The " wonderful year " referenced in the first verse is 1759-1760, during which British forces were victorious in several significant battles: the Battle of Minden on 1st of August 1759, the Battle of Lagos on 19 August 1759, the Battle of the Plains of Abraham ( outside Quebec City ) on 13 September 1759 and the Battle of Quiberon Bay on 20 November 1759, foiling a French invasion project.

When Egerton became Governor of Lagos he enthusiastically endorsed the extension of the Lagos – Ibadan railway onward to Oshogbo, and the project was approved in November 1904.

However, in 2007 UACh and CECS got involved in a controversy when the Regional Council of Los Lagos Region granted regional funds that had been put into tender to CECS without attending to the meeting where UACh's and University of Los Lagos joint project was presented.

She ran for president in 1999 and achieved less than four percent of the vote, mainly due to fear from leftist voters that the right-wing candidate Joaquín Lavín could defeat Socialist Ricardo Lagos.

" During the 19th century Ikorodu was an important trading post for the Remo kingdom, it achieved this by being situated along the trade route between Lagos and Ibadan.

* 1893 – Ibadan area became a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.

Frei Ruiz-Tagle was succeeded in 2000 by Socialist Ricardo Lagos, who won the presidency in an unprecedented runoff election against Joaquín Lavín of the rightist Alliance for Chile, by a very tight score of less than 200, 000 votes ( 51, 32 %).

In September 2005, President Ricardo Lagos signed into law several constitutional amendments passed by Congress.

During World War II, a group of Japanese soldiers stationed on Lagos Island in South Pacific were unintentionally saved by Godzillasaurus, which attacked and killed a group of American soldiers who had landed on the island in February 1944 as part of the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign.

From the first Africans that were brought to Lagos for sale in 1444 ( see his contemporary biography by Zurara ), he received from the merchants the value corresponding to the fifth part ( o quinto ) as the expedition had been sponsored by the shipowners.

The commune is represented in the Senate by Francisco Chahuán Chahuán ( RN ) and Ricardo Lagos Weber ( PPD ) as part of the 6th senatorial constituency ( Valparaíso-Coast ).

22 March 2006: in terms of a Memorandum of Understanding signed by Nigeria ’ s federal Government on 16 March, the Guangdong Xinguang International Group is to construct a revolutionary “ fast ” rail ( RFR ) system from Lagos to the capital Abuja ( where there is no existing railway ) as well as light rail lines to the Murtala Mohammed International Airport from Lagos city and to Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport from the Abuja city centre.

The longest are the Niger River and its tributary, the Benue River but the most used, especially by larger powered boats and for commerce, are in the Niger Delta and all along the coast from Lagos Lagoon to Cross River.

In 2003 Content, a 544-page magazine-style book designed by &&& Creative and published by Koolhaas, gives an overview of the last decade of OMA projects including his designs for the Prada shops, the Seattle Public Library, a plan to save Cambridge from Harvard by rechanneling the Charles River, Lagos ' future as Earth's third-biggest town, as well as interviews with Martha Stewart and Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.

Ryuichi Sakamoto, particularly his song " Riot in Lagos ", had an influence on early electro and hip hop artists such as Afrika Bambaata, and was cited by Kurtis Mantronik as a major influence on his electro hip hop group Mantronix.

The 1980 release of " Riot in Lagos " was listed by The Guardian in 2011 as one of the 50 key events in the history of dance music.

The loss of her Canadian possessions was only one of a series of disasters suffered by France, which included the victories at sea of Boscawen at Lagos and Hawke at Quiberon Bay.

* August 15 – Ibadan area became a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.

Lagos, Nigeria has grown from 300, 000 in 1950 to an estimated 12. 5 million today, and the Nigerian government estimates that the city will have expanded to 25 million residents by 2015.

The French invasion, which was Charles's last realistic chance to recover the British throne for the Stuart dynasty, was ultimately thwarted by naval defeats at Quiberon Bay and Lagos.

It was known as Mid-Western state in Nigeria until August 1967 when it was occupied by Biafra as its forces advanced towards Lagos.

The Los Lagos Region ( Lake District ), on the border of Chile and Argentina in the Andes mountain region, contains many glacial lakes that are carved out of the mountains then filled by melt-water and rain.

The commune is represented in the Senate by Francisco Chahuán Chahuán ( RN ) and Ricardo Lagos Weber ( PPD ) as part of the 6th senatorial constituency ( Valparaíso-Coast ).

* Thalia was portrayed by Actress Penelope Lagos in the 2008 TV pilot " Muse " written by Rudy Cecera.

The current " historic " lineup includes Eduardo Carrasco, Rubén Escudero, Ricardo Venegas, Guillermo García, Ismael Oddó ( son of Guillermo " Willy " Oddó ), Hugo Lagos, Hernán Gómez, Carlos Quezada and Sebastián Quezada ( son of Carlos ).

Manuel " Manny " Lagos ( born June 11, 1971 in St. Paul, Minnesota ) is a former American soccer midfielder who last played for the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer, and is the current Head Coach of Minnesota Stars FC.

