The next definitive historical treatise on the common law is Commentaries on the Laws of England, written by Sir William Blackstone and first published in 1765-1769.

The Blackstone Valley was a major contributor of the American Industrial Revolution where Samuel Slater built his first textile mill.

Daniel Day established a wool carding mill in the Blackstone Valley at Uxbridge, Massachusetts in 1809, the third woollen mill established in the U. S. ( The first was in Hartford, Connecticut, and the second at Watertown, Massachusetts.

* 1920 – During the U. S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U. S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U. S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to first coin the political phrase " smoke-filled room ".

Millville was first settled in 1662, and officially incorporated in 1916 by division from Blackstone, Massachusetts ( which had itself originally been part of Mendon ).

In the first two decades of the 20th century, baseball great Gabby Hartnett, born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, grew up in Millville, played youth baseball in the Blackstone Valley League, and played for the Chicago Cubs, beginning in 1922.

The Blackstone River Valley was the first industrialized region in the United States.

The first woolen mill in the Blackstone Valley was built here in 1809.

* William Blackstone, Cumberland's first European settler

Cumberland is home to a public charter school, the first Rhode Island Mayoral Academy, Blackstone Valley Prep ( originally Democracy Prep Blackstone Valley ).

The Blackstone Valley is the oldest industrialized region in the U. S. A local North Smithfield industry today, Berroco Yarns, is a continuation of an original family owned woolen company first established in this valley by Daniel Day in 1809.

* Bishop James Cannon, Jr., first President of Blackstone College, achieved fame as the leading prohibition advocate in the nation.

William Blackstone became the first lecturer in English common law at the University of Oxford in 1753, but the university did not establish the program for the purpose of professional study, and the lectures were very philosophical and theoretical in nature.

In 1863 he published his General View of the Criminal Law of England, the first attempt made since William Blackstone to explain the principles of English law and justice in a literary form, and it enjoyed considerable success.

On 20 October 1758 Blackstone was confirmed as the first Vinerian Professor of English Law, immediately embarking on another series of lectures and publishing a similarly successful second treatise, titled A Discourse on the Study of the Law.

In February 1766 he published the first volume of Commentaries on the Laws of England, considered his magnum opus-the completed work earned Blackstone £ in terms.

In 1750 Blackstone completed his first legal tract, An Essay on Collateral Consanguinity, which dealt with those claiming a familial tie to the founder or All Souls in an attempt to gain preeminence in elections.

With this and with his continuing work at the university, Blackstone announced on 3 July 1753 his intentions to " no longer attend the Courts at Westminster, but to pursue my Profession in a Way more agreeable to me in all respects, by residing at Oxford to engraft upon this Resolution a Scheme which I am told may be beneficial to the University as well as myself ", which was to give a set of lectures on the common law — the first lectures of that sort in the world.

In 1756 Blackstone published the first of his full legal texts, the 200 page An Analysis of the Laws of England.

After much debate, this position was created, and on 20 October 1758 Blackstone was confirmed as the first Vinerian Professor of English Law.

Blackstone suffered a nervous breakdown soon after the first lecture, and on 24 November he launched a suit in the Chancellor's Court against " William Jackson of the City of Oxford Printer " for £ 500 damages, justified by Jackson " printing and publishing a scandalous Libell notoriously reflecting on the Character of him the said William Blackstone ".

Their first child, William Bertie Blackstone, born 21 August 1762, did not survive to adulthood.

There is only one recorded King's Bench case, R v Proprietors of Birmingham Canal Navigation, in which Blackstone and Mansfield disagreed.

All the political part of the English Constitution is fully understood, and distinctly stated in Blackstone and many other books, but the Ministerial part, the work of conducting the executive government, has rested so much on practice, on usage, on understanding, that there is no particular publication to which reference can be made for the explanation and description of it.

In 1765, William Blackstone wrote the Commentaries on the Laws of England describing the right to have arms in England during the 18th century as a natural right of the subject that was " also declared " in the English Bill of Rights.

The county itself was the site of only one significant skirmish during the war, the “ Battle of the Grove ,” which was fought near Blackstone ( then known as Blacks and Whites ) for control of the rail line that supplied General Robert E. Lee ’ s Army of Northern Virginia then entrenched around Petersburg and Richmond.

* In the NBC series The Voice, music producer Adam Blackstone wore an Albuquerque Isotopes hat during Season One Battle Rounds preparations.

* Operation Blackstone, part of Operation Torch, the Allied landings in Africa during World War II

Originally on the Opposition front bench in House of Lords, Blackstone held a succession of portfolios during her time at Birkbeck.

Additionally, Hobson lived in the Blackstone Hotel during the show's first season.

In January 2008, Blackstone made a small co-investment alongside TPG Capital and Apollo Management in their buyout of Harrah's Entertainment, although that transaction had been announced during the buyout boom period.

Blackstone remained silent during much of his big stage show, which was presented to the accompaniment of a pit orchestra and such lively tunes of the time as " Who ", " I Know That You Know ", and " Chinatown.

Operation Blackstone was a part of Operation Torch, Allied landings in Africa during World War II.

Blackstone was born in Adams, New York and became an evangelical Christian when he was 11 during revival meetings at a local Methodist church.

The river became very important during the Industrial Revolution, powering numerous mills and also connecting to the Blackstone River to function as the lower section of the Blackstone Canal.

Blackstone explained the basis of the writ, saying " The King is at all times entitled to have an account, why the liberty of any of his subjects is restrained, wherever that restraint may be inflicted.

On 9 February 1770 — apparently with the intervention of the King, and possibly Lord Mansfield — Blackstone became a Justice of the Common Pleas, succeeding Edward Clive, and was made a Serjeant-at-Law on 12 February.

As Sir William Blackstone writes, " the law supposes an incapacity of doing wrong from the excellence and perfection ... of the King.

Though such a council has not been summoned since then, and was considered obsolete at the time, each peer is commonly considered a counsellor of the Sovereign, and, according to Sir William Blackstone in 1765, " it is usually looked upon to be the right of each particular peer of the realm, to demand an audience of the King, and to lay before him, with decency and respect, such matters as he shall judge of importance to the public weal.

King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone.

In the four Atlantic provinces ( Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador ), the reception of English law was automatic, under the principle set out by Blackstone relating to settled colonies.

* Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon ( 2008 ), a Grammy-nominated audiobook dramatization by the Hollywood Theater of the Ear, starring Michael Madsen, Sandra Oh, and Edward Herrmann, was released in 2008 by Blackstone Audio.

* The Maltese Falcon ( 2009 ) — Grammy-nominated audio play, starring Michael Madsen, Sandra Oh and Edward Herrmann, produced by The Hollywood Theater of the Ear and published by Blackstone Audio.

: Adventures of a Curious Character, Richard Feynman, Ralph Leighton ( contributor ), Edward Hutchings ( editor ), 1985, W W Norton, ISBN 0-393-01921-7, 1997 paperback: ISBN 0-393-31604-1, 2002 Blackstone Audiobooks unabridged audio cassette: ISBN 0-7861-2218-8

Blackstone Audio released a full-cast recording starring Amy Irving, Edward Herrmann, Kristoffer Tabori, Gregory Itzen, Armin Shimerman, Granville Van Dusen, among others.