The opening ceremony took place on 5 October 1912, with a match between Newport RFC and Cardiff RFC.

Played club rugby for Bridgwater & Albion RFC and Newport RFC.

* Newport RFC

* Newport HSOB RFC

* Newport Saracens RFC

is based in Caerleon along with two rugby union clubs ; Newport High School Old Boys RFC and Caerleon RFC whose grounds are less than a mile apart.

* New Zealand All Blacks team tours Great Britain and is defeated only once: 3 – 0 by Newport RFC on 30 October

* Coventry RFC, Newport RFC and Swansea RFC are all established in 1874

Separate grounds at Pontnewydd and Croesyceiliog house the town's two senior rugby teams, Cwmbran RFC and Croesyceiliog RFC, although many more of the town's residents support the rugby teams of the older, adjacent town of Pontypool, the city of Newport and the Newport Gwent Dragons regional team.

Newport RFC are based at Rodney Parade situated on the east bank of the River Usk.

Due to the regionalisation of Welsh rugby in 2003 Newport RFC is now a feeder club to Newport Gwent Dragons regional team.

Newport was originally intended as an association football club, but was unable to find any opponents, but they managed to organise a rugby match against Cardiff RFC, and in 1875 played Cardiff in both clubs ' first-ever game.

Watkins joined Newport RFC in 1961 / 2 from Cwmcelyn Youth but played odd games for Ebbw Vale RFC and Pontypool RFC while still a youth.

In Newport last night there were flashes of distant lightning in the northern skies.

They included: supporters of religious independents who did not want an established church and some of whom had sympathies with the Levellers ; Presbyterians who were willing to countenance the trial and execution of the King ; and later admissions, such as formerly excluded MPs who were prepared to denounce the Newport Treaty negotiations with the King.

The first X Games ( known as 1995 Extreme Games ) were held in Newport, Providence, Mount Snow, and Vermont in the United States.

In the early years, leaders of the Newport News community and those of the shipyard were virtually interchangeable.

In addition to Pixies and LoudQUIETloud, four other Pixies ' DVDs were released between 2004 and 2006, all featuring concert performances: Live at the Town and Country Club 1988, The Pixies — Sell Out, The Pixies Acoustic: Live in Newport, and The Pixies Club Date: Live at the Paradise in Boston.

Giuliani's high-profile raid of the Princeton / Newport firm ended with the defendants having their cases overturned on appeal on the grounds that what they had been convicted of were not crimes .< ref >

* In 1907, author Henry James described the mansions in Newport, Rhode Island as being " white elephants " and " witless dreams " because they were summer homes for the wealthy and were unoccupied for most of the year.

Upon learning that de Grasse had sailed from the West Indies for North America, and that French Admiral de Barras had also sailed from Newport, Rhode Island, Admiral Graves concluded that they were going to join forces at the Chesapeake.

Hudson-Kam and Newport hypothesize that in a pidgin situation ( and in the real life situation of a deaf child whose parents were disfluent signers ), children are systematizing the language they hear based on the probability and frequency of forms, and not, as has been suggested on the basis of a universal grammar.

Such Sweet Thunder ( 1957 ), based on Shakespeare's plays and characters, and The Queen's Suite, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth II, were products of the renewed impetus which the Newport appearance helped to create.

But because of the expense, the brakes were only standard on the Chrysler Crown Imperial through 1954 and the Town and Country Newport in 1950.

Almost immediately the three upper classes were detached and ordered to sea, and the remaining elements of the academy were transported to Fort Adams, Newport, Rhode Island by the USS Constitution in April 1861 and setup in temporary facilities and opened there in May.

In the U. S., the word château took root selectively, in the Gilded Age resort town of Newport, Rhode Island, the châteaux were called “ cottages ”, but, north of Wilmington, Delaware, in the rich, rural “ Château Country ” centred upon the powerful Du Pont family, château is used with its original definition.

Four successful applicants in England have become cities, as well as two in Wales ; in 2000 for the Millennium Celebrations, the new cities were Brighton and Hove and Wolverhampton ; in 2002 for the Queen's Golden Jubilee it was Preston and Newport, and in 2012 for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee it was Chelmsford and St Asaph.

