* Smissen, R. D. ( December 2002 ).

" History and Theory 41, Theme Issue 41 ( December 2002 ), 90 – 103

A visit in December, 2002 showed that the three aqueducts mentioned above have been nearly completely destroyed.

The Sultan of Brunei visited Washington in December 2002.

Since the 2002 civil war in Côte d ' Ivoire, relations between it and Burkina Faso have been filled with accusations of Burkinabé support for rebels on one side and claims of mistreatment of Burkinabé workers on the other .< ref > Blaise Campaoré :<< La crise ivoirienne inquiète le Burkina >>, Le Figaro, December 11, 2005 </ ref > Côte d ' Ivoire remains Burkina Faso's largest regional trading partner in spite of their disputes and tens of thousands of Burkinabés continue to work in the Ivory Coast.

The December 2002 issue of Gear magazine featured a story about technologies and trends that could violate personal privacy moving society closer to a " Big Brother " state and utilised a recreation of the movie poster from the film version of 1984 created by Dallmeierart. com.

Prior to that Bernd Kellner computed B < sub > n </ sub > to full precision for n = 10 < sup > 6 </ sup > in December 2002 and Oleksandr Pavlyk for n = 10 < sup > 7 </ sup > with ' Mathematica ' in April 2008.

* becoming a member of the Central European Free Trade Agreement ( CEFTA ) in December 2002

In December 2002, the EU formally invited Cyprus to join in 2004, insisting that EU membership would apply to the whole island and hoping that it would provide a significant enticement for reunification resulting from the outcome of ongoing talks.

Under the Global and All-Inclusive Agreement, signed on 17 December 2002, in Pretoria, there was to be one President and four Vice-Presidents, one from the government, one from the Rally for Congolese Democracy, one from the MLC, and one from civil society.

One was recorded in 1812 ; one measuring 7. 6 on the Richter Scale hit on November 30, 1983 at 21: 46 local time and lasted 142 seconds, resulting in a small tsunami which raised wave height in the lagoon to 1. 5 metres ( 5 ft ), and another on December 2, 2002, an earthquake measuring 4. 6 on the Richter Scale struck the island at 12: 21 a. m.

On December 15, 2002, on the ensuing trial highlights the government's failure to demonstrate in court that the alleged coup attempt had ever actually taken place.

To date, and with support from Europe's National Meteorological Services and the European Commission, ECMWF has conducted two major reanalyses of the global atmosphere: the first ECMWF re-analysis ( ERA-15 ) project generated reanalyses from December 1978 to February 1994 ; the ERA-40 project generated reanalyses from September 1957 to August 2002.

* Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Southeast Asia, published March 1967 ( declassified December 2002 )

In December 2000 Guinea-Bissau qualified for almost $ 800 million in debt-service relief under the first phase of the enhanced HIPC initiative and is scheduled to submit its Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper in March 2002.

In 2002, the first bud appeared unusually early, on 7 February, and then again on 29 December of the same year.

With the exception of a single gray whale killed in 1999, the Makah people have been prevented from hunting by a series of legal challenges, culminating in a United States federal appeals court decision in December 2002 that required the National Marine Fisheries Service to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement.

From 25 users in July 1994, the number of users grew to 1, 000 by November 1995, 5, 000 by June 1996, 10, 000 by December 1996, 50, 000 by October 1999, 100, 000 in November 2001, and peaked around 142, 000 in April 2002.

* On December 19, 2002, AOL Time Warner announced that ICQ had been issued a United States patent for instant messaging.

On December 31, 2001, he was transferred to the USS Bataan, where he was held until January 22, 2002, when he was flown off the Bataan to begin the journey back to the United States to face criminal charges.

He would have to consent to a gag order that would prevent him from making any public statements on the matter for the duration of his 20-year sentence, and he would have to drop any claims that he had been mistreated or tortured by U. S. military personnel in Afghanistan and aboard two military ships during December 2001 and January 2002.

The strategy backfired, ripping his party wide open and resulting in its humiliating defeat of his candidate, Kenyatta's son, in the December 2002 general elections.

Constitutionally barred from running in the December 2002 presidential elections, Moi unsuccessfully promoted Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's first President, as his successor.

On 27 December 2002 by 62 % the voters overwhelmingly elected members of the National Rainbow Coalition ( NaRC ) to parliament and NaRC candidate Mwai Kibaki ( b. 1931 ) to the presidency.

On 13 December 2002, at the summit in Copenhagen ( Denmark ), Prime Minister Leszek Miller completed the negotiations with the European Union.

