In May 1553, in response to a public petition, the first royal charter for the town was issued by King Edward VI, granting it the status of borough.

In 1877, in response to a public petition, Queen Victoria issued the second royal charter, which granted city status to the borough and Cathedral status to the former Abbey Church.

* Autumn – In response to the actions of new royal administrators in north and west Wales, Madog ap Llywelyn leads a revolt against his English overlords.

Buchan put great effort into securing a positive response to the invitation sent to King George in May 1937 ; after more than a year without a reply, in June 1938 Buchan headed to the United Kingdom for personal holidays, but also to procure a decision on the possible royal tour.

In response the king summoned the Cortes, an assembly of nobles, clergy and representatives of cities, and subsequently faced demands for compensatory spending and greater external control and oversight of royal expenditures.

In response to both this and Coke's establishment of a sub-committee to establish freedom of speech and discuss the rights of the Commons, James announced that " you usurp upon our prerogative royal and meddle with things far above your reach ".

John Slezer | Slezer's Edinburgh Castle c. 1693 depicting the Scottish Union Flag. Despite the drawings described in this letter as showing drafts of the two new patterns, together with any royal response to the complaint which may have accompanied them, having been lost in a fire, other evidence exists, at least on paper, of a Scottish variant whereby the Scottish cross appears uppermost.

Her response deflates Holden's mood and prompts his remark: " You give me a royal pain in the ass, if you want to know the truth.

In 1400 the Welsh prince Owain Glyndŵr rose in rebellion against English rule, and in response in 1404 100 marks was spent by the royal government improving the fortifications to protect Brecon in the event of a Welsh attack.

In response to the appointment Duke of Richmond resigned a post in the royal household.

As a response to Al-Jazeera's criticism of the Saudi royal family throughout the 1990s, members of the Saudi royal family established Al Arabiya in Dubai in 2002.

Before 1 November 1755 there was a constant struggle for power and royal favor, but the competent response of the Marquis of Pombal effectively severed the power of the old aristocratic factions.

This was mainly in response to the closeness of the British royal family with some German thrones, leading to the loss of British titles from the dukes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Brunswick, the Crown Prince of Hanover, and the Viscount Taaffe.

The king, in response to Sir William fitz Warin's description of the assault on his castle, issued orders on 11 June 1297 to a number of Scots lords to raise their retinues and march into Moray to relieve fitz Warin and to restore royal authority.

The royal ministers had ordered an expansion of the Inquisition in response to the French Revolution.

Claiborne found a new ally in Richard Ingle, a pro-Parliament Puritan merchant whose ships had been seized by the Catholic authorities in Maryland in response to a royal decree against Parliament.

Welsh wrote to His Majesty thanking him for his support, the next day he received a royal response by telegram.

In response, a legal case was brought against the archbishop in Parliament alleging that because Bek was acting as the king's officer at the time, he wasn't acting as bishop but as earl palatine, and thus the excommunication was actually an affront to the royal dignity.

In Massachusetts, in November 1772, Samuel Adams and Dr. Joseph Warren formed a committee in response to the Gaspée Affair and in relation to the recent British decision to have the salaries of the royal governor and judges be paid by the Crown rather than the colonial assembly, which removed the colony of its means of controlling public officials.

However the King reneged on his promises made at Fréteval and in response Becket produced a number of censures on royal officials and clergymen.

Acting on orders from Charles III, Tanucci revived a law from 1751 banning Freemasonry in response to the discovery of a masonic lodge among the royal regiment.

In response to López's cutting off of the royal road between Mexico City and Valladolid, the viceroy sent a regiment of loyalist troops to put down the rebellion.

A response to Crowley that is thought to have been commissioned by and / or written by Parker, also in 1566, notes how Crowley's argument challenges the royal supremacy and was tantamount to rebellion.

The only response we can think of is the humble one that at least we aren't playing the marimba with our shoes in the United Nations, but perhaps the heavy domes in the house of delegates can improve on this feeble effort.

Groucho was the subject of an urban legend about a supposed response to a contestant who had nine children which supposedly brought down the house.

For a number of years French officials had been unsuccessful in dealing with the squalor of the growing Parisian slums, and Le Corbusier sought efficient ways to house large numbers of people in response to the urban housing crisis.

It is known, however, that Newton wrote some of the hymns in direct response to events around him ; ' Oh for a closer walk with God ' for instance was written in response to the serious illness then being suffered by Cowper's house companion, Mary Unwin, an illness she survived.

The group met with an enthusiastic response which culminated in a full house at the legendary Trade Union Club for their final show.

The series was originally published between 1867 and 1873 by the Presbyterian publishing house T. & T. Clark in Edinburgh under the title Ante-Nicene Christian Library, as a response to the Oxford movement's Library of the Fathers which was perceived as too Roman Catholic.

In response to the offer from Dr. L. C. Parnell, Jr., to house his Civil War collection in the existing library at 845 Valley Street if an expansion of the library were undertaken, Parnell Memorial Library Foundation was incorporated on March 23, 1998.

In response, the railway officials sent a force of men without notice to move the station house from Weaver City half a mile east across the state border, which they did on the Sunday morning of March 10, 1873.

Hale had no wish to receive the knighthood that accompanied this appointment and so tried to avoid being near the King ; in response, the Lord Chancellor Lord Clarendon invited him to his house, where the King was present.

In response, Tibbs attempts to rescue them himself while the Baduns are watching television, but they finish their show and come for them before he can get them out of the house.

In addition to allowing one to survive a disaster evacuation, a bug-out bag may also be utilized when sheltering in place as a response to emergencies such as house fires, blackouts, tornadoes, and other severe natural disasters.

Martin was not permitted to resume his seat until he had issued a formal apology from the bar of the house, pursuant to a motion passed in response to the incident.

* 1973 Chilean coup d ' état: In response to the increasing authoritarianism of Salvador Allende's government during a US-instigated economic crisis, the Supreme Court and lower house declared him out of order and urged the military to put an end to constitutional breaches.

Many seeds germinate at temperatures slightly above 60-75 F ( 16-24 C ) if you live in a centrally heated house, while others germinate just above freezing and others germinate only in response to alternations in temperature between warm and cool.

In response, Bendjedid conducted a house cleaning of senior officials and drew up a program of political reform.

An example of such confusion is the response to a recent experiment using magnetic resonance imaging which revealed that a woman diagnosed with PVS was able to activate predictable portions of her brain in response to the tester's requests that she imagine herself playing tennis or moving from room to room in her house.

Built in the late 1950s in response to the increasing threat of nuclear warfare during the Cold War, the 35-acre subterranean site was designed to be the main emergency government war headquarters of the UK outside of London and safely house up to 4, 000 central government personnel in the event of a nuclear strike.

Public and institutional response was unanimous on the need to rebuild a new opera house on the same site with improved facilities.

He is also known to make irrational decisions in response to problems, like selling the house because his brother hung out with a girl instead of him, without taking responsibility for it.

In May 2010, workers and young people established the Committee Against Utility Shutoffs ( CAUS ) in response to the deadly house fires in Detroit, Michigan that were " the result of the shutoff of gas and electrical service by the local utility monopoly, DTE Energy.

In response to a commandment to gather the saints and to build a house " to prepare them for the ordinances and endowments, washings, and anointings ", these ordinances were introduced in the Kirtland Temple on January 21, 1836.