Queen Victoria chose British Columbia to distinguish what was the British sector of the Columbia District from that of the United States (" American Columbia " or " Southern Columbia "), which became the Oregon Territory in 1848 as a result of the treaty.

It had been redefined during the reign of Queen Anne, in 1706, as 231 cubic inches exactly, which is the result of the earlier definition with π approximated to.

The Irish government refused to attend royal functions as a result ; for example, Patrick Hillery declined on Government advice to attend the wedding of the Prince of Wales to Lady Diana Spencer in 1981, to which he had been invited by Queen Elizabeth, just as Seán T. O ' Kelly had declined on government advice to attend the 1953 Coronation Garden Party at the British Embassy in Dublin.

His first-born child, probably a son, was born prematurely as a result of a horse riding accident suffered by Queen Mary of Hungary when she was well advanced in pregnancy.

* February 24 – Elizabeta Kotromanic, the mother of the overthrown Queen Mary of Hungary and Croatia, arranges the assassination of Charles of Durazzo, the ruler of Hungary, Naples, Achaea and Croatia, with the result that:

As a result he was created a Knight Bachelor and in 1859 was presented to Queen Victoria.

) Myers ' solvency is restored, the deal is completed, and as a result of Disraeli's success, Queen Victoria can add Empress of India to her other titles.

Princess Joan, the remaining daughter of Louis X by the late Queen Margaret, was one obvious candidate, but suspicion still hung over her as a result of the scandal in 1314, including concerns over her actual parentage.

On July 29, 1848, and as a result of this explosive growth, the Ponce hamlet was declared a villa ( village ) by Queen Isabella II, and in 1877 the village obtained its city charter.

On Friday 13 February, the flooded areas were visited by the young Queen Elizabeth II Despite severe loss of life in nearby Canvey Island, only one person in Thurrock died as a result of the floods.

Sarah Churchill ( née Jenyns, spelt Jennings in most modern references ), Duchess of Marlborough ( 5 June 1660 ( old style ) – 18 October 1744 ) rose to be one of the most influential women in British history as a result of her close friendship with Queen Anne of Great Britain.

As a result, by the time Anne became queen, Sarah ’ s knowledge of government, and intimacy with the Queen, allowed her to become a powerful friend and a dangerous enemy, the last in the long line of Stuart favourites.

Art Tatum died at Queen of Angels Medical Center in Los Angeles, California from the complications of uremia ( as a result of kidney failure ).

One result, conceived as part of a string of royal duties intended to demonstrate Canada's status as an independent kingdom, was that King George VI personally assented to nine bills of the Canadian Parliament during the 1939 royal tour of Canada — 85 years after his great-grandmother Queen Victoria had last granted Royal Assent personally in the United Kingdom.

" He was subjected to several more examinations, once before the Privy Council at Whitehall on 18 March 1588, as a result of petition to the Queen.

* The U. S. rights to The African Queen are now owned by Paramount Pictures ( after years of changing hands as the result of a series of management changes involving Paramount's parent company Viacom ).

As a result of this marriage, Queen Philippa and King Edward III granted lifetime of annuity to the couple in 1366.

As a result, there was an assassination attempt on the Queen and finally, in 1862, Otto was deposed while in the countryside.

The Benchers ' table is also said to have been a gift from Elizabeth, and as a result the only public toast in the Inn up until the late 19th century was " to the glorious, pious and immortal memory of Queen Elizabeth ".

Shirley, when he returned to London in 1640, would no longer work for the Queen Henrietta's company as a result ; his final plays of his London career were acted by the King's Men.

* May 1-The new sovereign state of Great Britain comes into being as a result of the Acts of Union which combine the Kingdoms of England and Scotland into a single realm under Queen Anne, with the support of Daniel Defoe and John Arbuthnot.

* In the 1988 movie Willow, warned that Elora Danan's birth will lead to her destruction, the evil Queen Bavmorda orders the baby killed ; however, her attempts to achieve this result in her own destruction.

