Canada, the Upper Midwest, and New England, as well as parts of Idaho, Montana and Washington.

Upper surface and throat covered with small granular scales, largest and flat on the back.

The entire area is covered by the Deccan Traps lava flows of Upper Cretaceous to Lower Eocene age.

Important features of that national park include One Tree Hill ( formerly a fire-lookout, but now covered with trees, the lookout is in disrepair ) and the Kokoda Trail, a memorial walk dedicated to the Kokoda Trail of WW2 ( includes interpretive signage )— this part of the National Park is located in the neighbouring suburb of Upper Ferntree Gully — and accessed via the Mt Dandenong Tourist Road.

Upper parts of male Koklass Pheasant are covered with silver-grey plumage streaked velvety-black down the centre of each feather, and it has the unique feature of a black head, chestnut breast and prominent white patches on the sides of neck.

The entire area is covered by thick vegetation, has abundant natural resources in its perennial water supplies, natural shelters, rich forest flora and fauna, and bears a significant resemblance to similar rock art sites such as Kakadu National Park in Australia, the cave paintings of the Bushmen in Kalahari Desert, and the Upper Paleolithic Lascaux cave paintings in France.

Maly Lyakhovsky Island consists of Upper Jurassic to lower Cretaceous turbidites, also known as " flysch ", covered by a thin veneer of Pliocene to Pleistocene sediments.

After AISLIC rejected Upper Deck ’ s claim that the policy covered the loss incurred as a result of the settlement, Upper Deck and its Chief Executive Officer, Richard McWilliam, filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California seeking, inter alia, a declaratory judgment that the policy issued by AISLIC covered the loss.

An exceptionally well-preserved skull of Estemmenosuchus, a therapsid from the Upper Permian shows smooth, hairless skin with what appears to be glandular depressions.

Recent archaeological evidence suggests that the earliest known shamans — dating back to the Upper Paleolithic era in what is now the Czech Republic — were women.

The Treaty of Verdun of 843 assigned Upper Burgundy ( the western part of what is today Switzerland ) to Lotharingia, and Alemannia ( the eastern part ) to the eastern kingdom of Louis the German which would become part of the Holy Roman Empire.

The city was founded in 1889 in what was then the French colony Haut-Oubangui (' Upper Ubangi '), later renamed Oubangui-Chari and made part of French Equatorial Africa.

The low lying areas are underlain by much older Triassic age formations of Upper Lias sand that protrude to form what would once have been islands and include Glastonbury Tor.

* Edward Jessup, a political figure in Upper Canada, a former British province in what is now Canada

Upon his death the duchy was further reduced in area: a large part of the Eppenstein lands in what is today Upper Styria passed to Margrave Ottokar II of Styria.

The seat of government was established in New Orleans, and what is now Missouri became part of Upper Louisiana Territory.

The crop failures of the “ Year without a Summer ” may have helped shape the settling of the " American Heartland ", as many thousands of people ( particularly farm families who were wiped out by the event ) left New England for what is now western and central New York and the Upper Midwest ( then the Northwest Territory ) in search of a more hospitable climate, richer soil, and better growing conditions.

It is commonly believed that General American English evolved as a result of an aggregation of rural and suburban Midwestern dialects, though the English of the Upper Midwest can deviate quite dramatically from what would be considered a " regular " American Accent.

After the Spanish discovered Alta California (" Upper California ," or what is now the state of California ), Signal Hill eventually became part of the first large rancho grant to be allotted under Spanish rule in Alta California.

We your Humble Petitioners Living at a great Distance from ye Center of the Towne Some of us nine or ten Miles and Consequently at a very great disadvantage in joining with them all Publick Town affairs, being encouraged Partly by our Living in that Part of ye Town that was Laid out for what was called ye upper Parish and Partly by ye Kind Reception our Request met with which we made to ye Town for a dismission but more particularly by our Confidence in your Honors desire to Promote ye Happiness of every Part of ye State Humbly Pray that Honors would take our Case into your Serious Consideration and grant that we together with all those Live in sd Upper Part may be Erected and Incorporated into a body Politick and Corporate to have Continuance in ye Name of Northfield with all such Powers and Authorities Privileges Immunities and Franchises with other Parishes or Towns in this State in General hold Enjoy with your Petitions as in duty bound Shall forever pray .”

The conflict was eventually resolved in favor of Ohio, with Michigan being compensated with what is now the western Upper Peninsula.

The first European settler in present-day Upper St. Clair was John Fife, who settled near what is now the intersection of Washington and McLaughlin Run roads in 1762.

In 1732 when he returned with other members of his family, Michael Schell purchased a substantial tract of land where he settled with his family in the Perkiomen Valley northwest of Philadelphia, an area in Upper Hanover Township later known as East Greenville, in what was then Philadelphia County and became Montgomery County in 1760.

Under the Constitutional Act of 1791, the Quebec colony ( including parts of what is today Quebec, Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador ) was divided in two: Lower Canada ( which retained French law and institutions and is now divided between the provinces of Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador ) and Upper Canada ( a new colony intended to accommodate the many English-speaking settlers, including the United Empire Loyalists, and now part of Ontario ).

Fort Garry, also known as Upper Fort Garry, was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in what is now downtown Winnipeg.

Work has begun on a project to establish a heritage park in the area surrounding what remains of the Upper Fort Garry.

Clive had now an opportunity of repeating in Hindustan, or Upper India, what he had accomplished in Bengal.

Following the completion of the relocation of The Crystal Palace from Hyde Park to what is now Upper Norwood in 1854, the West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway was opened on 10 June 1854 to cope with crowds visiting the Crystal Palace.

The two also briefly visited Canada, spending a few days in the summer of 1831 in what was then Lower Canada ( modern-day Quebec ) and Upper Canada ( modern-day Ontario ).

Meniscoessus is a genus of extinct mammal from the Upper Cretaceous Period of what is now North America.

An exceptionally well-preserved skull of Estemmenosuchus, a therapsid from the Upper Permian shows smooth, hairless skin with what appears to be glandular depressions.

Ctenacodon is a genus of extinct mammal that lived in what is now North America during the Upper Jurassic period.