The Chambers Biographical Dictionary says of him that after Dr James Gregory's death, he was " recognized as the first consulting physician in Scotland ".

The first mention of a series approximating Bode's Law is found in David Gregory's The Elements of Astronomy, published in 1715.

Coinciding with Gregory's arrival, XTC scored their first charting single in the UK with " Life Begins at the Hop ", which was also the first XTC single penned by Colin Moulding.

* The Priory of St. Gregory's is founded at Douai, Flanders, at this time in the Spanish Netherlands, by its first prior, Saint John Roberts, and other exiles, thus becoming the first English Benedictine house to renew conventual life after the Reformation.

It was purchased by Pope Gregory XIII for 11, 000 ducats and bestowed on the De Ciantis ', the ancestors of the line of DeCiantis-Pasquale, under the suzerainty of Gregory's son, Giacomo Boncompagni ( who was the first duke of Sora of the family ).

Gregory's first TV appearance was on the late night The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar.

He distinguished Gregory's constant usage of sanctus and virtus, the first with its familiar meaning of " sacred " or " holy ", and the second

The first is a photo-realistic painting of Dan Gregory's studio.

The first series was partly filmed at St Gregory's Social Club in Farnworth, Lancashire, where the exterior, hallways and function suite were all used.

Having attended Gregory's first Lenten Synods, Guibert refused to attend the next, the Lenten Synod of 1075, although he was bound by oath to obey the summons to attend it.

Gregory's first win came in just his third race, in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

He passed his matriculation exam in first division while earning a twelfth position in merit list nationwide in 1944 from St. Gregory's High School in Kolkata Board.

The first settlers, including Gregory's cousin Emma Withnell and her young family, arrived in the Roebourne area in 1863.

Syd Gregory's uncle Dave was Australia's first Test cricket captain, and his nephew Jack was the nation's most feared fast bowler of the 1920s.

By 1910, the Benedictines went on from Sacred Heart to build St. Gregory's College in Shawnee, OK. A large Tudor-Gothic structure, now Benedictine Hall of St. Gregory's University, was under construction by 1913, opening its doors for high school and college students for its first term in 1915.

Barton was manager John Gregory's first signing for a Derby County side battling against relegation from the Premier League, and played in all of their final 14 league games.

Barton remained the club's first choice right-back, but following Gregory's dismissal in favour of George Burley, Barton did not feature in the first team picture in the 2003 – 04 season, finally departing in October when he joined Division Two promotion chasers Queens Park Rangers on a free transfer.

The Priory of St. Gregory's, Douai, was therefore the first English Benedictine house to renew conventual life after the Reformation.

Brown was a volunteer member of the Francis Gregory's exploring expedition of 1861, which sailed to Nickol Bay, then explored first southward across the Hamersley Ranges to the Tropic of Capricorn, and later northward as far as the Oakover River.

James Gregory's 1662 attempts to create a reflecting telescope included a Cassegrain configuration, judging by a convex secondary mirror found among his experiments.

Alfred lamented in the preface to his translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care that " learning had declined so thoroughly in England that there were very few men on this side of the Humber who could understand their divine services in English, or even translate a single letter from Latin into English: and I suppose that there were not many beyond the Humber either ".

Gregory's homilies were well received and attracted ever-growing crowds to Anastasia.

Gregory's successors were largely dominated by the Exarch of Ravenna, the Byzantine emperor's representative in Italy.

It is also claimed that this supposed " cat massacre " worsened the Black Death a century after Gregory's time, because the plague was spread by rats who were unchecked in Europe due to the decline of cat numbers.

Three frescoes in the Sala Regia Palace of the Vatican depicting the events were painted by Giorgio Vasari, and a commemorative medal was issued with Gregory's portrait and on the obverse a chastising angel, sword in hand and the legend (" Massacre of the Huguenots ").

In 1074 and 1075 he acted as intermediary, probably as Gregory's agent, between the Norman princes themselves, and even when the latter were at open war with the pope, they still maintained the best relations with Monte Cassino.

Yeats's play Cathleen Ní Houlihan and Lady Gregory's Spreading the News were featured on the opening night.

Gregory's philosophical writings were influenced by Origen, and he is generally considered to have believed in universal salvation.

In Gregory's lifetime the Christians of Cappadocia were devout, with the cults of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste and Saint George being particularly significant and a considerable monastic presence.

The Lancastrian forces mustered near Kingston upon Hull, and were said ( in Gregory's Chronicle, a near-contemporary account ) to number 15, 000.

One near-contemporary source ( Gregory's Chronicle ) claimed that 2, 500 Yorkists and 200 Lancastrians were killed, but other sources give wildly differing figures, from 2, 200 to only 700 Yorkist dead.

Gregory detested Chilperic, calling him " the Nero and Herod of his time " ( History of the Franks book VI. 46 ): he had provoked Gregory's wrath by wresting Tours from Austrasia, seizing ecclesiastical property, and appointing as bishops counts of the palace who were not clerics.

However, S. Fanning has assembled a number of examples of rex being used in a neutral, if not favorable, context, and argues that " the phrase Romanorum rex is not peculiar to Gregory of Tours or to Frankish sources ", and that Gregory's usage may indeed show " that they were, or were seen to be, claiming to be Roman emperors.

Pope Gregory the Great ( r. 590-604 ) organized papal notarii or scrinarii into a schola ; Gregory's registers show that they were responsible for recording correspondence, ordinations, privileges, donations, synodal acts, and matters related to the Patrimony of Saint Peter, as well as serving as papal advisors, diplomats, and envoys.

At Siena in July 1408 he and Sir John Cheyne, as English envoys, were received by Gregory XII with special honor, and Bishop Repingdon of Lincoln, ex-Wycliffite, was one of the new batch of cardinals created on 18 September 1408, most of Gregory's cardinals having deserted him.

Part of the background to Philippa Gregory's historical novel " A Respectable Trade "-dealing mainly with the slave trade in late 18th century Bristol-is the start of construction at Clifton, then a far area outside the city limits as they were at the time.

Although it was Sheridan's idea, the design was Ned Gregory's who believed that English scoreboards were inadequate.

There were many instances of concerning player behaviour during the 1878 tour of England, and Gregory's men were considered to be unrefined and raucous.

During its history as a commercial cave, Gregory's Cave had walkways, which were made of wood in some places, and electric lights.

In June 2008 it was reported in The Times that Pilch's grave at St. Gregory's churchyard in Canterbury was among 200 other graves which were preventing the development of the churchyard into a Canterbury Christ Church University concert hall, as they could not be located for removal.

The replacement of Andrews ' keyboard playing with Gregory's 1960s-influenced guitar style steered the band on a path towards a more traditional rock sound ; Gregory also contributed occasional keyboards ( and later, string arrangements ).

There are two churches in the centre-Earlsfield Baptist church on Magdalen Road and St Andrews ( Church of England ) on the corner of Garratt Lane and Waynflete Street, with St Gregory's ( Catholic ) and St John the Divine ( CoE ) further down Garratt Lane towards Wandsworth.