During the 1st millennium BC, they were spoken across Europe, in the Iberian Peninsula, from the Atlantic and North Sea coastlines, up the Rhine valley and down the Danube valley to the Black Sea, the Upper Balkan Peninsula, and in Galatia in Asia Minor.

He served nine years as a volunteer 1st class, midshipman, and shipmate, including one year in the English Channel and Bay of Biscay ( 1809 ), four years at the Cape of Good Hope and in the East Indies ( 1809 – 14 ), two and a half years on the North American and West Indian stations ( 1814 – 16 ), and a year and a half in the Mediterranean ( 1817 – 18 ).

On 18 October, he was created 1st Earl Beatty, Viscount Borodale and Baron Beatty of the North Sea and Brooksby.

Allied leaders of the Sicilian campaign in North Africa ; ( front row, left to right ) General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder | Arthur Tedder, General Sir Harold Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope | Andrew Cunningham, ( top row, left to right ) Harold Macmillan, Major General Walter Bedell Smith, and unidentified British officers ; 1943

* 1965 – Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division ( United States ) ( Airmobile ), in conjunction with South Vietnamese forces, launches a new operation seeking to destroy North Vietnamese forces in Pleiku in the II Corps Tactical Zone ( the Central Highlands ).

Its formation reflected recommendations made by John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham in the Report on the Affairs of British North America following the Rebellions of 1837.

In November he replaced William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings as Chief Justice of North Wales.

* George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore of England ( 1579 – 1632 ), nobleman, Member of Parliament, Secretary of State, and English colonizer of the North America ( most notably the founder of the Province of Avalon in Newfoundland and future founder of Maryland )

* February 20 – The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the town of Newton as Wilmington, North Carolina, named for Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, and patron of Royal Governor Gabriel Johnston.

* November – Rising of the North: Northern Earls rebel gainst Queen Elizabeth the 1st of England.

* On April 22, 2009, Ross Perot was made an Honorary Green Beret at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center in Fayetteville, North Carolina, that also honored the OSS, Alamo Scouts and the First Special Service Force, elite World War Two units that were inducted into the " 1st Special Forces " Regiment.

Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet is a boys ' grammar school in Barnet, North London, which was founded in 1573 by Edward Underne, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester and others, in the name of Queen Elizabeth I.

Approximate landscape in North Holland during the 1st century AD ( left ) and the 10th century AD ( right )

Comet envisioned using the 1st Airborne Division, along with the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade, to secure several bridges over the River Rhine to aid the Allied advance into the North German Plain.

" The Un-Canadians ", an 2007 article in Beaver Magazine, includes Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, Ezekiel Stone Wiggins, and Robert Monckton in a list of people in the history of Canada who were considered contemptible: " British North America Governor General Jeffrey Amherst supported plans of distributing smallpox-infested blankets to First Nations people.

Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland ( c. 1379 – 13 November 1440 ) was the third or fourth child ( and only daughter ) of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and his mistress, later wife, Katherine Swynford ; and, in her widowhood, a powerful landowner in the North of England.

In the 2005 Draft, the Timberwolves selected Rashad McCants, a shooting guard from North Carolina with the 14th overall pick of the 1st round.

* Sir Erik Ohlson, 1st Baronet, of Scarborough, in the North Riding of the County of York ( 1920 ), extant

Between 1902 and 1912 four large office buildings were constructed at the intersection of 20th Street, the central north – south spine of the city, and 1st Avenue North, which connected the warehouses and industrial facilities stretching along the east – west railroad corridor.

It is part of North Carolina's 1st congressional district, which has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of D + 9 and has been represented by a Democratic Congressman since 1899.

It was named for Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford, father of Frederick North, Lord North, British Prime Minister from 1770 to 1782.

England has made squatting illegal on the 1st of September 2012 as BBC reports: " Squatting in a residential building in England and Wales will become a criminal offence on Saturday, meaning squatters could face jail or a fine.

Rebellions continued throughout the first ten years of Henry's reign, including the revolt of Owain Glyndŵr, who declared himself Prince of Wales in 1400, and the rebellion of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland.

The regiment was amalgamated with the Royal Regiment of Wales ( RRW ) on 1 March 2006, to become 1st Battalion, The Royal Welsh ( RRW becoming the 2nd Bn ).

With the July 2012 announcements of further cut backs in the regiments resulting in the disbandment of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Welsh, that left the 1st Battalion the Royal Welsh ( The Royal Welch Fusiliers ) as once more the only non-Guards based infantry regiment drawn from Wales.

