On 17 July 1936, General Francisco Franco led the colonial army from Morocco to attack the mainland, while another force from the north under General Sanjurjo moved south from Navarre.

On 14 August 1502 Columbus landed on the mainland near modern Trujillo.

On the mainland, Filangieri had the support of Bohemund IV of Antioch, the Teutonic Knights, the Knights Hospitaller, and the Pisan merchants.

On the mainland, Mac Cinnfhaelaidh owns a magic cow who gives such abundant milk that everyone, including Balor, wants to possess her.

On 4 June 1829, newly arriving British colonists had their first view of the mainland, and Western Australia's Foundation Day has since been recognised by a public holiday on the first Monday in June each year.

On 15 April 1746, the day before the Battle of Culloden, at Dunrobin Castle, a party of the William Sutherland, 17th Earl of Sutherland ’ s militia conducted the last siege fought on the mainland of Great Britain against Jacobin members of clan MacLeod.

On the mainland, Muslim communities are concentrated in coastal areas, with some large Muslim majorities also in inland urban areas especially and along the former caravan routes.

On May 7, 2008, Waits announced the Glitter and Doom Tour starting in June 2008, touring cities in the southern United States and subsequently announced a series of dates in the UK, Ireland and mainland Europe.

On 29 April 1945 New Zealand troops under Freyberg reached Venice and relieved the city and the mainland, which were already in partisan hands.

On the mainland, education is only compulsory for the seven years of primary education, while in Zanzibar an additional three years of secondary education are compulsory and free.

On the Asiatic mainland the first trading stations were established by Pedro Álvares Cabral at Cochin and Calicut ( 1501 ); more important were the conquests of Goa ( 1510 ) and Malacca ( 1511 ) by Afonso de Albuquerque, and the acquisition of Diu ( 1535 ) by Martim Afonso de Sousa.

On 30 January 1820, Bransfield sighted Trinity Peninsula, the northernmost point of the Antarctic mainland, while Palmer sighted the mainland in the area south of Trinity Peninsula in November 1820.

On the € 1 and € 2 coins, the island is shown to be directly east of mainland Greece ; on the 10 -, 20 -, and 50-cent coins, it appears directly below Crete.

On December 8, 1949, the Nationalist capital was moved from Chengdu to Taipei, and early on December 10, 1949, Communist troops laid siege to Chengdu, the last KMT controlled city on mainland China.

On mainland China, the PRC government has on the surface adopted a neutral policy on Taiwanization and its highest level leaders publicly proclaim it does not consider the Taiwanization movement to be either a violation of its One China Policy or equivalent to the independence movement.

On December 6, 1798, the French under Joubert occupied Turin and forced Charles Emanuel to abdicate all his territories on the Italian mainland and to withdraw to the island of Sardinia, which stayed out of the reach of the French army.

On November 24, the two friends set sail for Cuba where they met fellow botanist and plant collector John Fraser, and after a stay of some months they regained the mainland at Cartagena, Colombia.

On June 27, the US 7th Fleet was sent to the Taiwan Straits both to prevent a communist invasion of the island and to prevent an attempted reconquest of the mainland.

On 14 August 1874 the expedition reached the open sea and on 3 September finally set foot on Russian mainland.

On the mainland of Greece, the spring called Adrasteia was at the site of the Temple of Nemean Zeus, a late Classic temple of c 330 BC, but built on an archaic platform in a very ancient sanctuary near the cave of the Nemean Lion.

On the Greek mainland, at Olympia, an archaic shrine with an inner cella sacred to the serpent-savior of the city ( Sosipolis ) and to Eileithyia was seen by the traveller Pausanias in the 2nd century AD ( Greece vi. 20. 1 – 3 ); in it a virgin-priestess cared for a serpent that was " fed " on honeyed barley-cakes and water — an offering suited to Demeter.

On June 5, however, Roger disembarked in Salerno, much to the surprise of the whole mainland provinces.

On mainland France itself, from the onset of the D-Day landings in Normandy in June 1944, the FFI and the communist FTP movements, theoretically unified under the command of General Pierre Kœnig, fought alongside the Allies to free the rest of France.

