When two of the founders of that society, Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott, moved to India at the end of that year, he was constituted as the President of the American body.

On 15 December 1840, brought back to France from Saint Helena, Napoleon's remains passed under it on their way to the Emperor's final resting place at the Invalides.

Constantine directed his mother, Helena, to build churches upon sites which commemorated the life of Jesus Christ ; she was present in 326 at the construction of the church on the site, and involved herself in the excavations and construction.

During the excavation, Helena is alleged to have rediscovered the True Cross, and a tomb, though Eusebius's account makes no mention of Helena's presence at the excavation, nor of the finding of the cross but only the tomb.

150 miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate Army is repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.

After his return to the United States in September 1927, Hubbard enrolled at Helena High School but earned only poor grades.

* 1864 – Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at " Last Chance Gulch ".

In Amsterdam, he had a relationship with a servant girl, Helena Jans van der Strom, with whom he had a daughter, Francine, who was born in 1635 in Deventer, at which time Descartes taught at the Utrecht University.

Most historical accounts state the island was discovered on 21 May 1502 by the Galician navigator João da Nova sailing at the service of the Portuguese Crown, on his voyage home from India, and that he named it " Santa Helena " after Helena of Constantinople.

Bermudez, the Patriarch of Abyssinia landed at St Helena in 1557 on a voyage to Portugal, remaining on the island for a year.

Another English seaman, Captain Abraham Kendall, visited Saint Helena in 1591, and in 1593 Sir James Lancaster stopped at the island on his way home from the East.

As a result, in 1592 Philip II of Spain and I of Portugal ( 1527 – 1598 ) ordered the annual fleet returning from Goa on no account to touch at St Helena.

By 1649, the East India Company ordered all homeward-bound vessels to wait for one another at St Helena and in 1656 onward the Company petitioned the government to send a man-of-war to convoy the fleet home from there.

A fleet commanded by Captain John Dutton ( first governor, 1659 – 1661 ) in the Marmaduke arrived at St Helena in 1659.

William Dampier called into St Helena in 1691 at the end of his first of three circumnavigations of the world and stated Jamestown comprised 20 – 30 small houses built with rough stones furnished with mean furniture.

Captain Bligh arrived at St Helena in 1792 during his second attempt to ship a cargo of bread-fruit trees to Jamaica.

As a result of a policy of recruiting time-expired soldiers calling at the island on their voyage home from India, the St Helena Regiment was built up to 1, 000 men by 1800.

Napoleon at Saint Helena.

This precursor to the effects of the Suez Canal ( 1869 ), coupled with the advent of steam shipping that was not reliant on trade winds led to a gradual reduction in the number of ships calling at St Helena and to a decline in its strategic importance to Britain and economic fortunes.

The squadron was based at St Helena and a Vice Admiralty Court was based at Jamestown to try the crews of the slave ships.

The same year, St Helena coffee was sold in London at 1d per pound, making it the most expensive and exclusive in the world.

St Helena coffee grown on the Bamboo Hedge Estate at Sandy Bay won a premier award at the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in 1851.

In 1839, London coffee merchants Wm Burnie & Co described St Helena coffee as being of “ very superior quality and flavour ”.

Falco met his wife, Helena Justina, the divorced and patrician daughter of a senator, while on an investigation in Britannia ( The Silver Pigs ), but their very different circumstances made their relationship difficult.

As a feature adjacent to the Helena River Valley it has significance in aboriginal folklore, and also featured very early on in early European settler's diaries.

While in exile on Saint Helena, Napoleon admitted, I certainly used that man very ill ...

According to the memoirs of Helena's daughter, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, Helena was very intelligent, had an extremely strong sense of duty, and a genuine love of welfare work.

Edith enjoyed a very special bond with her mother, and Helena supported her daughter's wish to become a poet.

Others are native to southern Madagascar, eastern Africa, Yemen, Asia Minor and two very isolated islands in the south Atlantic Ocean ( Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha ).

No political parties exist ; " MPs have very close links with their island constituencies and effort is directed towards balancing island representation in Cabinet " Other nonpartisan island nations are Pitcairn, Micronesia, Saint Helena, and Palau.

In May 2003, Martz made it into the news, through no action of her own, because of a supposed similarity to the face and hair of one nude bordello dancer sculpted by Seattle artist Kristine Veith, and placed in a new development in downtown Helena. Both Martz and Veith deny the similarity, with Martz stating, possibly partially tongue-in-cheek, " I'm a very modest person, no one would ever see me like that.

Watson was virtually unknown until director Lars von Trier chose her to star in his controversial Breaking the Waves after Helena Bonham Carter dropped out " at the very last minute.

McKean described Brighton as " more bohemian, so that fits with the whole circus thing, with Helena ’ s family ", and that he liked the specific apartment building-Embassy Court-that they used because " it ’ s very distinctive, imposing, it does have this character, but it also represents Helena ’ s collapse and her disintegration into this other world and it ’ s a potent symbol for her mother.

There's friction, because once Helena puts the mask on, she's really not very good fitting in.

Las Cases and his son accompanied the ex-emperor to Saint Helena and acted informally but very assiduously as his secretary, taking down numerous notes of his conversations which thereafter took form in the famous Mémorial de Ste Hélène.

The French, Russian and Austrian Commissioners on St Helena, whilst hostile to Napoleon, were also very critical of Lowe's conduct and found it impossible to get on with him.

Helena arrives to say goodbye, intending to leave very soon herself.

Helena Ivanovna ’ s sparkle proficiency in many languages and deep knowledge of philosophy made it possible to manage this work during very short time ( less than two years ).

He escaped execution because of his royal descent and was exiled to St Helena, where he remained very cheerful and organizing sports and other activities for his fellow prisoners.

Helena is one of the iconic four young lovers in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and is a very desperate woman.

Helena is considered to be a very vulnerable, sensitive and obsessive character, due to her growing up in the shadow of Hermia, as well as because of her treatment by Demetrius: she shows strength and a new belief in herself by refusing his advances when she believes he is making fun of her, despite the fact that he claimed that she was his one true love.

Hermia is also very short ; and that is why Helena takes advantage of this by calling her short when they have a row.

The two volumes entitled ' Letters of Helena Roerich ' help to explain in greater detail many of the topics mentioned in the Agni Yoga books, and act as a very useful, if not essential, guide for all students of the Living Ethics.

He came to the United States at the very end of the 19th century, to visit his Aunt Helena, who then lived in California.