Commencing on 17 August 1903, it was the first successful British railway-run bus service and was initially provided as a cheaper alternative to a proposed light railway.

Commencing transmission on 11 April 1980, the series is notable for being the first British series to feature a female police detective as its leading character, ahead of the similarly themed BBC series Juliet Bravo by four months.

Commencing on the night of 23 March 1945 during World War II, Operation Plunder was the crossing of the River Rhine at Rees, Wesel, and south of the Lippe River by the British 2nd Army, under Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey ( Operations Turnscrew, Widgeon, and Torchlight ), and the U. S. Ninth Army ( Operation Flashpoint ), under Lieutenant General William Simpson.

Commencing transmission on 11 April 1980, the series is notable for being the first British series to feature a female police detective as its leading character, ahead of the similarly themed BBC series Juliet Bravo by four months.

Commencing in 2010, the Nautilus Explorer will be running diving expeditions from Cabo San Lucas to Clipperton Atoll via Socorro Island every spring.

Commencing with a workforce of sixty volunteers in May 1960, the society set about clearing the overgrown vegetation, trees, fallen masonry and bird droppings from the site.

* History of the Indian Mutiny, 1857-1858: Commencing from the close of the second volume of Sir John Kaye's History of the Sepoy War by Colonel G. B.

Commencing her entertainment career with a move from psychiatric nursing to the alternative comedy stand-up scene and early performances on Saturday Live, she went on to appear on The Brain Drain, Channel 4's Jo Brand Through the Cakehole, Getting On and various television appearances including as a regular guest on QI.

Commencing 1 May 2009, Transat Tours Canada, will charter CanJet's Boeing 737 aircraft flying from Canadian cities to various destinations.

Commencing with the PowerBook series, built-in LCD flat-panels became standard across the portable line, following an industry-wide evolution from grayscale to color and ranging from 9 " to 17 ".

Commencing a lifelong commitment to international relations, he undertook a world tour after graduating from college, which concluded with assignments for the Institute of Pacific Relations conference in Japan.

Commencing at the intersection of Burwood Road and Georges River Road: and bounded thence by the former road northerly, Mitchell Street westerly, Coronation Parade northerly and Hill Street and Liverpool Road generally westerly to Campsie-Rookwood Railway ; by that railway generally north-westerly to the generally eastern boundary of Auburn Council ; by part of that boundary generally north-westerly to Main Suburban Railway ; by that railway generally easterly to the generally western boundary of Burwood Council ; by part of that boundary generally northerly to Parramatta Road ; by that road easterly and generally south-easterly to Hawthorne Canal ; by that canal upwards to the railway from Dulwich Hill to Glebe Island ; by that railway generally southerly to Old Canterbury Road ; by that road generally south-westerly, Henson Street northerly, Seaview Street westerly, Prospect Street southerly, again Seaview Street westerly, Holden Street northerly, Palace Street westerly, Milton Street generally north-westerly and Georges River Road, aforesaid, south-westerly to the point of commencement.

Commencing in 1944, field training for Officer Candidate School and enlisted replacements from nearby Forts Lee, Eustis, and Belvoir was conducted.

Commencing from 1972, he was returned to the Lok Sabha six times.

Commencing with the Outside Broadcast leg, clips from the tour's " video confessional booth " were displayed on the set's screens between the main set and the encore.

Commencing at Joggins in 1847, production increased after the construction of the Intercolonial Railway in the 1870s, followed by the 1887 opening of the Joggins Railway, a 12-mile rail line from mines at Joggins to the Intercolonial mainline at Maccan, through River Hebert.

Commencing with the death of Lucian Sharpe in 1899, the name of Henry D. Sharpe was for more than 50 years closely interwoven with the destiny of the company.

Commencing with a rendition of traditional history of very early times, the Rajatarangini comes down to the reign of Sangrama Deva, ( c. 1006 AD ).

Commencing 3 March 1711 tickets had completely sold out by the 7th.

Commencing with the lease on the Parris Farm 10 miles north of Potwin, production reached 16, 000 barrels a day during the 1950s.

