* July 27 – First Jacobite rising: Scottish Covenanter supporters of William and Mary ( under Hugh Mackay ) are defeated by Jacobite supporters of James II at the Battle of Killiecrankie near Pitlochry in Perthshire but the latter's leader, John Graham, Viscount Dundee, is killed.

* August 21 – First Jacobite rising: Battle of Dunkeld: Covenanters defeat the Jacobites in Scotland.

A long term addition of 9 shillings ( which was subsequently increased to 10 shillings ) a week was provided for the allowances of all pensioners and for the long term sick, while the real value of most existing benefits was increased, ( such as family allowances, which were substantially raised in 1967 and 1968 ) with benefits rising at roughly the same rate as salaries over the course of the First Wilson Government, while family allowances were significantly increased.

The First Wilson Government kept the old age pension rising roughly as fast as average earnings during its time in office, while campaigns were launched by the government to encourage people to take up means-tested benefits to which they were entitled to.

On Trantor, Stor Gendibal, a rising intellect in the Second Foundation hierarchy, discovers a secret he reveals to Quindor Shandess, the current First Speaker — that the Seldon Plan, which the Second Foundation diligently protects and furthers along, is being manipulated by some unknown group, one possibly more powerful than the Second Foundation, and whose reasons for so doing are not known.

In La Grande Illusion, director Jean Renoir uses the First World War ( 1914 – 1918 ) as a lens through which to examine Europe as it faces the rising spectre of fascism ( especially in Nazi Germany ) and the impending approach of the Second World War ( 1939 – 1945 ).

A common misconception is that the First Age started only with the Years of the Sun, and it is sometimes referred to as the " First Age of the Sun ", beginning with the first rising of the Sun and continuing until Morgoth's defeat.

Troma produced or acquired early films featuring several rising talents, such as Carmen Electra ( The Chosen One ), Billy Bob Thornton ( Chopper Chicks in Zombietown ), Vanna White ( Graduation Day ), Kevin Costner ( Sizzle Beach, U. S. A .), Samuel L. Jackson ( Def by Temptation ), Marisa Tomei ( The Toxic Avenger ), Vincent D ' Onofrio ( The First Turn-On!

" Among the milestones on the orchestra's path to recovery were the premieres of Walton's Belshazzar's Feast ( 1930 ) and First Symphony ( 1934 ), showing the orchestra " capable of rising to the challenge of the most demanding contemporary scores " ( Morrison ).

rightThe author of the First Book of Maccabees regarded the Maccabean revolt as a rising of pious Jews against the Seleucid king who had tried to eradicate their religion and against the Jews who supported him.

The author of the First Book of Maccabees regarded the Maccabean revolt as a rising of pious Jews against the Seleucid king who had tried to eradicate their religion and against the Jews who supported him.

A tablet from the reign of First Dynasty King Djer ( c. 3000 BC ) was conjectured by early Egyptologists to indicate that the Egyptians had already established a link between the heliacal rising of Sirius ( Egyptian Sopdet, Greek Σείριος Seirios ) and the beginning of the year.

Both Smuts and the Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes feared the rising power of Japan in the post First World War world.

Baker served in the United States Marine Corps ( 1952 – 1954 ), attaining the rank of First Lieutenant and later rising to Captain in the United States Marine Corps Reserve.

The revolution began as a conjunction of a need to fix French national finances and a rising middle class who resented the privileges of the clergy ( in their role as the First Estate ) and nobility ( in their role as the Second Estate ).

This practice, which had effectively kept the Solars from rising to power again since the end of the First Age, has faltered in the Exalted timeline because of the recent disappearance of the Scarlet Empress – the absolute monarch of the Realm – and the stability and leadership that she was able to bring to the Dragon-Blooded.

It was from this position that, in 1949, Monnet realized that the friction between Germany and France for control of the Ruhr, the important coal and steel region, was rising to dangerous levels, presaging a possible return to hostilities as had happened after the First World War.

In the First World War he served as an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army, and after the war became an officer in the Polish Army, rising to command the Grudziądz Cavalry School.

Something of this was due to the way in which the buried beauty of Pompeii had been slowly rising from its ashes, and something to the splendor of the Louis Seize revival of that beauty — an effort rather helped than hindered, too, by the classical assumptions of the First Empire.

He entered the United States Air Force, rising to First Lieutenant, and served as a special agent for the Office of Special Investigation.

