Early in 1848, after the founders had the proposed town surveyed, they offered and the choice of a lot free to the first ten families to settle the townsite.

Early in the 19th century the first geomagnetic storm was observed, or to be more precise the effects of it were observed: From May 1806 until June 1807 the German Alexander von Humboldt surveyed the bearing of a compass in Berlin.

The first is the site of the notable Lady of Bonifacio, a female burial carbon-dated to about 6570 BC, which is either late Mesolithic or Early Neolithic, and the second belongs to the Megalithic Culture and is dated to the Middle Neolithic.

Early traces of human occupation include Megalithic tombs and Standing Stones.

Megalithic art across much of the world uses a similar mysterious vocabulary of circles, spirals and other curved shapes, but it is striking that the most numerous remains in Europe are the large monuments, with many rock drawings left by the Neolithic Boyne Valley culture in Ireland, within a few miles of centres for Early Medieval Insular art some 4, 000 years later.

Early programming languages with pattern matching constructs include SNOBOL from 1962, SASL from 1976, NPL from 1977, and KRC from 1981.

Breton is a Brythonic language, descended from the Celtic British language brought from Great Britain to Armorica by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages.

Early Governors-General were British and were appointed by the King on the recommendation of the Colonial Office.

Union and Empire: The Making of the United Kingdom in 1707 ( Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History ) ( 2007 ) excerpt and text search

Early in this war, armed forces under the French East India Company captured the British base of Calcutta in north-eastern India.

Early tributes as to what Tenniel in his role as a national observer meant to the British nation around the time of his death came in as high praise ; in 1914 New York Tribune journalist George W. Smalley referred to John Tenniel as “ one of the greatest intellectual forces of his time, ( who ) understood social laws and political energies .”

Early in his term, Major presided over British participation in the Gulf War in March 1991 and negotiated " Game, Set and Match for Britain " at the Maastricht Treaty in December 1991.

* Wamagatta, Evanson N. " British Administration and the Chiefs ' Tyranny in Early Colonial Kenya ," Journal of Asian & African Studies Aug 2009, Vol.

Since the Early Modern period, the title of knight is purely honorific, usually bestowed by a monarch, as in the British honours system, often for non-military service to the country.

Category: Early British computers

Early in 1940, with the prospect of immediate invasion, the possibilities of the petrol bomb gripped the imagination of the British public.

Early British settlers called it by many names, such as watermole, duckbill, and duckmole.

Early British punks expressed nihilistic views with the slogan No Future, which came from the Sex Pistols song " God Save the Queen ".

* Chadwick, H. M. ( 1959 ) Cambridge Studies in Early British History, Cambridge University Press

* Chadwick, N. K ( 1973 ) Studies in the Early British Church, Archon Books.

Early on in the history of British television, agreements with the actors ' union Equity and other trade bodies limited the number of times a single program could be broadcast, usually only twice, and these showings were limited to within a set time period such as five years.

* From Imagination to Reality: Mars Exploration Studies of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society: Precursors and Early Piloted Exploration Missions ( 1997 ).

* P. M. Barford, The Early Slavs: Culture and Society in Early Medieval Eastern Europe, British Museum Press, London 2001, ISBN 978-0-7141-2804-7

As well, two collections go beyond the original boundaries of our research to cover other parts of the British Isles, RED ( Records of Early Drama ): Scotland and Wales.

Early issues featured two SF-themed stories aimed at a slightly older age group than 2000 AD and soon became a magnet for British creators who wanted to create comics for the adult market.

Early in 1805, Admiral Lord Nelson commanded the British fleet blockading Toulon.

Early hints of Chinoiserie appeared in the 17th century in nations with active East India companies: England ( the British East India Company ), Denmark ( the Danish East India Company ), the Netherlands ( the Dutch East India Company ) and France ( the French East India Company ).

Later examples of the hyperreal approach pioneered by Galton and Simpson in some of their Hancock scripts include The Royle Family, Early Doors, Gavin & Stacey and The Office, as well as many British dramedies.

