The introduction in 1989 by the Thatcher-led Conservative government of the Community Charge ( widely known as the Poll Tax ), one year before the rest of the United Kingdom, contributed to a growing movement for a return to direct Scottish control over domestic affairs.

Her replacement, John Major, replaced the Community Charge with the Council Tax, similar to the rating system that preceded the Poll Tax.

The change from a progressive local taxation based on property values to a single-rate form of taxation regardless of ability to pay ( the Community Charge, but more popularly referred to as the Poll Tax ), led to widespread refusal to pay and to incidents of civil unrest, known colloquially as the ' Poll Tax Riots '.

* Margaret Thatcher who had been the United Kingdom's Prime Minister since 1979 resigned as Prime Minister on 22 November 1990 after being challenged for the leadership of the Conservative Party by Michael Heseltine because of widespread opposition to the introduction of the controversial Community Charge and the fact that her key allies such as Nigel Lawson and Geoffrey Howe resigned over the deeply sensitive issues of the Maastricht Treaty and Margaret Thatcher's resistance to Britain joining the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.

** The Community Charge ( poll tax ) takes effect in England and Wales amid widespread protests

The Community Charge, introduced 600 years after the Peasants ' Revolt, was popularly known as the poll tax ( particularly by its opponents ).

On March 31, 1990, some 200, 000 people amassed at Kennington Park to march upon Trafalgar Square, in protest against the Community Charge.

) It was introduced in 1993 by the Local Government Finance Act 1992, as a successor to the unpopular Community Charge.

This Act brought in Margaret Thatcher's new system of local taxation, officially known as the Community Charge but almost universally nicknamed the " poll tax ".

Redwood became Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities after the 1992 General Election where he successfully saw through the abolition of the Community Charge, known as the " Poll Tax ", and its replacement, the Council Tax.

In 1989 he was appointed to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for the Environment and became responsible for the unpopular Community Charge ( or so-called " Poll Tax ").

He then held the local government portfolio ( 1990 ), arguing in favour of the ultimately highly unpopular Community Charge system ( popularly known as Poll Tax ).

Between 1989 and 1991 Militant led the All-Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation's non-payment campaign against the Community Charge (' poll tax ').

In 1988, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher began preparations for a Community Charge to replace the council rates.

More importantly, he was the Cabinet Minister responsible for the introduction of the Community Charge or poll tax, a policy that brought a standing ovation at the Conservative Party conference at which it was announced, and riots across the country when it was implemented.

The mural was painted in 1990 by local resident Mark Francis, drawing a parallel with the contemporary campaign against the Community Charge (' Poll Tax ').

In the 1980s, the Militant tendency was dominant in the Labour group of Liverpool City Council, which came into conflict with the Conservative-led central government over its finances, and in the All-Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation, which led a successful non-payment campaign against the Community Charge, commonly called the poll tax.

This was replaced under the Thatcher government by the Community Charge ( popularly known as " poll tax "), which proved even more unpopular than the rates, and was replaced by a mixed Council Tax which combines elements of property tax and a poll tax.

The Community Charge, popularly known as the poll tax, was a system of taxation introduced in replacement of the rates to part fund local government in Scotland from 1989, and England and Wales from 1990.

The Green Paper of 1986, Paying for Local Government, produced by the Department of the Environment from consultations between Lord Rothschild, William Waldegrave and Kenneth Baker, proposed the Community Charge.

The legislation introducing the Community Charge was passed in 1988 and the new tax replaced the rates in Scotland from the start of the 1989 / 90 financial year and in England and Wales from the start of the 1990 / 91 financial year.

Graffiti against the Community Charge near Huddersfield

As the amount of the Community Charge began to rise and the inefficiency of local councils in collection of the tax became apparent, large numbers of people refused to pay the tax.

Terry Fields, Labour MP for Liverpool Broadgreen and Militant Tendency supporter, was jailed for sixty days for refusing to pay his Community Charge.

In 1952, the European Coal and Steel Community was launched, placing the coal and steel production of France, West Germany, Italy and Benelux under a supranational High Authority.

For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.

The State Ballet of Rhode Island, the first incorporated group, was formed for the purpose of extending knowledge of the art of ballet in the Community, to promote interest in ballet performances, to contribute to the cultural life of the State, and to provide opportunity for gifted dance students who, for one reason or another, are unable to pursue a career and to develop others for the professional state ; ;

Founded in 1838 by the Baptist Community, Acadia's beginning was the result of the commitment and enthusiasm of a community determined to build a university.

Out of their co-operative endeavor, the Movement for Religious Renewal, now generally known as The Christian Community, was born.

A precursor to the public bulletin board system was Community Memory, started in August, 1973 in Berkeley, California, using hardwired terminals located in neighborhoods.

The framework for the Union of Russia and Belarus was set out in the Treaty On the Formation of a Community of Russia and Belarus ( 1996 ), the Treaty on Russia-Belarus Union, the Union Charter ( 1997 ), and the Treaty of the Formation of a Union State ( 1999 ).

After a referendum on territorial autonomy on 28 September 1958, French Equatorial Africa was dissolved, and its four constituent states – Gabon, Congo ( Brazzaville ), the Central African Republic, and Chad became autonomous members of the French Community from 28 November 1958.

Sudan was one of the contributors to the peacekeeping force of the he Community of Sahel-Saharan States ( CEN-SAD ) in Central African Republic in 2001-2002.

By the time EU accession negotiations were completed on 30 June 2010, Croatian legislation was fully harmonised with the Community acquis.

Community colleges carry on the tradition of adult education, which was established in Australia around mid 19th century when evening classes were held to help adults enhance their numeracy and literacy skills.

The motivation for community colleges was a new way of thinking about education and training in Canada ( more specifically in Ontario ), and was economically based as opposed to the much earlier start in the United States of Junior and Community Colleges which was driven by an integrative social policy.

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community believes Confucius was a Divine Prophet of God, as was Lao-Tzu and other eminent Chinese personages.

Some of these were founded by Jewish converts themselves, like the Community of Our Lady of Zion, which was composed of nuns and ordained priests.

In 1970 Alston was commissioned by the Community Church of New York to create a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. for $ 5, 000, with limited copies produced.

In particular, the Metropolitan Community Church was founded specifically to serve the Christian LGBT community.

It originally stood for Community Access Television or Community Antenna Television, from cable television's origins in 1948: in areas where over-the-air reception was limited by distance from transmitters or mountainous terrain, large " community antennas " were constructed, and cable was run from them to individual homes.

In 2011, Eindhoven was named world's most intelligent community by Intelligent Community Forum.

* European Free Trade Association, a European trade bloc which was established as an alternative for European states who did not join the then-European Economic Community.