Shakespearean scholar David Haley notes that in order to have written Coriolanus, Edward de Vere " must have foreseen the Midland Revolt grain riots 1607 reported in Coriolanus ", a view most Shakespeareans accept.

* June 8 – Newton rebellion: The Tresham landowners family kills 40 – 50 peasants during protests against the enclosure of common land in Newton, Northamptonshire, UK, at the culmination of the Midland Revolt.

* In the Midland Revolt against Enclosures in England, the term Levellers is first used.

In June 1607 at the nearby village of Newton, the Newton Rebellion broke out, causing a brief uprising known as the Midland Revolt, which involved several nearby villages.

* Midland Revolt

The play's themes of popular discontent with government have been connected by scholars with the Midland Revolt, a series of peasant riots in 1607 that would have affected Shakespeare as an owner of land in Stratford-upon-Avon ; and the debates over the charter for the City of London, which Shakespeare would have been aware of, as it affected the legal status of the area surrounding the Blackfriars Theatre.

In 1607, the Midland Revolt occurred.

Place name scholars have found a number of place names through the Midland dialect regions of Britain that incorporate the ambre-element: examples include Ombersley in Worcestershire, Ambrosden in Oxfordshire, Amberley in Herefordshire, Amberley in Gloucestershire and Amberley in West Sussex.

* Midland, California, former name of Midoil, California

* Midland, Texas, the most populous and largest US city with this name.

* Midland Red, the fleet and trading name used by the Birmingham & Midland Motor Omnibus Company ( BMMO )

The town was platted in 1820 and was originally called Osceola ; however, there was already a town of that name in the state, and so the name of Advance was chosen " in anticipation of the advancement which the coming of the Midland Railway would bring to the community ".

Some say that Midland derived its name from its location, some say it was named after the Midlands in Scotland by the Scottish settlers.

Oakland was home to the Swedish Basketball Classic from 1993-2006, which has since moved to Midland University in Fremont, NE and changed its name to the Warrior Classic.

The main impetus behind the change in name was to avoid confusion with the nearby community of Midland Park.

It was founded in 1894 by Anthony Wechtenhiser and received its name from its central location along the projected Midland Railroad.

Midland was originally established in June 1881 as Midway Station, on the Texas and Pacific Railway ; it earned its name because of its central location between Fort Worth and El Paso.

" But because there were already other towns in Texas by the name of Midway, the city changed its name to Midland in January 1884 when it was granted its first Post Office.

The name turnip is also used in parts of Northern and Midland England, Ontario and Atlantic Canada.

Midland Mainline ( legal name Midland Main Line Limited, company no 3007934 ) was a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by National Express that operated the Midland Main Line franchise from April 1996 until November 2007.

On 1 July 1903, the Midland Railway took over the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway and operated it under the name of Midland Railway ( Northern Counties Committee ).

The SMJR came into being from the amalgamation of ' The East & West Junction Railway ' ( E + WJR ), ' The Evesham, Redditch and Stratford Railway ' ( ER + SR ), and changing its name to ‘ The Stratford-upon-Avon, Towcester and Midland Junction Railway ’ ( ST + MJR ), ‘ The Easton Neston Mineral and Towcester, Roade and Olney Junction Railway ’ ( ENM + TROJR ).

Since then the ' Midland Road ' was dropped from the station name.

That year, Searle split Midland Light Car Bodies from Rover in an effort to save money < Ref name = NMM /> and instructed Robert Boyle and Maurice Wilks to design a new small car.

It is owned and promoted by Centro, and operated by West Midlands Travel Limited, a subsidiary of the National Express Group ( NEG ), under the brand name Travel Midland Metro ( TMM ).

The first British railway to build coaches with bogies, instead of rigidly mounted axles, was the Midland Railway in 1874.

An example of this is the British narrowboat, which is up to long and wide and was primarily built for British Midland canals.

His Scottish father was manager of the Midland Bank's Wembley branch.

His father, in 1829, was appointed a magistrate for the Midland District.

When he was aged 10, his family scraped together the money to send him to Midland District Grammar School in Kingston.

Laura Lane Welch was born in Midland, Texas, the only child of Harold Welch ( 1912 – 1995 ) and Jenna Louise Hawkins Welch ( born 1919 ).

According to the accident report released by the city of Midland in 2000, in response to an open-records request, she was not charged in the incident.

Mark Edward Whitacre ( born May 1, 1957 ) came to public attention in 1995 when, as president of the BioProducts Division at Archer Daniels Midland ( ADM ), he was the highest-level corporate executive in U. S. history to become a Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) whistleblower.

Lee was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, the seventh of eight children of Marvin Olof Egstrom, a station agent for the Midland Continental Railroad, and his wife Selma Amelia ( Anderson ) Egstrom.

However, author Brian Keogh concluded in his privately published history of the Lea & Perrins firm on the 100th anniversary of the Midland Road plant, that " No Lord Sandys was ever governor of Bengal, or as far as any records show, ever in India.

Chancery Standard was largely based on the London and East Midland dialects, for those areas were the political and demographic centres of gravity.

* Also during 1965 through 1968, Dr. Albert M. Kligman was contracted by the Dow Chemical Company to perform threshold tests for TCDD on inmates at Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia after Dow studies revealed adverse effects on workers at Dow's Midland, Michigan plant were likely due to TCDD.

Rolls was introduced to Henry Royce by a friend at the Automobile Club, Henry Edmunds, who was also a director of Royce Ltd. Edmunds showed him Royce's car and arranged the historic meeting between Rolls and Royce at the Midland Hotel, Manchester, on 4 May 1904.

This cavalry force was composed of the few Midland English Royalists who had rallied to Charles II, and largely consisted of Lord Talbot's troop of horse.

Much of the film version was shot at Carnforth railway station in Lancashire, then a junction on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

The club was formed in 1901 when struggling Football League Club Burton Swifts amalgamated with Midland League ( and ex-Football League ) club Burton Wanderers.

The Art Deco Midland Hotel was built in 1932-33 by the London Midland & Scottish Railway to the design of Oliver Hill and included works by Gill, Marion Dorn and Eric Ravilious.

The third railway at Temple Meads was the Bristol and Gloucester Railway which opened on 8 July 1844 but was taken over by the Midland Railway ( MR ) on 1 July 1845.

The following year saw local services on the Midland Railway route to Gloucester withdrawn and the former Midland route to via was closed on 7 March 1966. and on the line towards Bath survived until 5 January 1970.

Clayton Wheat Williams, Jr., the 1990 Republican gubernatorial nominee, was reared in Fort Stockton but resides in Midland.