Early on September 18, Brown's troops surprised a British contingent holding some prisoners near the Lake George landing, while a detachment of his troops snuck up Mount Defiance, and captured most of the sleeping construction crew.

The power and prestige that Offa attained made him one of the most significant rulers in the Early Medieval British Isles, though no contemporary biography of him survives.

Early European possessions in North America included Spanish Florida, Spanish New Mexico, the English colonies of Virginia ( with its North Atlantic off-shoot, The Somers Isles ) and New England, the French colonies of Acadia and Canada, the Swedish colony of New Sweden, and the Dutch New Netherland.

( On manuscripts, and artistic style ) Nigel Morgan, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, Volume 4: Early Gothic Manuscripts, Part 1 1190-1250, Harvey Miller Ltd, London, 1982, ISBN 0-19-921026-8

In the Early Medieval period, the Celtic Christianity of Wales participated in the Insular art of the British Isles and a number of illuminated manuscripts possibly of Welsh origin survive, of which the 8th century Hereford Gospels and Lichfield Gospels are the most notable.

) Early developing interest in colonial ventures, he joined the Guinea, New England, and Virginia companies, as well as the Virginia Company's offspring, the Somers Isles Company.

< center > Lands held by Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan </ center >( based on map in Boardman, Early Stewart Kings, p. 87 & details in Young, Annals of the Parish and Burgh of Elgin, p. 102 Alexander's possession of Badenoch was unaffected by the restoration of the Earldom of Moray to John Dunbar in March 1372, nor were the territories of John MacDonald, Lord of the Isles, in Lochaber — similarly with the lands of Urquhart ( south of Inverness ) which had been granted to David Stewart, Earl of Strathearn and King Robert's eldest son with his second wife, Euphemia.

The best known tradition of stone circle construction occurred across the British Isles and Brittany in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, with over 1000 examples still surviving to this day, including famous examples like Avebury, the Rollright Stones and Stonehenge.

Archaeologists have differentiated these Early Neolithic tombs into a variety of different architectural styles, which were typically associated with specific regions within the British Isles.

Hutton followed his studies on the Early Modern period with a book on a very different subject, The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy ( 1991 ), in which he attempted to " set out what is at present known about the religious beliefs and practices of the British Isles before their conversion to Christianity.

Archaeologists have differentiated these Early Neolithic tombs into a variety of different architectural styles, which were typically associated with specific regions within the British Isles.

One of around 1, 300 stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany, it was constructed as a part of a megalithic tradition that lasted from 3, 300 to 900 BCE, during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age.

The Early and the Middle Neolithic also saw the construction of large megalithic tombs across the British Isles.

One of around 1, 300 stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany, it was constructed as a part of a megalithic tradition that lasted from 3, 300 to 900 BCE, during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages.

* Memorials of the Discovery and Early Settlement of The Bermudas or Somers Isles, 1515 – 1685, Major General John Henry Lefroy.

Archaeologists have differentiated these Early Neolithic tombs into a variety of different architectural styles, which were typically associated with specific regions within the British Isles.

Early Gothic Manuscripts ( I ) 1190-1250 ( Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles ), ( Harvey Miller, London, 1982 ), no. 46 ( for f. 1 ).

Early in the war, Mac Colla was forced to flee the Western Isles, which were attacked by a Covenanter / Campbell force.

E. S. Armitage, in The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles, suggested that it might have been constructed by Hugh d ' Avranches, Earl of Chester.

Early 21st century genetic studies have provided new insights into the origins of Irish people as well as their neighbours in the British Isles.

: See also: Norse activity in the British Isles, Scandinavian Scotland, Scandinavian York, Early Scandinavian Dublin, Lord of the Isles, Lord of Galloway, Diocese of Sodor and Man, and Norse-Gaels

It is a fine to medium grained sedimentary rock, created from desert sands blown into dune formations during the Early Permian period, when the area which now constitutes the British Isles occupied a location within the desert belts to the north of the equator.