Han Yu died on December 25, 824 and was buried April 21, 825 in the ancestral cemetery at Ho-Yang.

Mary Leakey ( 6 February 1913 – 9 December 1996 ) was a British archaeologist and anthropologist, who discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull, an extinct ape now believed to be ancestral to humans, and also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge.

During the Second World War, the invasion of the Japanese bomber and fighter planes was destroyed and air-raid bombings of all villages include nipa houses, ancestral houses, Roman Catholic churches, plazas and municipal town hall when there burned around the municipal town of Gabaldon, Nueva Ecija in December 1941 during the Japanese Invasion.

Noon died on December 9, 1970 in his ancestral village of Nurpur Noon near Bhalwal, Sargodha District.

In December, the Assembly began to sell the lands to the highest bidder to raise revenue, effectively decreasing the value of the assignats by 25 % in two years.

On 17 December 1790 he created the Assistant Parish of Tuineje, which became a new parish division on 23 June 1792 under the bishop Tavira with lands including part of the Jandía peninsular with a population of 1, 670 inhabitants.

Papal intervention through the legate Ottobuono finally resulted in the compromise of the Dictum of Kenilworth, under which the rebels were allowed to re-purchase their confiscated lands provided they surrendered the castle ; the siege ended on 14 December 1266.

* December 11 – Apollo 17 lands on the Moon.

On December 16, 1811, the New Madrid Earthquake shook the Muscogee lands and the Midwest.

On 29 December 1724, Peter I of Russia asked Bering to command a voyage east, probably to map the lands ( and possibly seas ) between Russia's eastern boundary and the North America continent.

In December 1404 the king granted the royal Stewart lands in the west, in Ayrshire and around the Firth of Clyde, to James in regality protecting them from outside interference and providing the prince with a territorial base should the need arise.

Buchan's lands did not fall to the Albany Stewarts but were forfeited by the crown, Albany's father-in-law, Duncan, Earl of Lennox was imprisoned and in December the duke's main ally Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar settled his differences with the king.

Russell County was established by an act of the state general assembly on December 18, 1832, from lands ceded to the state by the Creek Indians.

On December 26, 1541, he accepted to be elected chief of the new expedition and to conquer new lands in name of the king.

Hall County was created on December 15, 1818, from Cherokee lands ceded by the Treaty of Cherokee Agency ( 1817 ) and Treaty of Washington ( 1819 ).

An act of December 3, 1832 divided the Cherokee lands into ten new counties — Cass ( later renamed Bartow ), Cherokee, Cobb, Floyd, Forsyth, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Murray, Paulding, and Union.

It was not until December 29, 1835 that Georgia had an official basis for claiming the unceded Cherokee lands that included the future location of Gordon County.

Bartow County was created from the Cherokee lands of the Cherokee County territory on December 3, 1832, and named Cass County, after General Lewis Cass ( 1782 – 1866 ) Secretary of War under President Jackson, Minister to France and Secretary of State under President Buchannan, until renamed on December 6, 1861 in honor of Francis S. Bartow.

On December 27, 1889, Madison was incorporated as a borough with portions of the rural lands that had formerly been within the township.

Ultimately, the town paid the railroad $ 18, 000 in cash and half of the town's common lands for a railroad connection, and by December 1905 the tracks had been laid and a depot built about a mile from the city.

In 1805 Württemberg took up arms on the side of France, and by the Treaty of Pressburg in December 1805 the elector received as reward various Austrian possessions in Swabia and other lands in the area ( Vorderösterreich ).

Robert III again exhibited his new resolve when in December 1404 he created a new regality in the Stewartry for his sole remaining son and heir James now earl of Carrick — an act designed to prevent these lands falling into Albany's hands.

The British entered into a treaty in December 1915 ( the " Treaty of Darin ") which made the lands of the House of Saud a British protectorate and attempted to define the boundaries of the developing Saudi state.

* December 29, 1835: Treaty of New Echota signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi to the United States

In December 1551 he was a Commissioner to inspect the Courts which controlled the Crown lands.

He was soon busily employed in preparing a census of the farms of the royal revenues ( 22 December 1558 ), in examining Queen Mary's grants of land, in compounding with those who refused knighthood ( 28 March 1559 ), in directing the issue of a new coinage ( 29 October 1560 ), and in selling crown lands ( May 1563 ).

On December 1, the state legislature voted to cede its trans-Appalachian lands to the new federal government.

The first sale of Crown lands in St. Kilda took place on 7 December 1842.