These specimens began to arrive in Europe in 1522, when the survivors of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition brought them home.

In 1501, the Spanish monarchs, Ferdinand I and Isabella, first granted permission to the colonists of the Caribbean to import African slaves, which began arriving to the island in 1503.

Shortly afterward, Spanish citizens, unhappy at the usurpation of the throne by the French, began organizing local juntas loyal to Ferdinand.

In 1900 Charles Pathé began film production under the Pathé-Frères brand, with Ferdinand Zecca hired to actually make the films.

In the last years of the reign of Ferdinand III of Castile, Castilian began to be used for certain types of documents, and it was during the reign of Alfonso X that it became the official language.

Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor once again asked for help of Gustav I of Sweden, and The Kingdom of Poland ( 1385 – 1569 ) also began direct negotiations with Gustav, but nothing resulted because on September 29, 1560, Gustav I Vasa died.

As the war began, a German radical named Ferdinand Cohen-Blind attempted to assassinate Bismarck in Berlin, shooting him five times at close range.

In the late 16th century, however, the Counter-Reformation and the Society of Jesus began to make its influence felt, and the Jesuit-educated Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, who ruled over Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola before becoming Holy Roman Emperor, was energetic in suppressing heresy in the provinces which he ruled.

French citizen Ferdinand Chevillard began buying and clearing land around Port Vila to be converted into the largest French plantation on the island.

When the Carlist uprising began on the death of Ferdinand VII, he is said to have held back because he knew that the first leaders would be politicians and talkers.

Ferdinand abolished the constitution and began systematically persecuting known revolutionaries.

Shortly after this, revolts began on the island of Sicily and in Naples against King Ferdinand, who conceded as he had in 1821 and granted The Kingdom of two Sicilies a constitution, as well as releasing political prisoners.

Charles provided 5 ships to Ferdinand Magellan whose voyage-the first circumnavigation of the Earth-laid the foundation for the Pacific oceanic empire of Spain and began Spanish colonization of the Philippines.

The historian Hernando del Pulgar, contemporary of Ferdinand and Isabella, estimated that the Spanish Inquisition had burned at the stake 2, 000 people by 1490 ( just one decade after the Inquisition began ).

The École supérieure de guerre, under the direction of its commandant, Ferdinand Foch, began developing a consistent doctrine for handling armies, corps, and divisions.

" In 1849 the Institute was relocated to the home of Kateřina's parents, and began to attract distinguished visitors ; Liszt came regularly, and the former emperor Ferdinand, who had settled in Prague, attended the school's matinée concerts.

In 1509 Ferdinand II of Aragon ordered that Indians be imported from nearby islands to make up the population losses in Hispaniola, and the Spanish began capturing Lucayans in the Bahamas for use as laborers in Hispaniola.

Having secured the Duero, Ferdinand began to bring the valley of the Mondego under his control, first taking Viseu in its middle stretch on 25 July 1058 and then moving down towards the sea.

Ferdinand " Ferd " Johnson ( 1905 – 1996 ) began as Willard's assistant a few months after the strip began in 1923.

The 1820 revolution began in Naples against King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, who was forced to make concessions and promise a constitutional monarchy.

Chamberlain was resolutely opposed to the dissolution of the Union with Ireland, and to the strain of these years was added the death of his father in July 1914, only a few days after the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand began the train of events that led to the First World War.

As the disrupted French began to fall back on Minden, Ferdinand called for a British cavalry charge to complete the victory, but Sackville withheld permission for their advance.

The Thirty Years ' War began in 1618 when the estates of Bohemia rebelled against Ferdinand of Styria and elected Frederick V, Elector Palatine, the leader of the Protestant Union, as their new king.

Although the juntas, that had forced the French to leave Spain, had sworn by the liberal Constitution of 1812, Ferdinand VII openly believed that it was too liberal for the country.

Between 1808 and 1810, the Napoleonic French Empire openly invaded Spain, after deposing King Ferdinand VII and taking him prisoner.

About that time Ferdinand and Isabella had obtained from Pope Sixtus IV a papal bull to establish in their kingdom a tribunal for searching out heretics, and especially Jews who after having received baptism had relapsed openly or secretly into Judaism ; these were known as Marranos.

Serbia received financial assistance ; a large consignment of arms was sent openly from St. Petersburg to the prince of Montenegro ; Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria became ostensibly reconciled with the Russian emperor, and his son Boris was received into the Eastern Orthodox Church ; the Russian embassy at Constantinople tried to bring about a reconciliation between the Bulgarian exarch and the ecumenical patriarch ; Bulgarians and Serbians professed, at the bidding of Russia, to lay aside their mutual hostility.

