La Salle's explorations gave France a claim to the Mississippi River Valley, where fur trappers and a few settlers set up scattered settlements.

Great Britain based its claim in part on British overland explorations of the Columbia River by David Thompson and on prior discovery and exploration along the Coast.

Spain's claim was based on the Inter caetera and Treaty of Tordesillas of 1493-94, as well as explorations of the Pacific coast in the late 18th century.

Russia based its claim off its explorations and trading activities in the region and asserted its ownership of the region north of the 51st parallel by the Ukase of 1821, which was quickly challenged by the other powers and withdrawn to 54 ° 40 ′ N by separate treaties with the US and Britain in 1824 and 1825 respectively.

La Salle's explorations gave France a claim to the Mississippi River valley, where fur trappers and a few colonists set up scattered settlements.

The Dutch thought they also had a claim, based on the 1609 explorations of Henry Hudson, and, under the auspices of the Dutch West India Company, were the first Europeans to occupy the land.

The explorations of James Cook and George Vancouver, and the concessions of Spain in 1792 established the British claim to the coast north of California.

The Amazon Basin and some large adjoining regions had been considered Spanish territory since the Treaty of Tordesillas and explorations such as that by Francisco de Orellana, but the Treaty of Tordesillas was rendered meaningless between 1580 and 1640 while Spain controlled Portugal.

This territory was already considered as part of New Spain by the Spanish due to the previous explorations of the region.

As European explorations continued in the Americas, maps reduced the scale of the island Antillia, tending to place it mid-Atlantic, whereas the Seven Cities were attributed to mainland Central or North America, as the various European powers vied for territory in the New World.

In 1882 – 1883 he explored the Andes from Bolivia southward, and in 1884 – 1885 he made new explorations of the territory south of the Río Negro and of Patagonia.

These observations formed the basis of his explorations of the laws of optics that would culminate in Astronomiae Pars Optica.

The publication cited his groundbreaking photography, " his explorations of film, painting, sculpture, collage, assemblage and prototypes of what would eventually be called performance art and conceptual art.

While Davis ' explorations of modal jazz were sporadic throughout the 1960s — he would include several of the tunes from Kind of Blue in the repertoire of his " Second Great Quintet "— Coltrane would take the lead in extensively exploring the limits of modal improvisation and composition with his own classic quartet, featuring Elvin Jones ( drums ), McCoy Tyner ( piano ), and Reggie Workman and Jimmy Garrison ( bass ).

Coltrane's modal explorations gave rise to an entire generation of saxophonists ( mostly playing tenor saxophone ) that would then go on to further explore modal jazz ( often in combination with jazz fusion ), such as Michael Brecker, David Liebman, Steve Grossman, and Bob Berg.

During his explorations of the land that would become Bullitt County, he came upon an unusually large salt lick subsequently named after him: Bullitt's Lick.

The early French expeditions paved the way for explorations of a deeper scope that would follow from the 19th century until today, conducted by leading explorers, Egyptologists and major archaeological institutions.

* Karl Richard Lepsius, during the Prussian expedition of 1842, made a quick survey of the ruins and created a first detailed map that would serve as the basis for all future explorations and excavations.

These early explorations became the foundation of the technology he would later implement in his evaporator.

Cosmologists and theoretical physicists have regarded such observations as key in the search for explorations of physics in the energy realms which would require new theories of quantum gravity and other theories which predict events at the Planck scale.

His ( now ship-borne ) explorations found no Norse survivors along the western shore and future work was misled by the two mistaken beliefs both prevalent at the time that the Eastern Settlement would be located on Greenland's east coast ( it was later established it had been among the fjords of the island's extreme southwest ) and that a strait existed nearby communicating with the western half of the island.

When Infante Dom Henry the Navigator commenced his explorations, which would initiate the Portuguese Age of Discoveries, at his Vila do Infante, Sagres peninsula lacked the necessary requirements for such large undertakings.

They would collect, examine, describe, and arrange data from their explorations into categories according to certain criteria.

Vancouver would make the most extensive explorations of the region during his expeditions.

In late 1786 Vashon was recalled to service and took command of the 50-gun, where serving under him were Midshipmen James Baker and Peter Puget, and Lieutenant George Vancouver, who would become significant in future explorations of the area of Washington State.

1940 ) explorations by Czarist spy who would later become President of Finland.

Archer is troubled that he must write a speech about how worthwhile their explorations have been, despite his friend's death, but T ' Pol assures him that Tucker would have considered it worthwhile.

As a result of these explorations, Governor Stirling decided that the new district would be thrown open for selection and this was done by Government Notice on 11 November 1830.

The American explorations of the Argive Heraeum, concluded in 1895, also failed to prove that site to have been important in the prehistoric time, though, as was to be expected from its neighbourhood to Mycenae itself, there were traces of occupation in the later Aegean periods.

Also, research suggested ( which was later confirmed by other explorations ) that Venus rotates very slowly and in a direction opposite that of the Earth.

In many later episodes, in fact, the crimes often became background to intense, provocative explorations of the police officers ' reactions to the crimes they investigated.

The American explorations of the Argive Heraeum, concluded in 1895, also failed to prove that site to have been important in the prehistoric time, though, as was to be expected from its neighbourhood to Mycenae itself, there were traces of occupation in the later Aegean periods.

The first recorded observation of the strait occurred nearly two hundred years later than the earliest European explorations of the coast ; in 1769 Sgt.

Some of Smithson's later writings recovered 18th-and 19th-century conceptions of landscape architecture which influenced the pivotal earthwork explorations which characterized his later work.

The literary role of artificial life has evolved over time: early myths present animated objects as instruments of divine will, later stories treat their attempted creation as a blasphemy with inevitable consequences, and modern tales range from apocalyptic warnings against blind technological progress to explorations of the ethical questions raised by the possibility of sentient machines.

In 1789, he descended the Grand River ( now called the Mackenzie River ) to the Arctic Ocean, and in 1793 he went overland from Peace River to the Pacific Ocean Further explorations were performed by David Thompson, starting in 1797, and later by Simon Fraser.

A series of explorations after 1850 helped to shape the understanding of the area that later became the park.

The official history of Nicholas Baudin's explorations in Le Géographe claimed they too had sighted the entrance at that time ( 30 March 1802 ) but this is almost certainly a later embellishment or error, being absent from the ship's logs and Baudin's own accounts.

Describes Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza's extensive explorations of what became French Congo, and later, French Equatorial Africa.

) This project was an early component of her explorations of the connections between body and mind, which later took her to Tibet and the Australian desert.

Hawks noted how " n repeated conversations with the present writer, the attention of Mr. Stephens was called to the ruins of Guatemala and Yucatan "; the two books Stephens had later written on his explorations of that region are regarded as foundational works in the then-young science of American archaeology.

Also the later explorations of Velvet Underground's band members, specifically those of Lou Reed, have been called a major influence to what later became neofolk.

He was later posted to Africa in the mid-1870s, taking part in explorations and various military expeditions.

The Enterprise, meanwhile, having arrived at Point Barrow in 1850 a fortnight later than the Investigator, had found its passage blocked by winter ice and had had to turn back and return the following year ; it conducted its own Arctic explorations, but credit for the Northwest Passage already belonged to McClure.

De Rode Ridder, the story of a medieval knight, wandered from Arthurian tales over the crusades until the explorations of the fifteenth and sixteenth century, thereby spanning some ten centuries, and later ( when Vandersteen was less involved in the series ) brought in many elements of sword and sorcery and fantasy.

Some time around 1503 Ringmann visited Italy, where he first learned about explorations of the recently discovered western lands later known as the New World and later named the Americas.