The school celebrated its bicentenary year during 2007.

The Society celebrated its bicentenary in 2007 with a number of programmes to raise the profile of the geosciences in Britain and abroad under the auspices of the well-known popular science writer and palaeontologist Professor Richard Fortey, the president that year.

Eton has the balance of wins, but the victor in the bicentenary year was Harrow.

This came to the attention of Nicholas Payne, General Director of Opera North, who scheduled its première for 1991, the year of the bicentenary of Mozart's death.

The proclamation of an international year to commemorate the struggle against slavery and its abolition marked the bicentenary of the proclamation of the first black state, Haiti, as well as the reunion of the peoples of Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe.

In 1997, its bicentenary year, Norwich Union demutualised and floated as a public limited company on the London Stock Exchange.

The Concert Overture " William Cobbett " was created by making a transcription for orchestra of the Rondo for oboe and piano in 1962, the bicentenary year of Cobbett's birth ( 9 March 1762 ) at Farnham in Surrey, close to where the composer was born and grew up.

In October 1988 the locomotive arrived in Australia to take part in that country's bicentenary celebrations and during the course of the next year it travelled more than over Australian rails, including a transcontinental run from Sydney to Perth.

She has also written on Darwin ’ s connections with the Royal Botanic Garden for Kew Magazine, and led special guided tours of Kew in Darwin ’ s bicentenary year, 2009.

A new commission by The Royal Danish Ballet, to celebrate Hans Christian Andersen's bicentenary, was Lera Auerbach's second collaboration with choreographer John Neumeier.

The school celebrated its bicentenary in 2000, when it was visited by HRH The Princess Royal.

The fire began in the steeple of the courthouse, which was under reconstruction for Madison's bicentenary.

It also contains a bronze statue of the famous racehorse Phar Lap, which was donated to the Club as part of Australia's bicentenary celebrations in 1988.

The complex's elaborate opening ceremony was a centrepiece of Australia's bicentenary celebrations, which were held nationwide to mark the 200th anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet from England, and the foundation of European settlement in what was to become the City of Sydney in 1788.

The purpose of the Act was to allow the Commonwealth of Australia to retain the original copy of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 ( Imp ), which the British government had loaned for the celebration in 1988 of the bicentenary of British settlement in Australia.

Revel Horwood directed the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester and staged Once Upon a Time-The Life of Hans Christian Andersen, a live concert in Copenhagen to mark the author's bicentenary which was televised worldwide.

Newcastle Buses & Ferries operates two vessels, Shortland and Hunter, both of which entered service in 1988, Australia's bicentenary.

Milestone events in this realm include the bicentenary celebrations of Swaminarayan in 1981 and of Gunatitanand Swami in 1985, which saw the initiation of 200 and 173 sadhus, respectively, in a single day.

On 9 May 1988, a larger and permanent Parliament House was opened on Capital Hill as part of Australia's bicentenary celebrations, and the Federal Parliament moved there from the Provisional Parliament House, now known as Old Parliament House .< ref name = pho >

There was a child-oriented Prom to mark the Darwin bicentenary as well as a Free Family Prom including the Proms Family Orchestra.

In 2005, as part of the bicentenary re-enactment of the arrival of the news, aboard the Bermuda sloop HMS Pickle, of Admiral Nelson's victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the actor playing the part of Trafalgar messenger Lieutenant Lapenotiere was welcomed at Lyme Regis.

She was built to take part in the celebrations commemorating the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in 2005.

The work was commissioned to mark the Australian bicentenary in 1988.

It was the result of an exhibition and symposium at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1990 to commemorate the bicentenary of Cullen's death.

It was presented in his bicentenary ( 2005 ) and commemorates his 23 January 1833 landing on Wulaia Cove.

In 1997, on its bicentenary, 7 January was declared festa del tricolore ; it is intended as a celebration, though not a public holiday.

It was made for the bicentenary of Australia's colonisation, and is in remembrance of Aboriginal people who had died protecting their land during conflict with settlers.

To mark the bicentenary of Berlioz's birth in 2003, Les Troyens was revived in productions at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris ( conducted by John Eliot Gardiner ), Amsterdam ( conducted by Edo de Waart ), and at the Metropolitan Opera ( with the American mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson as Dido, conducted by James Levine ).

Such inscriptions on a church are very rare ; this one was restored during the 1989 bicentenary of the French Revolution.

To mark the bicentenary of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in 1994, the station was redesigned by Belgian comics artist François Schuiten in a steam punk style reminiscent of the science fiction works of Jules Verne.

The project was initiated by Tristan Fry ( due to his parallel work with both band and orchestra ) and was inspired by the bicentenary of Mozart's death.

The mausoleum was constructed by the architect Friedrich Lahrs and was finished in 1924 in time for the bicentenary of Kant's birth.

After 1705 it disappeared as a staged work, with only sporadic concert performances, until 1895 when the first staged version in modern times was performed by students of the Royal College of Music at London's Lyceum Theatre to mark the bicentenary of Purcell's death.

Queen Elizabeth also toured New Zealand on a number of other occasions: between 6 and 18 February 1963, she attended celebrations at Waitangi and the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council was founded as the nation's gift to the monarch ; from 12 to 30 March 1970, the Queen, accompanied by Prince Charles and Princess Anne, participated in the James Cook bicentenary celebrations ; between 30 January and 8 February 1974, and she attended and closed that year's Commonwealth Games in Christchurch and participated in New Zealand Day events at Waitangi.

In any case, Kenau's role as an earth carrier was soon glorified into a full fledged soldier who was honored at the centennial celebrations of independence from Spain in 1673 and again during the bicentenary in 1773.

In 2003, the bicentenary of Berlioz's birth, his achievements and status are much more widely recognised, and his music is viewed as both serious and original, rather than an eccentric novelty.

It commemorated the Mozart bicentenary by presenting four Mozart operas in all capital cities, travelling more than 10, 000 kilometres, and giving 169 performances.

In 1953 the Museum celebrated its bicentenary.

Banknotes are mostly paper, but Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation developed the world's first polymer currency in the 1980s that went into circulation on the nation's bicentenary in 1988.

Relations between the United Kingdom and Ecuador were traditionally regarded as " low-key but cordial ", especially before the election of Rafael Correa ; the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall visited the country in 2009, as part of a tour celebrating the bicentenary of Charles Darwin.

A plaque commemorating the bicentenary of Rousseau's birth.

On 5 June 2002, four Norwegian stamps were issued in honour of Abel two months before the bicentenary of his birth.

* BBC Battlefield Academy: Battle of Trafalgar game created by Solaris Media ( now Playniac ) for the bicentenary.

In 2004 the society celebrated its bicentenary reflecting all the achievements of the RHS to date.

This celebrated its bicentenary in 2009.

To mark the bicentenary of the publication of Griesbach's Gospel synopsis as a separate volume a group of distinguished international biblical scholars met in July 1976 at Münster / Westphalia for The Johann Jakob Griesbach Bicentenary Colloquium 1776-1976.

( Papers delivered by the Master and three Fellows of University College at a seminar to commemorate the bicentenary of Shelley's birth.

German returned to writing comic operas, achieving another success with Tom Jones for the Apollo Theatre in 1907, produced by Robert Courtneidge for the Fielding bicentenary.

On March 2007, Mill Hill celebrated its bicentenary.

Another memorial presented also in FitzRoy's bicentenary commemorates his Cape Horn landing on 19 April 1830.

Whitechapel cast a replacement to celebrate the bicentenary of American Independence in 1976.