Several have fireplaces aligned with windows and it is not unusual to find a double flue exiting out of the wall, generally with the exits aligned parallel to the prevailing wind to improve the updraft on a relatively short flue ( e. g. Upholland Windmill, Lancashire, where the fireplace is at second floor level ( First floor in British English ), and the doors and windows are aligned to the cardinal points of the compass ; or Much Wenlock windmill, Shropshire, which has double flues of uncertain purpose rising from the middle floor level.

Strasser served in World War I, rising to the rank of First Lieutenant, and won the Iron Cross, First and Second Class.

** Angband ( founded before the First Age, rebuilt a few years before the rising of the Moon )

The unsentimental and frequently comic treatment of the banalities and intensities of the life of a British army officer in the First World War gave Graves fame, notoriety and financial security, but the book's subject is also his family history, childhood, schooling and, immediately following the war, early married life ; all phases bearing witness to the " particular mode of living and thinking " that constitute a poetic sensibility.

In 1914, at the start of the First World War, Novello wrote " Keep the Home Fires Burning ", a song that expressed the feelings of innumerable families sundered by World War I. Novello composed the music for the song to a lyric by the American Lena Guilbert-Ford, and it became a huge popular success, bringing Novello money and fame at the age of 21.

Yuan's rise to fame began with his nominal participation in the First Sino-Japanese War as commander of the Chinese garrison forces in Korea.

His notability and fame increase and is eventually promoted to First Minister to the Emperor.

Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, ADC, PC ( 24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916 ), was an Irish-born British Field Marshal and proconsul who won fame for his imperial campaigns and later played a central role in the early part of the First World War, although he died halfway through it.

As her fame grew, she developed friendships with many people in high offices, most notably Eleanor Roosevelt, the First Lady from 1933 – 1945.

Long Branch's previous fame as the Nation's First Seaside Resort was waning in the years following World War II.

Truett ( the brother of the famous pastor George W. Truett of First Baptist Church-Dallas fame ) was the first pastor and founder of Calvary Baptist Church which formed in 1907.

First, George was occasionally using drugs with money from his new-found fame.

Because of his age and fame, Raymond expected to be the leader of the entire First Crusade.

Notable among the supporting cast is William Hartnell, who would soon gain international fame as the First Doctor on Doctor Who.

" The First Amendment envisions that the sort of robust political debate that takes place in a democracy will occasionally yield speech critical of public figures who are " intimately involved in the resolution of important public questions or, by reason of their fame, shape events in areas of concern to society at large ".

Bai rose to fame during the warlord era by allying with Huang Shaohong ( a fellow deputy commander of the Model Battalion of the Guangxi First Division ) and Li Tsung-jen as supporters of the Kuomintang leader Sun Yat-sen.

His fame today stems from one of his poems, Achilles in the Trench, one of the best-known of the war poems of the First World War.

He achieved some fame as an architect by redesigning the City Hall in New York for the First Congress in Federal Hall.

Harden's breakthrough role was in Miller's Crossing ( 1990 ) and then The First Wives Club ( 1996 ) which was followed by several roles which gained her wider fame including the comedy Flubber ( 1997 ) and Meet Joe Black ( 1998 ).

There, in 1907, he bought and edited the English weekly The New Age, at first with Holbrook Jackson, and became an influential figure in socialist politics and modernist culture, especially at the height of the magazine's fame before the First World War.

The elder Töpffer's main claim to fame is serving from 1804 to 1807 as " Drawing Master " of Joséphine, Empress-consort of the First French Empire.

It achieved its greatest fame when a member, Captain Francis de Groot, an Irish-born veteran of the First World War and furniture maker, sneaked into the official ceremonial parade on horseback at the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in his old 15th Hussars uniform and slashed the opening ribbon with a cavalry sword before Premier Jack Lang had the chance.

Madeline " Mimi " Tompkins ( born 14 February 1952 ) is an airline pilot who gained international fame on April 28, 1988, as the First Officer on Aloha Airlines Flight 243, which landed safely after an explosive decompression in flight.

** First inductee into the UFC hall of fame ( with Royce Gracie )

Hunt achieved some fame in the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861, when his four-gun battery covered the retreat of a Union force with a close-in artillery duel.

Despite her already notable achievements it was her efforts during the First World War that brought her fame.

A house of Gouffier de Lastours, who won fame during the First Crusade, the castle then became the seigneurial home of the troubadour Bertran de Born, who was viscount of Hautefort.