Among their grievances was the King's failure to promptly pay the soldiers ' wages, his favour towards Dunbar, his demand that the Percies hand over their Scottish prisoners, his failure to put an end to Owain Glyn Dŵr's rebellion through a negotiated settlement, his increasing promotion of his son Prince Henry's military authority in Wales, and his failure to ransom the Percies ' kinsman, Henry Percy's brother-in-law, Sir Edmund Mortimer ( 1376 – 1409 ), whom the Welsh had captured in June 1402, and who had a claim to the crown as the grandson of Lionel, 1st Duke of Clarence, second surviving son of King Edward III.

It was the 89th most popular name for girls born in England and Wales in 2007 ; the 94th most popular name for girls born in Scotland in 2007 ; the 13th most popular name for girls born in Spain in 2006 ; the fifth most popular name for girls born in Sweden in 2007 ; the 94th most popular name for girls born in Belgium in 2006 ; the 53rd most popular name for girls born in Norway in 2007 ; the 70th most popular name for girls born in Hungary in 2005 ; the 19th most popular name for girls born in British Columbia, Canada in 2006 ; the 9th most popular name for girls born in Germany in 2005 and the 1st most popular name in Austria.

Other members of the Culpeper family had actually sided with the Royalists, John 1st Lord Culpeper having been granted more than of land in Virginia in reward for assisting the escape of the Prince of Wales.

* Sir Daniel Cooper, 1st Baronet, of Woollahra, in New South Wales ( 1863 ), extant

* Sir Charles Nicholson, 1st Baronet, of Luddenham, in New South Wales ( 1859 ), extinct 1986

* Henry of Monmouth, Prince of Wales, 1st Duke of Lancaster ( 1386 – 1422 ), eldest son of Bolingbroke, acceded the throne as Henry V in 1413, at which point all of his peerages merged in the crown

Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford, 1st Earl of Pembroke, KG ( Welsh: Siasbar Tudur ) ( c. 1431 – 21 / 26 December 1495 ) was the uncle of King Henry VII of England and the architect of his successful conquest of England and Wales in 1485.

* Joan Tudor, wife of William ap Yevan, son of Yevan ap William or Yevan Williams and Margaret Kemoys, and reported mother of Morgan ap William ( or Williams ) ( born Lanishen, Glamorganshire, Wales, 1479 ), later married at Putney Church, Norwell, Nottinghamshire, in 1499 to Catherine or Katherine Cromwell, born Putney, London, c. 1483, an older sister of Tudor statesman Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex.

* John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare ( 1564 – 1637 ) was comptroller of the household to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales

Cardiff: National Museum Wales Books ISBN 0-7200-0488-8 ( 1st ed.

The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 will also make it illegal in England and Wales from the 1st October 2012.

She is also a distant cousin of her late aunt Diana, Princess of Wales, whose father was John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer for Eugenie's mother Sarah, Duchess of York is a direct descendant of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, daughter of John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer, ( via Georgiana's illegitimate daughter Eliza Courtney ).

Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond ( 1430 – 1 or 3 November 1456 ), also known as Edmund of Hadham ( Welsh: Edmwnd Tudur ), was the father of King Henry VII of England and a member of the Tudor family of Penmynydd, North Wales.

Monmouth was the name of a castle and is now the name of a town in Wales ; the name also recognises James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, the " Black Duke ".

On the occasion of the creation of Prince Henry as Prince of Wales in 1610, Cavendish was made a Knight of the Bath, subsequently travelled with Sir Henry Wotton, then ambassador to the Duke of Savoy, and on his return married his first wife, Elizabeth Basset ( before 1602 – 17 April 1643 ), daughter of William Basset of Blore, Staffordshire by his wife Judith Austen, and widow of Henry Howard, third son of the 1st Earl of Suffolk.

Saint David's day () is the feast day of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales, and falls on the 1st of March each year.

* Members of the 1st National Assembly for Wales

Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland, 6th Count Della Catena, GCMG, also served as Governor of the Leeward Islands, Governor of Tasmania, Governor of Western Australia and Governor of New South Wales.

Those currently holding this appointment are Field Marshal HRH The Duke of Kent ; Admiral of the Fleet HRH The Prince of Wales ; Captain Mark Phillips, 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards ; Rear Admiral HRH The Duke of York ; Second Lieutenant HRH The Earl of Wessex and Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence.