In 1453 when the last vestige of ancient Roman power fell to the Turks, the city officially shifted religions -- although the Patriarch, or Pope, of the Orthodox Church continued to live there, and still does -- and became the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

The Reed Rogers Da Fonta Wild Life Sanctuary in Marin county on Friday officially became the property of the National Audubon Society.

) After the dispute over Arianism became politicized and a general solution to the divisiveness was sought — with a great majority holding to the Trinitarian position — the Arian position was officially declared heterodox.

During the Akkadian period, the Akkadian language became the lingua franca of the Middle East, and was officially used for administration, although the Sumerian language remained as a spoken and literary language.

Angus was historically a county ( known officially as Forfarshire from the 18th century until 1928, when it reverted to its ancient name ) until 1975 when it became a district of the Tayside Region.

After this Anton became, officially, the Heir to the Electorate and, since 1806, the Kingdom of Saxony.

In 1539, the electors and the city officially became Lutheran.

On September 18, 2012, Berkeley became what is thought to be the first city in the U. S. to officially proclaim a day recognizing bisexuals September 23, which is known as Celebrate Bisexuality Day.

The Anglican Church of Australia, until 1981 officially known as the Church of England in Australia and Tasmania, became self-governing in 1961.

The group became dormant in the following two years, and on May 24, 2002, officially announced their breakup amid continuing litigation with Universal Music Group over their record contract.

The School of Principle gained supremacy during the Song Dynasty with the philosophical system elaborated by Zhu Xi, which became mainstream and officially adopted by the government for the Imperial examinations under the Yuan Dynasty.

After the Roman Empire became officially Christian, see Edict of Thessalonica, the term came by extension to refer to a large and important church that has been given special ceremonial rites by the Pope.

This fusion of ideas became known officially as " Mao Zedong Thought ", or Maoism outside of China.

In 1979, the CUNY Financing and Governance Act was adopted by the State and the Board of Higher Education officially became The City University of New York Board of Trustees.

In some cases, this is perfectly legitimate ; Francisco Franco was a lieutenant general in the Spanish Army before he became Chief of State of Spain ; Manuel Noriega was officially commander of the Panamanian Defense Forces.

They needed the same seaworthiness and endurance, and as they necessarily became larger, they became officially designated " torpedo boat destroyers ", and by the First World War were largely known as " destroyers " in English.

Equatorial Guinea became officially independent from Spain on October 12, 1968.

The song " Boadicea ", also from this album, would later be sampled by The Fugees on their single " Ready or Not " ( 1996 ), causing a brief stir because the group neither sought permission from Enya nor gave her credit initially, and by Mario Winans, who did give her credit ( the Winans track, " I Don't Wanna Know " which features a rap by P. Diddy and is officially credited to all three artists, became Enya's highest charting single in the US, when it peaked at # 2 on the Hot 100 in 2004 ).

The final meeting of the Rules Committee tasked with reshaping the game was held on April 6, 1906, at which time the forward pass officially became a legal play.

* 1942 September – A small group of Gibraltarians, who remained in the town serving in the British Army, joined a mechanic official, Albert Risso, to create ' The Gibraltarians Association ', the starting point of what became the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights ( officially established in December that year ), the first political party in Gibraltar.

On 15 July 2007 the island communes of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy were officially detached from Guadeloupe and became two separate French overseas collectivities with their own local administration.

The German Empire () is the common name given to the state officially named the ( literally: " German Realm "), designating Germany from the unification of Germany and proclamation of Wilhelm I as German Emperor on 18 January 1871, to 1918, when it became a federal republic after defeat in World War I and the abdication of the Emperor, Wilhelm II.

In 1949 the Soviets turned control of East Germany over to the Socialist Unity Party, headed by Wilhelm Pieck ( 1876 – 1960 ), who became president of the GDR and remained officially ' Number One ' until his death in 1960, while most executive authority was assumed by SED General Secretary Walter Ulbricht.

In 1716 Cosimo III de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany issued an edict legislating that the three villages of the Lega del Chianti as well as the village of Greve and a 2 mile ( 3 km ) hillside north of Greve near Spedaluzza as the only officially recognized producers of Chianti.

In 1716 Cosimo III de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany issued an edict legislating that the three villages of the Lega del Chianti ( Castellina in Chianti, Gaiole in Chianti, and Radda in Chianti ) as well as the village of Greve and a 2-mile ( 3-km ) stretch of hillside north of Greve near Spedaluzzo as the only officially recognized producers of Chianti.

The village of Rozsoshentsi, Scherbani, Tereshky, Kopyly and Suprunivka are officially considered to be outside the city, but actually constitute a part of the Poltava agglomeration.

The first village officially declared as " dead " was Gyűrűfű in the late 1970s, but later it was repopulated as an eco-village.

Otsego County was officially established on February 16, 1791, with Cooperstown as its county seat, although at the time the village of Cherry Valley was much larger.

In 1836 the village post office was established as the Enterprise Post Office, as the village was then officially called, until the name officially changed to Bird-in-Hand in 1873.

Bit by bit, Little Falls grew, until it was officially incorporated as a village in 1879.

The village was officially established upon the arrival of a post office on June 17, 1888.

) As of the census of 2000, there are officially 2, 455 people, 199 households, and 140 families residing in the village.

In 1885 the village of Ransom was officially incorporated.

" On June 16, 1958, the village officially incorporated with 123 residents and 125 houses in a single subdivision built by Quinn Hogan and Barney Loeb.

The village of Richmond was officially incorporated in 1872.

While it was not officially organized under village government, the community of that name was known in the early 1830s.

By 1903, when Kinder officially became a village, other families had arrived.

It was officially incorporated as a village in 1922 by then Louisiana Governor John Parker with Joseph Gonzales becoming the first mayor.

First chartered as Indian Town in 1737, the village was officially incorporated on June 22, 1739 as Stockbridge.

In 1871 the village officially changed its name to Vineyard Haven.

In 1785, the village of Easthampton was formally named its own separate political entity, and twenty-four years later in 1809, it officially became a town.

The community was officially incorporated as the village of Fennville on February 20, 1889.

Hastings was incorporated as a village in 1855, with a population of around 300, and on March 11, 1871, officially become a city.

The village was likely surveyed and subdivided before 1850, but the plat was not officially recorded until 1859.