Commencing in 1920 Nashville was used as the half-way stopping point between the Jackson and Grand Rapids railroad terminals.

Commencing 17 December, flights to Jeddah were routed through Sharjah instead of Abu Dhabi.

Commencing in the 2000 / 01 school year, Quality Assurance Inspection was launched to further promote the development of quality Early Childhood Education.

Commencing 2008, AnthroSource is to be hosted and managed by Wiley-Blackwell as part of the five-year publishing contract awarded.

Commencing with the 1952 provincial election, the province used an alternative vote system that had been designed to enable the Conservative and Liberal parties to keep the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation out of power.

Commencing with the 1979 edition, the Guinness Book of World Records said " new research released by A. Ross Eckler, Jr. in 1978 has shown him to be 17 years younger than the age shown on his gravestone.

Commencing work in 1889, he built a long craft that weighed 3. 5 tons, with a wingspan that was powered by two compound steam engines driving two propellers.

Commencing in 2009, the winner of Australia's Next Top Model an annual Australian reality television series, has appeared on the magazine's cover and in an editorial feature.

Commencing in 2012, the winner of Asia's Next Top Model series, has appeared on the magazine's cover and in an editorial feature.

Commencing in the middle of the channel of the Deschutes River opposite the eastern termination of a range of high lands usually known as the Mutton Mountains ; thence westerly to the summit of said range, along the divide to its connection with the Cascade Mountains ; thence to the summit of said mountains ; thence southerly to Mount Jefferson ; thence down the main branch of Deschutes River ; heading in this peak, to its junction with Deschutes River ; and thence down the middle of the channel of said river to the place of beginning.

Commencing with a rendition of traditional ' history ' of very early times ( 3102 BC ), the Rajatarangini comes down to the reign of Sangrama Deva, ( c. 1006 AD ) and Kalhana.

* 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.

* 1705 – Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer ( d. 1781 )

* 1781 – John Keane, 1st Baron Keane, British noble and officer ( d. 1844 )

* 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius.

Because of his strategy, Revolutionary forces captured two major British armies at Saratoga in 1777 and Yorktown in 1781.

In 1775 – 77, and again in 1781 he led his men against the main British forces.

The great successes, at Boston ( 1776 ), Saratoga ( 1777 ) and Yorktown ( 1781 ), came from trapping the British far from base with much larger numbers of troops.

The Continental Army having been funded by $ 20, 000 in French gold, Washington delivered the final blow to the British in 1781, after a French naval victory allowed American and French forces to trap a British army in Virginia.

* 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens – Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina.

* 1781 – In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey.

* 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse – Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1, 900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4, 400.

* 1781 – Ebenezer Elliott, British poet ( d. 1849 )

* 1781 – The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.

* 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.

* 1781 – At Yorktown, Virginia, representatives of British commander Lord Cornwallis handed over Cornwallis ' sword and formally surrendered to George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau.

The celebrated march of 1781 to Yorktown, Virginia that ended with the defeat of the British at the Siege of Yorktown and the Battle of the Chesapeake began in Newport, Rhode Island under the joint command of General George Washington who led American troops and the Comte de Rochambeau who led French soldiers sent by King Louis XVI.

* George Stephenson ( 1781 – 1848 ), British mechanical engineer who created Stephenson's Rocket

* 1781 – The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a British victory.

* 1781 – Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: the British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.

* 1781 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina, the war's last significant battle in the Southern theater, ends in a narrow British tactical victory.

In early June 1781, Cornwallis dispatched a 250-man cavalry force commanded by Banastre Tarleton on a secret expedition to capture Governor Jefferson and members of the Assembly at Monticello but Jack Jouett of the Virginia militia, thwarted the British plan by warning them.

As governor of Virginia ( 1780 – 1781 ) during the Revolutionary War, Jefferson recommended forcibly moving Cherokee and Shawnee tribes that fought on the British side to lands west of the Mississippi River.

In 1781, the combined action of Continental and French land and naval forces trapped the British army on the Virginia Peninsula, where troops under George Washington and Comte de Rochambeau defeated British General Cornwallis in the Siege of Yorktown.