Starley's 1885 Rover, manufactured in Coventry, England, is usually described as the first recognizably modern bicycle.

In the Anglican Communion, the term applies to a bishop who is a full-time assistant to a diocesan bishop: the Bishop of Warwick is suffragan to the Bishop of Coventry ( the diocesan ), though both live in Coventry.

Connecticut's warmest temperature is which occurred in Danbury on July 15, 1995 ; the coldest temperature is which occurred in Falls Village on February 16, 1943 and Coventry on January 22, 1961.

Although Kenilworth's great tower is larger, it is similar to that of Brandon Castle near Coventry ; both were built by the local Clinton family in the 1120s.

* 1982 – HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.

* 1940 – World War II: In England, the city of Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers.

Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.

* November 14 – WWII: The city of Coventry, England is destroyed by 500 Luftwaffe bombers: 150, 000 fire bombs, 503 tons of high explosives, and 130 parachute mines level 60, 000 of the city's 75, 000 buildings ; 568 people are killed.

* May 25 – The new Coventry Cathedral is consecrated.

* The Cistercian Abbey of St. Mary and St. Chad is founded by Roger de Clinton, bishop of Coventry ( 1129 – 48 ).

Mercia ( formerly Mercia FM ) is a commercial radio station broadcasting from Coventry founded in 1980 as Mercia Sound.

Rawdon leaves his wife and through the offices of the Marquis of Steyne is made Governor of Coventry Island to get him out of the way, but Rawdon challenges the elderly marquis to a duel.

It is possible to continue to the Trent and Mersey Canal, Coventry Canal and North Oxford Canal, to complete a circuit known as the Leicester Ring.

Parnall Pixie IIIa G-EBJG is still in existence with the Midland Air Museum, Coventry, England.

Coventry is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein and part of his Future History series.

Since the government fears that he will repeat his action, he is given a choice: either allow trained psychologists to fix him, or leave to an area known as Coventry.

A square in the English city of Coventry, itself devastated by Luftwaffe bombing during World War II, is named after Lidice.

This has now stopped since the Queen Anne Stakes was elevated to Group 1 status in 2004 and therefore the Coventry Stakes is the first race on the first day of Royal Ascot.

* Cineworld is a short distance down Coventry Street in the Trocadero Centre.

Acton was the second largest industry for the second world war ( The first being Coventry ), it is a less known fact that Adolf Hitler new of the factory and its whereabouts.

This comprised: the refoundation of eight out of nine former monastic cathedrals ( Coventry being the exception ), together with six wholly new bishoprics ( Bristol, Chester, Gloucester, Oxford, Peterborough, Westminster ) with their associated cathedrals, chapters, choirs and grammar schools ; the refoundation as secular colleges of monastic houses in Brecon, Thornton and Burton on Trent, the endowment of five Regius Professorships in each of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the endowment of the colleges of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Christ Church, Oxford and the maritime charity of Trinity House.

* Daimler-Benz a business in no way associated with The Daimler Motor Company of Coventry except by the word " Daimler "

Some folk figures are based on semi or actual historical people whose story has been passed down centuries ; Lady Godiva for instance was said to have ridden naked on horseback through Coventry, the heroic English figure Hereward the Wake resisted the Norman invasion, Herne the Hunter is an equestrian ghost associated with Windsor Forest and Great Park, and Mother Shipton is the archetypal witch.

After Chrysler UK was bought by Peugeot Talbot, a review of the plant and associated models decided to close the Linwood plant in favour of retaining the Ryton plant near Coventry.

Sir Basil Urwin Spence, OM, OBE, RA ( 13 August 1907 – 19 November 1976 ) was a Scottish architect, most notably associated with Coventry Cathedral in England and the Beehive in New Zealand, but also responsible for numerous other buildings in the Modernist / Brutalist style.

It is a symbol with which Coventry University is proud to be associated and to have adopted as its own.