The result of the examination was published in the book Portrait of Queen Nofretete in 1923:

Following his exile as a result of his actions in the Abrilada, Miguel returned to Portugal as regent to his niece Queen Maria II of Portugal, and potential royal consort.

On May 12, 2003 the Queen of Surrey was disabled as a result of an engine room fire.

As a result of those connections, Linebarger's godfather was Sun Yat-sen, considered the father of Chinese nationalism.

His paternal grandparents ' marriage was morganatic, because his grandmother was not of royal lineage ; as a result, he and his father were styled " Serene Highness " rather than " Grand Ducal Highness ", were not eligible to be titled Princes of Hesse and were given the less exalted Battenberg title.

His grandfather, also named Edward, had lost all of his assets as a result of the South Sea Bubble stock market collapse in 1720, but eventually regained much of his wealth, so that Gibbon's father was able to inherit a substantial estate.

His father invited him to see what he could do about it ; the result was Watts ' first hymn, " Behold the glories of the Lamb.

He had believed that his biological father was Ulf Trier ( 1907 — 1978 ), until his mother revealed to him on her deathbed that he had been conceived as a result of an affair she had with her employer, Fritz Michael Hartmann.

She said her real father was Indian and that she was the result of an " unregistered alliance " between her parents.

As a result, the Polish King lost portions of the lands taken by his father Bolesław I, who warred often against the Emperor Henry II.

As a result of this Fall, Satan usurped the position of mankind's true father so that thereafter all people are born in sin both physically and spiritually and have a sinful propensity.

Heinlein later revisited a similar theme in his 1958 story — All You Zombies —, in which the main character's interactions with sex-changed versions of himself / herself at various points in his / her life result in a bizarre version of the ontological paradox in which the character becomes his / her own mother and father.

Varus ' opponent, Arminius, was handed over to the Romans along with his brother Flavus, as tribute by his father and chieftain of the noblest house in the tribe of the Cherusci, Segimerus the Conqueror, as result of the attacks of Drusus I in 11 – 9 BCE.

According to an affidavit submitted by her father, this was because " of the child's age and the harm that would result to her in going over this case.

At least in part as a result of his illness, he was less robust as a child than his father would have wished.

This was the result of political maeuvering by Hirohito's father, the Jimyōin-tō Emperor Go-Fukakusa.

Pliny's father died at an early age when his son was still young ; as a result, Pliny probably lived with his mother.

As a result of this, she was used to strengthen the alliance between her father and Margaret of Anjou during the dynastic civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses fought between the houses of York and Lancaster.

His father did not approve, and as a result father and son came to blows on one occasion.

His short reign ended in 476 with the execution of his father, and his own subsequent forced abdication ; both the result of an uprising led by Odoacer, head of the Germanic Foederati in Italy.

Confucius ( 6th c. BCE ) famously emphasized the moral commitment implicit in a name, ( zhengming ) stating that the moral collapse of the pre-Qin was a result of the failure to rectify behaviour to meet the moral commitment inherent in names: " Good government consists in the ruler being a ruler, the minister being a minister, the father being a father, and the son being a son ...

Just before coming of age, Lord Colambre, the sensitive hero of the novel, finds that his mother Lady Clonbrony's attempts to buy her way into the high society of London are only ridiculed, while his father, Lord Clonbrony, is in serious debt as a result of his wife's lifestyle.

As a result of the two Thomas Lincolns living in Kentucky over a 25-year period between 1789 and 1814, area residents in both Tennessee and Kentucky often confuse Hananiah's son as the father of President Lincoln and Hananiah Lincoln as the paternal grandfather of President Lincoln.

Workers and queens result from fertilized eggs and therefore have both a mother and a father.

His father Alfredo, as well as his older brother, also named Alfredo, died in 1916 as a result of a widespread Italian flu outbreak.

In 1077, Robert instigated his first insurrection against his father as the result of a prank played by his younger brothers William Rufus and Henry, who had dumped a full chamber-pot over his head.