Near the present-day town of Larino in the Molise ( then called Larinum ), Hannibal had taken up position in a town called Gerione.

* 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse – Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1, 900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4, 400.

Near present-day Columbus on March 26, they were joined by 130 more men, and the next day learned of the Fannin disaster.

The researchers conclude that their data, taken from the modern Tuscan population, ' support the scenario of a post-Neolithic genetic input from the Near East to the present-day population of Tuscany ’.

Near its southern edge at the southwestern corner of present-day Auglaize County, the swamp was so impervious to travel that wheeled transportation was impossible during most of the year, and local residents thought the rigors of travel to be unsuitable for anyone except adult men.

* On Tomales Bay: Echa-kolum, Shotommo-wi ( near the mouth of San Antonio Creek ), Sakloki ( opposite Tomales Point, Dillon Beach area ), Utumia ( Near present-day town of Tomales.

* Near the present-day town of Bolinas: Bauli-n

* Near the present-day town of Freestone: Oye-yomi, Pakahuwe, Patawa-yomi.

* Near the present-day town of Ignacio: Ewu, Puyuku ( south ), Shotokmo-cha ( southeast ).

* Near the present-day City of Novato: Chokeche, Olompolli ( northwest ).

* Near the present-day town of Valley Ford: Ewapalt, Uli-yomi ( at the headwaters of Estero Americano Creek ).

* Near the present-day town of Salmon Creek: Pulya-lakum ( on the ocean, near the mouth of Salmon Creek ).

Near the time of secularization ( 1835 ), the Church granted the San Rafael Christian Indians 20 leagues ( 80, 000 acres, 320 km² ) of mission lands from present-day Nicasio to the Tomales Bay.

Near the forks of the Grand River in present-day Perkins County, in August 1823, while scouting alone for game for the expedition's larder, Glass surprised a grizzly bear mother with her two cubs.

Near Farmington, I-96 left what is now its current routing and continued to the southeast of the present-day I-96 / I-275 / I-696 / M-5 interchange along the current M-5.

Near present-day Makarska, there was a settlement as early as the middle of the 2nd millennium BC.

Near present-day Augusta, Georgia, de Soto encountered a mound-building group ruled over by a queen, Cofitachequi.

Near the present-day city of Sandy, they turned southwest to reach Eagle Creek and Philip Foster's farm near present-day Clackamas.

Near Piscatawaytown village, a portion of the Township was informally known as " Nixon ," after Lewis Nixon, a manufacturer and community leader.

Legal scholar and columnist Anthony Lewis called Near the Court's " first great press case.

Bernard Lewis, Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, calls the term " a myth ".

Bernard Lewis, Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, states that,

In Samuel Lewis ’ s 1837 Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, he describes the new Hammersmith Works as part of the entry for ‘ Ball ’ s-Bridge ’ as follows: ‘ Near the village are the Hammersmith iron-works, established in 1834 by Mr. R. Turner: the front of this extensive establishment is 200 feet long, presenting a handsome façade towards the road ; and at the back are numerous dwelling houses for the workmen, which are called the Hammersmith cottages.

Near the river's mouth is the site of former Fort Clatsop of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Near the confluence with the Columbia River the Lewis River is joined by the East Fork Lewis River.

Near the end of his fourth term in 1940, Wallgren ran for United States Senate to replace fellow Democrat Lewis B. Schwellenbach, who was retiring to accept a judicial nomination.

* G. Lewis Jones, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, 1959 – 1961

Near the close of the 1904 session, legislators approved the creation of Beckham County from parts of Carter, Elliott, and Lewis counties.

Near here in 1878 Col. William H. Lewis commanding troops from Fort Dodge, was fatally wounded in a battle with chief Dull Knife and his Northern Cheyennes.

Near the town commons a life-size bronze statue cast by the Gorham Foundry of Rhode Island and sculpted by Edward Clark Potter serves as his memorial.

Image: Karl_Bodmer_Travels_in_America_ ( 26 ). jpg | The Travellers Meeting with Minatarre Indians Near Fort Clark.

* 2000: The Sisters of Mercy, HIM, And One, The Mission, Marc Almond, Faith and the Muse, Tiamat, Anathema, Haggard, Umbra et Imago, L ' Âme Immortelle, The Cassandra Complex, Die Krupps, The Godfathers, Suicide Commando, Lithium, Letzte Instanz, The 69 Eyes, The House of Usher, Unknown, Zeromancer, Fields of the Nephilim, Project Pitchfork, Phillip Boa & The Voodooclub, Anne Clark, VNV Nation, Oomph !, Rosenfels, Velvet Acid Christ, Funker Vogt, Evil's Toy, Aenima, Estampie, Diary of Dreams, Illuminate, Stromkern, Mila Mar, Merlons, Near Dark.

* Feb. 14, 1929-Four unidentified men, dressed as Chicago police officers, stormed into a Near North Side garage, S-M-C Cartage Co., at 2122 N. Clark Street, and murdered members of George Bugs Moran's North Side Gang and two gangster groupies, but missed killing Moran, who was not around when the killings happened.

