* 1606 – The Charter of the Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.

Since 1974, it has been a purely ceremonial style granted by royal charter to districts which may consist of a single town or may include a number of towns or rural areas.

In the United Kingdom and parts of the Commonwealth of Nations, a city is traditionally a settlement with a royal charter.

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

In 1662, the three colonies were merged under a royal charter, making Connecticut a crown colony.

Shareholders are also explicitly granted limited liability in the company's royal charter.

In 1844 the British Parliament passed the Joint Stock Companies Act, which allowed companies to incorporate without a royal charter or an Act of Parliament.

In 1819, Dartmouth College was the subject of the historic Dartmouth College case, which challenged New Hampshire's 1816 attempt to amend the College's royal charter to make the school a public university.

Dartmouth's 1769 royal charter required the creation of a seal for use on official documents and diplomas.

* 1972 – Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.

Except for an abortive royal colony established under Major Claus Paarss between 1728 and 1730, colonial Greenland was administered by companies under royal charter until 1908.

The company was incorporated by English royal charter in 1670 as The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay and functioned as the de facto government in parts of North America before European states and later the United States laid claim to those territories.

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.

In May 1553, in response to a public petition, the first royal charter for the town was issued by King Edward VI, granting it the status of borough.

In 1877, in response to a public petition, Queen Victoria issued the second royal charter, which granted city status to the borough and Cathedral status to the former Abbey Church.

Cecil Rhodes presented this concession to persuade the government of the United Kingdom to grant a royal charter to his British South Africa Company ( BSAC ) over Matabeleland, and its subject states such as Mashonaland.

* 1732 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U. S. state of Georgia.

* 1808 – Joseph Bonaparte approves the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as king of Spain.

Imperial Germany set up a protectorate over the Sultan of Zanzibar's coastal possessions in 1885, followed by the arrival of Sir William Mackinnon's British East Africa Company ( BEAC ) in 1888, after the company had received a royal charter and concessionary rights to the Kenya coast from the Sultan of Zanzibar for a 50-year period.

She granted a royal charter to the Muscovy Company, whose first governor was Sebastian Cabot, and commissioned a world atlas from Diogo Homem.

* 1691 – The English royal charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued.

In 1684 England revoked the Massachusetts charter, sent over a royal governor to enforce English laws in 1686, and in 1689 passed a broad Toleration act.

Fairs have been held by royal charter since 1330 and an annual horse fair is still held on the edge of the town.

Stephen issued a new royal charter, confirming the promises he had made to the church, promising to reverse Henry's policies on the royal forests and to reform any abuses of the royal legal system.

In Jerusalem, the royal family lived firstly on the Temple Mount, before the foundation of the Knights Templar, and later in the palace complex surrounding the Tower of David ; there was another palace complex in Acre.

* The foundation of Oriel College, Oxford, the University of Oxford's fifth oldest college, is confirmed by royal charter.

* June 15 – The city of Bilbao receives a royal foundation charter.

** His interim chancellor and effective regent, Walter de Merton retires from royal service to make the final revisions to his statutes for the foundation of Merton College, Oxford and take up the post of Bishop of Rochester.

In June 1675, another royal warrant provided for the founding of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, and Flamsteed laid the foundation stone in August.

The year 383 denotes a significant point in Welsh history, remembered in literature and considered to be the foundation point of several medieval royal dynasties.

Following its royal foundation, the abbey was established by a party of monks from the French abbey of Cluny, together with monks from the Cluniac priory of St Pancras at Lewes in Sussex.

" He founded an order of chivalry, the Ordre du Croissant, which preceded the royal foundation of St Michael, but did not survive René.

Located in Oriel Square, the college has the distinction of being the oldest royal foundation in Oxford ( a title formerly claimed by University College, whose claim of being founded by King Alfred is no longer promoted ).

Stigand served King Cnut as a chaplain at a royal foundation at Ashingdon in 1020, and as an advisor then and later.

The abbey had never received a papal exemption, but relied instead on its royal foundation by King William I of England and its status as an eigenkirche, or proprietary church of the king.

The term minster is first found in royal foundation charters of the 7th century ; and, although it corresponds to the Latin monasterium or monastery, it then designated any settlement of clergy living a communal life and endowed by charter with the obligation of maintaining the daily office of prayer.

The minster church of Cirencester, founded in the 9th or 10th century, was probably a royal foundation.

The most important service Linacre conferred upon his own profession and science was the foundation by royal charter of the College of Physicians in London, and he was the first president of the new college, which he further aided by bequeathing to it his own house and library.

But modern egyptologists question Khufu's role as a still personally adored royal ancestor, they think it more likely that Khufu was already seen as a mere symbolic foundation figure for the history of the Isis-temple.

Sweyn built a strong foundation for royal power through cooperation with the church.

After its foundation, Hae Mosu ( 解慕漱 ： the son of heaven ) brought the royal court to his new palace, and they proclaimed him King.

They chose the run down site of Sydney's first official European cemetery: on George Street, in the commercial heart of the city and organised for Sydney ’ s first royal visitor, HRH Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, to lay a foundation stone on 4 April 1868, even before colonial authorities on Macquarie Street had approved the plan.

The date of the first foundation charter of the town is not known though we may presume that the oldest preserved royal document of Casimir the Great, dating from 1367, regarding the sale of the Krosno aldermanship, was modelled on an earlier foundation act.

Krosno, a royal town from its origin, used the coat of arms of the Piasts from Kujawy ( half an eagle and half a lion with a crown over their heads ) and, owing to the king's foundation, was surrounded with a defensive wall as early as the 14th century.

King Gustavus Adolphus gave away parts of the royal book collection in 1620: those books were the foundation of the Uppsala University Library.

The monarchy commissioned the construction of a royal hunting preserve and summer retreat on the property, and the foundation was laid for Peleș Castle on 22 August 1873.

* 1868: First royal visit, during which Prince Alfred ( Duke of Edinburgh ) lays foundation stone for St David's Cathedral and turns first sod for Tasmania's first railway, Launceston-Deloraine line, built by a private company.