After a third winter trapped in the ice, Amundsen was able to navigate a passage into the Beaufort Sea after which he cleared into the Bering Strait, thus having successfully navigated the Northwest Passage.

# The passage of the Northwest Ordinance in 1787.

However the area had been the subject of dispute between the Indian Nations and the United States since the passage of the Northwest Ordinance in 1787.

* Erebus and Terror were the two ships of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition, which in 1845 sought a Northwest passage through the Canadian arctic.

Their proposals for the governance of the territory led to the passage of the Ordinance of 1787, which would guide the Northwest Territory until the establishment of states that it called for.

The discovery of a Northwest Passage would result in great wealth for the founding nation because it would be able to directly import goods from the Asian markets while controlling the passage itself.

The main river passage was moved to the Northwest Pass, so ship traffic had to move.

At that point he took the opportunity of presenting the Queen with his A discourse of a discouerie for a new passage to Cataia ( A Discourse of a Discovery for a New Passage to Cathay ) ( published in revised form in 1576 ), treating of the exploration of a Northwest Passage by America to Asia.

The player and Rock must trade with Indians and find a safe passage to the Pacific Northwest.

He was present for the Congress's debate and passage of the Northwest Ordinance, and heard Henry Knox's report recommending a North Carolina land cession.

The boat over-wintered in Nome, and finished the trip through the Northwest passage the next summer.

Roald Amundsen transitted the passage between the Island and the Melville Peninsula in the Gjøa in the first successful traverse of the Northwest Passage in 1904.

After passage of the Northwest Ordinance to organize the territory, the Company bought about of land north of the Ohio River, between the present day sites of Marietta, Ohio, and Huntington, West Virginia.

Starting with the passage of The Land Ordinance of 1785, which created the Public Land Survey System, the Treasury Department had already overseen the survey of the " Northwest Territory " including what is now Ohio ..

* Fish passage at dams Northwest Power and Conservation Council.

Canada became the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage with the passage of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act, which made same-sex marriage legal in the remaining provinces of Alberta and Prince Edward Island and the remaining territories of Nunavut, the Northwest Territories.

It had been one of only four provinces and territories, with Alberta, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut, where same-sex marriage had not already been legalized by court challenges prior to the passage of Bill C-38.

While many, especially the Americans and British, saw a possible passage in the Northwest, where they expected to find a passage after rounding Greenland, Petermann thought this not a viable option.

Gjøa in 1903, at the time of the Northwest passage expedition.

The District of Keewatin was created by the passage of the Keewatin Act on April 12, 1876 from a portion of Canada's Northwest Territories.

The Enterprise, meanwhile, having arrived at Point Barrow in 1850 a fortnight later than the Investigator, had found its passage blocked by winter ice and had had to turn back and return the following year ; it conducted its own Arctic explorations, but credit for the Northwest Passage already belonged to McClure.

However, certain successes were achieved while in New York, including the passage of the Northwest Ordinance, which laid the framework for the addition of new states into the Union.

* October 15 – 20 – Following passage of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, five high-speed rail corridors are designated for the first time in the United States: The Midwest, Florida, California, the Southeast, and the Pacific Northwest.

Airmail was used for the addresses outside the Pacific Northwest.

No matter by what name cattle were called, there was no denyin' that they not only saved Texas from financial ruin, but went far toward redeemin' from a wilderness vast territories of the Northwest.

The Hattians spoke a Northwest Caucasian Language, and there is debate as to whether the Hurrian language was also of this group, or a Language Isolate.

Originating from Nesa, they conquered Hattusa in the 18th century BC, imposing themselves over Hattian and Hurrian speaking populations ( Hurrian was a Language Isolate and Hattian a Northwest Caucasian language ).

Whale was hunted by American Indians off the Northwest coast, especially by the Makah, and used for their meat and oil.

The Meganthropus fossils originated from Asia, the tooth was found in the Pacific Northwest.

The Northwest Ordinance, which was approved by the Congress of the Confederation in 1787, guaranteed " judicial proceedings according to the course of the common law.

The earliest known record of " Chicano " was thought to be in the late 19th or turn of the 20th century in Northwest Indiana.

In 1795, following the Northwest Indian War, an area that was to be part of Chicago was turned over to the United States for a military post by native tribes in concordance with the Treaty of Greenville.

Sahrawi-Moorish society in Northwest Africa was traditionally ( and still is, to some extent ) stratified into several tribal classes, with the Hassane warrior tribes ruling and extracting tribute-horma-from the subservient Znaga tribes.

Title to the Northwest Territories was transferred by the Hudson ’ s Bay Company in 1870 and the province of Manitoba ( the first to be established by the Parliament of Canada ) was in the same year the first created out of it.

Creaky voice was reported to be prevalent in American English as spoken in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

Prior to its takeover the company was headquartered in a facility in Northwest unincorporated Harris County, Texas, United States that now serves as HP's United States headquarters.

The Spanish expeditions to the Pacific Northwest, with the 1791 Francisco de Eliza expedition preceding Vancouver by a year, had also missed the Fraser River although they knew from its muddy plume that there was a major river located nearby.

* " Gate to the Northwest Passage "; a commemorative statue by Vancouver artist Alan Chung Hung was commissioned by Parks Canada and installed at the mouth of False Creek in Vanier Park near the Vancouver Maritime Museum in 1980.

At a time in which football was played seriously only in the larger cities of the Northwest of Italy, most of Verona was indifferent to the growing sport.

Simcoe's first priority was dealing with the effects of the Northwest Indian War, in which American Indians warred with the United States over encroachment in their territory west of the Appalachian Mountains.

One male known to researchers in the Pacific Northwest ( identified as J1 ) was estimated to have been 59 years old when he died in 2010.

He has been called the " father of Eskimology " and was the first European to cross the Northwest Passage via dog sled.

He was the first European to cross the Northwest Passage via dog sled.

According to Jefferson himself, one goal was to find a " direct & practicable water communication across this continent, for the purposes of commerce with Asia " ( the Northwest Passage ).

Mount Baker was well-known to indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest.