Monck organised the Convention Parliament, which met for the first time on 25 April.

James also requested that Parliament sanction the marriage between the Prince of Wales and Princess Henrietta Maria of France, whom Charles had met in Paris while en route to Spain.

The Parliament, like the other institutions, was not designed in its current form when it first met on 10 September 1952.

The Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community ( the predecessor of the present day European Parliament ) first met on 10 September 1952 and the first Christian Democratic group was unofficially formed the next day, with Maan Sassen as President.

In 1846 Douglass met with Thomas Clarkson, one of the last living British abolitionists, who had persuaded Parliament to abolish slavery in Great Britain and its colonies.

In May the German National Assembly ( the Frankfurt Parliament ) met in Frankfurt to draw up a national German constitution.

In 1326, what may have been the first full Parliament of Scotland met.

Parliament, which met in October, came into sharp conflict with the Curia.

The people of Germany had demanded a constitution, so the Parliament, formed of elected members from various German states, met to form one.

Starting on December 17, 1659, Henry Vane representing the Parliament, Major Saloway and Col. Salmon with powers from the officers of the army to treat with the fleet, and Vice-Admiral Lawson met in negotiating a compromise.

" Hitherto Monk had continued to make solemn protestations of his affection and fidelity to the Commonwealth interest, against a King and House of Lords ; but the new militia being settled, and a Convention, calling themselves a Parliament and fit for his purpose, being met at Westminster, he sent to such lords as had sat with the Parliament till 1648, to return to the place where they used to sit, which they did, upon assurance from him, that no others should be permitted to sit with them ; which promise he also broke, and let in not only such as had deserted to Oxford, but the late created lords.

He accepted his appointment as one of Prussia's representatives at the Erfurt Parliament, an assembly of German states that met to discuss plans for union, but only in order to oppose that body's proposals more effectively.

The incumbent worked with his Cabinet and other government officials ; he occasionally met with the Sovereign, and attended Parliament when it was in session during the spring and summer.

The predecessor of Parliament, the Curia Regis ( Royal Council ), met in Westminster Hall ( although it followed the King when he moved to other palaces ).

The Model Parliament, the first official Parliament of England, met in the Palace in 1295 ; almost all subsequent Parliaments have met there.

* April 2 – The first Italian Parliament met at Turin.

On 1 August, the Scottish Parliament met to settle religious issues.

This parliament first met in March in Oxford but Charles dissolved it only after a few days when he made an appeal to the country against the Whigs and intended to rule without Parliament.

It met with significant opposition from the Pittite factions in Parliament that had governed the country for so long ( opposition was especially pronounced in the House of Lords ).

Charles, along with his family and court, fled London in July to Salisbury ; Parliament met in Oxford.

The city centre is laid out on two perpendicular axes: a water axis stretching along Lake Burley Griffin, and a ceremonial land axis stretching from Parliament House on Capital Hill north-eastward along ANZAC Parade to the Australian War Memorial at the foot of Mount Ainslie.

The city was known as Afyon ( opium ), until the name was changed to Afyonkarahisar by the Turkish Parliament in 2004.

The city played host to the first two Parliament of the World's Religions in 1893 and 1993.

Recent examples of this trend include the conversion of all public transport in the city of Delhi from Diesel engines to CNG engines on the basis of the orders of the Delhi High Court ; the monitoring of forest use by the High Courts and the Supreme Court to ensure that there is no unjustified loss of forest cover ; and the directions mandating the disclosure of assets of electoral candidates for the Houses of Parliament and State Assembly.

In 1831 he was elected member for St Ives in Cornwall, after which he was returned for Lincoln in 1832, and sat in Parliament for that city for nine years.

The Parliament holds its meetings in the Town Hall ( Hôtel de Ville ), in the old city.

The largest Irish communities are located predominantly in the cities and towns across Britain: in London, in particular Kilburn ( which has one of the largest Irish-born communities outside Ireland ) out to the west and north west of the city, in the large port cities such as Liverpool ( which elected the first Irish Nationalist Members of Parliament ), Glasgow, Bristol and Portsmouth.

As part of Perth's role as the capital of Western Australia, the state's Parliament and Supreme Court are located within the city, as well as Government House, the residence of the Governor of Western Australia.

Dar es Salaam is the largest city and is the commercial capital ; Dodoma, located in the centre of Tanzania is the new capital and houses the Union's Parliament.

During Nicolae Ceaușescu's leadership ( 1965 – 1989 ), much of the historic part of the city was demolished and replaced with Socialist realist development such as the Centrul Civic ( the Civic Centre ), including the Palace of the Parliament, where an entire historic quarter was razed to make way for Ceaușescu's megalomaniac constructions.

In 1946 the city was declared the seat of the Regional Parliament, as capital of a Special Status Region ( 1947 ) whose seat is in the Palazzo dei Normanni.

The only reference to a capital city in the current South African Constitution is that Cape Town is the seat of Parliament.

On 14 September 1943, Corfu was bombarded by the Luftwaffe ; these bombing raids destroyed churches, homes, whole city blocks, especially in the Jewish quarter Evraiki, and a number of important buildings, such as the Ionian Parliament, the Municipal Theatre, the Municipal Library and others.

The city is represented by several members of both houses of the Polish Parliament ( Sejm and Senat ) from the Białystok constituency.

The city was finally taken for Parliament on 18 December 1645 by Colonel Birch and Colonel Morgan.

Established by Act of Parliament, the market must be provided, and so a new Bill was introduced in 2003 to move the site to the outskirts of the city.

On 12 March 1913, the city was officially given its name by Lady Denman, the wife of Governor-General Lord Denman, at a ceremony at Kurrajong Hill, which has since become Capital Hill and the site of the present Parliament House.

Robinson was the New Democratic Party ( NDP ) Member of Parliament ( MP ) for ridings in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby, British Columbia, the third-largest city in British Columbia.

The city grew as the capital of the Buganda kingdom, from which several buildings survive, including the Kasubi Tombs ( built in 1881 ), the Lubiri Palace, the Buganda Parliament and the Buganda Court of Justice.

To the south of this region is where the neo-Gothic City Hall ( 1889 ) is to be found, as well as the Victoria Law Courts ( 1887 ), the Parliament Building ( 1829 – 1834 ), the large Stabroek Market ( 1792 ) containing the prominent cast-iron clock tower that dominates the city sky line, the Roman Catholic Brickdam Cathedral, City Engineer House, the Magistrate's Court, St. Andrew's Kirk ( 1818 ) and Independence Arch.

* Oxford ( UK Parliament constituency ), the historic Parliamentary constituency of the city

* Oxford East ( UK Parliament constituency ), a modern Parliamentary constituency of the city

* Oxford West and Abingdon ( UK Parliament constituency ), the other modern constituency including the city

Bypassing the Parliamentarian stronghold of Manchester, Prince Rupert approached Liverpool on 6 June and wrested control of the city from Parliament after a five-day siege.