* 1744 – The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the Iroquois ceded lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British colonies, is signed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

The property is owned by the monarch as part of the Duchy of Lancaster holdings, but is administered by Harrogate Borough Council.

* 1867 – Nebraska becomes the 37th U. S. state ; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.

They travelled via Baffin Bay, Lancaster and Peel Sounds, and James Ross, Simpson and Rae Straits and spent two winters near King William Island in what is today Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, Canada.

* 1777 – Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital of the United States, for one day.

West and north of the Lower West Side is the former city of Lancaster ( commonly referred to as Saint John West ), which was amalgamated into Saint John in 1967.

The dividing line is generally agreed upon to be City Line Steet and not Lancaster Avenue, with the streets east and south of Lancaster Avenue being considered to be the " West Side, and the streets north and west of Lancaster Avenue, having been renamed from Lancaster, NB to Saint John West, NB.

The southern part of Lancaster abutting Saint John Harbour and the Bay of Fundy is Bayshore and the location of Canadian Pacific Railway's Bayshore Yard.

The north end of Lancaster, known as Fairville, is home to Moosehead Brewery and older neighbourhoods clustered along Manawagonish Road.

He is buried in front of Trinity Lutheran Church in Lancaster.

The marker, dedicated in 1975, is located on Duke Street in Lancaster.

* October, 1812 – The capital of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States is permanently moved from Lancaster to Harrisburg.

* April 11 – Aviator Bill Lancaster takes off in England, in an attempt to make a speed record to the Cape of Good Hope, but vanishes ( his body is not found in the Sahara Desert until 1962 ).

* October – The capital of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States is permanently moved from Lancaster to Harrisburg.

Having defeated Portugal's ally, the ruler is happy to do business, and Lancaster seizes a large Portuguese galleon and loots it.

In 1641 he is hanged, drawn and quartered in Lancaster, England, for preaching.

* Lancaster County Prison, Lancaster, Pennsylvania is first constructed in response to the seven violent years preceding of the ongoing Cresap's War in the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary dispute and war.

* February 10 – After the Nipmuck tribe attacks Lancaster, Massachusetts, the colonist Mary Rowlandson is taken captive and lives with the Indians until May.

* July 4 – The cannons of the Tower of London, still in Lancaster hands, are fired on the city of London, which is mostly in Yorkist hands.

West of Lancaster, the city hosts its second largest park, and one of the largest coastal urban parks in the country.

During the Breton War of Succession, in 1356 and 1357, the city was laid siege to by Henry of Grosmont, the Duke of Lancaster, cousin of the English king, but Bertrand du Guesclin slipped into the city and took over the resistance, which would ultimately be victorious.

Rouen became the capital city of English power in occupied France and when the duke of Bedford, John of Lancaster bought Joan of Arc from his ally, the duke of Burgundy who had been keeping her in jail since May 1430, she was logically sent to this city for Christmas 1430 and after a long trial by a church court, sentenced to be burned at the stake on 30 May 1431 in this city, where most inhabitants supported the duke of Burgundy, Joan of Arc's royal enemy.

Lancaster ( local pronunciation is ( or even ), rather than the wider American pronunciation-kast-ər ) is a city in Fairfield County, Ohio, United States.

Zane's Trace, as it has become known, was completed by 1797, and as Zane's sons began to carve the square-mile tract astride the Hocking into saleable plots, the city of Lancaster formally came into being in 1800.

Initially known as New Lancaster, and later shortened by city ordinance ( 1805 ), the town quickly grew ; formal incorporation as a city came in 1831.

Modern Lancaster is distinguished by a rich blend of 19th-century architecture ( best evidenced in historic Square 13, part of Zane's original plot ) and natural beauty ( best evidenced by the famous Standing Stone, today known as Mount Pleasant ) with all the typical modern accoutrements of a small-medium-sized American city.

Once one has reached the top, there is a lookout area from which one can see over great distances, and take in not just a panoramic view of the nearby Fairfield County fairgrounds and much of the city of Lancaster, but the changing landscape of Central Ohio as well — from the relatively flat farmlands north of Lancaster to the wooded hills lying south of the city.

The city hosted a few short-lived, unnamed teams in various leagues in the 19th century, then provided a home for the defunct Lancaster Red Roses of the Tri-State League in 1912.

The next city to be created was Lancaster as part of the coronation celebrations of King George VI.

Lancaster County was named after the city of Lancaster in the county of Lancashire in England, the native home of John Wright, one of the early settlers.

The city of Lancaster is the county seat.

Lititz is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 6 miles ( approximately 10 km ) north of the city of Lancaster.

The film was shot on location in Philadelphia and the city and towns of Intercourse, Lancaster, Strasburg and Parkesburg.

Additionally, Lancaster is home to the Garrard County High School " Golden Lions ".

In 1824, Jackson wrote a letter saying that he was born at an uncle's plantation in Lancaster County, South Carolina.

Lancaster was cremated and his ashes were buried under a large oak tree in Westwood Memorial Park located in Westwood Village, Los Angeles County, California.

He was born on November 24, 1818 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Category: People from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

* Establishment of Wright's Ferry under the authority of the Province of Pennsylvania triggers Cresap's War – a nine year long conflict also known as the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary dispute – the conflict mainly centered in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and York County, Pennsylvania on either banks of the Susquehanna River.

* 4-H Embryology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension in Lancaster County

He later resided in Lancaster County, Virginia and was on staff in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.

Category: People from Lancaster County, Virginia

Prior to and immediately after European settlement, the land today comprising Lancaster and Fairfield County, Ohio was inhabited variously by the Shawnee, Iroquois, Wyandot, and other Native American tribes.

* The 1948 20th Century Fox movie Green Grass of Wyoming was filmed at the Fairfield County Fairground in Lancaster, making it the first community in Ohio to act as the setting for a feature length Hollywood movie.

* Lancaster is home to the Fairfield County Fair, a week-long fair and the last ( 88th ) county fair in Ohio each year, always on the second week of October.

Opened in 2002, the Ohio Glass Museum is located in historic downtown Lancaster and dedicated to recording the history of the glass industry, which for over 100 years has been one of the mainstays of the economy of Fairfield County.

The River Brethren owe their origins to the combined labors of Reformed pastor Philip William Otterbein and Mennonite Martin Boehm, beginning in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in the latter half of the 18th century.

* Watch Technicum, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1999

* Lancaster County, Pennsylvania ( north )

* Lancaster County, Pennsylvania ( northeast )

Lancaster County is a county located in the U. S. state of Nebraska.

Lancaster County is part of the Lincoln, Nebraska Metropolitan Statistical Area.

In the Nebraska license plate system, Lancaster County was represented by the prefix 2 ( it had the second-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922 ).