The winners in Great Britain were Preston in England, Newport in Wales, and Stirling in Scotland.

In 1658 a group of Jews fleeing the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal were allowed to settle in Newport ( Jews fleeing Brazil after defending Dutch interests there against the Portuguese were denied the right to stay in then-Dutch New York until governor Peter Stuyvesant finally relented in 1655 ; seeking asylum in Spain and Portugal was not an option ).

Newport, whose inhabitants were engaged in whale fishing, developed 17 manufactories of oil and candles and enjoyed a practical monopoly of this trade down to the Revolution.

As a result, Newport merchants were forced to develop alternatives to conventional exports.

Many were hanged in Newport and were buried on Goat Island.

Newport was active in the “ triangle trade ,” in which slave-produced sugar and molasses from the Caribbean were carried to Rhode Island and distilled into rum, which was then carried to West Africa and exchanged for captives.

Many of the first colonists in Newport quickly became Baptists, and in 1640 the second Baptist congregation in Rhode Island was formed under the leadership of John Clarke.

The more widely known name of Newport News was selected as they formed what was then Virginia's third largest independent city in population.

The area which formed the present-day southern end of Newport News had long been established as an unincorporated town.

County residents formed the Newport and Alexandria Turnpike Company to improve the road ; the improved turnpike opened in 1856 under the name Alexandria Pike.

By the early 1850s, a group of investors had been formed and incorporated a land development project known as the " Shepard Point Land Company " which purchased of land on the eastern tip of the peninsula bordering the Newport River known then as " Shepards Point " which is the present day location of Morehead City, North Carolina.

Northampton was created from the villages of Siegfried, Newport and Stemton, which together were formed into an alliance in 1902.

They formed the townships of Windsor, Falmouth and Newport.

On the advice of Monck, the commons rejected a resolution put forward by jurist Matthew Hale ( a member for Gloucestershire ) for a committee to be formed to look into the concessions that had been offered by Charles and to negotiate conditions with the King such as those put forward to his father in the treaty of Newport.

* 1972: Westinghouse and Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock jointly formed Offshore Power Systems to build floating nuclear power plants for Public Service Electric and Gas Company.

Five cities in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia were formed by the consolidation of a city with a county: Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Suffolk, and Virginia Beach ( from Norfolk, Elizabeth City, Warwick, Nansemond, and Princess Anne counties, respectively ).

In 1656, members left the First Baptist Church in Newport, the church of John Clarke & Obadiah Holmes, and formed a second Six-Principle Baptist Church.

Newport's best known association football club is Newport County, who were formed in 1912 and joined the Football League in 1920.

The 15 years of rapid growth and development led to the incorporation of Newport News, Virginia as a new independent city in 1896, one of only 2 in Virginia to have ever been so formed without developing first as an incorporated town.

It was formed with the original name of Sentimental Four in Newport News, Virginia, U. S., in the late 1940s, and initially consisted of two sets of brothers-Rudy West ( born 25 July 1932, Newport News, Virginia ) and Bernie West ( born 4 February 1930, Newport News ), and Ripley Ingram ( born 1930-died 23 March 1995, Newport News ) and Raphael Ingram.

It formed part of the Newport Pagnell Rural District until 1974, when it became part of the borough of Milton Keynes.

Throwing Muses is an alternative rock band formed in 1981 in Newport, Rhode Island, that toured and recorded extensively until 1997, when its members began concentrating more on other projects.

After just nine appearances for Lincoln City in 1978, Tynan moved on to Newport County where he formed a dynamic striking partnership with John Aldridge as the Newport team gained promotion from Division 4, won the Welsh Cup and reached the quarter finals of the European Cup Winners Cup.

In 1963 he formed a quartet with pianist Misha Mengelberg and saxophonist Piet Noordijk which had a number of different bassists and which played at the 1966 Newport Jazz Festival, and in 1967 he was a co-founder of the Instant Composers Pool with Mengelberg and Willem Breuker, which sponsored Dutch avant garde performances.

Also on that record was the drummer Han Bennink, and the two of them, together with Piet Noordijk formed a quartet which had a number of different bassists, and which played at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1966.

The district was formed by the Local Government Act 1972, and was a merger of the municipal boroughs of Newport and Ryde along with the urban district of Cowes.