Before the First Fleet sailed to found a convict settlement in New South Wales, Governor Arthur Phillip's final instructions, received less than three weeks before sailing, included the requirement to colonise Norfolk Island to prevent it falling into the hands of France, whose naval leaders were also showing interest in the Pacific.

Before the invention of clocks, people marked the time of day with apparent solar time ( also called " true " solar time ) – for example, the time on a sundial – which was typically different for every settlement.

Urras before the settlement of Anarres is the setting for the short story The Day Before the Revolution.

Before Harding's election, the nation had been adrift ; President Woodrow Wilson had been ill by a debilitating stroke for eighteen months and before that Wilson had been in Europe for several months attempting to negotiate a peace settlement after World War I.

Before 1870, westward movement in the USA was largely across the plains with little or no settlement occurring.

Before European settlement, the area in which Canberra would eventually be constructed was seasonally inhabited by Indigenous Australians.

Before Mormon settlement, the Shoshone, Ute, and Paiute had dwelt in the Salt Lake Valley for thousands of years.

Before the Romans, the settlement was known as Verulamion ( perhaps meaning " of Uerulamos " in Brittonic ), the capital of the Catuvellauni tribe.

Before settlement, Clay County was home to the Cherokee Indians, who were a tribe of Native Americans that made their home in Southeastern United States ( principally Georgia, the Carolinas and Eastern Tennessee ) They were one of the " Five Civilized Tribes " because of their assimilation of European-American cultural and technological practices.

Before the boundary settlement of 1873 the small states of Rushan and Shugnan extended to the left bank of the Oxus, and the province of Darwaz, on the other hand, extended to the right bank.

Before leaving the colony three years earlier, White had left instructions that, if the colonists left the settlement, they were to carve the name of their destination, with a Maltese cross if they left due to danger.

Before the 20th century, the tiny settlement was concentrated around in what was Kenton Lane ( the easternmost part of which remains as Old Kenton Lane to the east of Kingsbury station ) and is now part of the present day Woodgrange Avenue and Kenton Road.

Before the Romans and Saxons were present, there was a Celtic settlement in the area, with evidence of a hill fort in the Pollards Hill area.

Before the county ’ s formation, the primary settlement was Frenchtown, which was settled in as early as 1784 along the banks of the River Raisin.

Before white settlement, all of the land that forms modern-day Starke County and adjacent LaPorte County to the north belonged to the Potawatami Indian nation.

Before white settlement, all of the land that forms modern-day LaPorte County, and adjacent Starke County to the south belonged to the Potawatomi Indian nation.

Before 1830, the few remaining Wea had departed under pressure from white settlement.

Before European settlement saltbush, cotton bush and native grasses are likely to have been the main plant cover on the plains.

Before European settlement, the network of ephemeral lakes filled and emptied, on average, about every 20 years, typically remaining dry for about half that period at a time.

Before European settlement, Aborigines burnt the grassland regularly for thousands of years and eventually native animals became dependent on the grasslands and the regular burning.

Before any modern settlement, the Ipiutak lived here.

Before European settlement, Scottsdale was a Pima village known as Vaṣai S-vaṣonĭ, meaning " rotting hay.

Before Archibald Yell, the settlement was called Shawneetown for the Indian villages located here.

Before European settlement, the area which is now Conyers, along with the surrounding county of Rockdale, was occupied by mound-building Native Americans.

Before then every locality decided on what its devices would look like and where they would be applied.

Before the 1870s much of the area was known as either Hotham ( North Melbourne ) or Carlton and during this time Parkville was simply a locality of Carlton.

Before 1983, interdicts were either personal, if applied directly to persons, wherever they were, or local, if applied directly to a locality and only indirectly to the people in that place whether permanently or only on a visit.

Before the 4th Ring Road signpost change in September 2004, it was named Huaxiang Bridge as it was close to the locality of Huaxiang, which literally means " Flower Village ".

Before coming to this argument, it is necessary to formulate another hypothesis that comes out of Einstein's work in relativity: the principle of locality.

Before Berlin's 2001 administrative reform Zehlendorf was a borough in its own right, consisting of the locality of Zehlendorf as well as Wannsee, Nikolassee and Dahlem.

