He played the leading role in negotiating the treaty with Great Britain that ended the Revolution, and directed America's foreign affairs throughout the Confederation period.

Thus, during the abdication crisis of 1936, caused by Edward VIII's desire to marry Wallis Simpson, the consent of all realms concerned, along with, in some cases, new acts of parliament, was required in Britain and throughout the British Dominions to allow for Edward's stepping aside and to ensure that if he had any children they would have no claim to the thrones.

In 2001 Bombardier acquired Adtranz ( DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems ), a manufacturer of trains which were widely used throughout Germany and Great Britain.

They are found throughout Britain and Ireland, with the largest number in Scotland.

All the presents being placed round the trees …" After her marriage to her German cousin Prince Albert, by 1841 the custom became even more widespread throughout Britain.

In Britain, diving competitions on all boards run throughout the year.

In Britain, new grimoires continued to be produced throughout the 18th century, such as Ebenezer Sibly's A New and Complete Illustration of the Celestial Science of Astrology, which became particularly popular with cunning folk.

The gauge that Stephenson chose for the line was, and this subsequently came to be adopted as the standard gauge for railways, not only in Britain, but also throughout the world.

This changed in 1880, when GMT was legally adopted throughout the island of Great Britain.

Founding a Wiccan group known as the Bricket Wood coven, he introduced a string of High Priestesses into the religion, including Doreen Valiente, Lois Bourne, Patricia Crowther and Eleanor Bone, through which the Gardnerian community spread throughout Britain and subsequently into Australia and the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

The homophile movement began in the late 1940s with groups in the Netherlands and Denmark, and continued throughout the 1950s and 1960s with groups in Sweden, Norway, the United States, France, Britain and elsewhere.

He travelled throughout Britain as a dissenting preacher, for which he was often persecuted by the authorities who disapproved of his beliefs.

November the 5th firework displays and bonfire parties are common throughout Britain, in major public displays and in private gardens.

The Industrial Revolution was a period in the late 18th century and early 19th century when major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, and transport affected socioeconomic and cultural conditions in Britain and subsequently spread throughout Europe and North America and eventually the world, a process that continues as industrialisation.

The clearances followed patterns of agricultural change throughout Britain, but were particularly notorious as a result of the late timing, the lack of legal protection for year-by-year tenants under Scots law, the abruptness of the change from the traditional clan system, and the brutality of many evictions.

Not only was good passenger service established by the late 1840s, but an excellent network of freight lines reduce the cost of shipping coal, and made products manufactured in Scotland competitive throughout Britain.

While the Scottish Enlightenment is traditionally considered to have concluded toward the end of the 18th century, disproportionately large Scottish contributions to British science and letters continued for another 50 years or more, thanks to such figures as the mathematicians and physicists James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, and the engineers and inventors James Watt and William Murdoch, whose work was critical to the technological developments of the Industrial Revolution throughout Britain.

As a result of this, a great number of soldiers from Hanover eventually emigrated to Great Britain, leading to the formation of the King's German Legion, which was the only German army to fight throughout the entire Napoleonic wars against the French.

In Great Britain, the Whitley Commission, a subcommittee of the Reconstruction Commission, recommended in its July 1918 Final Report that " industrial councils " be established throughout the world.

Outside the Northern Ireland peace process the term IONA is used by the World Universities Debating Championship and in inter-varsity debating competitions throughout Britain and Ireland.

Although he was initially successful in starving out Britain, Portugal refused to capitulate, leading to the Peninsular War throughout Spain.

Similarly, the most popular Arthurian tale throughout this period seems to have been that of Tom Thumb, which was told first through chapbooks and later through the political plays of Henry Fielding ; although the action is clearly set in Arthurian Britain, the treatment is humorous and Arthur appears as a primarily comedic version of his romance character.

Britain had to maintain a fleet throughout the world and consider other naval powers, whereas the German fleet could be concentrated in German waters.

Historian Eric Hobsbawm has called their machine wrecking " collective bargaining by riot ", which had been a tactic used in Britain since the Restoration, as the scattering of manufactories throughout the country made large-scale strikes impractical.

The report further claimed that " reactionary imperialist elements throughout the world, particularly in the U. S. A., in Britain and France, had put particular hope on Germany and Japan, primarily on Hitlerite Germany — first as a force most capable of striking a blow at the Soviet Union.

Coins and Power in Late Iron Age Britain.

Late that summer, having subdued two other tribes, he crossed into Britain, claiming that the Britons had aided one of his enemies the previous year possibly the Veneti of Brittany.

Late in his reign he traveled to Britain, strengthening Hadrian's Wall and reoccupying the Antonine Wall.

He appeared in the first three seasons of the Late Night Poker television series in Britain.

In Britain the combination of indie with dance-punk was dubbed new rave in publicity for Angular's Klaxons and the term was picked up and applied by the NME to bands including Trash Fashion, New Young Pony Club, Hadouken !, Late of the Pier, Test Icicles and Shitdisco, forming a scene with a similar visual aesthetic to earlier rave music.

Maiden Castle is one of the most important iron production sites from the Late Iron Age in southern Britain.

Late in Áedán's life, the kingdom of Bernicia would become the greatest power in north Britain.

" However, the book became hugely popular, spreading across Britain in the Late Medieval period, when more Arthurian texts were produced, and many of them began propagating the idea that Arthur himself was actually born at Tintagel.

The symbol was also found on Late Roman Christian signet rings in Britain.

A History of the Commencement, Progress, and Termination of the Late War between Great Britain and France which continued from the first day of February 1793 to the first of October 1801, in two volumes.

Late in the Roman occupation of Britain a hoard of about 200 gold coins was hidden in the valley of the Gore Brook.

* John Creighton, Coins and Power in Late Iron Age Britain, Cambridge University Press, 2000

* John Creighton ( 2000 ), Coins and power in Late Iron Age Britain, Cambridge University Press

* John Creighton ( 2000 ), Coins and power in Late Iron Age Britain, Cambridge University Press

Late in 1937, Boulanger returned to Britain to broadcast for the BBC and hold her popular lecture-recitals.

* Saxon Shore, a military command of the Late Roman Empire, encompassing southern Britain and the coasts of northern France.

* Late December – U. S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortresses conduct a weeklong seies of nightly strikes against Japanese shipping in Simpson Harbor at Rabaul on New Britain, sinking one transport and damaging three transports and the destroyer Tachikaze.

* The Hollow Crown: A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages ( London: Allen Lane, 2005 ), ISBN 0-7139-9066-X

A History of the Commencement, Progress, and Termination of the Late War between Great Britain and France which continued from the first day of February 1793 to the first of October 1801, in two volumes.

The Late 2000s recession has resulted in Sparkbrook and neighbouring Small Heath having the eighth highest level of unemployment in Britain in 2009, with 12. 9 % ( more than one in eight ) of its residents being registered unemployed.

Britain in the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods was a place where folk magic was widely popular amongst much of the populace.

He visited Paris in 1789, and studied the course of the Revolution there ; and in 1790 he published his Thoughts on the Probable Influence of the Late Revolution in France upon Great Britain, a work of great power.

: A Late Pleistocene species native to Great Britain, very similar to M. savini.

In Britain, where the break with Late Antiquity comes earliest, in the later 5th and the 6th century, cities had been in rapid decline during the 4th century, well before the withdrawal of Roman governors and garrisons ; historians emphasizing urban continuities with the Anglo-Saxon period depend largely on the post-Roman survival of Roman toponymy.