On the mainland, Sun is also seen as a Chinese nationalist and proto-socialist, and is highly regarded as the Forerunner of the Revolution ( 革命先行者 ).

On the other side of the Golden Horn I rode through Eminonu Square, with Yeni Cami, or the New Mosque, which dates from the Seventeenth Century, just across from the entrance to the bridge.

On June 24 more than 400 families started the three-month trip across the plains to the Mississippi.

On the way, they came across the Tamasa Stream.

On 28 July at Coron, intelligence was finally obtained describing the French attack on Egypt and Nelson turned south across the Mediterranean.

On 17 August 1990, the Serbs began what became known as the Log Revolution, where barricades of logs were placed across roads throughout the South as an expression of their secession from Croatia.

On December 6, the Council of People's Commissars ( Sovnarkom ) strategized how to persuade government workers to strike across Russia.

On April 12, Chiang carried out a purge of thousands of suspected Communists and dissidents in Shanghai, and began large-scale massacres across the country collectively known as the " White Terror ".

On their 1960 descent, the crew of the Trieste noted that the floor consisted of diatomaceous ooze and reported observing " some type of flatfish, resembling a sole, about 1 foot long and 6 inches across " lying on the seabed.

On Oxford's return across the Channel in April, his ship was hijacked by pirates from Flushing, who took his possessions, stripped him to his shirt, and might have murdered him had not one of them recognized him.

The tropical Atlantic ocean experiences depressed activity due to increased vertical wind shear across the region during El Niño years .< ref > On the flip side however, the tropical Pacific Ocean east of the dateline has above normal activity during El Niño years due to well above average water temperatures and decreased windshear.

On the whole burials largely disappear across England, the dead being disposed of in a way which is archaeologically invisible: excarnation is a widely-cited possibility.

On 17 November 1326, following a month spent in Mecca, Ibn Battuta joined a large caravan of pilgrims returning to Iraq across the Arabian Peninsula.

On the way across the Aegean Sea, Caesar was kidnapped by pirates and held prisoner.

On 21 March 1939, Hitler first went public with his demand that Danzig rejoin the Reich and for " extra-territorial " roads across the Polish Corridor.

On a clear day, one can see Snæfellsjökull across the bay, some 115 km away.

On 4 August 1933, the Courier published as a full news item the assertion of a London man, George Spicer, that a few weeks earlier while motoring around the Loch, he and his wife had seen " the nearest approach to a dragon or pre-historic animal that I have ever seen in my life ", trundling across the road toward the Loch carrying " an animal " in its mouth.

" On June 17, 2008, Viacom formed the Nickelodeon Kids & Family Virtual Worlds Group to " encompass all paid and subscription gaming initiatives across all relevant platforms ", including Neopets.

File: 2010 Sandstorm over Eastern China. jpg | On November 11, 2010, a wall of sand blew across northern China, covering much of the North China Plain and Shandong Peninsula.

On September 3, 2007, thousands of Panamanians stood across from Paraíso Hill in Panama to witness a huge initial explosion and launch of the Expansion Program.

On this occasion, 1 March 1887, Markham observed Midshipman Scott's cutter winning that morning's race across the bay.

On July 31, 1870, the French Emperor Napoleon III ordered an invasion across the Saar River to seize Saarbrücken.

On the one hand, agricultural funds the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union ( CAP ) is spread across more countries ( the Eastern Europe countries have a significant agricultural sector ), on the other, the structural and cohesion funds have declined inevitably due to the Spanish economic success ( since their income has progressed strongly in absolute terms ) and due to the incorporation of less developed countries, lowers the average income per capita ( or GDP per capita ), so that Spanish regions relatively less developed, have come to be in the European average or even above it.

On 25 October 2009 turf was laid across the eight lanes of bitumen, and 6, 000 people celebrated a picnic on the bridge accompanied by live music.

The only nationally syndicated, politically oriented weekday talk radio show in Canada is Adler On Line, hosted by Charles Adler and heard on eleven stations across the country.

On December 8, 1941, a few hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan demanded the right to move troops across Thailand to the Malayan frontier.