Near impacts have been depicted in Jules Verne's Off on a Comet and Tove Jansson's Comet in Moominland, while a large manned space expedition visits Halley's Comet in Sir Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2061: Odyssey Three.

* July 15 – Pike expedition: Near St. Louis, Missouri, United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike leads an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine to explore the west.

Near the end of 1771 the Portolà expedition arrived at San Francisco Bay ( discovered in 1769 ).

Near the town of Gulcha, the expedition met Kurmanjan Datka, the famed Muslim Queen of Alai and posed for a photograph with her.

Near the Italian coast, Peucezio landed in Apulia, colonizing the current provinces of Bari and Taranto, which took the name of Peucezia ; Enotro, with the main part of the expedition, continued to sail toward the Tyrrhenian Sea.

Near the west end of the lake it receives its first important tributary, the Lütschine.

Near the end of the first decade of the double-Bills ' guidance, the Cubs won the NL pennant in 1929 and then achieved the unusual feat of winning a pennant every three years, following up the 1929 flag with league titles in 1932, 1935, and 1938.

Near the beginning of the first book of the Elements, Euclid gives five postulates ( axioms ) for plane geometry, stated in terms of constructions ( as translated by Thomas Heath ):

* Koine Greek: The fusion of various ancient Greek dialects with Attic, the dialect of Athens, resulted in the creation of the first common Greek dialect, which became a lingua franca across Eastern Mediterranean and Near East.

While the term grimoire is originally European, and many Europeans throughout history, particularly ceremonial magicians and cunning folk, have made use of grimoires, the historian Owen Davies noted that similar such books can be found all across the world, ranging from Jamaica to Sumatra, and he also noted that the first such grimoires could be found not in Europe but in the Ancient Near East.

This Harifian culture may have adopted the use of pottery from the Isnan culture and Helwan culture of Egypt ( which lasted from 9000-4500 BC ), and subsequently fused with elements from the PPNB culture during the climatic crisis of 6000 BC to form what Juris Zarins calls the Syro-Arabian pastoral technocomplex, which saw the spread of the first Nomadic pastoralists in the Ancient Near East.

The Atharvaveda, a sacred text of Hinduism dating from the Early Iron Age, is the first Indian text dealing with medicine, like the medicine of the Ancient Near East based on concepts of the exorcism of demons and magic.

Near Eastern antiquities, the second newest department, dates from 1881 and presents an overview of early Near Eastern civilization and " first settlements ", before the arrival of Islam.

The Crusades, first preached in 1095, were military attempts, by western European Christians, to regain control of the Middle Eastern Holy Land from the Muslims, and succeeded long enough to establish Christian states in the Near East.

* 1934 – Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne ; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.

* In Die Erde is nah: die Marsexpedition ( 1970 ), by Ludek Pesek, published in English as The Earth is Near ( 1973 ), a crew of twenty men undertake the first manned mission to Mars, and after landing in the wrong area due to computer malfunction and / or human error, have to cope with vicious sand storms, and a long trek undertaken in vehicles to their original intended area of exploration.

Graeme Barker states " The first indisputable evidence for domestic plants and animals in the Nile valley is not until the early fifth millennium bc in northern Egypt and a thousand years later further south, in both cases as part of strategies that still relied heavily on fishing, hunting, and the gathering of wild plants " and suggests that these subsistence changes were not due to farmers migrating from the Near East but was an indigenous development, with cereals either indigenous or obtained through exchange.

Walter Burkert observes that " Frenzied women from whose lips the god speaks " are recorded in the Near East as in Mari in the second millennium BC and in Assyria in the first millennium BC.

City walls and fortifications were essential for the defense of the first cities in the ancient Near East.

Near Trier, American troops enter Germany for the first time.

" The Department was for the first time organized into geographical divisions, including the Far East, the Near East, Latin America and Western Europe.

In the Near East, the first half of this century was dominated by the Neo-Babylonian or Chaldean empire, which had risen to power late in the previous century after successfully rebelling against Assyrian rule.

* May 28 – Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne, becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy.

Proso millet appears to have reached Europe not long after its appearance in Georgia, first appearing in east and central Europe ; however, the grain needed a few thousand more years to cross into Italy, Greece, and Iran, and the earliest evidence for its cultivation in the Near East is a find in the ruins of Nimrud, Iraq dated to about 700 BC.

When combined with Near Vertical Incidence Skywave ( NVIS ) techniques and sufficient channels spread across the spectrum, an ALE node can provide greater than 95 % success linking on the first call, on a near-par with SATCOM systems.

In 1603 the first Western publication on the topic of the Assassins was authored by a court official for King Henry IV and was mainly based on the narratives of Marco Polo from his visits to the Near East.

* 12, 000 BC – Neolithic Revolution, the first agricultural revolution, begins in the ancient Near East

Pewter was first used around the beginning of the Bronze Age in the Near East.

Near the end of his first term, Mulroney gave a formal apology and a $ 300 million compensation package to the families of the 22, 000 Japanese Canadians who had been divested of their property and interned during World War II.