Before Magellan discovered the Philippines in 1521, the locality was only a small village of little over a hundred natives who were called " Tirongs.

Before Sardar Patel Stadium ( Motera Stadium ) came into existence, International cricket matches in the city were played at Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation's stadium of the same name ( Sardar Patel Stadium ) in the Navrangpura locality of the city.

The original Anglo-Saxon word from which Swilly is derived means “ farmland .” Before the Second World War much of the locality of what is now North Prospect and the western edge of Beacon Park was known as Swilly.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

Before Europeans discovered other oceans, the term " ocean " itself was synonymous with the waters beyond the Strait of Gibraltar that we now know as the Atlantic.

Before the thirteenth century, beer was flavoured with plants such as yarrow, wild rosemary, and bog myrtle, and other ingredients such as juniper berries, aniseed and ginger, which would be combined into a mixture known as gruit and used as hops are now used ; between the thirteenth and the sixteenth century, during which hops took over as the dominant flavouring, beer flavoured with gruit was known as ale, while beer flavoured with hops was known as beer.

Before the renovations the entire building was all male, but now every house is co-ed.

Before DNA-molecular classifications, the species placed now in eight families of cucurbitales order, was assigned to orders as diverse as Ranunculales, Malpighiales, Violales, and Rafflesiales.

Before fading from existence, Arioch warns Corum that he has now earned the enmity of the Sword Rulers.

Before the DNS was invented in 1982, each computer on the network retrieved a file called HOSTS. TXT from a computer at SRI ( now SRI International ).

Before this, what is now the town centre was almost entirely tidal mud flats.

Before 1871, in the area where a single state of Germany now exists, different kingdoms and prinicipalities existed.

Before, he had dates with many odd characters, whereas now, he exclusively dates Liz.

Before this, the land on which the lake now sits has gone through several complex stages.

Before his death, Meher Baba had made extensive preparations for a public darshan program to be held in Poona ( now Pune ), India.

Before the 1890 Mormon Manifesto against plural marriage, Mormonism and Islam also shared in the belief in and practice of plural marriage, a practice now held in common by Islam and various branches of Mormon fundamentalism.

Before World War I there was a well-known colony of Molokans that had been exiled to the Caucasus ( an area long within Russian hegemony ), mainly to what is now Armenia, Azerbaijan, and eastern Turkey ( Kars plain ).

Before the advent of the British, no empire based in mainland India had controlled any part of what now makes up the country's Northeast, part of the reason for the ongoing insurgency in Northeast India.

Before Paine it had been possible to be both a Christian and a deist ; now such a religious outlook became virtually untenable.

Before World War II, Tallinn Airport had regular connections to abroad by at least Deutsche Luft Hansa, LOT and the Finnish company Aero ( now Finnair ).

Before the renovations the entire building was all male, but now every house is co-ed.

Before that, in 1408, the university had about 200 doctors and magisters, 500 bachelors, and 30, 000 students ; it now lost a large part of this number, accounts of the loss varying from 5000 to 20, 000 including 46 professors.

Before World War II, while black tie was still gaining acceptance, men would wear a white waistcoat, along with other details now associated primarily with white tie, such as stiff fronted shirts.

Before the definition of the genre of fantasy, many works that would now be classified as fantasy were termed " fairy tales ", including Tolkien's The Hobbit, George Orwell's Animal Farm, and L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Sherman offered Grant an example from his own life, " Before the battle of Shiloh, I was cast down by a mere newspaper assertion of ' crazy ', but that single battle gave me new life, and I'm now in high feather.

Before the members of both houses returned home on 30 March, they were required to swear an oath accepting the Act of Succession, and all the King's subjects were now required to swear to the legitimacy of the marriage and, by implication, to acceptance of the King's new powers and the break from Rome.

Before the Spanish conquest, the area that now is El Salvador was composed of three indigenous states and several principalities.

Before then, the distinctions that are now commonly made between Haredi and Modern Orthodox Jews were moot at best ; dividing lines between the two camps can now be drawn, though it is important to recognize that there is a substantial overlap between the two communities.