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* 1814 – The Convention of London, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Provinces, is signed in London, England.
* Cisplatine War ( 1825 – 1828 ): Armed conflict over an area known as Banda Oriental or " Eastern Shore " between the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata and Empire of Brazil in the aftermath of the United Provinces ' emancipation from Spain.
Cundinamarca convened a " Congress of the United Provinces ," which first met in Bogotá, but later moved to Tunja and Leyva to maintain independence from the capital city.
It established a confederation called the United Provinces of New Granada on November 27, 1811, but Cundinamarca did not recognize the new federation.
It has been in existence since breaking up from the United Provinces of Central America in 1840.
During this period of French encroachment on the region, the United Provinces also took some areas of northern Flanders.
* 1637 – Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces ( now the Netherlands ) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts.
* 1911 – The first official flight with air mail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India ( now India ), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6, 500 letters to Naini, about away.
* The flag of Argentina, created by Manuel Belgrano during the war of independence, was the inspiration for the United Provinces of Central America's flag, which in turn was the origin for the flags of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.
Baron Francis van Aarssens or Baron François van Aerssen ( 27 September 1572-27 December 1641 ), from 1611 on lord of Sommelsdijk, was a diplomat and statesman of the United Provinces.
Category: Dutch people of the Eighty Years ' War ( United Provinces )
Guatemala City was the scene of the declaration of independence of Central America from Spain, and became the capital of the United Provinces of Central America in 1821.
* 1607 25 April – During the Eighty Years ' War between the United Provinces and the King of Spain, a Dutch fleet surprised and engaged a Spanish fleet anchored at the Bay of Gibraltar ( Battle of Gibraltar ).
Guatemala gained independence from Spain on September 15, 1821 ; it briefly became part of the Mexican Empire and then for a period belonged to a federation called The United Provinces of Central America, until the federation broke up in civil war in 1838 – 1840 ( See: History of Central America ).
During this struggle, commerce continued and the United Provinces prospered.
Indira Nehru was born on 19 November 1917 at the Anand Bhavan in the historically important town of Allahabad, in what was then the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, into the politically influential Nehru family.
After the fourth war between the United Provinces and England ( 1780 – 1784 ), the company suffered increasing financial difficulties.
* Independence Day, celebrates the declaration of independence of the United Provinces of South America by the Congress of Tucumán in 1816.
Monroe informed Congress in March 1822 that permanent stable governments had been established in the United Provinces of La Plata ( present-day Argentina ), Chile, Peru, Colombia and Mexico.
He led the movement in the United Provinces ( now Uttar Pradesh ).
* Limburg of the States ( 1633 – 1685 ), one of the Generality Lands, a dependent territory of the United Provinces of the Netherlands

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( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.
A nuclear pacifier of these dimensions -- roughly some six and a half times bigger than anything the United States has triggered experimentally -- would certainly produce a bigger bang, and, just for kicks, Khrushchev might use it to propel the seminar of the house of delegates from St. Louis to the moon, where there wouldn't even be any beer to drink.
In the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ( ELCA ) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada ( ELCIC ), the largest Lutheran Church bodies in the United States and Canada respectively and roughly based on the Nordic Lutheran state churches ( similar to that of the Church of England ), bishops are elected by Synod Assemblies, consisting of both lay members and clergy, for a term of 6 years, which can be renewed, depending upon the local synod's " constitution " ( which is mirrored on either the ELCA or ELCIC's national constitution ).
The usage is roughly equivalent to the term " Commie ", " Red " or " pinko " in the United States during the same period.
Pop culture has depicted and parodied the efforts of both nations to solidify their cultural uniqueness — primarily by Canada, as its population and economy are roughly one tenth that of the United States — to deter international perception that Americans and Canadians are virtually identical.
In the 1950s, Cuba's gross domestic product ( GDP ) per capita was roughly equal to that of contemporary Italy, and significantly higher than that of countries such as Japan, although Cuba's GDP per capita was still only a sixth as large as that of the United States.
There are roughly 4, 000 endocrinologists in the United States.
About a thousand known geysers exist worldwide, roughly half of which are in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States.
From the Taliban conquest in 1996 until November 2001 the United Front controlled roughly 30 % of Afghanistan's population in provinces such as Badakhshan, Kapisa, Takhar and parts of Parwan, Kunar, Nuristan, Laghman, Samangan, Kunduz, Ghōr and Bamyan.
Mouth-blown free reed instruments appeared in the United States, South America, the United Kingdom and in Europe at roughly the same time.
The Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 established the rough boundaries of today, with Pakistan holding roughly one-third of Kashmir, and India one-half, with a dividing line of control established by the United Nations.
In Australia and New Zealand, a roughly equivalent insult of chardonnay socialist ; in the United Kingdom phrases such as champagne socialist and Bollinger Bolshevik are preferred, and in France such people are referred to as the gauche caviar (" caviar left ").
After the United Nations was founded in 1945 and the League of Nations was disbanded, all but one of the mandated territories that remained under the control of the mandatory power became United Nations trust territories, a roughly equivalent status.
In 2010 there were an estimated 14. 1 million Mormons, with roughly 57 % living outside the United States.
Hutton estimated that there are 250, 000 neopagan adherents in the United Kingdom, roughly equivalent to the national Hindu community.
The operation's headquarters are at Dahlgren, Virginia, and radar stations are spread out across the continental United States at roughly the level of the 33rd parallel north.
Neopaganism in the United States accounts for roughly a third of all contemporary Pagans worldwide, and for some 0. 2 % of US population, figuring as the sixth largest non-Christian denomination in the US, after Judaism ( 1. 4 %), Islam ( 0. 6 %), Buddhism ( 0. 5 %), Hinduism ( 0. 3 %) and Unitarian Universalism ( 0. 3 %).
Investments by companies in the United States, Europe, and Japan comprised, according to some estimates, roughly a quarter of new investment.
Plea bargaining is a significant part of the criminal justice system in the United States ; the vast majority ( roughly 90 %) of criminal cases in the United States are settled by plea bargain rather than by a jury trial.
This figure represented 21 % of all the gambling machines in the world, and on a per capita basis, Australia had roughly five times as many gaming machines as the United States.
From the Taliban conquest of Kabul in September 1996 until November 2001 the United Front controlled roughly 30 % of Afghanistan's population in provinces such as Badakhshan, Kapisa, Takhar and parts of Parwan, Kunar, Nuristan, Laghman, Samangan, Kunduz, Ghōr and Bamyan.
Estimates of the energy of the blast range from 5 to as high as 30 megatons of TNT ( 21 – 130 PJ ), with the most likely — roughly equal to the United States ' Castle Bravo thermonuclear bomb tested on March 1, 1954 ; about 1, 000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan ; and about one-third the power of the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated.

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