He was known as ‘ Old Minorca ’ Murray as a result.

The closely related Apium bermejoi from the island of Minorca is one of the rarest plants in Europe, with fewer than 100 individuals left.

* May 20 – Seven Years ' War – Battle of Minorca: The British fleet under John Byng is defeated by the French under Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière.

Like the other Balearic Islands of Ibiza, Formentera and Minorca, the island is a highly popular holiday destination, particularly for tourists from the United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland and the Scandinavian countries.

Minorca or Menorca ( ; ; from Latin: Insula Minor, later Minorica " minor island ") is one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea belonging to Spain.

For example the use of inverted plastered timber columns at Knossos is thought to have influenced early peoples of Minorca in imitating this practice.

Minorca is especially well known for its traditional summer fiestas, which intrigue many visitors.

It is thought that mayonnaise was brought back to France from Mahon, Minorca, after Louis-François-Armand du Plessis de Richelieu's victory over the British at the city's port in 1756.

Minorca is rich in wild flowers with over 900 species of flowering plants recorded.

The birdlife of Minorca is very well known.

Minorca Place in the town is named for him.

There exists at least one mixed breeding colony of Balearic and Yelkouan Shearwaters, on Minorca, and the species ' winter ranges overlap in the Central Mediterranean ; for scientific purposes at least, a combination of morphological characteristics and DNA sequence data is suggested to be required for identification of such birds to species ( Genovart et al.

* The recipe for mayonnaise ( originally " salsa mahonesa " or " maonesa ") is probably brought back to France by his chef after Louis François Armand du Plessis, duc de Richelieu's military success on Minorca.

Byng is best known for the loss of Minorca in 1756 at the beginning of the Seven Years ' War.

This is a naveta from the site of Naveta des Tudons found on the western end of Minorca

A naveta is a megalithic chamber tomb unique to the Balearic island of Minorca.

A taula ( meaning ' table ' in Catalan ) is a T-shaped stone monument found on the Balearic island of Minorca.

In the first of Patrick O ' Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series, " Master and Commander ," Jack Aubrey is staying at The Crown in Port Mahón, Minorca.

Joining the Royal Artillery, Montresor is said to have been present at the 1727 siege of Gibraltar, but more credible accounts place him in Minorca, as a matross.

* El Pont de l ' Assut de l ' Or — a suspension bridge that connects the south side with Minorca Street, whose 125 meters high pillar is the highest point in the city.

* Admiral Byng is court-martialed and executed for his failure in Minorca.

Al-Faraj occurs as the name of the translator at Girgenti, and it is possibly the remote origin of the curious name of Admiral Farragut, whose grandfather came from Minorca.

The University of the Balearic Islands is in charge of the rules of the different Balearic forms, that have not had a traditional common local name ( Majorcan in Majorca, Minorcan in Minorca ).

This tiny guitar has four strings and is found in Minorca.

Immigration continued even after Minorca was returned to Spain in 1802 by the Treaty of Amiens )

When in June 1756 Minorca fell after a failed attempt by Admiral Byng to relieve it, Pitt's allegations fuelled the public anger against Newcastle-leading him to be attacked by a mob in Greenwich.

* June 29 – Seven Years ' War – Siege of Fort St Philip at Port Mahon: The British garrison in Minorca surrenders to the French after two months ' siege by Armand de Vignerot du Plessis.

Philip V accepted by Britain and Austria as King of Spain ; Spain cedes Gibraltar and Minorca to Britain.

* August 18 – War of the Spanish Succession: Capture of Minorca by British forces.

Historic map of Majorca and Minorca by the Ottoman Empire | Ottoman admiral Piri Reis

Some of the earliest culture on Minorca was influenced by other Mediterranean cultures, including the Greek Minoans of ancient Crete ( see also Gymnesian Islands ).

Historic map of Minorca by Piri Reis

Invaded by Britain's Royal Navy in 1708 during the War of the Spanish Succession, Minorca temporarily became a British possession.

Minorca was invaded by the British once again in 1798, during the French Revolutionary Wars, but it was finally and permanently repossessed by Spain by the terms of the Treaty of Amiens in 1802.

As the rest of the Balearic Islands, Minorca was not occupied by the French during the Peninsular War, as it was successfully protected by the Royal Navy, this time allied to Spain.

In October 1993, Minorca was designated by UNESCO as a biosphere reserve.

The crew were captured by military nationalist forces, but two Republican submarines ( a B2 and B3 ) sent by order of Pedro Marqués Barber ( an old officer and former military Minorca governor ) came immediately and the small Cabreran force surrendered.

In the 1648 Treaty of Münster, he was styled " Don Philip the Fourth, by the grace of God king of Castile, Leon, Aragon, the Two Sicilies, Jerusalem, Portugal, Navarre, Granada, Toledo, Valencia, Galicia, Majorca, Minorca, Seville, Cerdagne, Cordoba, Corsica, Murcia, Jaen, the Algarves, Algeciras, Gibraltar, the Canary Islands, the Eastern and Western Indies, the islands and terra firma of the Ocean, archduke of Austria, duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Milan, count of Habsburg, Flanders, Tyrol, Barcelona, lord of Biscay and Molina, etc.

In the treaty with Spain, the territories of East and West Florida were ceded to Spain ( without any clearly defined northern boundary, resulting in disputed territory resolved with the Treaty of Madrid ), as was the island of Minorca, while the Bahama Islands, Grenada and Montserrat, captured by the French and Spanish, were returned to Britain.

( The full court never reached a decision on this ; there were legal precedents to this general effect from the British occupation of Minorca — and a practical precedent from the British seizure of the Cape of Good Hope from the Dutch, but it remained to demonstrate that Picton should have known this, and by now Fullarton was dead and Picton a war hero.

Almost as soon as Minorca had fallen in June 1756, the French fleet had withdrawn to Toulon in case they were attacked by Hawke.

He was subsequently criticised by some supporters of Byng, for not having blockaded either Minorca or Toulon.