By his appointment letter of February 1524, John III granted Vasco da Gama the privileged title of " Viceroy ", being only the second Portuguese governor to enjoy that title ( the first was Francisco de Almeida in 1505 ).

The prince refused this and on 25 February a compromise was reached: an appointment by the States-General of the Netherlands for one summer, followed by a permanent appointment on his twenty-second birthday.

Harvey continued to participate in the Lumleian lectures while also taking care of his patients at St. Bartholomew's Hospital ; he thus soon attained an important and fairly lucrative practice, which climaxed with his appointment as ' Physician Extraordinary ' to King James I on 3 February 1618.

On 17 February 1901 his appointment as third officer to the expedition's ship Discovery was confirmed ; shortly afterwards he was commissioned a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve.

It was announced on 15 October 2007 that the Queen, on the recommendation of Premier Morris Iemma, had extended Bashir's appointment as Governor for a further four years to February 2012.

He had obtained in the meantime official employment by appointment as assessor of mines at Berlin, February 29, 1792.

For example, a person calls on 31 January to set up an appointment for February.

On 15 February 1559, prior to the award of his Bachelor's degree at Oxford, Harrison was instituted as the rector of Radwinter in Essex, by the appointment of Lord Cobham, who owned the right, and to whom he was also household chaplain.

After the hearings were over, but before the scheduled vote on whether to report the articles to the full House, Mellon accepted an appointment to the post of Ambassador to the Court of St. James and resigned in February.

In 1555 he was nominated bishop of Ostia and dean of the Sacred College, an appointment which was disapproved of by Henry II and brought him into fresh disgrace, lasting till his death in Rome on 16 February 1560.

Mitchell received appointment on February 28, 1919, as Director of Military Aeronautics, to head the flying component of the Air Service, but that office was in name only as it was a wartime agency that would expire six months after the signing of a peace treaty.

After the outbreak of the revolutionary wars his diplomatic ability led to his appointment as Prussian envoy, with a roving commission to visit the Rhenish courts and win them over to Prussia's views ; and ultimately, when the necessity for making peace with the French Republic had been recognized, he was appointed to succeed Count Goltz as Prussian plenipotentiary at Basel ( February 28, 1795 ), where he signed the treaty of peace.

News of the appointment of Phips as the new governor reached Boston in late January and a copy of the new charter arrived in Boston on February 8, 1692.

After repeated failures, he successfully gained appointment to the judiciary as a Justice of the Court of King's Bench on 16 February 1770, leaving to replace Edward Clive as a Justice of the Common Pleas on 25 June.

She too married and was discharged in May 1941, to be replaced in June 1941 by Martha Middendorf ( b. 1914 ), who was 27 at the time of her appointment and was discharged already in February 1942, as she too had married.

His success in this struggle led to his appointment as chief of the Supreme Administrative Commission which had been created in St Petersburg after the February 1880 assassination attempt on the Tsar to deal with the terrorist agitation in general.

Promoted to the permanent rank of major in 1927 ( having been a substantive captain since 1916 ), he held a GSO2 staff appointment at Headquarters Eastern Command until February 1929 when he was promoted lieutenant-colonel and appointed to command 1st Battalion, Manchester Regiment.

On February 24, 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated Rusk for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers to rank from March 13, 1865, and the United States Senate confirmed the appointment on April 10, 1866.

* Air Marshal Sir Guy Garrod ( 26 November 1944-25 February 1945 )-Temporary appointment

Foch was pleased at Wilson ’ s appointment, although Haig noted in his diary ( 25 February ) that Wilson was no longer so keen on a strong staff under Rawlinson, his successor at Versailles.

She was named Colonel-in-Chief of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry on 22 February 1918 and held that appointment until her death.

Franck went through the naturalization process at once ; his original appointment on 1 February 1872 was regularized in 1873.

In 2010, former Republican Representative Virgil Goode ( VA-5 ), later the 2012 nominee for president, accepted an appointment to the National Executive Committee of the Constitution Party.

Until her appointment as a shadow minister in October 2010, Abbott appeared alongside former Conservative politician and media personality Michael Portillo on the BBC's weekly politics digest This Week.

* 16 November 2010: Gatwick Airport Limited announced the appointment of Guy Stephenson as its new commercial director, with responsibility for the airport's airline route development and car parking strategies.

In September 2010, the CBSO announced the appointment of Edward Gardner as its next principal guest conductor, effective September 2011, with an initial contract of 3 years, for 3 – 4 weeks of concerts per season.

In June 2010, the Seattle Symphony announced the appointment of Ludovic Morlot as its 15th music director, effective with the 2011 – 2012 season, with an initial contract of six years.

With Grainge's appointment as CEO at UMG, Max Hole was promoted to COO of UMGI, effective July 1, 2010.

On Feb. 24, 2010, President Elson S. Floyd announced the appointment of William " Bill " Moos as WSU's next athletic director, beginning no later than May 1.

He resigned from the cabinet in 2007 following Gordon Brown's appointment as Prime Minister, and did not seek re-election as an MP at the 2010 general election.

In July 2010 Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon announced Baroness Amos's appointment to the role of Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.

In 2010 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the appointment of Valerie Amos, as Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.

Napolitano was a leading contender for appointment to the U. S. Supreme Court when vacancies occurred in 2009 and 2010 but was passed over by President Obama in favor of Judge Sonia Sotomayor and then-Solicitor General Elena Kagan, respectively.

On 24 June 2010, Plymouth Argyle confirmed the appointment of Reid as manager.

In the report of the Icelandic parliament's Special Investigation Commission, published in April 2010, the appointment of Davíð Oddsson as editor-in-chief of Morgunblaðið and the firing of many experienced journalists from the newspaper is mentioned as an example of how the owners of media in Iceland engage in manipulation for political ends.

In March 2010, the orchestra announced the appointment of Stéphane Denève as its next principal conductor, starting with the 2011-2012 season.

His appointment began in February 2010.

On December 9, 2010 Lincoln missed a critical vote to repeal Don't ask, don't tell after a dental appointment and missed voting by three minutes.

Previously, Gómez served as Coadjutor Archbishop of Los Angeles since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on April 6, 2010.

In January 2010, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra announced the appointment of Norrington as its next principal conductor, as of the 2011-2012 season, with an initial contract of 3 years.

When her appointment was announced in November 2010, she resigned as a constituency representative to the Labour National Executive Committee, to which she had recently been elected, before attending her first meeting.

Before he took upon this unpaid position that will be filled by a new appointment in 2011, he was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom and was Member of Parliament for Fylde between 1987 and 2010, serving at various junior ministerial posts during the John Major administration.

Bowles is best known for his appointment in 2010 as the Democratic co-chair of President Barack Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Alan K. Simpson.

He is currently the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in the coalition government headed by Prime Minister David Cameron, following his appointment to the role on 12 May 2010.

* Cameron ministerial appointment in May 2010

In 2010, Allen resigned from the legislature to accept an appointment to the state Utilities Commission, effective April 12.