These were partly, although not openly, based on Ferdinand Tönnies ' Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft ( community and society ).

On the outbreak of the French Revolution King Ferdinand IV of Naples and Queen Maria Carolina did not at first actively oppose reform ; but after the fall of the French monarchy they became violently opposed to it, and in 1793 joined the first coalition against France, instituting severe persecutions against all who were remotely suspected of French sympathies.

The concept is related to Ferdinand Tönnies ' theory in his work Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft (" Community and Society ") of 1887 However, in the 1930s Tönnies joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1932 to oppose the rise of Nazism and had his honorary professorship removed when Hitler came to power.

Commander-in-Chief was Tsar Ferdinand, while the actual command was in the hands of his deputy, General Mikhail Savov.

Those led by Ferdinand von Schill were decimated in the Battle of Stralsund ( 1809 ); many were killed in battle or executed at Napoleon's command in the aftermath.

* 1520 – After navigating through a strait at the southern end of South America, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.

* November 28 – After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific ( the strait was later named the Strait of Magellan ).

* August – Thirty Years ' War: As a result of heavy pressure from the Prince-electors, Ferdinand II dismisses general Wallenstein from command of the imperial army.

Spain, during the burst of confidence after its unexpected great victory at Nordlingen in 1634, made plans for major operations in Germany to end the war against the Protestants there and in the Netherlands ; these plans included Thomas leading an army in Westphalia, under the overall command of the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, brother of Philip IV.

Nothing came of this, but in 1635, when France declared war on Spain ( Franco-Spanish war of 1635-59 ), Thomas served under Ferdinand in the Spanish Netherlands: he was given command of a small army ( variously given as 8, 500 or 13, 000 ) sent against French forces that had advanced into Luxemburg, his orders either to observe them or to prevent them from joining up with a Dutch army.

In 1636, the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand organised a joint Spanish-Imperialist army for a major invasion of France from the Spanish Netherlands, and Thomas was initially in charge, though Ferdinand soon took over supreme command.

Count Ferdinand is the inventor of a new submarine who is assigned to command the new ship in battle.

Following the death of Wallenstein ( who had previously denied him the overall military command of the Catholic side ) in 1634, he was made titular head of the Imperial Army in the Thirty Years ' War, and later that year joined with his cousin, the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, being nominally responsible of the capture of Donauwörth and Regensburg, and of defeat of the Swedes at the Battle of Nördlingen.

The German failure to break through, or to destroy the Allied armies in the field, allowed Ferdinand Foch, the Allied Supreme Commander, to proceed with the planned major counteroffensive on 18 July ; 24 French divisions, including the Buffalo Soldiers of the 92nd Infantry Division ( United States ) and 93rd Infantry Division ( United States ) under French command, joined by other Allied troops including eight large U. S. divisions under U. S. command and 350 tanks attacked the recently formed German salient.

The Austrian chancellor Johann Thugut first offered Archduke Ferdinand and Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary command of the army but both declined.

The warriors of Lapu-Lapu, a native chieftain of Mactan Island, defeated Spanish forces under the command of Ferdinand Magellan, who was killed in the battle.

The following year Ferdinand Philippe returned to Belgium in command of the vanguard brigade of the armée du Nord.

Troubles continued with the Austrian command as Ferdinand overrode the objections of Mack and ordered the evacuation of all cavalry from Ulm, a total of 6, 000 troopers.

Vienna soon definitely convinced itself of his treachery, a secret court found him guilty, and the Emperor looked seriously for a means of getting rid of him ( a successor in command, the later emperor Ferdinand III, was already waiting ).

After having been released from captivity by Napoleon, Ferdinand VII sent a large army under the command of the " Pacificador " ( Pacifier ) Pablo Morillo who restored royalist rule in the area by 1816.

Commander in Chief was Tsar Ferdinand, while the actual command was in the hands of his deputy, General Michail Savov.

In any case on 16 June, the Bulgarian high command, under the direct control of Tsar Ferdinand and without notifying the government, ordered Bulgarian troops to start a surprise attack simultaneously against both the Serbian and Greek positions, without declaring war and to dismiss any orders contradicting the attack order.

On the restoration of Ferdinand, Colletta was permitted to retain his rank in the army, and was given command of the Salerno division.

In spring of 1809 Poniatowski led his army against an Austrian invasion under the Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este, in the war that was regarded by Austrian high command as a crucial element of their struggle with Napoleonic France.

* 29 August – 100, 000 people gather at Tempelhof Field to witness the arrival at Berlin, Germany, of the Zeppelin LZ 3, with Dr. Hugo Eckener in command and Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin aboard.