The current Senior Minister of St. Andrew's is the Reverend Dr. Andrew J. R. Johnston, whose childhood was spent in Ottawa, Lagos Nigeria, and Hamilton, Ontario.

Ilesa is home to the famous and prestigious Ilesa Grammar School, a school founded by Egbe Atunluse Ilesa and alma mater to many Nigerians including a former Chief Justice of the Federation, Alfa Belgore, a former Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, the former Vice Chancellor of University of Lagos, Prof Oye Ibidapo Obe, the former Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University Ile Ife, Prof Omole and the current Vice Chancellor of University of Ibadan, Prof Isaac Adewole.

Continuing the coalition's free-trade strategy, in August 2006 President Bachelet promulgated a free trade agreement with the People's Republic of China ( signed under the previous administration of Ricardo Lagos ), the first Chinese free-trade agreement with a Latin American nation ; similar deals with Japan and India were promulgated in August 2007.

Continuing the coalition ’ s free-trade strategy, in August 2006 President Bachelet promulgated a free trade agreement with the People's Republic of China ( signed under the previous administration of Ricardo Lagos ), the first Chinese free-trade agreement with a Latin American nation ; similar deals with Japan and India were promulgated in August 2007.

Proof of this are the results of UDI in the 2000 municipal elections, the parliamentary elections of 2001, and the Lagos-Longueira agreement of January 17, 2003 to modernize the State administration and give a consensual political solution to Inverlink case and MOP-Gate case, which affected the institutional stability of the Lagos administration.

From 16 July 1884 this merged into the British protectorate over Brass, Bonny, Opobo, Aboh and Old Calabar ( excluding Lagos Colony ), which was confirmed on 5 June 1885 ), and named Oil Rivers Protectorate, where in August 1891 effective consular administration was established, headed by a consul general ( 5 June 1885 the aforementoned former consul Edward Hyde Hewett became the first ).

Yaba Local council Development area as one of the Thirty Seven ( 37 ) newly created Local council Development areas was created out of Lagos Mainland by the administration of Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu after the state assembly passed a law creating new local council Development areas.

Virgin Nigeria had twice refused the directive to relocate its domestic operations from the international terminal citing the Memorandum of Mutual Understanding it signed with the previous ( Olusegun Obasanjo ) administration and pending appeal in a Lagos High court as reasons for not complying.

Keke-marwa is named after Lagos former military Governor, Buba Marwa in the late 1990s.

When Lagos was amalgamated with the rest of southern Nigeria in 1906, the then high commissioner Walter Egerton was made into Governor of the territory.

Egerton became Governor of Lagos Colony, covering most of the Yoruba lands in the southwest of what is now Nigeria, in 1903.

* Babatunde Raji Fashola Lagos State Governor

In addition to his distinguished naval record, Admiral Patey was also appointed Administrator of Lagos, and of the Gambia, as well as serving as Governor of Saint Helena between 1869 and 1873.

Babatunde Odufuwa ( of Oke-Aye in Ijebu North East Local Government, Off Senbora ), Chairman of Lagos City Polytechnic, Ikeja and corporate giants like Afeez Ajibowu, the Nigeria Sales Director of the American Multinational SC Johnson, Ayo Komolafe, the Director, Membership services of the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria and Kunle Adebiyi, Sales Director, Visafone Nigeria, Peter Olawale Odetayo, Artist-CEO Artwithinme Media Concept, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti ( Afrobeat Creator, Music Legend, Political activist ) Rtd Rear-Admiral Adebimpe Adewunmi ( Nigerian Navy ) among others

Yasuaki Shindo ( Yoshio Tsuchiya ), who commanded the Japanese on Lagos, is now a wealthy businessman who denies the dinosaur's existence.

He then ravages on Tokyo as payback for the Japanese attempting to erase him from existence, and Shindo is killed ; though not before he and Godzilla share a brief moment of the two remembering each other from when they first met on Lagos Island in 1944, and Godzilla is seemingly sad for once.

Most of their programming is aimed for the African and global markets, but is broadcast globally from Lagos, Abuja, Obosi and Port Harcourt centers.

The African Independent Television ( AIT ) is a high profile satellite television station broadcasting globally from its Lagos and Abuja centers.

* A metro is proposed for the megacity of Lagos.

Nigeria ’ s principal container port is the port of Lagos, which handles about 5. 75 million tons of cargo each year.

There is a small Greek business community in Lagos.

It is known for the electronic classic " Riot in Lagos ", which is considered an early example of electro music ( electro-funk ), for having anticipated the beats and sounds of electro.

* December 26 – December 27 – A Royal Navy warship bombards Lagos Island ; Oba Kosoko is wounded and flees to Epe.

Chile is largely antipodal to China, from Arica and Itarapaca ( antipodal to Hainan ) to Los Lagos.

The Andes region is also home to arid basins, lush foothills covered with grape vineyards, glacial mountains, and half of the Los Lagos Region ( Lake District ) ( the other half is in Chile ).

In the mountains above the town there are lakes known as Lagos de Covadonga, and the road leading to the lakes is often featured in the Vuelta a España bicycle race.

Lagos is currently taking steps to become a global city.