A papal dispensation had to be granted for Henry to be able to marry Catherine, and the negotiations took some time.

Since Spain and England still wanted an alliance, a dispensation was granted by Pope Julius II on the grounds that Catherine was still a virgin.

Since 2000, there have been bun-throwing ceremonies to commemorate the Millennium, the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 2002, 450th anniversary of the town's being granted a Royal Charter in 2006, and the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton on the 29th April 2011.

It was an unusual and controversial move but ' wishing to please Catherine and perhaps demonstrate the futility of moves for divorce ' the King granted his permission.

In 1948, Martin traveled with his presidential nominee Thomas E. Dewey in North Attleboro, where Martin's mother, the former Catherine Keating ( died 1957 ), told the confident Dewey, the governor of New York, that he was too complacent in the campaign and could not take victory for granted.

At the end of the 18th century, it was granted by Catherine II of Russia to ataman Vasyl Orlov as a reward for his excellent military service.

The Catherine wheels on the banner were taken from the Armorial Bearings granted to him by the College of Arms.

Catherine the Great granted Rybnaya Sloboda municipal rights and renamed it Rybinsk.

Buy was granted town status in 1778, during the reign of Catherine the Great.

From the 18th century onwards, the title was occasionally granted by the Tsar, for the first time by Peter the Great to his associate Alexander Menshikov, and then by Catherine the Great to her lover Grigory Potemkin.

It was granted city status by Catherine the Great in 1780, and later became the administrative center of Komi Autonomous Oblast.

It was granted official town status by Catherine the Great in 1775 for the town's loyalty to the Empress during the Pugachev uprising of 1773 – 1774.

From the middle of the 18th century Gzhatsk was a sloboda, and in 1776 under a decree by Catherine the Great it was granted status of an uyezd town and received a coat of arms showing " a barge loaded with bread ready for departure, on a field argent ", meaning that the town was a good landing stage for grain.

In October, 1795 Catherine II of Russia granted Šiauliai the city rights and the privilege to become the capital town of the region.

The same year he was granted a second earldom of Clanricarde in the Peerage of Ireland, with remainder, failing male issue of his own, to his daughters Lady Hester Catherine de Burgh, wife of Howe Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo, and Lady Emily de Burgh, and the heirs male of their bodies according to priority of birth.

The BBFC has previously granted 18 certificates for movies containing short scenes of unsimulated sex, such as Catherine Breillat's Romance ( in 1999 ), Virginie Despentes's Baise Moi ( in 2000 ) and Patrice Chéreau's Intimacy ( in 2001 ).

In 1765, Catherine the Great bought Gatchina with suburban twenty villages, then she granted it to her favorite General Count Orlov.

In November 1796, following the death of his mother, Catherine the Great, Paul became Emperor Paul I of Russia, and granted Gatchina the status of the Imperial City-official residence of the Russian Emperors.

Shelikhov controlled a monopoly on Aleutian fur-trading activities granted by Empress Catherine II of Russia, but often took on partners to help fund his activities ; the two men would later become rivals.

The neighbouring Manor of Canbury ( Kingston ) was also granted to William in 1640, but, in 1641, he passed it to Thomas Bruce, Lord Elgin, a relative of his wife. William and his wife, Catherine, extensively redecorated and refurbished the interior of the house, many features of which survive to this day including the great staircase.

Podolsk was granted town status by Catherine the Great in 1791.

This precedent appears to have been set when the BBFC granted 18 certificates for films containing short scenes of unsimulated sex, such as Catherine Breillat's Romance ( in 1999 ) and Patrice Chéreau's Intimacy ( in 2001 ).

Britain's Australian colonies granted male suffrage from the 1850s and in 1895 the women of South Australia achieved the right to both vote and stand for Parliament, enabling Catherine Helen Spence to be the first to stand as a political candidate in 1897.

This contradicts David Assouline, who was granted in 1997 limited access to consult part of the police documents ( which were supposed to be classified until 2012 ) by Minister of Culture Catherine Trautmann ( PS ).

In 50, Agrippina was granted the honorific title of Augusta, a title which, up until this point, no other imperial woman had ever received in the lifetime of her husband.

Remembered as a notable administrator, Afonso III founded several towns, granted the title of city to many others and reorganized public administration.

Crassus laid siege to fort, but had to enlist the assistance of Rholes, the Getan petty king to dislodge them, for which service Rholes was granted the title of socius et amicus populi Romani (" ally and friend of the Roman people ").

Daniel Amneus, however, argues that when Ross and Angus bring King Duncan's praise, and the news that Macbeth has been granted the title of Thane of Cawdor, the " greater honor " he ascribes to Macbeth is actually his title as Prince of Cumberland.

He was granted the honorific " Britannicus " but only accepted it on behalf of his son, never using the title himself.

Most in the crowd believed they knew what would follow ; Constantine and Maxentius, the only adult sons of a reigning Emperor, men who had long been preparing to succeed their fathers, would be granted the title of Caesar.

In Austria, the title " Doktor " is granted to physicians and dentists ( Dr. med.

Undergraduate education was given in four or five year programs until 2002, styled along the lines of the German system of education ; graduates of these programs were granted an engineering title and allowed to prefix their name with the title ir.

Since there was no " title " of Empress (- consort ) whatsoever, women of the reigning dynasty sought to be granted this honorific, as the highest attainable goal.

Few were however granted the title, and certainly not as a rule all wives of reigning Emperors.

In the late Republic, as in the early years of the new monarchy, Imperator was a title granted to Roman generals by their troops and the Roman Senate after a great victory, roughly comparable to field marshal ( head or commander of the entire army ).

That title was relinquished by the last Kaisar-i-Hind George VI when India was granted independence on 15 August 1947.

* 1478 30 September – The Catholic Monarchs granted the title of Marquis of Gibraltar to the Duke of Medina Sidonia.

Later each colony was granted its own governor and thus the title of Governor-General lapsed until the establishment of the Commonwealth in 1901.

She was granted the title of " Nobilissima Puella " (" Most Noble Girl ") during her childhood.

This may even lead to an institutional variability, as in North Korea, where, after the presidency of party leader Kim Il-Sung, the office was vacant for years, the late president being granted the posthumous title ( akin to some ancient Far Eastern traditions to give posthumous names and titles to royalty ) of " Eternal President " ( while all substantive power, as party leader, itself not formally created for four years, was inherited by his son Kim Jong Il, initially without any formal office ) until it was formally replaced on 5 September 1998, for ceremonial purposes, by the office of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, while the party leader's post as Chairman of the National Defense Commission was simultaneously declared " the highest post of the state ", not unlike Deng Xiaoping earlier in the People's Republic of China.

In 1701 the title of King in Prussia was granted, without the Duchy of Prussia being elevated to a Kingdom within the Holy Roman Empire.

In 1772 the title of King of Prussia was granted with the establishment of the Kingdom of Prussia.

A major factor in the ascendancy of Moscow was the cooperation of its rulers with the Mongol overlords, who granted them the title of Grand Prince of Moscow and made them agents for collecting the Tatar tribute from the Russian principalities.

* 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.

A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a monarch or other political leader for service to the monarch or country, especially in a military capacity.

Musashi's father, Munisai, also fought against a master of the Yoshioka school and won 2 out of 3 bouts in front of the shogun at the time, Ashikaga Yoshiaki who granted him the title of " Unrivaled Under The Sun ".