Category: People associated with Coventry University

King Henry VIII School is a coeducational Independent school founded in 1545 by John Hales, comprising a senior school ( ages 11 – 18 ) and associated preparatory school ( ages 3 – 11 ) located in Coventry, England.

His uncle, Josiah Turner, together with business partner James Starley used this as a basis for the ' Coventry Model ' in what became Britain's first cycle factory.

Charlton's relegation from the Championship was all but confirmed on Easter Monday ( 13 April ) when, despite picking up a point in a 0 – 0 draw at Coventry, they found themselves 12 points from safety with four games remaining.

From ages five to nine, she boarded with her sister Chrissey at Miss Latham's school in Attleborough, from ages nine to thirteen at Mrs. Wallington's school in Nuneaton, and from ages thirteen to sixteen at Miss Franklin's school in Coventry.

A new format for a full-size, city centre store was introduced with the opening of the Coventry ( UK ) store in December 2007 as a response to UK government restrictions blocking retail establishment outside city centres ,.

In the north, Stephen came to a fresh agreement with Ranulf of Chester, but then in 1146 repeated the ruse he had played on Geoffrey de Mandeville in 1143, first inviting Ranulf to court, before arresting him and threatening to execute him unless he handed over a number of castles, including Lincoln and Coventry.

Eight weeks later, Malory alone was charged with attacking the same woman, in Coventry.

The next major change occurred in 1844, when many of these exclaves were re-merged with their surrounding counties ( for example Coventry was re-merged with Warwickshire ).

* Peter Murphy ( footballer born 1922 ) ( 1922 – 1975 ), English footballer with Coventry City, Tottenham Hotspur and Birmingham City

* English footballer Dion Dublin, who has played for Manchester United, Aston Villa, and Coventry City, as well as the national team, lives with his wife and family in Stratford.

He breaks out of Coventry with Fader to warn everyone.

There are also two fantasy cars to choose from, the Murasama and the Coventry — thinly disguised versions of the Honda RA300 and the Cooper T81B, with licensing issues precluding these particular marques from being included in the game.

But the Saints left with the knowledge that promotion could be sealed by a win on home soil against Coventry.

Promotion to the Premier league after the Saints ' 7 year absence was achieved after a 4 – 0 demolition of relegated Coventry, with goals from Lallana, Sharp, Hooiveld, and Jose Fonte, which was his first goal of the campaign.

* David Thompson ( footballer born 1977 ), former English football player with Liverpool, Coventry, Blackburn, Wigan, Portsmouth and Bolton

Collingwood also had three Brownlow Medallists during the period, with Syd Coventry winning in 1927, Albert Collier in 1929 and Harry Collier in 1930

* Footballer Stuart Pearce, although born in Shepherds Bush, grew up in Kingsbury before he signed professional terms with Coventry City

In the north, Stephen came to a fresh agreement with Ranulf of Chester, but then in 1146 repeated the ruse he had played on Geoffrey de Mandeville in 1143, first inviting Ranulf to court, before arresting him and threatening to execute him unless he handed over a number of castles, including Lincoln and Coventry.

William Rossetti edited the magazine, which published poetry by the Rossettis, Woolner, and Collinson, together with essays on art and literature by associates of the Brotherhood, such as Coventry Patmore.

According to the account in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, " There is no reason to doubt that she was buried with her husband at Coventry, despite the assertion of the Evesham chronicle that she lay in Holy Trinity, Evesham.

Dugdale ( 1656 ) says that a window with representations of Leofric and Godiva was placed in Trinity Church, Coventry, about the time of Richard II.

The historian Paul de Rapin ( 1732 ) reported the Coventry lore that Lady Godiva performed her ride while " commanding all Persons to keep within Doors and from their Windows, on pain of Death " but one man could not refrain from looking and it " cost him his life "; Rapin further reported that the town commemorates this with a " Statue of a Man looking out of a Window.