On his return the subsequent year, following the disbandment of La Navidad, Columbus quickly founded a second settlement farther east in present-day Dominican Republic.

On April 11, 1803, just days before Monroe's arrival, Barbé-Marbois offered Livingston all of Louisiana for $ 15 million, equivalent to about $ in present-day values.

On the basis of a land grant made to him by the Anglophile native King of the Mosquito people in what is present-day Honduras, MacGregor wove one of history's most elaborate hoaxes, managing to charm the highest levels of London's political and financial establishment with tales of the bucolic, resource-rich country he claimed to rule as a benevolent sovereign prince, or " Cazique ", when he arrived in the UK in 1822.

* 1856 – American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.

* November 17 – American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.

On July 12, 1806, 16 states in present-day Germany, including the remaining Countships of Nassau-Usingen and Nassau-Weilburg, formally left the Holy Roman Empire and joined together in the Confederation of the Rhine.

On the north-central coast of present-day Peru, the Norte Chico civilization emerged around the time of Caral-Supe civilization.

On July 9, 721, a Muslim force that had crossed the Pyrenees and invaded the Kingdom of the Franks was defeated by them in the Battle of Toulouse, in present-day France.

On 21 November 1739 Admiral Vernon did however succeed in capturing the ill-defended Spanish harbour of Porto Bello in present-day Panama.

On 20 April 1564, it became the port of departure for the French expedition of René Goulaine de Laudonnière to the New World where he created the first French colony at Fort Caroline near present-day Jacksonville, Florida.

On the same mission in 804, Emperor Kammu also sent monk Kūkai to the Tang Dynasty capital at Chang ' an ( present-day Xi ' an ).

On August 20, 1794, Wayne mounted an assault on the Indian confederacy at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, in modern Maumee, Ohio ( just south of present-day Toledo ), which was a decisive victory for the U. S. forces, ending the war.

On August 20, 1794, Blue Jacket's confederate army clashed with Wayne at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, just south of present-day Toledo, Ohio.

On September 12, 1673, the Dutch established New Amstel in present-day Delaware, fairly coterminous with today's New Castle County.

On August 20, 1794, near the present-day town of Maumee, American forces led by General Anthony Wayne won a decisive victory over Indian forces at the Battle of Fallen Timbers.

On March 15, 1781, the Battle of Guilford Court House was fought just north of present-day Greensboro between Generals Charles Cornwallis and Nathanael Greene during the American Revolution.

On canoes, they crossed the massive lake and landed at present-day Green Bay, Wisconsin at the mouth of the Fox River.

On May 15, 1656, the Court of the Colony of Connecticut in Hartford affirmed that the town of Stratford included all of the territory inland from Long Island Sound, between the Housatonic River and the Fairfield town line, to include the southern portion of present-day Monroe.

On Joseph Nicollet's original 1842 map of the region, the Blue Mound near present-day Luverne is simply designated as The Rock.

On 28 November 1729, the Natchez attacked the fort and plantations in and around the present-day city of Natchez, killing several hundred settlers, including the Jesuit Father Paul Du Poisson, and carrying off a number of women and children.

On December 31, 1857, these three town sites along with Prairie City joined, incorporating as present-day Nebraska City.

On April 14, 1794, Springfield Township was formed, which included the present-day township, along with the towns of Summit, New Providence, and Berkeley Heights.

On March 16, 1649, an Iroquois war party of about 1000 burned the Huron mission villages of St. Ignace and St. Louis in present-day Simcoe County Ontario, killing about 300 people.

On August 14, a convention of delegates from the six counties was held at Parkison's Ferry, present-day Monongahela.

On December 23, the Kid was tracked to an abandoned stone building located in a remote location known as Stinking Springs ( near present-day Taiban, New Mexico ).

On personal computers, the key can be used by software in several different ways, such as to switch between multiple login sessions, to terminate a program, or to interrupt a modem connection.

On the Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81 computers, the Break is accessed by pressing Space.

On personal computers and small workstations, the CPU is housed in a single silicon chip called a microprocessor.

On November 2, 1988, Robert Tappan Morris, a Cornell University computer science graduate student, unleashed what became known as the Morris worm, disrupting an estimated 10 % of the computers then on the Internet and prompting the formation of the CERT Coordination Center and Phage mailing list.

On Windows computers, extensions consist of a dot ( period ) at the end of a file name, followed by a few letters to identify the type of file.

On Apple Macintosh computers, there are keyboard shortcuts for the most common diacritics ; Option-e followed by a vowel places an acute accent, Option-u followed by a vowel gives an umlaut, option-c gives a cedilla, etc.

On computers, the availability of code pages determines whether one can use certain diacritics.

On the Apple II, unlike modern computers that use standardized device drivers to manage device communications, the operating system directly controlled the step motor that moves the floppy drive head, and also directly interpreted the raw data called nibbles read from each track to find the data sectors.

On Atari 8-bit computers, the most common protection method was via " bad sectors ".

On 7 April 1986 Amstrad announced it had bought from Sinclair Research "... the worldwide rights to sell and manufacture all existing and future Sinclair computers and computer products, together with the Sinclair brand name and those intellectual property rights where they relate to computers and computer related products.

On meters that allow interfacing with computers, optical isolation may protect attached equipment against high voltage in the measured circuit.

On modern general purpose computers, this can take tens of seconds and typically involves performing power-on self-test, locating and initializing peripheral devices, and then finding, loading and starting an operating system.

On shared computers, whether time-sharing, batch processing, or server systems, core dumps allow off-line debugging of the operating system, so that the system can go back into operation immediately.

On the other hand, laptop computers offer portability that desktop systems can not due to their small form factor.

On the first computers, with no operating system, every program needed the full hardware specification to run correctly and perform standard tasks, and its own drivers for peripheral devices like printers and punched paper card readers.

On computers and data links using 8-bit bytes this left the top bit of each Byte free for use as a parity, flag bit, or meta data control bit.

On January 12, 2010, Google reported a large cyber attack on its computers and corporate infrastructure that began a month earlier, which included accessing two Gmail accounts and the theft of Google's intellectual property.

On computers running Mac OS X, disk images are now ubiquitous for software downloads, typically downloaded with a web browser.

On personal computers, SLIP has been largely replaced by the Point-to-Point Protocol ( PPP ), which is better engineered, has more features and does not require its IP address configuration to be set before it is established.

On the second day of the contest, when users were allowed to physically interact with the computers ( the prior day permitted only network attacks ), Charlie Miller compromised Mac OS X through an unpatched vulnerability of the PCRE library used by Safari.

On September 4, 2008, Sony announced a worldwide voluntary product inspection and rework program for TZ-series notebook computers manufactured since June 2007.

On affected Vaio notebook computers, the cooling fan will start to make an unusual noise.

On the other hand, it is argued that as chess enters certain endgames, databases must be employed by computers to deal with added complexities.