* 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.

Lancaster was born in Manhattan, New York City, at his parents ' home at 209 East 106th Street, between Second and Third Avenues, today the site of Benjamin Franklin Plaza.

At the end of the month he stayed at Swarthmoor Hall, near Ulverston, the home of Thomas Fell, vice-chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and his wife, Margaret.

Another English seaman, Captain Abraham Kendall, visited Saint Helena in 1591, and in 1593 Sir James Lancaster stopped at the island on his way home from the East.

Sherman's childhood home in Lancaster

* Lancaster was the home of the first newspaper published by Malcolm Forbes in 1941

* Lancaster is home to the Lancaster campus of Ohio University, offering a variety of two and four year baccalaureate degrees, and several master's programs.

* Lancaster is home to the Lancaster campus of Daymar College, offering two year degrees in various fields and career paths.

* Lancaster is home to the Lancaster Festival, an 11-day arts and music festival.

* Lancaster is home to both the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio and the Ohio Glass Museum, both located within the downtown area.

* Lancaster is home to the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette newspaper.

* 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.

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.

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.

His home, Wheatland, is now a museum in Lancaster.

Today, Lancaster County is home to three synagogues, the Orthodox Degel Israel, the Conservative Beth El, and the Reform Shaarai Shomayim.

Elizabethtown is home to Continental Press, White Oak Mills ( an animal feed plant ), Elizabethtown College, the Masonic Village, a large Masterfoods USA ( a division of Mars, Incorporated ) plant, Messick's Farm and Construction Equipment, and numerous smaller businesses .< sup ></ sup > Many residents commute to the nearby cities of Harrisburg and Lancaster for work.

While many of The Fulton's regulars are Lancaster County natives who are delighted at the chance to return home to perform, nearly all quickly fall in love with the " Grand Old Lady " and her charm.

It is also home to the collegiate and campus-based Lancaster University and a campus of the University of Cumbria

Lancaster is also home to a campus of the University of Cumbria – on the site of the former St Martin's College – which was inaugurated in 2007.

In Criss Cross, Siodmak achieves all these effects with purpose, wrapping them around Yvonne De Carlo, playing the most understandable of femme fatales, Dan Duryea, in one of his many charismatic villain roles, and Lancaster — already an established star — as an ordinary laborer turned armed robber, doomed by a romantic obsession.

Lancaster, with support from many of the other English barons, found himself in increasing opposition to Edward II.

Other corpora represent many languages, varieties and modes, and include the International Corpus of English, and the British National Corpus, a 100 million word collection of a range of spoken and written texts, created in the 1990s by a consortium of publishers, universities ( Oxford and Lancaster ) and the British Library.

The aerodrome now hosts a bi-annual charity airshow put on in aid of the local Air Ambulance where there are many classic aircraft flying and on display such as the Catalina, Mustang, North American Harvards and the British classic, the Lancaster bomber.

In following campaigns, many of the king's opponents were murdered, the Earl of Lancaster being beheaded in the presence of Edward himself.

She also maintained a close friendship with stars like Anthony Quinn, Burt Lancaster, Sam Peckinpah, Frank Sinatra, Dolores del Río, John Wayne and many others.

Director Sam Peckinpah considered many actors for the Pike Bishop role ; Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck, Sterling Hayden, Richard Boone and Robert Mitchum were all considered before William Holden was cast.

The growth and prosperity experienced in many surrounding Lancaster County towns bypassed Columbia for the remainder of the 20th century.

Due to its remote location in an isolated part of the county, it is seen less than many of the county's other covered bridges that are closer to the major populations centers such as Lancaster.

Lancaster Castle, the Priory Church of St. Mary and the Edwardian Ashton Memorial are among many sites of historical importance.

Lancaster still continues to produce many bands and musicians, with acts like The Lovely Eggs, 19ninetynine and The Adventures of Loki all receiving considerable national radio play and press coverage in recent years.

Richard III had many enemies, chiefly the Lancastrian sympathisers, who now rallied behind Henry Tudor, the House of Tudor being closely linked with the House of Lancaster.

Beginning in 1974, many Mennonite families moved to Yates County from Lancaster County, PA, seeking cheaper farmland.

" As with so many places between Philadelphia and Lancaster, the area was first settled by the Welsh.

The creation of the county caused an influx of people to come to Lancaster City, and Lancaster Township, its closest suburb, received many people too, with many people living here and working in the city.

The ownership of the Lancaster manor changed hands many times, before James I assigned it to his son, the future Charles I.

This history agrees in many particulars with the Chronicon Angliae, but it is much less hostile to John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster.

For example during the Coventry Blitz on the night of 14 / 15 November 1940, 515 Luftwaffe bombers many flying more than one sortie against Coventry delivered their bombs in a raid that lasted more than 10 hours, while in contrast the much more devastating raid on Dresden on the night of 13 / 14 of February 1945 by the two waves of the RAF Bomber Command's main force, the first wave released their first bomb at 22: 14, with all but one of the 254 Lancaster bombers releasing their bombs within two minutes, and the last one releasing at 22: 22.

Boehm established many Methodist churches and ministerial services throughout the United States, but the first Methodist church was located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.