`` Emory University's charter and by-laws have never required admission or rejection of students on the basis of race '', board chairman Henry L. Bowden stated.

Henry IV restored the charter granted to Gibraltar in 1310 and took two additional measures: the lands previously belonging to Algeciras ( destroyed in 1369 ) were granted to Gibraltar ; and the status of collegiate church was solicited from the pope Pius II and granted to the parish church of Saint Mary the Crowned (), now the Cathedral of St. Mary the Crowned, on the site of the old main Moorish Mosque.

Henry secured his position among the nobles by an act of political appeasement: he issued a coronation charter guaranteeing the rights of free English folk, which was subsequently evoked by King Stephen and by Henry II before Archbishop Stephen Langton called it up in 1215 as a precedent for Magna Carta.

Henry VIII granted a charter to the London Royal College of Physicians in 1518.

Arriving at Bamberg at Eastertide, he consecrated the new cathedral there, obtained a charter from Henry II confirming the donations of Charlemagne and Otto the Great, and visited the monastery of Fulda.

It was renamed Christ's College and received its present charter in 1505 when it was endowed and expanded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII.

* Henry II of England grants a charter to the merchants of Lincoln ( approximate date ).

At a council of churchmen at Westminster on 25 August 1213, to which certain barons were invited, he read the text of the charter of Henry I and called for its renewal.

In 1223 he again appeared as the leader and spokesman of the barons, who demanded that King Henry confirm the charter.

* King Henry VII gives a city charter to Southwold.

The Puritans were then in power in London, and through the offices of Sir Henry Vane a charter was obtained despite strenuous opposition from agents from Massachusetts.

Monmouth had a mayor and burgesses in mediaeval times, and the town gained its first charter, from Henry VI, in 1447.

* In 1266 Henry III of England granted the Lübeck and Hamburg Hansa a charter for operations in England, which contributed to the emergence of the Hanseatic League.

Richmond's public school district also runs one of Virginia's four public charter schools, the Patrick Henry School of Science and Arts, which was founded in 2010.

" Following those White House meetings, Chancellor Henry MacCracken of New York University organized a meeting of 13 colleges and universities to initiate changes ; at a follow-on meeting, 62 institutions became charter members of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States ( IAAUS ).

The existing Corpus Christi fair was granted by a charter of Henry VI.

The town received its charter from Henry VIII in 1545 and Boston had two Members of Parliament from 1552 but with The Haven silted, the town was then, rather living on memories.

In 1226, King Henry III granted the Bishop of Salisbury a charter to hold a fair lasting 8 days from the Feast of the Assumption of Mary ( 15 August ).

It originated from Letters Patent ( similar to a royal charter ) granted to the University of Cambridge by Henry VIII in 1534, and has been producing books continuously since the first University Press book was printed in 1584.

Southwold was mentioned in Domesday Book as an important fishing port, and it received its town charter from Henry VII in 1489.

The Dukedom became extinct after Henry VI, as the original charter restricted it to ' heirs male '.

A thirteenth century charter was granted by Henry III ( 1207 – 1272 ) to the town of Great Yarmouth.

At some time between 1154 and 1189 a charter was granted by Henry II to Sir Henry Bodrugan for the town of East Looe.

The university was founded in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain.

He obtained a charter by Emperor Frederick II issued in the 1226 Golden Bull of Rimini, whereby Chełmno Land would be the unshared possession of the Teutonic Knights, which was confirmed by Duke Konrad of Masovia in the 1230 Treaty of Kruszwica.

* 1693 – The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.

The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay was incorporated on 2 May 1670, with a royal charter from King Charles II.

Under the charter forming the Hudson's Bay Company, the company was required to give two elk skins and two black beaver pelts to the English King, then Charles II, or his heirs, whenever the monarch visits an area that was formerly Rupert's Land.

Richard of Wallingford, a local landowner, who had presented demands to Richard II on behalf of Wat Tyler in London, brought news of this to St Albans and argued with the abbot over the charter.

* 1663 – Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal charter to Rhode Island.

* 1555 – The College of Arms was reincorporated by Royal charter signed by Queen Mary I of England and King Philip II of Spain.

* 1670 – King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America.

* 1663 – The Province of Carolina is granted by charter to eight Lords Proprietor in reward for their assistance in restoring Charles II of England to the throne.

* 1681 – Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.

A company called the Royal Adventurers of England Trading into Africa received a charter from Charles II of England in 1663 and subsequently built a fort in the Sherbro and on Tasso Island in the Freetown estuary.

* July – Columbia University is founded as King's College by royal charter of King George II of England.

* June 30 – King Charles II of England issues a second charter for the Province of Carolina, which clarifies and expands the borders of the Lords Proprietors ' tracts.

* May 19 – King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.

* January 11 – The city of Požega is first mentioned in a charter of Andrew II of Hungary.

* The Transylvanian town of Reghin is first mentioned in a charter of Andrew II of Hungary.

* The University of Paris receives its charter from Philip II of France.

* February 8 – The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, is granted a Royal charter from King William III and Queen Mary II of England.

* March 14 – Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.

The University of Glasgow was founded in 1451 AD by a charter or papal bull from Pope Nicholas V, at the suggestion of King James II, giving Bishop William Turnbull permission to add the university to the city's cathedral.